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Re: MOC: Another FedEx truck, & a 4-wide 2002 Mini Cooper
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lugnet.town
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Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:29:01 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Sean Kenney writes:
> All:
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> Hi there. A bunch of you have seen my 6-wide FedEx step-van already... I
> liked the way it came out, but it really didn't fit the scale of my city.
> So I recently built a 4-wide version of the same FedEx van.
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> Here's the 4-wide van:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=254915
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=254919
Looks good. How is the diagonal 1x1 tile attached?
> And here are the two together:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=254912
Neat. I could see using both of these in a town. One would be the kind of
truck that drives cross-country, while the other for making in-town deliverys.
> I also built a 4-wide Mini Cooper. (The new 2002 model from BMW.) I'm not
> crazy about the way my model looks from certain angles, but I designed it to
> get the top view and 3/4 view as accurate as possible. It was also a fun
> challenge to get the stripes on the hood and to get the wheels as close to
> the front & back as possible. This is actually the 3rd iteration of my
> Mini, so I expect I'll be tweaking it further.
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> Top view (my favorite!)
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=255093
Well done. There is a serious amount of SNOT necessary to get those shapes.
Bravo.
> Sean
-Jason
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 | | Re: MOC: Another FedEx truck, & a 4-wide 2002 Mini Cooper
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| (...) Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Here in Manhattan I've been seeing a new type of "mini" UPS / FedEx step-van around. They're taller than a cargo van, but not too much wider or longer. So I imagine that my 4-wide van is one of those, and my (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: MOC: Another FedEx truck, & a 4-wide 2002 Mini Cooper
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| (...) I have a 1x1-brick-with-recessed-stud ((URL) on its back, so that its top-stud faces out towards the front of the truck. This makes it 2/3 tall, so it fits perfectly between the grille and the fender-piece. Since the 1x1 tile is diagonal, it (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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