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Re: Working Minifig-Scale Mailbox
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Fri, 19 May 2006 22:29:46 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
   This is my latest creation - small, but pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I’ve made it for the VLC’s Show in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. If you’re in the area, please drop by - check out the Surrey Museum website for more info.

Here’s a pic of the mailbox - pretty basic. You might notice that there are studs on the bottom - I’ll have to work on that, but at least you can still mount it on a baseplate, just not actually connected.


Now it gets slightly more interesting - the mail slot opens:


After quite a while of fiddling, I got it so it would hold three Lego envelope tiles (which I unfortunately don’t even own) :) Here’s a view with the sides taken off:


The LDraw file (if you need it) can be found at the BS Folder.

Enjoy, and please leave your comments,

Jeffery MacEachern
BS: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Jaem
MOCPages: http://mocpages.com/home.php/3584
Blog: http://bricksnbytes.blogspot.com

Thanks for the idea. I like it, but it’s not the style of American mailboxes, so I made this: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=184309
-Ash



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This is my latest creation - small, but pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I've made it for the <vlc.ca VLC>'s Show in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. If you're in the area, please drop by - check out (URL) Surrey Museum website> for more info. (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)

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