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| | | Steve Bliss wrote in message <371ca48f.12455493@l...et.com>... (...) D'oh! I'm not really familiar with the Adventurer's line, but I do have the landspeeder :) (...) of (...) So at 7 studs minimum across for a two-seater cockpit X 5 = 35 studs (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Derek Schin
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| | | | John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) across. (...) cockpit (...) Well, the Millenium Falcon model on my page is built exactly to minifig scale. The math alone almost killed me when I built it (measure length of random part from book; convert (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) <snip> (...) round 4x4 plate for the holo-chess table. Chewie is an interesting improvisation too. Okay, now for the hard part: how many pieces is it? :) -Tom McD. when replying add syrup to the spamcake. (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Derek Schin
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| | | | | | | Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) I really wish I knew. Since I never plan on taking it apart, I'll probably never know, either. As for modeling it in LDraw...I don't think so. We're certainly talking about thousands of pieces here. :Derek (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | for the cockpit of a falcon. how about using the cockpit pieces from the aquanaut subs. they look close and they fit with the octogonal walls. or TLG could make something colse to those that is more like the real MF. (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) would the 4 x 4 round with holes from the y-wing engines work? (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | | | | I used an old 4x4 turntable (without the 4x4 bottom plate) with a grid of blue and white 1x1 tiles on top. So far it's the closest, I've come up with. Ben (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's an interesting idea Ben... it almost sounds like they could eat chinese food on the Falcon now that the entire table rotates! :) (...) I thought about that last night when I was taking apart my Y-wing. It could work, but anything 1 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) More likely, the round disk with cross-axle hole from CyberSlam (and others). Steve (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Jason Fabisch
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| | | | | | (...) What about using one of those Throwbot disc things. Are they Lego compatable or just useless? Jason (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | Utterly, completely useless! No Lego compatibility. Does anyone want some? Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —John VanZwieten
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| | | | (...) This was one of the first sites I found last year when I went searching for Lego on the net, and I was blown away! You can rest assured that the TLG version of the MF will not be as nice as yours. Do you still have the model built? This would (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | A few comments, keep in mind, dimensions of the Millennium Falcon vary by as much as 40% depending on what source to use. But if you scale it based on the 8 studs as the width of the cockpit you come up with number pretty close to what Derek (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | Ben Fleskes wrote in message ... (...) If it's correctly to scale. As Steve pointed out, a cockpit to overall size ratio of 1:5 would be the minimum necessary without it looking ridiculous. I doubt TLG would be as concerned about exact dimensions (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Derek Schin
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| | | | | | John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) size (...) I (...) they (...) True, but I did measure their Y-Wing to see how far off it was from the correct scale, and you know what? It was really close. Everything except the cockpit was dead-on. Of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: Could TLG Answer our prayers?...A Millenium Falcon —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) You are correct, but that's assuming the cockpit tube is nearly circular. If the tube was built to 'suggest' a circular cross-section, it could be smaller than 8 studs across. 0000 00 00 0 0 0 0 00 00 0000 This would be very cramped. Other (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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