FlyingGames FORUM - Megaton Recycling Crawler (MRC)

MRC - Posterplan

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:19:27 +0200

Die letzten Tage habe ich für einen Wettbewerb in einem Kartografieforum an einem Poster für den MRC gearbeitet.
Das Poster hat A2-Format und ist beidseitig.

Ich habe mal eine kleine Datei in 72 dpi angehängt, wo die beiden Seiten nebeneinander zu sehen sind.

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Würde mich interessieren, wie ihr es findet.

MRC - picture gallery

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:03:02 +0200

Hi,
I have shot two more pictures of the MRC at the last Brain and Dice convention in Heidelberg. They are not very good, but I thought you would like to see the behemoth in action :-)

Cheers
Hartrek

MRC - Anleitung Räder / instruction wheels

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:04:48 +0200

Hallo liebe MRC-Baumeister!

In diesem Thema findet sich alles über den Bau der Räder für den MRC.
Vorgesehen sind 8 Räder mit einem Durchmesser von je 8 cm.
Jedes Rad ist an einer starren oder drehbaren 10-mm-Achse aufgehängt.

Es gibt eine ganze Palette von Rädern, von der man wählen kann.
Normalerweise hängt es davon ab, wieviel Zeit man investieren will, denn
je besser das Rad aussieht, desto mehr Bauzeit ist dafür nötig.

Es gibt vier verschiedene Rad-Modelle:
- einfach (1,5 - 2 Stunden pro Rad / Bild 1)
- mittel (3 - 4 Stunden pro Rad / Bild 2)
- kompliziert (6 - 8 Stunden pro Rad / Bild 3)
- wahnsinnig (10 - 12 Stunden pro Rad / Bild 4)

Natürlich sieht es am besten aus, wenn man die komplizierten oder wahnsinnigen Räder baut, aber
mein persönlicher Ratschlag ist, zwei unterschiedliche Arten von Rädern zu bauen. Vorne die komplizierten und hinten die mittleren.
Es gibt drei gute Gründe dafür. Erstens sieht es ziemlich gut aus. Zweitens reicht eine komplette Bauwoche für alle Räder.
Und drittens ist man nach 4 Rädern mit jeweils 24 Rippen ziemlich froh über eine Abwechslung.

Hello dear MRC-builders!

In this threat You can find all about the wheels of the MRC.
The hull is build to be moved by 8 wheels with a diameter of 8 cm.
Each wheel is attached to a fixed or a turnable axis of 10 mm.

There is a whole palette of wheels, from which You can choose.
It depends on the time You are willing to invest, because the better the wheel looks, the more time You need for building it.

There are four steps in difficulty:
- easy (1.5 - 2 hours per wheel / picture 1)
- moderate (3 - 4 hours per wheel / picture 2)
- complex (6 - 8 hours per wheel / picture 3)
- mad (10 - 12 hours per wheel / picture 4)

Indeed it looks best to have the complex or mad wheels all over the model, but
my personal hint is to build 4 moderate and 4 complex wheels. There are three reasons for this.
First, it looks quite good to have two different kinds of wheels (complex in front and moderate behind).
Second, one week of building time is quite enough for the wheels.
And third, if you have built 4 identical complex wheels with 24 ribs each you will be glad to have a change.

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MRC - Half-size build report (2011)

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:57:39 +0200

2011-04-26: I reduced and arranged all the parts for printing.

2011-04-27: I printed all the parts on 15 US Letter size sheets of 165 GSM index card stock.

2011-04-28: Assembly has finally begun!

For comparison, here is the final photo of my previous half-size MRC built in 2007:

Off to finish the starboard shock absorbers and wing!

MRC - OT Chatter

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:19:58 +0200

Rather than clutter the design and build threads with stuff not specific to their topics, I thought it best to start a new thread. :-)

Here are the things that have delayed me in starting a new half-sized MRC build:

A stack of wedding invitations for my wife's friend, done in two days due to her not understanding that it takes time to mail the silly things. She was happy. I got paid.

The Jules Verne "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" 'Nautilus' which I just finished within the last hour.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2...1212705356

And something for Easter.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2...1212705356

I have card stock, and a new yellow ink cartridge, so I should be able to print some MRC parts tomorrow! :-)

MRC Story

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:08:23 +0100

Megaton Recycling Crawler 24LB

Frank wasn't much in adventure for all his life. He never had the wish to join the company's security forces. And North American Power had quite much Sec-Forces, controlling a vast number of the biggest fusion power plants worldwide and offworld as well. Instead he graduaded some technical licences and was assigned for 'NAP Maintenace & Support'. One routine job after the other. Much travelling sometimes but a quiet work without too much risk. Last week Frank was honoured for 10 years of 'Job well done!' and got a gratification in form of a living quarter upgrade of 5 squaremeters 'higher luxury standard' from the company. But Frank wasn't really happy about that, because in addition he was transfered to 'NAP Mobile Repair & Services'.

He heard some rumors in the sys-net about two crawlers, highjacked by rebel outlaws. The crawlers were quickly 'cleansed' by TNO-forces and given back to their owners. Now they need some new crew. The Team-leader told him, Frank's new working site will be 'Crawler-24LB', one of those he heard of.

