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Re: Star Destroyer Domes
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:42:31 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Alexander Johnston writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Travis Matheson writes:
> > Thank you Bruce for posting Virtu Halttunen's ISD building photos
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> > It rasied an issue with me. Looking at this picture,
> > http://tols16.oulu.fi/~mhalttun/stardestroyer/46-BridgeAndDomes.jpg
> > I noticed that lego used the dome piece from the spaceport and Y-wing sets
> > that we have known for a while, which was what I expected. but the base of
> > the dome seems to be the base of the meteorite piece from the Arctic sets.
(snip)
> I fully agree with that opinion. When I first got my copy of the lego
> christmas catalog and saw that half the shield generators were meteor
> pieces, I was quite disappointed as well.
I noticed the craters on the ventral halves of the sensor domes in the
catalog as well, but I think it's also worth mentioning that the struts or
supports (the antenna/lever things) that accompany the domes (8 each)
obstruct the view of the craters at least a bit.
Let's just be thankful the dorsal halves are more like a golf ball's surface
instead, eh?
-Greg "Fox" Cook
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| When I first saw the pictures I just thought they looked so glaringly out of place, despite the small amount of cover given by the levers used for supports. On actually getting the model and making it... they're actually not quite so obvious, (...) (22 years ago, 22-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Star Destroyer Domes
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| (...) I fully agree with that opinion. When I first got my copy of the lego christmas catalog and saw that half the shield generators were meteor pieces, I was quite disappointed as well. (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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