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Re: Making round shields
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:58:51 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 used a 2x2 round radar dish an half a white horn, to get a wild forest feel
to my druid character.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71380
/Elin
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