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No confusion needed, just sloppy work of the L.factory.
I own about 25 of these plates, both the ones with full print on grey
plate, and the ones with just Island print (yellow+green) on blue plate.
Almost none of the plates are exactly identical, so I think it is hardly
impossible to make a definition of THE plate.
They vary about '+ or -' 1 stud in one, or both directions, and the
thickness of the beach-line is also not consistent. No problem, it
doesn't hurt the building/playing FUN ! :-)
For all the Lego-purists out there who like always-identical material:
BIG disappointment, when it comes to Pirates base-plates!
NB: the 32x32 plates suffer the same problem... more confusion?? :-)
Klaas H. Meijaard
Owner of every existing Pirate-set, and many more....
TWS Garrison wrote:
> Okay, great confusion here. . .
>
> When assembling the two larger (6265 and 6260) of my four Pirate sets, I was
> suprised to see that TLC had used the same pattern on two 16x16 baseplates, but
> placed it differently. One basplate has the pattern almost a full stud, plus
> the interstud space, closer to the edge in one direction, and a half-stud
> closer to the edge in another direction relative to the my other baseplate.
> This seemed to me odd, since there was no great gain by the move and the sets
> were produced cocurrently. At the same time, the possibility of simple error
> seems remote, since the pattern (although uncomplicated) crosses studs and has
> crisp edges---both of which seem incompatible with some "random" spraying
> process that would permit such a large offset.
>
> But, looking at the instructions,
> http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6260/6260-02.html
> http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6265/6265-02.html
> the baseplates pictured do not match closely each other *or* the two baseplates
> I have.
>
> So, my question is, are there really two (or more) patterns? If so, which is
> http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/3867p01.dat
> and do the patterns have distinct .piratical names? Should the above part be
> renamed to indicate that it is one of two similar parts?
>
> Thanks,
> TWS Garrison
>
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