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[DDRman732865]

Ok. I decided to make a dueling roller coaster, inspired by Rollerdude's Solar and Lunar. I'm not counting Polar Rocket in my coaster count, so I introduce my 10th custom k'nex roller coaster...

[this name will be determined at a later date]

All I have now is the station, but I have a 3-day weekend, so expect many more updates.

P.S. I think it's the best station I have made so far, and a pretty sweet one at that.











Please comment.

Edit: Damn it, sorry for the large pictures.

[eliavlevy]

Station looks great
What do you have in mind?

[Britfag]

niiice station, although Duelers dont have the same elements do they?

[Maverix]

^no that's racers, look at Dueling Dragons at Islands of Adventure. Well DDRman expect to use a lot of peices and duelers are tough to get to have them duel at exacly the same time but good luck.

[Britfag]

^ I've been on Dueling dragons, year 2000
how awsome.
lol
but no joke that was an awsome coaster (probably still is)
(ON TOPIC)
yeah, it will take one h*ll loada skill to get the dueling elements to be going at the same time,
if your gonna use two cars, what always looks awsome is to have the second released car of one station dueling an overbank (or something) with the first released of the other station

[DDRman732865]

Ok guys, I'm going to ust the same motor for both lifts, and use Lego Mindstorms to synchronize them.

New Pics of the almost finished lift hill. I'm working on the chain, but it's hell getting it to work.

Sorry for the mess.









P.S. I will probably do immlemanns exiting in opposite directions.

Edit: Damn it! Pictures take a while to resize.

[Coasteradict]

Looks nice so far! Do you have a layout planned?

[Britfag]

thats well nice,
lol Chav-esq
well, i personally think that the crest WILL be a tad sharp,
I'll give a full verdict when you make the whole crest, but make sure you look out for that!

[RCmaniac31]

its fine, move on.
If you did 1 of them with an immlemann and the other with a dive loop that would look awesome.

Good Luck


RC

[DDRman732865]

^That would be cool. And thanks for the luck wishes.
^^It's a little sharp, but just enough to let it slide.
^^^No, no layout yet.

Ok, First drop is done. Pix:

[KCB Designs]

Looks good, what do you have planed for after the immlemans?

[rollercoasterfanatic919]

^He just said, he doesn't know yet.

Looks pretty good, but kinda bumpy. Also, take out the gray rods on the drop unless you heat them so they can bend. It looks like they are creating a large straight part.

[Chubs33]

yeah dude thats a little bumpy. How about a full side view of the drop?

[Mikecoastermaniac]

too stright, and the pull out is really bumpy at the begining

[DDRman732865]

Alright.

^^^Ok. Took out the gray rods and smoothed out.

^^Here you go:



^What's wrong with straight? this, this,

Better, smoother drop.



Edit: Ok, that was a bad picture. I fixed it though. And sorry about the pictures. It takes a while for Photobucket to resize them.

And yes, I started in the immlemanns.

[the_burrito_master]

00oooooo00000ooo looks rely good.

might I point out that the track in pic 2 I know this is hard to fix ,but you can see thats is sorta worbaly try to fix that.

here is a tip for building pull outs you start at the bottom and go upwards because when I start building a pull up I make it rely loose then I slowly tighten that will give you a great pull in so think of a pull out as a pull up.

I hoped I helped.

[Top_Thrill_Dragster33]

Okay, Lets list things wrong with that.

1. There is not a straight part in the drop of MF. Get a complete side view of MF and then talk to me.
2. This isn't a dive machine. If it was It would go vertical.
3. The pull-up into the immlemanns is too sharp. Don't make it taller, just make it shaper at the top.

TTD33

[DDRman732865]

1. Good Point.
2. Good Point.
3. I'm just gonna redo the immlemann, I messed it up.

Ok: The drop isn't straight anymore, so no one call it that (squint your eyes if you need to.)





Edit: Seriously, photobucket is getting really annoying! It won't keep the pictures resized.

[pkiknex25]

Perfect. Just make the bottom of the pull out bigger, it looks a little sharp and forced into.

[RCmaniac31]

wow this is turning out really well. ^make the pullout a little bigger

i think thats all


RC