Banshee Construction Progress

[Jr for Birdy]

I make prosthetic appliances and work with pigments, Banshee is purple. I know because I hate making purple!

Red and blue make purple.

An example of my work...

I seen this on the news or a show, is that you and if so how fast can you swim!

[TTD-120-420]

I'm really curious. What are those used for?

[fanofFirehawk]

Looking like a mermaid?

[Kat]

Don said the tombstones out front will be incorporated throughout the ride (for those that were unable to attend today). Sounds really sweet.

[lopan]

I know we all took a ton of pics today so lets not go too crazy when everyone starts posting pics here :-)

[Kat]

I plan on putting mine in a photobucket album or maybe public Facebook album and linking the album on here

[Kat]

I never use Facebook on the internet anymore so I don't know if these links will work or not. If they don't please let me know!

Banshee: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.725327602574.1073741832.206300061&type=3

KI 9/8/13: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.733673187954.1073741836.206300061&type=3

[The Interpreter]

Uh, many of us do not do FaceBook...

And that takes me to a log in page.

[Kat]

Uh, many of us do not do FaceBook...

And that takes me to a log in page.

Ok. I will move them.

[Kat]

Edit: both albums are done uploading.

Banshee: http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Kat_thecatlover/library/Facebook/Banshee

KI trip 9/8/13: http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Kat_thecatlover/library/Facebook/Kings%20Island%209813

[jcgoble3]

Pictures:

Transmitted from Wild Space via my datapad's DROID brain

[Kat]

Awesome pics!!

[lopan]

sweet you liked the pose of my kid in front of DB and got almost the same pic i took of her too :-)

[RailRider]

Back on the whole color issue. The ride looks much different in person than on camera and in person it looks much different when it is sunny compared to cloudy. I for one would call the track fuschia. Call the colors what you want, but by no means are they red and blue.

Edited September 9, 2013 by RailRider

[The Interpreter]

Back on the whole color issue. The ride looks much different in person than on camera and in person it looks much different when it is sunny compared to cloudy. I for one would call the track. Call the colors what you want, but by no means are they red and blue.

Oh, the suspense.

You'd call the track WHAT?

Or did you mean "Here, track; here track; here, track!"?

[RailRider]

Ahh details, how easy they are to overlook on Monday morning.

[mikejenkins1]

Well lots more blue supports arriving today. Would expect vertical contruction of those soon as not much space left to drop them :-)

[diamonbackandbeastlover]

I'm on the bus and the cranes cables are down I'm hoping one day to see a piece if track or support dangling in the air

[mikejenkins1]

where will the lift hill motor building be located?

[calakapepe]

You don't need an entire building. Like Diamondback, and other Inverted B&M coasters, a shack is not needed, only a motor. (many other coasters don't have an entire building that aren't more modern[i.e. Vortex])

http://rcdb.com/3244.htm?p=15647

[thedevariouseffect]

B&M lift motors are built into the bottom of the lift, in this case above the track at lift base. This allows the chain to go around the tensioners/gears up the track, up above the track, and down the return loop. See coasters like Raptor, ect, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Hopefully this has the same drive motor as say Gatekeeper...that thing GOES

[rcwizard13]

What's a lift hill motor building? Anyone have a pic they could post here for me? I'm not sure if I've seen those on any coasters or not.

P.S. I re-wrote that second sentence three times to make sure it was O'Terpy-proofed.

[jcgoble3]

What's a lift hill motor building? Anyone have a pic they could post here for me? I'm not sure if I've seen those on any coasters or not.

P.S. I re-wrote that second sentence three times to make sure it was O'Terpy-proofed.

I'm quite certain someone out there has a picture, an internet connection, and the ability to register an account on KIC so they can post it.

So the answer to your second question is, "Yes."

[Losantiville]

Most lift hill motor buildings seem to be for wooden coasters. Very left of this picture is a lift motor shed: http://rcdb.com/279.htm?p=12893

[fanofFirehawk]

This is a motor:


This is a building:


The first one I found, photo bucket wouldn't let me upload the first one. I guess the world really doesn't want you to know what a lift hill motor.

EDIT: Wow Nathan, 600th post, nice...

Edited September 10, 2013 by fanofFirehawk

[Markdb96]

I took this picture about 2 weeks ago, I just forgot to post it. Lucky enough to take it right when they were lifting that piece into place.

[calakapepe]

Nice!

Also, expect something like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacecamp/4765457586/

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And just a reminder, I'm still hoping we don't get trims at all, or even the track with the two holes in the spine, cause then that means, to me, they are considering it.

[YoungStud]

should not be any trims cause the elements are so drawn out, that will take all the forces out. Its common for a couple places to have holes to mount trims just in case in the real world the train goes faster than what the engineers plan.

Even Intamin has a couple small trims on SKYRUSH. Its not like b&m's trim on Diamondback going over the hill to the onride photo where the trim is just as large as a mcbr.

[calakapepe]

Hopefully not. The ride looks like it'll be drawn out enough, as is.. still fun, I'm sure, though.

And DB's trim makes me sad, but it gave a reason for a more abrupt crest at the top with the straight section of track

[YoungStud]

I wonder how many MPH the trim on Diamondback slows the train, it has to be at least 15mph. That is the only part I get any airtime cause of the inertia of the violent slow down.