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Re: Guns Galore!
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lugnet.build.military
Date: 
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:56:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Mladen Pejic writes:
> In lugnet.build.military, Bryce Rollins writes:
> > 
> > Nice ones Mladen, thanks for sharing them with us.  I like how you've used
> > the minifig hands as the handgrips of the weapons.  In my experience, its
> > really difficult to represent accurate minifig small arms but you've done a
> > great job.  My only concern is that some of the weapons don't appear to be
> > too "Soldier proof" and wouldn't stand up to too much heavy use.  That is to
> > say, the stem of the minifig hands doesn't appear to be thick enough to
> > allow a minifig to really grag hold to the guns.  Still Great Job on a
> > difficult subject.
> 
> Thanks Bryce. Yep, your concern is definitely valid. You need a lot of • patience
> to pose the 'figs with them. Some arm positions don't work with the weapons
> either. Oh well... :-(

Sorry to take so long in responding to this ...

The peerless Mr. Mike Rayhawk made an excellent point (as he is wont to do); he
mentioned that one could simply slip a very small (2-3 mm) length of flex
tubing over the hand-attachment stub.  This is a technique that has been used
in a number of MOCs - the thin hand pins fit perfectly.  And, of course, the
flex tubing is perfectly sized to a minifig's hand.

Voila!  No more loose grips!

-s



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  Re: Guns Galore!
 
(...) Thanks Bryce. Yep, your concern is definitely valid. You need a lot of patience to pose the 'figs with them. Some arm positions don't work with the weapons either. Oh well... :-( (...) Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.build.military)

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