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RE: A new scan for 371 (fake?)
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Wed, 17 May 2000 23:38:12 GMT
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To put in my 2 cents...I'd say the set is a fake. My reasoning is:
1) Step 1 uses a 2x2 corner plate, which I don't believe were available
then. [It is also shown as a 2x2 plate here]
2) In step 2 this piece changes shape into 2 2x1's
3) Step 4 apparently uses a 2x3 plate with center pin for helicopter rotor,
but it wouldn't be possible to attatch this piece here
4) The sleeper cab on the truck changes width between steps (step 2 and 3
there are 2 3x2 cab halves, step 4 there are 2 3x3 halves [look at the
section added in step 2, then at the same saction in step 3, and then in
step 4.]
5) The colour change from blue to white on the 2 2x8 bricks between steps 6
and 7 [I know this did occasionally happen, but not generally over the whole
of a piece this size. Generally it only happened on small sections of a
part.]
6) The inclusion of instructions for self-steering models...WHY? There were
no steering parts used in the model, so why bother adding instructions for
their use?
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhard "Ben" Beneke [mailto:r.beneke@tu-bs.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 5:13 AM
> To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: A new scan for 371 (fake?)
>
>
> In lugnet.general, Will Hess writes:
> > I'd have to agree that this is a fake. My reasons:
> > 1) Instructions are too crude, even by 60's standards. • Also, have a look
> > at the following URL...it's supposed to be another page from the same
> > booklet but the quality is many times greater!
>
> Yes, because that's a set sold in whole europe (probably made
> in Denmark),
> while set 371 might be UK only... I know thats a weak argument.
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> > Is that enough to convince any fence sitters?
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> Have you notices the 3studs over edge plate in step one? In
> the next step thatt
> might be a 2x2x0.33 and in the third a 1x1x0.33 plus a
> 2x1x0.33 combination....
>
> Why is there a wheel used as bogie, although there heve been the 4x4x1
> turntables (like used in 1966th set 113?
>
> Why no 6x24 plates, but two 6x12 ones?
>
> A lot of questions and no reaction from the one who "scanned"
> the set....
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> totally confused,
>
> Ben
>
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| And here's my 7 cents (I've a lot to say!): Whytcross, Benjamin <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> wrote in message news:1D0812CAE3E7D21...ccess.com. au... (...) It's a 2x2 plate attaching to the top of the motor step. Poor quality drawings... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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