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RE: Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:11:27 GMT
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Mark Chan writes:
Very nice!!!! It's so accurate that it took only half a glance for me to
say, yup, that's a Diablo. I especially love all the moving parts
and extras.

Thanks!  I've uploaded a couple of the pictures that helped me get the
dimensions as close as I could:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26527
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26526
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=26528
I used the "Pixelate" feature of Corel PhotoPaint to make rectangles the
size of 1x1 plates (to estimate the number of studs across each view should
be, I used the dimensions of the actual vehicle quoted on Supercars.net),
and then counted steps to get dimensions and curvatures.
Has anyone else used references like that?
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/



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  Re: Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
 
Hi Bram, (...) That sounds like a similar way like lugnet's mosaic maker? It seems to be a good way to get the scale down to the model size. I always did it by inspiration and, even more important, the size of important pieces for the model. For (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: Model Team scale Lamborghini Diablo 6.0
 
(...) <snip> (...) say, yup, that's a Diablo. I especially love all the moving parts and extras. You truly have a skill for Lego modeling motor vehicles at all different scales. I hope you enter this in the Macro Scale category in the current Lego (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)

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