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Re: A fan no more
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:21:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Peter Roberts wrote:
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It’s not that I’m bothered about so much. It’s the gratuitous use of
liftarms where standard technic bricks could be used to better effect.
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I’d be genuinely curious to see some specific uses where you feel this to be the
case. I’m one of those people who mostly just uses the old-style TECHNIC bricks
when I want TECHNIC features in a standard brick construction (like Moonbase
corridor flanges), but sually not at all in a full TECHNIC MOC, so I’m rarely
looking for ways to use them in their original capacity. I do a lot of
TECHNIC-sculpting, so the biggest problem I’ve usually faced is that the extra
height required for the stud interface would prevent me from packing pieces as
compactly as I need to do.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I think that when TECHNIC bricks are used, a more solid appearance is given to the model. I personally quite like 8455. I think the previous technic excavators had a too blocky appearance. There are a lot of pneumatics in a small area and (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) It's not that I'm bothered about so much. It's the gratuitous use of liftarms where standard technic bricks could be used to better effect. However, it's no use trying to dig myself out of a hole. I can hear the mention of 8466, 8455, 8448, (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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