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  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) Well... I wasn't going to place a bid, unless I KNOW they ARE tan (And I'm 99.98612% sure they're not)... but I am REALLY curious-- mostly because it doesn't look like they're grey in any way, shape, or form! Usually a bad picture just looks (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) I don't really see the issue here. In my mind they are gray. The only strange thing I see is that the person used a flash to take the picture and the effect made the pieces in the front look tanish. That in my mind is only because they were in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) strange (...) they (...) I guess I can understand that, but the color, though "wrong," seems remarkably consistent nonetheless. Would a single, relatively small flashbulb cause such an even distortion of color? I'm asking at face value; I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) Same here-- I think that's really the only logical possibility. I don't think white walls were EVER offered with those patters, black is out of the question (I'd say), dark grey wall sections never had ANY patters that I'm aware of, and red (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) Just look at the light on the sheet/cloth the person used the light distribution matches that of the distribution on the LEGO. Another point when I have tried using a flash I took a picture of a Gray wall and the entire wall took on a color (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: TAN castle walls? It CAN'T be! But what IS it?
 
(...) 8 years old in1961. The Samsonite LEGO catalog of that year also had a color problem (as do a lot of recent LEGO catalogs). The set in question was the very first Model kit outside of the Town Plan series (Town Plan was the only LEGO System (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)

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