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Re: Shell sets... more non marled slopes
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:11:57 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > Whee, just finished building a set of 5 of the Shell promo sets...
> > thanks Niko! I noticed something about the slopes in the set, though
> > The ferrari racecar uses a 2x3 low slope without marling (1) that has
> > the ferrari prancing horse logo printed on it.
> > The ferrari road car uses a sticker for the hood, but it goes onto a 4x3
> > hood slope brick. This slope is also non marled. The sticker no doubt
> > sticks better than it would to a marled slope. I wonder if a trend is
> > developing here...
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> > Lego USED to print on marled slopes.
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> > - the rough texture seen on all slopes prior to 1999...
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> It's not an *entirely* new development for 1999--1997's Outback Racer (6550)
> has a yellow non-marled 3x4 low-slope hood/glacis plate (It could be
> armored, really!), with hub gaps. However, I've never seen one in 2x3. I
> thought the smoothie was weird when I got it, but figured that had to do
> with it being an entirely new formulation of the 3x4 low-slope to accomodate
> wheels.
They've (3x4x1 smooth slopes with wheel wells) been around for a while, the
first one I can remember was in a 1990 set, 6644 Road Rebel.
Jeff
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| (...) It's not an *entirely* new development for 1999--1997's Outback Racer (6550) has a yellow non-marled 3x4 low-slope hood/glacis plate (It could be armored, really!), with hub gaps. However, I've never seen one in 2x3. I thought the smoothie (...) (27 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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