Now, only one day later, he stands on this rainy shuttle platform of crawler 24LB. It's dark night and only some position lights at the edge of the platform are blinking. The Shuttle that brought him takes off. The Technician waiting for him on the platform looks at him with a weary grin and tells him that LB in Crawler-24LB stands for 'lousy bug'. What a 'warm' welcome. Frank smiles back with a frown, and follows the man down an oily ladder to the cockpit section. The man talks on and on '...the Captn's sleeping 't the moment, y' know, but an hour ago or something the reactor had a power drain of 5% again. Y' should look after that soon as possible, y' know. Some rebels damaged that damn cooling sys' electric, y' know. but I show y' the sleeping quarter first...

Every now and then crawlers are target of raids or sabotage. So the military defense is an important topic for every company running one or more crawlers.But the selfdefense isn't installed directly on the MRC. There is a mobile robot drone on the MRC which is communication with the GDS (Global Defense System). This new feature from the NAP-SEC (North American Power Security) is communicating globally with all the 37 MRC's now in use. So help is always on the way. Military intelligence is still working together with various surface operating units and satelite systems in low earth orbit.

One of the most memorable reminders of the vulnerability of the MRC was the LS16-incident back in november 2219, where a number of big
outlaw gangs worked together to bring up the crawler by hacking into the system and stealing information about the drive plan of LS16. Some weeks later the crawler sunk into a huge under surface hole, the outlaws dug out along the recycling route. The complete front of the crawler was under the earth, where it was raided by pirates underground!!! They escaped via historic underground pipelines. LS16 was irreparably destroyed and had to be deconstructed and recycled by another crawler (TS12) one month later.

Frank followed the man through the sleeping quarters, the recreation room and finally to the control room. Still dizzy from the journey to this far-away place, he wasn't really paying attention to explanations of his predecessor. Why should he? Everything on those new machines are practically selfcontrolled, he'd be a fool if he wanted to drive this thing! Most of the maintenance is still in the garbage disposal unit on the back, which is constantly leaking fosfates. After all those years no scientist has ever found the solution of breaking them into a usefull recycling process. The nano-bots are still working day and night to clean the inner surface, to reduce the thickining of the radion-ring in the center, the most precious part of the MRC (Frank often called it the real lord of the rings).

After the man has left with the shuttle, Frank immediately turned to bed. He didn't sleep very well, the ambient light of the sleeping quarters was making him restless instead of sleepy. A headache slowly came up. Time to use the medication which was prescribed years ago, after his first attaque of migraine. He grabbed his pen, a light blue metallic tube, and carefully puts the front of it in his nose. With releasing the pressure of the pen he inserted a legion of nano-bots in his brain. They searched immediatly for the residues of serotonine, a product of the brain which was causing the headache. The bots quickly found the troubled substance and converted into the harmless adrenaline. Only the side effect always was, that he couldn't sleep for at least a day...........

MRC - Container-Transporter

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:48:51 +0200

Der MRC wird von zahlreichen Container-Transportern (CT) begleitet. Diese nehmen die Container auf, nachdem sie den MRC verlassen haben. Da sie im „Kielwasser“ des MRC unterwegs sind, müssen sie nicht allzu geländegängig sein.
Der CT besteht aus einem Führerhaus und einer Ladefläche. Seitlich befinden sich die Fahrgestell-Einheiten, jeweils bestehend aus Antrieb und zwei Rädern.

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The MRC is accompanied by many container transporters (CT). They take over the containers after they have left the MRC. They are active in the “wake” of the MRC, so they don’t need to be too off-road.
The CT consists of a cab and a floor. There are two lateral chassis-units, each consisting of an engine and two wheels.

MRC Tech Droid

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:45:58 +0200

Liebe MRC-Freunde,

Hier ist eine Skizze, die vergangene Nacht meinem Gehirn entsprang.
Ich dachte an ein Robotmodell, das zur Reparatur und Instandhaltung der MRC-Ausrüstung dient.

viele Grüße, Markus:-)=

Dear MRC-Fans,

here's a little sketch of a brainwave I had last night.
I thought about some droid model repairing and maintaining the MRC equipment.

best regards, Markus:-)=

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MRC Designer-Discussion

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:26:14 +0200

Hallo MRC-Fans,

in diesem Thema werden Kommentare und Diskussionen bezüglich des MRC-Modells geführt.
Jeder ist eingeladen zu schreiben.

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Hello MRC-fans,

in this topic are handeled comments and discussions about the MRC model.
Feel free to post.

MRC - Anleitung Hülle / instruction hull

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:58:32 +0200

Baubericht des 'Megaton Recycling Crawlers':
Kapitel 1: Die Fahrzeughülle

Im folgenden, detaillierten Baubericht werden die Schritte beim Zusammenbau des zentralen
Teils des Megaton Recycling Crawlers (MRC) erläuert. Es handelt sich dabei um die Fahrzeughülle,
an die bereits während des Zusammenbaus oder auch später verschiedene weitere Teile angebaut
werden können.

Bei Fragen, Ideen oder Korrekturen bitte eine persönliche Nachricht oder e-Mail an mich schreiben.

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Construction report of the 'Megaton Recycling Crawler'
Part 1: The Hull

The following report of construction will descript all steps of assembly of the central part of the
Megaton Recycling Crawler (MRC). It is the hull of the MRC to which all other parts will be
attached during and after assembly.

Thoughts, ideas or corrections of mistakes please via personal message or email.