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Re: Minifig Escort Destroyer HES Indescribable (MB)
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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:58:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

  Excellent!  I do hope we'll get more shots of that 5" DP turret,
  I'm always interested in how people deal with that particular
  (and ubiquitous) mounting.  Someday I will be able to get more
  than one minifig into a 5" twin mount...(I may use a train door
  to do it...that glass won't last long.)

Square(ish) box on turntable, door in back, independantly tilting barrels
(um-ah :-), and I don't do interiors unless thay can be seen from the
outside.  I doubt I have much to interest you in this Lindsay.  MB, being
focussed on the 2x4 block, provide far less 1x blocks, reducing the
opportunities for interiors.  Ok for me, but...

Amidships: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-09-n.jpg

  Hey, those carried boats look awfully LEGO to me!  ;)

Indeed.  The two six wide bow blocks, two six wide bow plates, and a
steering wheel - the rest of the pieces have Lego equivalents, but they are
MB.  The zodiac thingies are Lego too.  And the figs.  Other than that,
she's MB and hat elastic all over.

  US DEs were also odd birds--those DP turrets really looked
  like someone had parked an oversize crate on each end of the
  ship!  I'll have to dig up some images of the Hunts, as I'm
  trying to visualise the troublesome 2-pdr mount and I can't.

http://website.lineone.net/~jimmer/HTM-DE-hunt.html

Richard
Still baldly going...



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  Re: Minifig Escort Destroyer HES Indescribable (MB)
 
(...) Excellent! I do hope we'll get more shots of that 5" DP turret, I'm always interested in how people deal with that particular (and ubiquitous) mounting. Someday I will be able to get more than one minifig into a 5" twin mount...(I may use a (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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