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Re: My favorite Adventurer sets
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lugnet.adventurers
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Fri, 24 Sep 1999 18:32:16 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Jeff Johnston writes:
> People keep saying this, along witht he comments about standing up to fire the
> rifles and such. Am I the only one that used a little imagination here and
> decided that the 'rifles' on the BB were an attempt at representing Gatling
> guns or other aircraft-style weaponry without molding a whole new piece?
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> LEGO has certainly done things like this before: the WW Gun Cart is almost
> certainly another example, as is the double-vertical-crossbow arrangement in
> the Royal Knight's Castle.
For the most part, I have to agree with you. Whether or not it's accurate
doesn't really matter that much to me on a scale like this. They get the point
across that the thing is a WWI style plane with guns. Maybe if you're an
avionics expert you can tell us the particular faults, but how inaccurate
it is is really just a point of interest for me... For the most part, that
doesn't affect my opinion of the set (unless the inaccuracy gets ridiculous to
the point of silly)
I think the qualm with the guns isn't really the pieces themselves tho, so much
as their placement... As I believe, the guns on WWI planes were mounted on the
body of the plane as oppsed to the wing... I could always be wrong though. I
think that's the way it is with most guns, until you get to modern aircraft
that have missles, etc., mounted on the wings.
DaveE
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| In lugnet.adventurers, David Eaton writes: {SNIP} (...) much (...) Being married to a WW-I aviation fan has its odd uses <grin>. The weapons were mounted above the wing in single-seat scouts (what we would call fighters) until Fokker invented the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) People keep saying this, along witht he comments about standing up to fire the rifles and such. Am I the only one that used a little imagination here and decided that the 'rifles' on the BB were an attempt at representing Gatling guns or other (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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