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RE: New MOC: Hummer
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lugnet.build
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:23:15 GMT
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A. Mark Wilburn writes:
> I had started to build a hummer ages ago, but gave up (the windows I used
> forced it to be 8 wide, and I just couldn't quite make it look right.
Mine is approximately the same scale as my 8 wide vehicles...the Hummer is a
very wide vehicle, after all.
> I can't quite tell from the picture, but are those clear 1x1 round
> plates for the headlights? (For some reason they look slightly bigger than
> 1x1... maybe an optical illusion?)
An intentional optical illusion :) The bottom of a 1x1 round plate is
larger than the top stud, so I put the light in backwards.
> Actually, they're not quite; if you mean the Technic wheels that
> come in the latest Race theme dragster sets, they have a slightly
> larger diameter (but barely); put the tires on top of each other
> to see. However it's probably not much of an improvement.
Hmm, yah, I guess they are a couple millimeters bigger. But they look like
car tires, not truck tires.
> If you're lucky enough, maybe someone will donate/sell 4 classic 4 stud
> diameter wheels to your cause.
With gray tires, eh? I think those wheels wouldn't look very good,
unfortunately. I'm beginning to sound awfully anal, huh?
> Conversely, if you don't mind buying a clone brand (in the name of being
> easy to find replacements for those classic stud diameter tires that LEGO
> used to make) Blockmen (I think they're called) have a prefab hummer
> exactly the same scale as yours, with Lego Compatible wheels (almost
> exactly the same size as the classic Lego 4 diameter ones).
Wow, how can they claim those are building sets?
http://www.blockmen.com/directory/directory.htm
At least they look like Humvees :) Do the wheels even come off?
> Or you could just use 6 dia. Model Team wheels (it's a Hummer; oversized
> wheels would probably look more natural than undersized ones).
I might try making a modified version with the large tires for the same hubs
I used (3643 at the following URL):
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/registry/wheel/wheel_1.html
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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| (...) Yeah, I noticed that; what I meant was looking at yours and Jay's really make me want to go 1-2 wider, but I can't really because then it'd be wider than my semi's! (...) Oh, I thought I had implied that along with the small Technic wheels, I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I have to agree; you and Jay both rock at Minifig vehicles. I had started to build a hummer ages ago, but gave up (the windows I used forced it to be 8 wide, and I just couldn't quite make it look right. But yours and Jay's make me wish I'd (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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