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Re: Pipe dreams
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:26:13 GMT
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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...
Those pics look absolutely perfect! I like the other pipes you made too!
hmmm where did those damn tool wheels go.....
of to go digging!
Tamy
Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> Hi all, but especially Jon and Tamyra,
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> 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 :) )
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> 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
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> 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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