Ive schrieb:

>> But aren't the transparent parts wrong? AFAIK the transparent parts of
>> that time had "inner pins" just like the non-transparent ones.
> 
> The 'glass' tiles I did play with looked like the rendered ones (without 
> inner pins) and they did not hold very well together. AFAIR the ones 
> with pins did come later.

Ah, so they must have been phased out for a while, but later (somewhere 
around 1980) phased back in.

>> I also think you got the axle blocks wrong, IIRC the holes were a good
>> deal lower (but I might be mistaken about that).
> 
> You might be right. I have no actual reference and the axle bricks are 
> just modeled from memory.

I still have some of them around here, but I'll need to dig them up.

>> The rounding of the corners seems too strong to me (it's perfectly right
>> for the knobs though).
>>
> 
> I still have exactly one old 2x4 red brick (the one I used as reference) 
> and its corners are indeed a bit more rounded than those of later and 
> contemporary bricks.

Are you sure that is not due to wear and tear?

>> For the perfect finishing touch, try randomly rotating the 1x1 pieces
>> ever so slightly. You'll never ever get them perfectly straight in RL ;-)
> 
> I'm already cheating a bit as I never had black wheels (but AFAIR they 
> did exist) nor did I have black 'window'-bricks, only white and red ones 
> and I even think they did not exist in any other color at that time ;)

You're probably right, but I'm quite sure the black 1x1 windows did 
exist at _some_ time, if only as part of some model in a series of 
vintage car sets. Must have been somewhen in the mid- or late 70's though.

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