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Re: Thunderbirds Are GO !!! (Well maybe)
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Tue, 6 Jun 2000 10:44:30 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, Peter Callaway writes:
> > > Hi All,
> > > Sounds like I missed a good day out at Pete's on the weekend.
> > >
> > > Anyway. One of my sons unearthed my old (I mean OLD) Thunderbird 2 die cast
> > > the other day. Last night I built it out of LEGO.
> > >
> > > Scale is "microfig car fits in the cargo hold/drop down thingie", and it is
> > > built around an old train template (you know the large plate with the hole
> > > to fit around the old style motor).
> > > Question is: Has anyone else built Thunderbirds vehicles out of Lego, and
> > > do you have pics/lcad drawings?
> > Pete.C and James were talking T1. I'm not sure how far this got.
> > I'm sure they'll hop in later and fill you in.
> We got as far as James e-mailing me his ldraw pics of the stages. It is an
> impressive vehicle he has modelled, and minifig scale too!! I was going to
> give it a hash, but Boxer's troops needed vehicles (just as well, too) so I
> ran out of time (and most probably the appropriate bits).
The pics are on my site, www.geocities.com/jehowse thunder1 2 and 3.jpg I
think. These are POVRay renderings of an incomplete TB1 model I LDrew earlier
this year. It's incomplete because it really needs building solutions, answers
to building problems that are a function of what peices one has in what
colours.
But TB1 is on the drawing board for early August. I'd love to see a TB2 in
any scale.
James (who loved Saturday morning TV thunderbirds rocked!)
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| (...) At first glance the building solutions presented themselves quite well (to me, anyway). It was more the colour problem that I was concerned about. I have heaps of 2x2/2x4 slopes and 2x3/4x3 low slopes in grey, but I'm a bit light on with the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| (...) We got as far as James e-mailing me his ldraw pics of the stages. It is an impressive vehicle he has modelled, and minifig scale too!! I was going to give it a hash, but Boxer's troops needed vehicles (just as well, too) so I ran out of time (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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