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Subject:	Pipe dreams
Newsgroups:	lugnet.castle
Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:38:14 GMT
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Hi all, but especially Jon and Tamyra, I've been thinking about pipes, spurred by the discussion here and also the needs of my next Tolkien chapter, and came up with a couple of ideas. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=152093 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=152099 (Jon will notice that I also recently got a couple of those Scala accessory packs :) ) In part these were inspired by Kotoro Ono's use of the minifig tools to make really cool weapons: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11984 One design uses the minifig tool box wrench: http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6246d and puts one or two 1x1 round plates in. The second pipe was inspired by Tamyra's idea but taking into account Jon's difficulty. I took the base of the lever piece: http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/298 and jammed a minifig screwdriver into it: http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6246a I was really happy with how this turned out. You may have previously see me use a hammer for Gandalf's pipe: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=140816 Also on Jon's idea: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=148043 I tried modifying that by adding a lightsaber hilt to make the stem longer. It looked okay, but too big and fancy (as I only have silver ones--it might be better with the gray ones from the AT-ST)--not the sort of pipe that a traveller would carry. I might use that one for Bilbo at Bag End. Bruce

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		Re: Pipe dreams
WOOWOO Bruce! thank you, you solved the problem of how they can grip it! (offers you a big hug!) if you don't want that.. a hearty handshake! I'm glad I didn't finally just throw those tool wheels away.. hmmm now to find where they got buried... (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.castle)

		Re: Pipe dreams
Hi all, I've added to the chapter "Many Partings" in my Tolkien project. (URL) on Tim Deering's design: (URL) got a couple of more pipes: (URL) in the second picture. Chromed lightsaber hilts worked great because in the text it says that Bilbo gives (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)

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