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The wheels don't look too bad. I really like the doors. Does anyone else like Humvees better? I think that the full-cab look is just better looking. At the moment I'm working on a '78 Firebird in the same scale. lets hope I can pull it of 8) <<KM>> (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: First "real" Mecha, v1.1
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(...) I think that it might work because there are ball joints at both ends of the throwbot piece, but that can still be done (and fairly easily, really) with the new ball-with-axle-hole piece, although it begins to require a shocking amount of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Armless minifigs -- TLC Consumer Affairs policy?
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How about cannibalizing the new figs... then sending the newly-armless figs in? -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: First "real" Mecha, v1.1
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(...) Hips are the hardest joints to make. I'd have to say shoulders are a close 2nd. Here's a link to a mech I think Eric may have been talking about: (URL) more specifically (Using three) (URL) a shoulder (Using two) (URL)All of that said... if (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | RE: New MOC: Hummer
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(...) Thanks! (...) Not really a coincidence :) We were chatting and Jay mentioned Hummers...after that we both decided to build one. (...) the difference in scale necessary to make the wheels look right... :/ --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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As a result of my own small FOTW, I've suddenly come up with the need to know about fixing armless minifigs. I got a goodly pile of 1970s-80s era figs in multiple themes from a thrift shop, but some of them are armless and/or handless. I was more (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | RE: New MOC: Hummer
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(...) Thanks! (...) They're the same size, and lower profile. a 4x4 circle is almost exactly the right size...unfortunately, they don't look very good as wheels/tires, and they're too close in size to the tires I used for LEGO to have made tires (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | RE: New MOC: Hummer
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(...) If they weren't balloon tires, they just might work. But they look silly since they are so wide, and are just a tiny bit too big. Anyway, I only have 1 or 2 of those wheels... Thanks anyway, --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: First "real" Mecha, v1.1
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(...) They're definitely (...) Hmm...I'll have to see how that works...it seems to me like it would prevent the leg from moving, though...anyone have any pictures to illustrate more clearly? (...) I'm glad it's not wussy. 8) I think 'wasp' and (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Dark Gundam 03 - B.A.R.
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Ooohh... Nice! I *really* can't wait to see this!!! (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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