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Re: Inferior colour rendering in this year's instructions
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Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:58:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington writes:
While making the top cannon on the AT-TE, page 34, I thought I had a grey
1x1 round missing until I looked at the instruction cover and realised that
one of them was actually transparent white (clear).

I had this identical problem, so it's not just you.

Certain colors are *horribly* rendered, such as the orange in the Star Wars
mini sets (check out the pod racers-- the orange in Sebulba's racer is way
off).  It doesn't always lead directly to confusion, depending on the size and
parts selection of the set, but some of the mini set instructions are so far
off I was somewhat shocked.  Sure, I expect it to get better, but esp. for a
small set that only takes a few minutes to quality-check, it was pretty
disappointing.

Kevin



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  Inferior colour rendering in this year's instructions
 
While at LEGOLAND Windsor last year on 'business' I picked up a copy of the internal employee newspaper 'LEGO Life'. In it was an article about a new CAD system being introduced to create instruction diagrams, called 3D Vision. This year all the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)

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