scooterdoug Posted June 5, 2013 Posted June 5, 2013 Hello, So, I've made a couple of models recently, and I decided (inspired by another CD modeler on here) just to make one thread and post my models in here, rather than a new thread each time. With 2 kids to deal with, I don't complete models as frequently as I used to, but I manage a few a year. So, enjoy my designs. And, as usual, any comments/compliments/criticism accepted happily and gratefully. So, to start things off, I made a model back in 2012 that was inspired by Eurofighters and a variety of Intamin coasters. This was not nearly my best work, there are a lot of flaws and odd track shaping that irked me. But, sometimes the design that's in my head just doesn't want to be built. I guess this was the case, but I pressed ahead anyways. Not awful by any means, but not up to my usual standards. Enjoy the photos and video, another model will be posted soon. -Doug MVI_3244.AVI
zachclarke2 Posted June 6, 2013 Posted June 6, 2013 Awesome model! It's nice to see people from the CD forum on here. Would that model happen to be a modified version of your Berkeley Bomber model from a while back? It looks rather similar.
scooterdoug Posted June 11, 2013 Author Posted June 11, 2013 It's a totally different layout (I took down the old model completely). However, the far end of the living room is the coaster space, so the footprint for all my coasters remains the same, thus the similarity.
scooterdoug Posted June 19, 2013 Author Posted June 19, 2013 OK, so here are some pictures of my latest model. While I wasn't very impressed with the last one, this one makes me proud. The shaping flaws are minor and few. Can you see what coasters/manufacturers influenced this design? I hope to have a new design built by summer's end (since, as a teacher, I'm now on summer break, I should have time to get some good work done). I'll be going back to an inverted design, I haven't built one of those in years. As usual, any comments/compliments/criticisms are most welcome. Enjoy! -Doug
Dragon Khan Posted June 21, 2013 Posted June 21, 2013 Nice one, although I'm surprised you don't like your Eurofighter more (I love your Norvegian loop). The second one: lemme guess: Maverick / I 305 / HRRR / ...) I love the double inversion too... reminds me of Stormrunner's... I don't want to hijack your thread but since I RARELY build coasters, I'll just post my creation here, feel free to comment !
B&MBoy1982 Posted June 21, 2013 Posted June 21, 2013 Hey Doug! <------ SheiKra_rocks from the old CD forum! How does the train handle the non inverting loop?
scooterdoug Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 Howdy stranger! The train handles the non-inverting loop just fine...pretty much the same as it would handle any inversion.
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