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Re: New MOC: Hummer
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:41:56 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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)
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> > 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.
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> 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
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> Bram Lambrecht
> bram@cwru.edu
> http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
After posting this I retried some stuff, and am happily building away. I
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.
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