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[BubbleMan 32714]

I am the terror that shocks you in the nght! I am the one who unplugs all of your appliances to obsorb energy I am Megavolt The Ride!. That's right I am building my first tube suppoted coaster and I stumbled apon a problem already so pleasse feel free to critisize and comment.








Ignore the red track I switced to blue and purple for now. The problem I'm having right now is Banking the drop. What do you guys think I should do Make it drop strieght down like Natrix but with a steeper drop or make it look like the Dark Knight?



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[The Stig]

I'm assuming from the pre-drop that it's a B&M style. It's dropping a bit early and it needs more banking, especially near the top.

This and this.
The 'roll' takes place on the first half of the drop. The second half is pretty much the pullout, and contains little to no banking.

Lift looks fantastic BTW.

[RCD4]

Definitely bank it more. I think you should build the track before you put the supports. This should be helpful.

[BubbleMan 32714]

Sorry for it taking so long to update guys. It's just that working with tubes for the first time was harder than I thought. I ran into one problem witch I'm sure can be fixed easily the train keeps getting stuck at the top of the lift hill. But I'm debating rather or not to change the layout to make it loojk like Krake or continue on what I have now. here are some pics of the ride so far.


You can tell the track is banked on this pick.

Lift hill problem




Drop




Random






Please comment and vote thanks.

Definitely bank it more. I think you should build the track before you put the supports. This should be helpful.

^ Thanks for that tut RCD 4 I helped out alot.

I'm assuming from the pre-drop that it's a B&M style. It's dropping a bit early and it needs more banking, especially near the top.

This and this.
The 'roll' takes place on the first half of the drop. The second half is pretty much the pullout, and contains little to no banking.

Lift looks fantastic BTW.

The drop was styled after B&M I was going for the Dark Knight at SFNE. Glad you liked it.


This is one of the best picks I used to make the drop.

[RCD4]

That pic doesn't show the predrop very well, it should be longer, make it straight for maybe a grey so you can minimize the gears hitting the cars, then have it bank and dive off to the side.

[-=TK=-]

^A grey would be way to long.

First off: Try to use 1 red gear instead of 2 to prevent the gears hitting the track, that should pretty much solve the problem. Also, make a small straight part of track right after the gears so the trains can get off the lift smoothly. Great job on the rest so far!

-=Tk=-

[BubbleMan 32714]

It's finally complted that's all I can say. But it didn"t tur out how i inspected it to. Me and son discussed it and MegaVolt is Screamin Serpent's cusin a near perfect mirror image of the original. I did this because I was fed up with building with tube supports and just said to my self what the heck why not do it.

















Please dont ask me to change anything I worked on it for 2 hours today and this is my result. It works perfectly fine. I plan on keeping it up for a week so I can start a new one. Maybe an inverted coaster. But please feel free to comment guys.Also please excuse the double photos I got confused on the links.