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Re: Making round shields
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:40:38 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Aaron J. Muhl writes:
> Bruce,
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> 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:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=71298
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> 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.....
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> -Aaron Muhl
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 is a good suggestion.
I'll give the triangle/diamond configuations a try. Thanks for the
suggestion (and thanks to all others who made suggestions - I read them all).
Bruce
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.castle)
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