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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 06:27:16 GMT
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Todd Lehman writes:
> Someday my Raptor can be modeled then?  :)
> 
> James Jessiman made these images about 4 years ago:
> 
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/
> 
> He worked from a couple scrawlings that I posted (the URLs of):
> 
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl1.gif
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl2.gif
> 
> Two things weren't available in LDraw at the time:  the sloped brick with
> the Blacktron logo and the hoses.

And the 1x2 tile printed control panel.

> BTW, looking at the date on the first scrawling, it seems that the model is
> coming up on its 10th anniversary in a little less than 3 months.  Any
> takers on finishing the work James started on it and also rendering it in
> POV?

I'd be honored to, if no one else has been pre-honored.

> p.s.  How do the hoses look in transparent beer yellow?  (See
> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/pic-6806-1.html
> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/pic-1968-1.html
> for proof that these existed...  The connector ends are traditional
> trans-beer-yellow and the hoses are murky translucent beer yellow --
> not totally transparent but definitely not opaque either...  :)

I thought the proper name for this was 'clear-beer yellow'.  Sure, it breaks
the translucent color naming standard, but it sounds so right.

Steve



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  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) Ah yes, that too. And the two yellow tools that go into the clips on the very back. And I guess technically, the minifig. :) When was LDraw first released? This must've been right around that time... It's amazing how many elements James (...) (28 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Cool-o! Not quite perfectly perfectly perfect yet, but getting very very close!! Someday my Raptor can be modeled then? :) James Jessiman made these images about 4 years ago: (URL) worked from a couple scrawlings that I posted (the URLs of): (...) (28 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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