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| | | Author: | fj  | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 10:41 | | Subject: | Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 146 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Hi all,
I recently bought 2 Futuron Monorail sets (6990). The trans blue antennas are
of a different color blue. See image. The ones on the left have the same color
blue as the other trans dark blue colors in the set, so I assume that the 'light
blue' antennas on the right do not belong to this set.
If I look in the catalogue however, it appears that trans light blue is not a
known color for round top antennas, there is one for sale though, for a huge
amount of money...
There is one set with trans medium blue antennas (4748), but the bricklink picture
of that color is darker than my antennas.
Can somebody clarify?
- can these light blue antennas be part of the 6990 set?
- if not, from which set are they?
Anything else you can add?
Thank you, F.J.
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 10:50 | | Subject: | Re: Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, fj writes:
| | Hi all,
I recently bought 2 Futuron Monorail sets (6990). The trans blue antennas are
of a different color blue. See image. The ones on the left have the same color
blue as the other trans dark blue colors in the set, so I assume that the 'light
blue' antennas on the right do not belong to this set.
If I look in the catalogue however, it appears that trans light blue is not a
known color for round top antennas, there is one for sale though, for a huge
amount of money...
There is one set with trans medium blue antennas (4748), but the bricklink picture
of that color is darker than my antennas.
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The antennae in your picture definitely appear to be trans-medium blue. The BL
picture (I guess it's actually a render) of the trans-medium blue antenna
looks darker than it ought to be.
One way to tell for sure would be to put the ones you have under a blacklight
- IIRC, trans-medium blue fluoresces.
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| | | | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, fj writes:
| | Hi all,
I recently bought 2 Futuron Monorail sets (6990). The trans blue antennas are
of a different color blue. See image. The ones on the left have the same color
blue as the other trans dark blue colors in the set, so I assume that the 'light
blue' antennas on the right do not belong to this set.
If I look in the catalogue however, it appears that trans light blue is not a
known color for round top antennas, there is one for sale though, for a huge
amount of money...
There is one set with trans medium blue antennas (4748), but the bricklink picture
of that color is darker than my antennas.
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The antennae in your picture definitely appear to be trans-medium blue. The BL
picture (I guess it's actually a render) of the trans-medium blue antenna
looks darker than it ought to be.
One way to tell for sure would be to put the ones you have under a blacklight
- IIRC, trans-medium blue fluoresces.
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The new feature of showing-parts-with-the-requested-color helps here as well:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&colorPart=74
If you compare the pic of the antenna with others, it is obvious the color is
not very well presented for that part.
Niek.
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| | | | | Author: | j_willcox | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, fj writes:
| | Hi all,
I recently bought 2 Futuron Monorail sets (6990). The trans blue antennas are
of a different color blue. See image. The ones on the left have the same color
blue as the other trans dark blue colors in the set, so I assume that the 'light
blue' antennas on the right do not belong to this set.
If I look in the catalogue however, it appears that trans light blue is not a
known color for round top antennas, there is one for sale though, for a huge
amount of money...
There is one set with trans medium blue antennas (4748), but the bricklink picture
of that color is darker than my antennas.
Can somebody clarify?
- can these light blue antennas be part of the 6990 set?
- if not, from which set are they?
Anything else you can add?
Thank you, F.J.
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I think the one light blue antenna is mis-listed - the seller note seems to indicate
it is the 'b' variant (flat top).
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, j_willcox writes:
| | I think the one light blue antenna is mis-listed - the seller note seems to indicate
it is the 'b' variant (flat top).
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Yes - and the image/render for the part in this color looks more like trans-medium
blue than trans-light blue (which actually isn't any lighter than trans-medium
blue). No surprise that there's a good bit of confusion.
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