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Subject:	Re: Fun with hoses continued
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad
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 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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		Re: Fun with hoses continued
(...) 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): (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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