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Re: Technic beam colours
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:58:57 GMT
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"Steven Lane" <Steveroblane@aol.com>
> In lugnet.technic, Ronan Webb writes:
> > Perhaps my order might be :
> > White is tricky, in that it too obviously discolours with age.
> > But it is beautiful in pristine condition and works well with anything • else.
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> Not had that problem yet and yes.
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 and do a direct comparison.
Blue is also another bad colour for fading, the blue parts I have dating
from 1980 or so (the technic motorbike + sidecar mainly) look diabolical
compared with newer blue parts - they seem to have become lighter and taken
on a brownish/green tinge. Grey can also suffer badly with age, suffering
from the brown effect quite badly too.
Yellow and red seem to stand up best of all, losing a bit of the colour
intensity but are otherwise fine, and black is not bad although I am sure
some very old bricks take on a slightly greenish hue. Cumulative scratches
on black also tend to have quite a large effect over time, reducing the
visual appeal significantly.
I think I've been looking at these bricks for too long :-)
Jennifer
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| (...) I agree, I find white suffers most from scratch's which then fill with dirt. That makes them look really bad. (...) I know the blue problem all too well, I noticed when assembling a wall of old and new blue bricks the green tinged old one's (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Edible? weird? (...) Have to agree with you there! (...) Agree (...) Disagree :-) (...) Not had that problem yet and yes. (...) I must go their one day, I might even bring a few model's. I hope my interst in Ireland isn't just the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.technic)
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