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[BGEurope Kid]

Holy Crap, it's been a while. After about 4 months of not even touching my k'nex it's time for a new build. With my recent trip to King's Dominion, I got some inspiration. So I present to you guys, my new giga.









Comments are greatly appretiated!

[ickus305]

Lift looks great, crest looks great, I do not see an issue with the drop, the turn looks well supported and the flow looks good.

The buckle could use some help at least from what I see. Could use a tid bit more "straight" over the middle of the buckle along the crest. It feel like it just banks one direction and then immediately the next without a smooth transition. Just give it some tweaking and things should be good.

A great start so far.

[G Force]

The buckle could use more heart lining along the crest, I think that will fix the problem ickus mentioned. Other than that it looks really good.

[~stεεlspectrum~]

And on the pullout from the drop into the turn, the heartlining is too far above the track. Or as some people would say, it has too much heartlining.

[rollercoasterfanatic919]

I agree with Steel. In the third picture, the track at the beginning of the turn (the top of the picture) should be moved about an inch to the left. However, I think the heartlining on the buckel is fine. It could be increased slightly for absolute realism, but I think the way you have it now would provide riders a nice pop of airtime. Glad to see you building again!

[SwimZONE]

I agree with steel on the over-exaggerated heart-lining. A way to fix this would be like on I305 with a little bit of banking the opposite way of the turn, then going into the turn. The buckel looks nice though. Looks great thus far.

[BGEurope Kid]

I think I fixed both problems. First I shifted the drop a small silver rod to the right which i think solved the drops heart line. Next, I switched a granite to a blue on the buckel, So heres the two changes. I hope I solved the problems.

[ickus305]

The buckle looks great!! I also like that you have kept the yellow to green cross tie consistent

[BGEurope Kid]

Uhhh yeah....I've been pretty busy lately but as soon as I could work on this coaster, I did a lot. I added the pullout of the buckel, a small air that the train flies over, a high speed turn, and the start of another airhill. Right now, the air hill is as high as I can make it after cleaning and relubing my trains. Tell me what you think!






I like comments If you have any picture requests, let me know and I'lltry to get what you want! Thanks everyone.

[florian96]

this looks really awesome!!

[SwimZONE]

Really nice work, just curious, what's the rest of the layout?

[timtimlaz]

aren't giga coaster suppost to be high?

[SuperTKDKid]

aren't giga coaster suppost to be high?

Not necessarily. Most people build them higher, though.

[Maxwell58]

^ Yup, people just make it look like a giga and then we use our imagination.

EDIT:I don't really have anything bad to say about this rollercoaster. I LOVE IT!

[timtimlaz]

Ok i just thought that they had to be tall but i guess not.

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