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Re: Making round shields
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:03:08 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> I was looking at a pile of 20 2x2 round plates with the archer's target
> design on them wondering what earthly good they are. Since the only
> official round shield looks like a trash can lid and is rare (rare =
> expensive), I decided to use the archer's target as a shield.
> Interestingly, I came to the same conclusions (looking back at previous
> messages on shields) as others and used a 1x1 round flat ("dot") attached to
> a minifigs hand, and then the "shield". Works well, and the flat surface
> makes it easy to paint or apply stickers/decals to.
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> Looking for other solutions, the 2x2 round radar dish works well, too.
> Using a lightsabre blade cut in thirds makes a good handgrip and shield
> boss. The torchholder/raygun thingie makes a good classic double-grip if
> you nip off the big round part - this seems more sacrilegious than cutting
> up the light sabre blade. Both look dopey from the side if you leave them
> uncut, but your esthetics may vary.
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> Any other solutions?
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> Bruce
I haven't released a picture yet, but I've created a weapon/shield combo.
Given to minifigs with my custom gladiator torso sticker, it looks really
functional. What it is, is a spear, held about on third up from the blunt end,
with the triangle from the ends of the Star Wars Speeder Bikes. I attached the
triangle onto the spear just above the minifig's hand, with the center corner
facing down, covering (and thus protecting) the minifigs hand. It makes for a
nice looking weapon. But then again, thats just me.
--Anthony
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| [snip] (...) I came up with the same design. it's kinda dark but check out the cloaked fig in (URL) . The women's soccer team comes with two similar peices but they are round not triangular. I also think they are smaller. I bet you could use them to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| really bizarre I made a similar shield about 2 days ago, but used a LEGO screwdriver to provide the handgrip. The pint of the screwdriver is a little lower than the shield point, but it looks cool. the other ting I considered doing was using the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| I was looking at a pile of 20 2x2 round plates with the archer's target design on them wondering what earthly good they are. Since the only official round shield looks like a trash can lid and is rare (rare = expensive), I decided to use the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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