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Re: Shoddy MF
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Date: 
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:44:50 GMT
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Dennett <dennett@agate.net> wrote in message
news:199911091805240490.006EEF8E@agate.net...
> On 11/09/1999, at 5:10 PM, John VanZwieten wrote:
> > Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message
> > news:FKy6x4.LuI@lugnet.com...
> > > I think the thing I'm *happiest* about with it is the cockpit.  It's a • very
> > > nice canopy piece, and I can already see other uses for it.  It looks • to me
> > > like whether the LEGO model seat two abreast or not, it can be made to.
> > > Probably even four, two by two.
> > 
> > 
> > I've been trying to figure this one out.  Is it really possible to put 2
> > minifigs inside a space only 6 studs across?  I know the landspeeder puts • two
> > passengers side by side, but don't their hands overlap the side thinwall
> > pieces?  In a quick test wit a couple of minifigs, sitting side by side • they
> > span 6 complete studs between the outside hands--no room for the cockpit
> > walls.  In any case, the printing on this piece could much better model • the
> > MF.
> 
> 
> Actually, it is possible. I build 6-wide fire trucks, also the 6-wide
> hummer I
> posted to cad.dat.models a while back seats two across. Both figs will fit
> 
> in the area if they are sitting on tiles and the outsides are 2x2x1
> panels.
> Since you use Ldraw, check out the model, build a mock up of the cab and
> see for yourself. It is possible


So they are just thrown in sitting on tiles?  Not attatched to a stud?  What
about seats?

Your fire trucks probably don't invert very often :-)

-John Van



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  Re: Shoddy MF
 
(...) fit (...) and (...) What (...) Yeh, I learned the technique from Jeff Christner, "the Father of Six Wide Fire Trucks". They just sit there on a flat surface. The only way you can use seats and have it be 6W is if you do what TLG did on the (...) (27 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) very (...) to me (...) two (...) they (...) the (...) Actually, it is possible. I build 6-wide fire trucks, also the 6-wide hummer I posted to cad.dat.models a while back seats two across. Both figs will fit in the area if they are sitting on (...) (27 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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