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Re: You wouldn't want one of these landing at your Airport!
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
Date: 
Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Erin Windross writes:
I was planning to build a realistic minifig scale Jumbo 747, then I figured
out the dimensions of it, consequently I quit the whole project, because:

A: It would be near 30 studs wide(God knows what that would be with the • wings!)

B: It would also be 22 studs high (With upper area included, but not counting
the tail!!).

C: It would probably take up three or four 48x48 grey baseplates in length.

D: You couldn't pick it up and whiz it about the room.

E: NO airport made out of Lego that I know could EVER handle it.
Go to http://homepages.svc.fcj.hvu.nl/brok/legomind/models/index.htm click on
models by LEGO, click on "airport".  It also has a minifig scale 747.

So, in all, this plane could almost crush Millenium City. Now I've set my
sights on a more scaled down version of a 727 instead.
Here's a page with a ship longer than Seaborn Brick(when are pics coming?), a
DC-9 and a 757: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/Whew/VREAL.HTM
Alan
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  Re: You wouldn't want one of these landing at your Airport!
 
(...) A friend of mine is actually cropping, designing, layering the pics to get a more realistic effect, but he has been busy for a several weeks and progress has been slow. If you want, I could email you a REALLY rough picture of the ship, so you (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)

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  You wouldn't want one of these landing at your Airport!
 
I was planning to build a realistic minifig scale Jumbo 747, then I figured out the dimensions of it, consequently I quit the whole project, because: A: It would be near 30 studs wide(God knows what that would be with the wings!) B: It would also be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)

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