There's this thing called a Vic Viper that was popularized by Nenn a good while back...This guy was seriously cranking out Vic Vipers when I was in College until it seemed like everyone had caught the craze and followed suit; leading to NNovvember, a Vic Viper building month.
I wanted to build a Vic Viper too. The bandwagon effect was fading and Nnenn was gone; but he'd inspired everyone, including me.
Nnenn's flickr contained these simple directions which draw attention to the important features.
This M:Tron derived Vic Viper was the result, mind you this is from June 2013...a scant 2 months before I actually began writing this blog. You may have seen it in passing on flickr, but I wanted to showcase it here.
I built my Vic Viper with Multi Core Magnetizer, Stellar Recon Voyager, and Beacon Tracer. At the time, that was all the M:Tron I had.
I took a cue from M:Tron's naming conventions and called it the Parallax Mitigator, perfect for a dogfighter spacecraft. Read as: Lessening the difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight.
This is the previous use of the Honeycomb brick I mentioned earlier in the M:Tron reviews.
I chose to keep with M:Tron's schtick for Magnets and small stored vehicles and went with an assymetrical approach for it.
An engine was incorporated in the back because I had this open space and needed to do something with it...which necessitated making the fin movable as well.
This is not the greatest Vic Viper in the world; no, this is just a tribute.
Vic Viper Flickr Group
nnenn's flickr stream
Nnenn writeup by Gizmodo
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