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I just posted to the Brickshelf Gallery my minifig scale version of the well known Star Wars T-65C X-Wing fighter. This design was heavily influenced by the Ultimate Collector Series 7191. It is a different challenge building details into minifig (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general) !!
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(...) <snip> (...) What a way to de-lurk! That's a truly excellent MOC of the X-Wing. Great Job! ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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I don't suppose you'd be willing to encode this model as a CAD data file? ;-) [duck][dodge][parry] *Sweet* model, dude. Franklin (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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<snip> Great model! Extremely detailed. I wish TLC made models like this all the time! Kevin (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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I was wondering if the landing gear on the X-Wing MOC actually retract.... Jono (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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Hey, Excellent job, I thought I would make a suggestion (even though i've never shown anything, no scanner :( ,) but if you wanted to add antoher feature to make it accurate you could rahter easily. In Empire Strikes back, I believe that there is a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, only a dedicated Star Wars fan would mention the cargo hatch! The cargo storage area under the cockpit was a source of much thought when I put this together. You are correct that on the UCS it hinges open (I replaced (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) It does. I added a new subfolder to the Gallery, and if you're not tired of looking at pictures of the model, there are additional 10 pictures that show how the gear work. Click on the "LandingGear" picture. The front gear opens in a fashion (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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<snip> (...) <snip> Oh, heavens yes they made them. I have tons of 'em. Except with my luck I can only find the three fingered ones at one time, and then when I don't need them I find all of the two fingered ones and none of the three fingered ones. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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"Kyle Henneberque" <kaaskop15@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6MD40.LH6@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) fingered (...) hinges (...) wanted (...) with (...) (sp?) (...) 6335 Indy Transport ((URL) had a bunch of them (both two and three fingered). (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) My thanks to both of you for pointing this out. I found a few pairs on Brickbay. They will come in handy...somewhere (or at least, that's what I keep telling myself to justify all the rest of the lego parts I've collected over the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Admiral...ahem..."Grand" Admiral Sandlin! Mark Chan P.S. After several weeks, I'm still trying to assemble the parts to replicate your MotoTek Shiva (great model - looks like it belongs in Neo-Tokyo from the movie Akira). I accidently (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Great model! I saw the pictures on Brickshelf before you posted here - when I saw the thumbnails I thought it *was* the UCS X-wing. When I opened the pics and saw that it was minifig scale, my jaw just dropped. Excellent job! I look forward to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Daz (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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