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Re: Shoddy MF
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:45:41 GMT
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Can it be done if you include the thinwalls in the 6 studs?
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tmcd <tmcd2003@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FL03Hr.GA8@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.starwars, Ryan Dennett writes:
> > On 11/10/1999, at 9:45 AM, John VanZwieten wrote:
> > > Dennett <dennett@agate.net> wrote in message
> > > > 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?
> >
> > 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 Landspeeder,
> > but as has been pointed out, the arms are not inside that thin wall. My
> > guess
> > is that the Flash Speeder is done this way also.
> >
> > > Your fire trucks probably don't invert very often :-)
> >
> > Well, no, but even when there is some maniac driver driving a grey BMW
> > who decides that he wants to wreck his car and flip a fire truck the figs
> > stay pretty much in the same spot because they are so close together
> > and the cab roof is directly above their heads. But where the Falcon has
> > an enclosed cockpit, this really shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > Ryan
> > ps If there is anything else I didn't explain, just ask me and you shall
> > receive.
> >
> > > -John Van
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> I tried something last night w/legos to fit 2 in six studs, and it can be • done.
> you need to actually have them on 5 studs by 2 studs with one stud between • them
> (this is where their arms go). the 5x2 stud needs to be centered on a 6 by
> some thing plate or whatever, using the 1x2's with only one stud on top, • (four
> of them). then on the ends of the 6 by whatever put the 1x2 L-shaped • things.
> i would l-draw it but i am prettly much l-draw illiterate.
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| (...) I tried something last night w/legos to fit 2 in six studs, and it can be done. you need to actually have them on 5 studs by 2 studs with one stud between them (this is where their arms go). the 5x2 stud needs to be centered on a 6 by some (...) (27 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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