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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:00:56 GMT
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In article lugnet.cad, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> 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.

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 modeled all by himself.


> > 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.

Hasn't been worked on since James took a first shot at it in early December,
1995...


> > 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.

Eeek but that validates light-colored beer!  :)  I think it was Jeff
Thompson who first came up with a "liquids" method for distinguishing
between the two transparent yellows:

   - Beer yellow          (regular traditional transparent yellow)
   - Alien vomit yellow   (neon/chartreuse/antifreeze yellow-green)

I drink darker beers, so I use "beer yellow" only in jest.  :)

--Todd (who hopes someday to see Guinness-colored minifig pint glasses)



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  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) Hmm. There were part-files for those tools then. There's still no BT1 minifig. We could do a plain black torso, or a BT2 minifig. (...) I don't remember. The filedates in the download archive go back to mid-1996. But James had LDraw-stuff (...) (28 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) Were those clips on the back actually trans-yellow? Or just regular yellow? Steve (28 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) And the 1x2 tile printed control panel. (...) I'd be honored to, if no one else has been pre-honored. (...) I thought the proper name for this was 'clear-beer yellow'. Sure, it breaks the translucent color naming standard, but it sounds so (...) (28 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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