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[CoasterGod310]

Buddy a monstrous roller

coaster dont just come like that you know. It'll take at LEAST a couple months.

[CostaKid]

Every one calm down. Sheesh. What caused a topic

about a potentaily great model into a war zone?

A couple of months?

Have you started yet?

[Tyrant]

I also would like to state that esspically for Knex

recreations, the support structure does not, nor ever is perfect! I have

not seen one knex recreation where the support structure (or the track to be quite

frank) is perfect, and exactly like its real-world counterpart......

Even when

I plan recreations (I may have one coming up) I try to think about how I can make the

supports strong yet convincing enough that it is a recreation, for example, on my

half-way completed X-Flight, I tried to make the supports as realistic as I could, and I

think I did succed to some point, but they were in no way completely perfect.....

And the gist that I am getting from this arguement is that the support structure

has to be exactly like the real MF one. Now in my opinion, I think to make a

convincing MF you would have to have the lift hill structure similar, and perhaps the

hills having the same type of supports, considering that it can be done easily with knex,

but for the rest of the supports, I would just want it to look like it can hold it up.....

Also the track DOES NOT have to be to scale. I wouldn't care

if he made a 10ft lift hill, then made a 3ft hill for the 2nd hill, and a 1ft hill for the third.

It would still be awsome that there is a MF recreation period. I think that MF can be

done, with a lot of sets (3-5 in my opinion). MF isn't that complicated of a

coaster, unlike other compact coasters.......

I

don't think you know more about MF than me but I don't want to argue

about it. I'll just tell you that while MF was being built, CP's website

hosted over a hundred construction pics. I have all of them saved on my computer.

The pis are no longer available but I have them all!

Also, like I said, knowing all that

stuff may be helpful for a NoLimits recreation where you are trying to recreate

everything down to the last detail (like me ) but not for knex, knex

is a completely different medium to work with.....It is the most realistic type of coaster

model, but deffinitley not the perfect one.....

Good luck on the project, and

I do hope it works out well!

-Tyrant

[Westside7th]

Originally posted by CoasterGod310@Nov 10 2003, 09:11

AM
<span

style='color:purple'>Buddy a monstrous roller coaster dont just come like that you

know. It'll take at LEAST a couple months. </span>

When can we see pics of the actual

ride (constuction pics!)?
Are you saying it is going to take a couple months

to start the coaster!?!?!

[CoasterGod310]

First of all thank you to rct

tyrant for pointing out everything I would have said in my next post to everyone, very

good writing. And definitely no it wont take 2 months to start I will begin soon I am

just on the step where I'm buying all the necessary products and amount to build

MF. I will definitely finish it as I have all my other coasters. I'm saying it just

wont be finished real quickly it takes time, but nonetheless it will be finished for all to

see. P.S. I forgot who came up with the handbag idea but could you help me find out

where to look for them because I cant seem to find anything with a lot of

pieces.

[Westside7th]

Here is the link to the grab bags. If you can't

find anything with enough pieces that you want, tough luck. They will offer new grab

bags frequently so just wait for new ones to be featured.
<a

href='http://orders.knex.c...gory/se=10/va=i

mg%3Dgrabbag/va=lnk%3D.html' target='_blank'>Grab Bag!</a>

[CoasterGod310]

No its ok thats fabulous

thanks westside

[CoasterGod310]

Construction is beginning as of now

everybody!!

[CoasterGod310]

Everything is going super I

love this task theres no stress at all the lift is looking amazing. I will post pics after first

drop is complete. Thanks for supports guys!!!

[CoasterGod310]

Great news I just found ss sets for 13$

canadian!! so im going to probably get 2 more for a grand total of 5 sets

that i will have which should be enough ffor MF because man those lift supports drain

pieces, but after that everything should be a breeze

[Da Squriel]

Ahh were did you find those 13 $ ss sets please

tell me and good luck and one more thing is MF lift hil a 45 deggre hill because it

dosent look like it is.

[CoasterGod310]

You know what your

absolutely right I always pondered how MF lift was 45 degrees it looks steeper and so

thats what I did, but I cant tell you where I got those sets casue I got to get them srry

[Da Squriel]

What do you mean oh you must have got them of ebay

huh well thats to bad.

[Shockwaver]

He wants to hoard them all like a fat person at a

shmorgasboard(sp?) at closing.

[riordan]

Sounds like your on track. Make sure to make the

drop-to-level transition very gradual and smooth. This will result in more less speed

loss. Keep it up!

[CoasterGod310]

Shockwave you are a

moron if I want to build this I need the god damn sets. You are really stupid and +

they dont come from ebay. Thanks Riordam for tips I can tell already the drop is quite

difficult because it's so long

[Westside7th]

The drop-to-level part needs to be gradual but also

have a LOT of supports. I noticed on the coaster I am building now that when I

added supports every 5in or so, the speeds increased by a lot. The more supports the

better. In the long run, that can put a hole in your supply of pieces real fast.

[Shockwaver]

I didn't say they came from ebay squriel did.

I'm just saying that you want all of them because they are cheap, and probably

on clearance.

[Da Squriel]

Wait i'am stupid what i do this time?









and how

far are you so far?

[CoasterGod310]

So what do you think I

should do put more supports for strength on the drop or less for realism?