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Re: New MOC: Hummer
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:25:58 GMT
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> > 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.
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> Mine is approximately the same scale as my 8 wide vehicles...the Hummer is a
> very wide vehicle, after all.
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!
> Hmm, yah, I guess they are a couple millimeters bigger. But they look like
> car tires, not truck tires.
Oh, I thought I had implied that along with the small Technic wheels, I also
meant the wheels from 'Grip n go Challenge'. They are the same diameter as
the 30.4 Technic wheels, but 'truck' tires.
> > If you're lucky enough, maybe someone will donate/sell 4 classic 4 stud
> > diameter wheels to your cause.
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> With gray tires, eh? I think those wheels wouldn't look very good,
> unfortunately. I'm beginning to sound awfully anal, huh?
(LOL) who here ISN'T? And they came with black ones (or at least you could
fit the tires from the red-spoked wheels onto them; either way not grey tires)
> 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?
The wheels come off; can't remember how well they fit technic pegs (but I
remember them fitting)
Mark W.
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| (...) Mine is approximately the same scale as my 8 wide vehicles...the Hummer is a very wide vehicle, after all. (...) An intentional optical illusion :) The bottom of a 1x1 round plate is larger than the top stud, so I put the light in backwards. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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