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MV Lenses as headlights for the Dragon HMMWV?
DJC
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Victoria, Australia
Joined: January 10, 2005
KitMaker: 82 posts
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Posted: Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 02:15 PM UTC
One of the strange things about the Dragon HMMWV kits is the provision of separate headlights in the same coloured plastic as the body, chassis, etc. I suppose this is to make painting easier but I would have preferred transparent plastic headlights.

I haven’t used MV Lenses before but I thought I they would look much better than painted plastic. Unfortunately, MV Lenses come in archaic imperial sizes and it’s so many years since I used imperial measurements that I have no idea what size will suit the Dragon HMMWV.

Can anyone save me the trouble of converting thousandths of an inch into millimetres by identifying which of the MV Lenses will work as Dragon HMMWV headlights?
thenoblehaus
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Connecticut, United States
Joined: March 29, 2004
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Posted: Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 11:05 PM UTC
Mutiply times 25.4 there are 25.4 mm to the inch. And devide 1 inch by 25.4 to go to mm or 2.54 to go to cm. I was a machinist for over 20 years had to do this all the time.

MV lenses look great as headlights I use them on all my stuff. Got that from all the years as a model Railroader. Been pretty much the standard for any customizing for years.
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