3.6.36: It won't make sense until it does
Jan. 3rd, 2022 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jae_buildsLots of photos this stage. I think it's now pretty well-established that my favorite moments in the build are when I encounter something novel, and this section is quite different from the rest of the ship, so I'm excited to see what's in store. This is the first stage of Section Six:
Here's the mise-en-place.
Right away I noticed a difference. In the earlier sections, the first stages tended to be mostly internal structural things that would eventually end up hidden. At the stern, the ship is so narrow that there's not a whole lot of space for hidden elements, so a lot more of what I built here will be visible when the ship is complete. (Which explains all the dark red pieces.)
I started with the base plate, which was much more dramatically tapered than any of the other stages, but at first didn't seem much different apart from that.
I built hinged pieces to carry the non-Lego-angle shape of the hull up.
I added some more internal infrastructure.
And then I added a frame that would hold the hull plates, and immediately noticed some odd gaps in it.
I wasn't sure what to make of the gaps, so I just kept going to see what would happen, adding the hull plates bit by bit.
The gaps remained with no explanation, so I kept going, building these four sub-assemblies and attaching them to the build.
Ok, large gap explained, but the small one is even weirder now. I added this shaft (which does rotate freely) and that was my first hint to what the small gap is for.
It still didn't really make sense, but then I set the build aside and started on... something else, made mostly from technic pieces.
And yes, if you were thinking that rear girder looks to be about as wide as the small gap...
The shafts do turn, and will drive the engines, as described in the section description. The rest of this stage was just extending them to the front of the section, where they will meet up with the shafts that extend out from the previous section.
That's it for stage 36. I really enjoyed this one, unsurprisingly. I like the mix of function and ornament that these propellers and shafts represent; obviously they're not structurally or functionally necessary in the Lego model, but they were on the actual ship. And I love the fact that the sleeves are both functional and ornamental at the same time, as there is no single internal shaft that runs down the full length of the build, but just the individual internal connections between each pair of sleeves.
Thanks as always for reading!
Discussion prompt: Tell me about a time in your life when form and function supported each other.
Here's the mise-en-place.
Right away I noticed a difference. In the earlier sections, the first stages tended to be mostly internal structural things that would eventually end up hidden. At the stern, the ship is so narrow that there's not a whole lot of space for hidden elements, so a lot more of what I built here will be visible when the ship is complete. (Which explains all the dark red pieces.)
I started with the base plate, which was much more dramatically tapered than any of the other stages, but at first didn't seem much different apart from that.
I built hinged pieces to carry the non-Lego-angle shape of the hull up.
I added some more internal infrastructure.
And then I added a frame that would hold the hull plates, and immediately noticed some odd gaps in it.
I wasn't sure what to make of the gaps, so I just kept going to see what would happen, adding the hull plates bit by bit.
The gaps remained with no explanation, so I kept going, building these four sub-assemblies and attaching them to the build.
Ok, large gap explained, but the small one is even weirder now. I added this shaft (which does rotate freely) and that was my first hint to what the small gap is for.
It still didn't really make sense, but then I set the build aside and started on... something else, made mostly from technic pieces.
And yes, if you were thinking that rear girder looks to be about as wide as the small gap...
The shafts do turn, and will drive the engines, as described in the section description. The rest of this stage was just extending them to the front of the section, where they will meet up with the shafts that extend out from the previous section.
That's it for stage 36. I really enjoyed this one, unsurprisingly. I like the mix of function and ornament that these propellers and shafts represent; obviously they're not structurally or functionally necessary in the Lego model, but they were on the actual ship. And I love the fact that the sleeves are both functional and ornamental at the same time, as there is no single internal shaft that runs down the full length of the build, but just the individual internal connections between each pair of sleeves.
Thanks as always for reading!
Discussion prompt: Tell me about a time in your life when form and function supported each other.