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Re: Helfire - a microfig scale castle town
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:29:57 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
> 
> Frank Filz wrote:
> 
> > Shiri Dori wrote in message ...
> > > In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > > In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
> > > > scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
> > > > represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
> > > > (it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
> > > > also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
> > > > 48x48).
> > 
> > 
> > > Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this?
> > 
> > 1976 or 1977
> > 
> > Frank
> 
> Frank,  I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in
> anything other than all gray.  The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a 50x50
> 1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it.
> Since this roadway had no markings, and was somewhat light blue (rather than
> gray) in color,  it could be used for water as well as roadway.  Could this
> one be it?  It was totally flat though.  Otherwise I don't remember any other
> variations to the large plates.

Well, there is another exception of course, but it's rather current...
The Soccer baseplate, 48x48 green...

This was a flat baseplate, with printing, I don't think it had any
unstudded area (i.e. not a custom mold). It could easily have been a
non-TLC printing on a standard LEGO grey baseplate, or it could be a
custom order (even if the kit wasn't sold by DACTA or whatever). It most
definitely was NOT the Samsonite road plate (the non-studded area on
that just would not have worked with the excercise).

Of course it could be totally non-LEGO at all...

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Helfire - a microfig scale castle town
 
(...) I think this soccer base plate did have printed lines on it - white lines for the soccer pitch markings? (...) 50x50 (...) other (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)

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(...) Frank, I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in anything other than all gray. The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a 50x50 1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it. Since this (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)  

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