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Re: Fence colours
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:22:58 GMT
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Simon Robinson wrote:
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> Here's a query to test your Lego knowledge.
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> I'm curious about the trellis fences. The ones I mean are the ones
> with a 1 x 4 base. They have a trellis fence style (think that's the right
> word - diagonal criss-crossed pattern).
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> There's one that's 2 basic
> bricks high with the fence in the middle of the brick, common in the early
> 70s, but doesn't seem to have been used much recently. My only ones at
> the moment are red ones from 4554 Metro Station. There's also a lower
> one, one basic brick high, with the fence along one edge of the brick.
> I think this one was introduced a bit later. The aquanauts/hydronauts
> used black ones of these quite a bit, though not for fences.
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> What colours have these fences been produced in? I remember having
> quite a few red ones of both types and white ones of the higher brick
> when I was a kiddie in the 70s, though I can't remember what sets they
> came from. Did Lego ever do blue or yellow ones? (or black ones of the
> high fence)?
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> Simon
> http://www.SimonRobinson.com
The first (middle, 2 height) came in Black, Blue, Grey, Lt-Purple, Pink,
Red, White, and Yellow; that I know of.
The second type (lattice along edge, 1 height) came in Black, Blue,
Grey, Pink, Red, White, and Yellow; to my knowledge.
Dark Grey is a good candidate for either, though I don't have any to
cite right offhand.
-- joshua
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| Ah yes! The proverbial lattice fence pieces. Others have already described the 2 different styles. Actually there are 5 different Lattice styles (that I'm aware of) since they first came onto the scene circa 1968. For the 1x4 and 2x4 sizes Joshua (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Fence colours
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| Here's a query to test your Lego knowledge. I'm curious about the trellis fences. The ones I mean are the ones with a 1 x 4 base. They have a trellis fence style (think that's the right word - diagonal criss-crossed pattern). There's one that's 2 (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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