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Re: New Lego Exoforce
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:59:22 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mladen Pejic wrote:
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I came up with stuff like
this,
composed entirely of minifig tools.
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Hey, that’s pretty nifty. I’m curious, though--why did you go with the
odd-color minifig hand rather than a black one?
Dave!
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Thanks Dave!
The minifig hand I used was from a C3PO. I found that the colour nicely
simulated the amber colour of translucent plastic magazines used by certain
armed forces nowadays.
For example, the Steyr AUG and
HK G36 are often seen with these types
of magazines. From what I’ve read, the advantage of these magazines over metal
ones is several:
1) they don’t clank when they’re dropped
2) they don’t bend if they hit something
3) you can see the number of bullets you have left
4) they’re lighter
Recently I’ve been using sand green minifig hands to simulate a solid plastic
magazine, just to “shake things up”. :-)
Mladen Pejic
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| (...) Neat-o. That makes sense, but I'll warn you--be ready to answer that question a lot! I imagine that I've seen plastic magazines in movies, but I've never noticed. To my layman's expectation, the magazine is the same black as the gun, and I (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Hey, that's pretty nifty. I'm curious, though--why did you go with the odd-color minifig hand rather than a black one? Dave! (19 years ago, 30-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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