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Re: super cars
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:12:38 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
> I think that one could make a brick-based body for an 8448-sized car
> -- there are many who have done so and put them on the web and some of
> them look great.
That is very true, I had forgotten about that approach, and you are
right, some of them do look great, for example, the Fiat on your web site
really captures the correct look. In a similar but different way, the old
Technic motorbike also achieved this:
http://www.brickset.com/view.asp?Set=857-1
> Those are my opinions, anyway. I've tried both paths, and found it
> challenging to build both kinds of cars. The one with a full body
> built out of ordinary bricks probably look more impressive on the
> shelf.
Indeed - and yet there is just something incredible about the implied
surfaces the curves on the 8448 give, particularly on the bonnet. Or
perhaps it is because I am not really a "lego on the shelf person"; as
soon as a model goes on the shelf, I start looking at it with a scrap
merchant's eye :-)
Jennifer Clark
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| (...) Thanks! I must admit, though, that the model was very unplayable. While it did have a lot of working functions, the weight and bulk of it implied that it wasn't any fun at all to push along. For example, the suspension required a lot of shock (...) (24 years ago, 14-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) I think that one could make a brick-based body for an 8448-sized car -- there are many who have done so and put them on the web and some of them look great. But the vast number of parts needed makes such a vehicle more or less unplayable. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
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