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Subject: 
R2D2 head (was Re: Sebulba)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 22:41:20 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
[...] What bothered me more was the R2 heads. The design [leaves] them
with a big white collar.

I believe this is a result of the fact that the equipment at LEGO that applies
patterns to pieces can only "paint" the pattern from one side (one
"direction"). Since the R2D2 head is a "hemisphere", the pattern had to be
applied from the top, and that means you cannot apply paint all the way down to
the "equator" of the hemisphere without getting a lot of distortion.

- Robert Munafo                            http://www.mrob.com
  LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Sebulba
 
(...) I agree with you totally but at least you don't end up with 1 in ever set (Not quite but it seems like it) like you do with Jar Jar. I can't stand Jar Jar's head for most of the same reasons that the Sebulba fig is awful (Lack of color etc.) . (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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