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Re: Amazing fire truck
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mn
Date: 
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:10:21 GMT
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:53:20 GMT regult@aol.com (Jeff Christner) writes:
I stumbled upon this truck yesterday when the only pics on there were
3 of the Quint itself. Now I see there are pics of a school bus,
U-Haul, and a medic unit also. Its a nice apparatus, with lots of
detail, but its quite wide, a full 8 studs at the bumper. I suppose
with all the extra's like handrails and mirrors this was necessary,
but it would be a bit overscaled to most of the current 6 wide rigs
out there. It also seems a bit high, but I do like the fact that
although its a Quint, Bill has managed to keep the overall length
within reason.

I figure that any scale is fine as long as you stick to it if you want to
display your models together.  For example, one of my semi's (the tanker)
would work well with <set:2448>, but still dwarfs a four wide.  My
eight-wide (the trailer, not the tractor) still works well with
mini-figs, but it dwarfs the tanker...

Sometimes I'm left out of the loop though because some of my current
apparatus feature modified elements -gasp- but this is mainly to
overcome some of the problems when trying to build things to minifig
scale. Also LEGO just dosen't make everything one needs to build
working (in the eyes of minifigs) fire apparatus.

Hey, don't get jealous :)  Your stuff is great, there's just so much of
it that it's overwhelming :)  I'd love to see some of it sometime.  (Now
when's that Cleveland get together...?)
--Bram



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(...) I stumbled upon this truck yesterday when the only pics on there were 3 of the Quint itself. Now I see there are pics of a school bus, U-Haul, and a medic unit also. Its a nice apparatus, with lots of detail, but its quite wide, a full 8 studs (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mn)

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