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RE: New MOC: Hummer
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:04:54 GMT
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karl Martinson writes:
> I thought they were called humvees. They're a 4 door, but they
> don't have a box. Just about a 70 degree slope down to the back.
OK. I guess Humvees are the military vehicles and Hummers are civilian.
Since mine doesn't have a mahine gun and I used Hummer photos for reference,
I guess it's still a Hummer (That might make it GM instead of AM General
though, I'm not sure.) Yah, a Humvee with the sloped back is pretty
recognizable, and my model could easily be converted. However, I'd need to
know what the top or rear view of the sloped section looks like.
> I'm afraid the firebrid had to get scrapped. I tried for an
> entire afternoon just to get the scale right, but when I walk
> up to my firebird, I can see right over it, so I figured it would
> be maybe a brick higher than a minifig.
I don't worry about being to scale with minifigs, just being to scale in all
dimensions. If you want to make it 8 studs wide, then find a site which
gives the dimensions of the car, and use those ratios to figure out the
other two dimensions in studs. (Remember that a brick is 6/5 studs tall)
> The front grill is only really possible to make in 8 studs wide, and mine
> was gonna be 6 studs, and then there's the issues of making a good sloped
> back window.
So build it 8 wide. And don't put any minifigs by it when you photograph
it. Sloped windows are difficult. Don't worry about glass, just try to get
the pillars in the right place. If the window is curved, you may want to
give some hint as to where it goes with a change in color.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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| (...) have most of the front end built. It's looking to be model team scaled. I am thinking of trying to make another, more minifig friendly version in a 6 stud wide scale. I'll post pics soon. (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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| I thought they were called humvees. They're a 4 door, but they don't have a box. Just about a 70 degree slope down to the back. It's the kind you always see on TV, in music videos, etc. I'm afraid the firebrid had to get scrapped. I tried for an (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.build)
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