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Re: Making Pikes
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:32:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
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> > Ok, I am away from my legos, so I can't test this, but tell me what you think,
> > cause after all, I seem to be famous for my makeshift weapons. How about if
> > you did this. Take a lance, turn it around, and put two 1x1 round bricks of
> > the same color on the handle end. Then insert a silver dagger (from the
> > underwater lego sets) into the top most 1x1 round brick. How's that?
> >
> > --Anthony
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> I had a good time tinkering with Lego (okay, okay, playing with Lego, stop
> twisting my arm) last night.
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> Best visually sans color is the lightsabre with a spear in the other end. No
> huge out-of-proportion pieces. Is there a black lightsabre blade? Gray I have
> a few of, but mostly the transparent ones. I suppose I could chop up matching
> spears and then I'd only have the chrome lightsabre handle, but I could live
> with that.
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> Not too bad was the toilet-plunger with 1x1 round with spear. Made 'em all
> black and this worked reasonably well. A fraction shorter, but quite
> servicable. Replacing the spear with a katana works even better since the hilt
> covers the rest of the hole in the 1x round, but it makes a better naginata
> than pike.
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> Anthony's trick above produces a nice pike tip, but a real-top heavy look. The
> lance is quite long, so the length is okay.
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> Lopping the blade and reverse spike off a gray halberd produces a slightly
> longer spear that could be servicable as long as you don't mix them with
> halberds in the same unit (which of course, is what they often did).
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> The two-handed over-hand body-sideways thrust pose looks great except it kinda
> prevent a second rank standing close.
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> I'll have to see about the plastic tube/rod from the hobby store when I get a
> chance.
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> Bruce
Appologies for coming into this discussion a little late, but I've found a
good way to create pikes involves taking a lance, adding a technic peg to
the end without guard, and adding a spear to the end of that...makes a
decent length weapon.
Benjamin Whytcross
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| (...) The technic connector has seen more use of late for this find of stuff (pikes and naginata). Not as heavy looking as the one-by-one round, nor as gaudy as the chrome lightsabre handle. I think the lightsabre blade/peg/spear works better than (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I had a good time tinkering with Lego (okay, okay, playing with Lego, stop twisting my arm) last night. Best visually sans color is the lightsabre with a spear in the other end. No huge out-of-proportion pieces. Is there a black lightsabre (...) (26 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle)
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