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Re: My Website
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:28:56 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, John Radtke writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> > I just wanted to use this bandwidth to take the opportunity to share with you
> > my website deticated to Castle legos. I think it's pretty spiffy, and I • think
> > you all will think so too. Its new, its updated, and I mean, c'mon its • castle
> > legos, what more could you possibly want in a website?
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> > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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> > as of this posting there were 100 hits on my page
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> Pleasure to add to your hit count! Everything is so well thought out and
> detailed - excellent building and web site presentation.
Thanks for visiting my site, I'm glad you enjoyed visiting. 627 hits as of
this post! WOOHOO!
> I don't recognize the helmets on The White Knight, The Red Knight, and
> Trouble. What are they from?
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> Thanks!
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> John Radtke
Well, lets start with the white and red knight helmets. Way back in the late
70's, early 80's, Lego came out with their first castle series. Actually it
was only three sets (#375 or 6075, #383 or 6077, #677 or 6083), but they were
none the less nifty. Two of these three sets came with knights, armored in
this style of helmet. There were four colors, white, grey, black and red. I
only have the two, and I'm always looking for more knights from this style (as
well as from the crusaders). Unfortunately, finding reasonably priced old
style knights is a great task. I suspect that Lego changed from this style to
what I call the 'pawn' style helmet (pawn like on a chess board, as seen in the
Black Monarch's Castle #6085) because the old style helmets did not stay
together very easily, and were made from thinner plastic. I suspect they were
also a choking hazard as well.
Trouble, on the other hand, wears merely a painted crusader style helmet, with
two small white feathers stuck in on either side to resemble horns. Long story
behind that one. Back in my youth, when I did not respect my lego men, I
painted them with enamel paint. I didn't do all that much, but I did succeed
in permently ruining two sets of crusader armor. One helm I was able to
salvage, which can be still found on Haleron. However the armor is made from a
different plastic than the helms. The paint thinner has no effect on helms,
but on the armor, it will destroy it. Troubles breast plate is repainted gold
because, though still wearable, it no longer looked like anything. However,
once repainted, it resembles a very beaten and old suit of armor. Though the
picture doesn't show it, it's actually a really neat effect.
Again, thanks for visiting my site, I hope I was able to answer your question
without boring you too much.
--Anthony
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