About a month after initially finishing the Modular Spaceship I was minding my own business when a builder in my head muttered... It'd look good with wheels. So now we'll head back into the post to have a look at the central fuselage of the Spaceship and my new bevy of modules. two Wheel rig pair styles, and a ball and joint hitch kit.
The hitch kits and wheel kits 'can' go on this way... The initial design was actually the reverse... but these modulars are pretty flexible, so.... shrug or whatever... I'll give you a tour.
For extra support in this modular tour I developed a robot loosely inspired by the Episode 1 Pit Droid design from 1999's Phantom Menace pod racer sets. I built it as close as I could with the Space themes' available parts (didn't get far) so when those ran out the design took a left turn. The red driver works on getting things together while our red lab technician enjoys a lemon lime snowcone.
The arrow indicator prints are a bit raised in this instance to allow for clearance over my front units unlevel built up side. On the back module and on an as yet unshown module they'll fit more snug, but for now. This lifted shape manages to look good and the raised arrow gives a functional push point for removal.
The robot can drop its rig and take a seat at the wheel of this powerful rig.
Here's the lab interior mostly shorn of its tools and with a cool little console unit. The red tray is currently empty.
Our lab technician needs to bring out a research sample kept in the handy lockbox.
The yellow sample oughta do. Let's see what what we've got on this chipset.
The salinity of this planet's oceans exceeds our own, we'll have to make calibrated adjustments to the ballast for 'that'.
And so, that's variant one for this Moon Rover. I didn't modify the body for the wheels, the new pieces were developed to pair to the existing superstructure.
The Lab unit can form a truck all on its own.
The lab console screen folds down to allow the technician to see forward and drive the lab around.
Variant 2 is a good deal simpler, I have a rock scrabbler and the lab it reports to. This is the original working intention for the front wheels. In truth... I think the design is a teensy weensy bit WIDE! at this scale.
Variant 3 is the original shape I put all of these bits into. It's basically the above in reverse. Adaptable ain' it :)
The Robots welding tool can mount on the labs rocket attach point.
Variant 4 ditches the hitch and pushes the big wheels all the way back. The connection utilizes the labs pre-existing inverted slope section and the wheel mount's push removal arrow indication print points to create a compelling suspension design which is level under load and adjusts downward over rough terrain.
The use of half pin axle pieces came about due to a shortage of suitably colored technic pin bricks. They stabilize the modules and make removal easy. But they also work great for this side application of 'I accidentally discovered a finished and decent suspension idea when I stuck my module on the superstructure this way.'
And suddenly a whole new attachable module was discovered. What is it for!
Sea you again for Part III!
Sincerely the Cure-all Pill
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