Red Dawn- Compact Mega Coaster

An intamin mega, like goliath, thunder dolphin, and my personal fav, expedition geforce. But its COMPACT... (well, compact by most standards haha.

Shaping wont change cuz i'm ok with it all. My issue is supports



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If you look here, You can see that it would be very easy to put the lift supports on the other side.. However, i would lose such glorious head-choppers like the following, which are amazing when riding and all clear tunnel test.

I guess what i'm asking is, should i put the supports on the other side and lose the head choppers? or leave the triangular monstrosity where its at?



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Ok, (sorry for the double post), but i moved the supports to the other side of the hill. it just seems better. i'm going for a structure similar to expedition geforces lift...



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(still some track dodging issues, which is why the support furthest to the left is different than the rest)

had to keep this guy i couldn't let it go...

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oh, and then there is this... 150 degree overbank thing.



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comments, tips, anything is welcome. shaping wont change though.

IT HAS BEEN.....A red dawn.

Don't use the tower supports for that overbank dude. I sense too many forces for suck brittle structure to be utilized. Use the things that GeForce uses on its overbanks. Triangles.

http://www.rcdb.com/977.htm?p=30707

^but that overbank only pulls about +1.5 actually... and i spent soo much time on it! (like a whole 10 minutes bro!!!)

Then increase the support thickness by one size. C'mon dude you don't see the toothpick effect?

It looks like MF's supports to me. I would like to see a size up though, so we can compare.

here: The main vertical struts and the main horizontal struts have been increased in size. the cross hatches(diagonal) are still thin tubes.



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[Metazoanhaddock]

i say axe the thin tubes and size em up to medium, they just look too flimsy as of right now...

I don't like the supports. It's just so redundant and unappealing to me. Regular overbank supports would probably be the best best for you here. Plus, it looks more stable having supports that can withstand the high forces versus a tower.

Use the construction kit to export 3ds supports, that way you can have any size beams you want, so something in between thin and medium. That's what I did on Omega.

I think since you went with triangles on the lift you should stay with Triangles to make it more uniforn and symetrical

ok fine triangles it is... goodbye cool looking scaffold. you will be missed.


Oh and wing-over, i've never once done anything with 3ds or the construction kit.

It does look cool it'll will just look more uniform with the triangle i think. The scaffold supports would make more sense if you did it for the lift too, But I think the supports you have for you lift look cool too

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That's a lot better Mike. Once while building Elite, I made 3 different tower structures for the overbank (which was MUCH taller) and had to finally resort to triangles. Sometimes you gotta sacrifice hard work for efficiency.
I look forward to riding this! Good luck with the rest man

[TheArchitect]

^ that overbank is MUCH better, good job.