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Re: Y-wing fighter
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:59:37 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Eaton writes:
However, that's pretty flimsy, I think. Perhaps you could support it by using
a 'lightsaber blade' piece, which fits snugly inside an axle hole (on both of
the 4x4 rounds surrounding the macaronis). Actually, heck, if you're not
concerned with it being physically attached by studs, you could eliminate the
macaronis altogether, and just supporting that last 4x4 round on the
lightsaber blade (dk >grey of course), and rotating it 45 degrees...

Yeah, yeah, I'm replying to my own message...

Looking at Jay's response, it looks like he did sorta the same thing? Only he
covered up the gap between the two 4x4 rounds with 1x2 tiles... cool...

DaveE



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  Re: Y-wing fighter
 
(...) No tiles my fellow AFOL, I used 2x1 plates with one stud on top and the connection in the centre of the circle was made using a 1x1 round plate instead of a lightsabre blade. It proved surprisingly sturdy and completely self supporting (no (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Y-wing fighter
 
(...) Hmm... I can think of one method that wouldn't be too sturdy... It would require 8 macaroni pieces (4 landspeeder sets). Because macaroni's don't have the tubes underneath, you can angle them 45 degrees off from each other... Hence, the 1st (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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