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Re: Technic beam colours
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Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:45:33 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ronan Webb writes:
> Perhaps my order might be :
> Blue, White, Green, Grey, Red,  Black, Yellow, Others.


> The almost edible red/yellow in 8872,

Edible? weird?

> the cool blue/white in 8042

Have to agree with you there!

> But the 'colours' grey/black as a basis, for chassis parts etc., makes a lot
> of sense;

Agree

> Black is hard to work with and tiring;

Disagree :-)

> White is tricky, in that it too obviously discolours with age.
> But it is beautiful in pristine condition and works well with anything else.

Not had that problem yet and yes.

> Thoughts from the emerald isle ..
> Ronan


I must go their one day, I might even bring a few model's.
I hope my interst in Ireland isn't just the Ballykissangel effect :-).

Steve

P.S how do you prise bricks out of 'Keiran's dough main' the Irish brickbay
site. I submitted my order but haven't received a confirmation e-mail.



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  Re: Technic beam colours
 
I really like the "black/gray with yellow trim" color scheme used on numerous Technic sets (8082, 8425, 8485, 8838, 8868, 8880, etc.), so my favorite beams are probably the black and gray ones. I have a lot of yellow and red beams (as they are (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: Technic beam colours
 
"Steven Lane" <Steveroblane@aol.com> (...) else. (...) Give it some time and you'll see it, in fact on a paranoid day I'm sure I can see it on the white on my skip truck already. The real trick is to put a mint white brick next to your older ones (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: Technic beam colours
 
(...) Well, first he has to show me each piece, one by one, to hear "no, I want that, yes you can sell that , no I want that... :)) Seriously though, I've no idea, Kieran is pretty efficient. Must be the new babby distracting him from more important (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: Technic beam colours
 
Perhaps my order might be : Blue, White, Green, Grey, Red, Black, Yellow, Others. (Availability and set frequency probably influences this!) Interesting are the combinations used. The almost edible red/yellow in 8872, the cool blue/white in 8042 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)

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