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[SwimZONE]

Well I got the skeleton for the mini doomsday machine...



Where it will stop spinning, and become a ride



Future station location...



Overview 1



Overview 2

[metallicais1337]

Argh... 2 Doomsday Machines in one contest? Looks like there's some competition!


Anyways, looks great. What are your plans for the layout?

[SwimZONE]

When it comes out, it's going to drop and turn 90* left, and then com back up, and then Something...anyone got any Ideas?

[PlanetSaturn56]

Tisk tisk copycat.

[metallicais1337]

^I have a feeling yours is going to be better, though. No offense SZ.

Wait a second, whatever happened to the first pics of the track on the car thing?


I still haven't figured out what it was supposed to be for .

[SwimZONE]

And I'm still confused about what you're saying...
I know I copied him, but I just wasn't doing it right in to many ways...that is winter contest coasters...
Thanks for commenting!

SZ, once again stole someone's Idea...

[Britfag]

The thing that bugs me, is the amount of Torque needed to do the spiral lift..
Big gear ratio change is needed!

and also, a lot of people are doing Euro-fighters, are they copycats?
I have a feeling I may have to do what CA will/is doing..

[SwimZONE]

I finished adding track...it was very tedious... I have two green motors that I'm using to power it, and it still 'pauses' then launches it, how can I fix this? it's shown in the video...

It meets requirements...



It has a nice spiral...



Overview



Video:

[coastermaniac]

That would be fun to ride. Fast-Slow-Fast-Slow. lol Have you tried with less cars ?

[KCM32]

That looks familiar.
One thing I suggest you do is go back through and make sure it is rising the same amount every 90 degrees around. Just so it is constant all the way up. In the pictures it looks okay but in the video it seemed to get steeper in some spots. And the lift you could try maybe a 3 car train and maybe a different motor. It seems to struggle quite a bit. Good luck with this though.

[coastercrazy10]

Most likely it's pausing when the car gets to the connection between the rod and connector...it has a bit more friction there and the motors slow down, then the built up energy releases as the car passes over the connection point. The only thing i can recommend is gearing down more than you already have. Try using the smallest gear you have to that big yellow gear and, although it'll go slower you SHOULD reduce the fast/slow alternating.

-CC10

[RCT2123]

I am pretty sure it's the rods flexing. They are quite flexible...

Maybe cross brass the inside of the spinning thing...

-Rct2123:cool:

[SwimZONE]

Coastermaniac: That's not what I'm aiming for...

KCM32: Ok I'll look into that

CC10: I'll try that next

RCT2123: I might change the way it's cross-braces are to the way KCM has his, i'll see how that works...

Thanks for posting, but keep them coming! It's not gonna solve itself...

Also, here's my layout plan so far, you just have to finish it...

[Jogumpie]

Minimize the friction between the car's rod and the rotating part. I've had the same problem, I knew how to fix it, though.
Putting grey and blue rings on the rod really helps. The rod then slides upwards more easily.

[the_burrito_master]

looks very cool it looks like it's going to look a lot like gumps did you should put inversions in it that would be sweet. although not very normal.

[Chubs33]

Looks good man. Very interesting to see the spiral lift. Even though there is another one in construction now, it still is nice to see.

Don't rush it, thats my two cents. Just take your time and make a solid layout. Good work so far...

[big builder145]

Great I once tried wayy... back(before doomsday machine) to do one of these spiral lift things it turned in to a heaping pile of poo, I'm glad it worked out!

[SwimZONE]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

After the drop, I'm gonna have a dive loop, and the a 270*(ish) turn-around. into the station...that's a possible layout, but I might add more...you'll just have to wait and see!

SZ, needs more players, and tells you not to be obama:smkng

[~stεεlspectrum~]

Please do not put just one inversion in this, that would be uber-lame. You could at least put in some cool turnarounds, like on Doomsday Machine, instead of a 3-second coaster.

[SwimZONE]

Did you read my post ^^ up there at all? I plan on at least 2 inversions...