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Re: Making round shields
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:04:14 GMT
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Bruce,
That sounds like a great idea, I'm going to have to give it a try. I'll
tell you another cool shield you can make. First you have to buy the Star
Wars Speeder bikes. With that set you get a 4 peg long "wand" that is grey
but looks like the wand in this picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71298
You also get two brown trianglular pieces with clips on the back. Clip one
or two of these onto the wand and you have a triangular shield (with one
clipped) or a diamond shield (with two clipped). The minifig grips the wand
as a handle. It works really well! These triangles also look really cool
clipped onto a spear. It's like having a triangular buckler wrapped
attached to your arm while holding a spear. You can find the triangular
brown pieces for cheap at brickbay. Now if only Lego would make these in
grey.....
-Aaron Muhl
"Bruce Schlickbernd" <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message
news:GJz0By.DI1@lugnet.com...
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any other solutions?
>
> Bruce
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| (...) A number of people have mentioned the triangular piece now - and I socked away at least 10 of the Speeder Bike packs (they are $5 at KB) so I have some available. The Light Sabre blade (unstarred wand, plain round stick, whatever) as a handle (...) (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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