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Re: Lunar Rover (foldable)
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lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.trains.org
Date: 
Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:07:20 GMT
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Axel Poqué wrote:
The Saturn rocket is only a crazy
dream right now. Just consider the dimensions:

    If you use 5 stacked standard bricks as a scale, taking that height as 2
meters
    then the model will be 2.665 meters high (Saturn V height: 111 m) and 25
cm in
    diameter.

    If you take the width of a 2 x 4 brick to be 1 m (minifig's are a bit
squat), the model
    will even be 3.55 m tall and 32 cm in diameter.

I have seen a picture of a very young Conan (of GMLTC fame) standing
next to his Saturn V model. It was about 9 or 10 feet tall and properly
black/white striped. I was told it was taken about 15 years ago. But
then he had a lot of bricks, even back then.


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  Re: Lunar Rover (foldable)
 
(...) I (...) Thanks for your praise! (...stands up, smiles humbly, takes a bow and sits down at the keyboard again.) Just in case no-one noticed: my rover folds the wrong way. The Apollo Lunar Rover is folded so that the outside of the stowed (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)

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