B&M giga - Coasterdave

I'm posting this in hope to actually finish this one! I'm taking a new approach and supporting as I go along. Not much is complete but it's looking solid so far.

Unnamed project. 360FT, 101MPH


First Hill: 360ft high with a 352ft 83* drop

Lift Hill

Drop

Base of drop w/ low zone fence

Base of first drop before floater hill

Low zone 2 (after floater hill)

275ft Hill

Down the 275ft hill

Sorry for the double post! More pics!

The 275ft ejector hill

Custom Storage tracks

It's a little hard to tell anything that's going on but it looks interesting. I think your airhill crest may be a little bit too pronounced. And the supports are inherently *correct,* but B&M giga supports are such a damn eyesore, if you spent some time making the lift structure look better, that would be of great advantage to you.

Here's a better angle of the lift. What would you change? I went off of Leviathan and Fury

[TTD03]

Aww yea, another awesome looking B&M Giga!

[Coasterkidmwm]

NICE transfer track, also GJ with the low zone fences. I felt compelled to add those to the B&M I uploaded a couple weeks ago too. Also it's nice to see someone posting a B&M giga that doesn't open with an overbank after the drop.

Make the angle at which the supports meet the track smaller. So the footers will be a little closer together. All in all, it actually doesn't look too bad in that picture. Just a tad unnecessarily wide. And I agree with ckidmwm. I love the low airhill after the first drop. That would be sweeeeeet.

Yeah I noticed that after I posted the pic, I'll adjust and post a pic later.

Looking great! I will admit I didn't notice that it was you who posted this at first, so I thought the ride's name was "coasterdave"

Haha that's great!!

I adjusted the lift supports, I think it looks better. Thoughts?

[Coasterkidmwm]

Yeah that minor adjustment makes it look a ton better.

Yup, it looks a lot better

Not much work because of rehearsals but here is the transfer section

[mkingy]

Looks great - I especially like the details on the transfer sections. I think the very lowest support that connects to the thick beam needs to not connect to it - it seems too long to be effective.

[Coasterkidmwm]

hmm that's a fair point. Maybe having a vertical pole there as well would be good? I have no idea what would be best there.

[gouldy]

Agreed, without a vertical there, that support isn't doing anything.

This looks awesome so far, by the way. Almost making me want to revive my Giga...

[mkingy]

Vertical pole / vertical A-Frame would probably suffice!

[TTD03]

Here's an idea, if you are any bit coding fancy, when you are transferring the trains off, script the storage wheels to spin when the train is moving on it.

mkingy wrote:

Looks great - I especially like the details on the transfer sections. I think the very lowest support that connects to the thick beam needs to not connect to it - it seems too long to be effective.

I'm having trouble understanding where you're taking about.

[mkingy]

The one highlighted in red - blue is a suggested support shape!

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Ah gotcha. This look better?
Picture taken in the editor - Ignore the strange straight rails.

[mkingy]

Yeah definitely *thumbs up*

Seems like the lift supports have improved a lot from your first pics. I noticed that your many of your supports include a horizontal piece at the top...this support type is pretty exclusive to giga lift hills and should not be used throughout the course. Your giant airtime hill looks all kinds of wrong because of this and you've also placed the deeper spine at the pullout and crest of the hill as opposed to along the base where it would normally occur.

That's not necessarily where a larger spine occurs. The larger spine is for when the track needs more support, not when necessarily when Gs are higher. I attempted that support style because it is a 275ft parabola hill. Where that size of a stand alone hill hasn't been used (in real life), so I was attempting newer support spacing/design. Thus saving on steel as the traditional way would require more.