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Re: Announcing: The Baseplate Finder
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Aug 2000 03:30:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> In lugnet.general, Heather Patey writes:
> > In lugnet.db.inv, David Eaton writes:
> > > In lugnet.db.inv, Heather Patey writes:
> > > > In lugnet.db.inv, David Eaton writes:
> > > > > In lugnet.db.inv, Heather Patey writes:
> > > > > And I've also seen another corner raised baseplate but I have NO idea • where
> > > > > it's from-- You can see some pictures of it on Bryan Wong's Greystone
> > > > > Mountain on the top--
> > > > > http://www.geocities.com/lt8448/lego/mountain/mountain.html
> > > >
> > > > The ones with the cream-coloured paint on the top are from <set:4291>, • which
> > > > I've put all alone on the "Canyon with No Raised Corner" page. I have • several
> > > > of these, but no good picture yet - the Pause-guide page doesn't show the
> > > > paint! The other two, however, are a mystery - they look like 6091's, but
> > > > without the raised corner. Is that what you meant?
> > >
> > > Huh! I've never seen set 4291 in stores or anything-- I actually knew the
> > > other two (from 6079) but the ones with the tan painting were the ones I was
> > > curious about... I notice there's only one on Ebay at present but it's on
> > > auction from Canada, and I think Bryan's from Canada as well... Was it not
> > > released in the US? Am I just blind? They look like pretty cool baseplates!
> >
> > 6079 I meant, yes. But what happened to the little hill in the centre of the
> > curve - shouldn't it stick out of the pond?
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> That's why I was saying, look carefully at how the pond is built. The centre
> hill is shorter than the outside hill, and the pond is just built at the
> elevation of the top of the center hill. This is really apparent where the
> waterfall exits (and that elevation is required to actually get the waterfall
> to exit).
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> Frank
Right you are - I was looking at the top two pictures which make the pond level
look much lower. Clever, I must say.
Cheers, Heather
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| (...) That's why I was saying, look carefully at how the pond is built. The centre hill is shorter than the outside hill, and the pond is just built at the elevation of the top of the center hill. This is really apparent where the waterfall exits (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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