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Re: New Vehicles on Brickshelf
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 00:43:46 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, William Toenjes writes:
> Greetings,
> Now that I have my LEGO-dedicated half of the basement rec room and see a light
> at the end of my seemingly endless parts sorting I've actually been building!
> I just posted my recently completed 1920's Fire Engine inspired by the 1929
> American LaFrance 100, 1934 Sanford/Ford Cub Jr and other classic trucks. It
> uses about 340 pieces and is completely outfitted with pumps, compartments and
> firefighting gear of the times.
The shape of the body is wonderful. The unusual angle used for the front
fenders is brilliant.
> There is some *minor* modification of parts for
> realism (read: drilling of a few 1x1 plates) to make hoses, nozzles and a wye.
> The hoses are shoestrings, drilled 1x1 plates and technic bushing with a couple
> drops of hot glue.
I used the shoe string technique a while back on a larger scale engine. I
ended up using Technic connectors (1/2 grey) as nozzles.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=35671
I guess someone else posted a link to your fire engine already. But as I
already mentioned in this posting:
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=41333
I really enjoyed seeing your work. Without exaggeration I would say that it
is one of my 10 favorite original models that I've seen. I hope we'll see
more fire apparatus from you.
Best regards,
Allan B.
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| (...) I'm not a big fan of mee toooo but I gotta say me too! We've seen a number of trucks of this era or just before it that used plate hinges for front fenders but never this use of the quarter round part I don't think. It's a bit thick but you (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.town)
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| Greetings, Now that I have my LEGO-dedicated half of the basement rec room and see a light at the end of my seemingly endless parts sorting I've actually been building! I just posted my recently completed 1920's Fire Engine inspired by the 1929 (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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