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I think this is the right group to post this....
I put up the 2 things I was able to work on over the christmas break,
the Keep isn't finished, I'm hoping to keep it together and maybe work a
little on it during this semester... Otherwise I'll try to get the parts
by Easter break and hopefully I can finish it then and take more
pictures!!!
The pictures are a little dark, it was raining here the day I had time
to take the pics, so I took them inside with a florescent light on them,
It didn't work out to bad, I think I might set up something with a
couple of lights to take pictures inside with that camera.
If you want to check them out click the links below, I have them up on
both sites.
--
Keep on Bricken'
-Tamy
Follow the bouncing boxes!
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!
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Tamy,
These are great!! I love the Keep and the circular staircase is great. I
thought that the lugnet.castle folk might want to see this so I have added that
group to the list.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
In lugnet.build, Tamyra Teed writes:
> I think this is the right group to post this....
>
> I put up the 2 things I was able to work on over the christmas break,
> the Keep isn't finished, I'm hoping to keep it together and maybe work a
> little on it during this semester... Otherwise I'll try to get the parts
> by Easter break and hopefully I can finish it then and take more
> pictures!!!
>
> The pictures are a little dark, it was raining here the day I had time
> to take the pics, so I took them inside with a florescent light on them,
> It didn't work out to bad, I think I might set up something with a
> couple of lights to take pictures inside with that camera.
>
> If you want to check them out click the links below, I have them up on
> both sites.
>
> --
> Keep on Bricken'
> -Tamy
>
> Follow the bouncing boxes!
> http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html
>
> http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
> http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
> Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!
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In lugnet.build, Tamyra Teed writes:
> http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
> http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
I love the instructions, the raytraced art, and the site as a whole. There's
some great stuff here to be sure. I think this will be on my list of
recommended castle sites from now on. Do please keep us all informed of
updates.
I thought the oven hood was a very original use of an element.
Thanks for sharing.
-- Richard
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In lugnet.build, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.build, Tamyra Teed writes:
> > http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
> > http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
>
> I love the instructions, the raytraced art, and the site as a whole. There's
> some great stuff here to be sure. I think this will be on my list of
> recommended castle sites from now on. Do please keep us all informed of
> updates.
>
> I thought the oven hood was a very original use of an element.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> -- Richard
i'll second that, tamyra! i'm inspired!*
your curved double staircase is amazing, and the tile floors through out
are wonderful! everything is so incredibly well built and just as beautiful.
the buildings have such great personality, it's easy to know the
occupants... (even when they're not at home! ;-)
your mini-figs seem really happy to be living in such a charming place!
later ~ craig~
* ~ in lego-ese, "inspired" means, i'll try to steal your brilliant ideas,
not have enough pieces to make it work, and eventually stumble across
something cool myself...
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Glad you all liked it, I'm waiting for a nicer (warm, sunny) day here so
I can take it outside and get some better pics, They are pretty dark :(
I did lighten them up some in Paint shop pro.. though I think they are
still a little to dark, if I go any lighter they look like crap... I'm
also not done building it yet, I have to probably wait till
Spring/Easter break to finish.. hopefully I can get all the parts I
need/want by then too :)
The black sides with the inverted 1x2x3's were Grey originally, and I'd
like to turn them back to grey.. though I need ONE more stinking 1x6
grey arch.. so I had to put in some black ones instead.. of all the
arches I have 20 or 30 of.. and the one I decided to use I only have 9
of :( of course I've got 20 or 30 of them in black...
I'd also like to bring the "pillars" on the back arches down one more
brick, I think it would look better. That of course entails dismantling
quite a bit of the castle, though sometimes it's just worth it :)
If anyone wants to "donate" or sell cheaply some grey 1x bricks.. Let me
know :) I'm in need a quite a few more... especially 1x4's... I don't
seem to have enough of them..
I'm really hoping LD brings us cheap bricks!!! I'll buy 1x grey bricks
in big numbers!
Thanks for the feedback!
Tamy
craig hamilton wrote:
>
> In lugnet.build, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > In lugnet.build, Tamyra Teed writes:
> > > http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
> > > http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
> >
> > I love the instructions, the raytraced art, and the site as a whole. There's
> > some great stuff here to be sure. I think this will be on my list of
> > recommended castle sites from now on. Do please keep us all informed of
> > updates.
> >
> > I thought the oven hood was a very original use of an element.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing.
> >
> > -- Richard
>
> i'll second that, tamyra! i'm inspired!*
>
> your curved double staircase is amazing, and the tile floors through out
> are wonderful! everything is so incredibly well built and just as beautiful.
> the buildings have such great personality, it's easy to know the
> occupants... (even when they're not at home! ;-)
>
> your mini-figs seem really happy to be living in such a charming place!
>
> later ~ craig~
>
> * ~ in lego-ese, "inspired" means, i'll try to steal your brilliant ideas,
> not have enough pieces to make it work, and eventually stumble across
> something cool myself...
--
Keep on Bricken'
-Tamy
Follow the bouncing boxes!
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!
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In lugnet.build, Eric Kingsley writes:
> Tamy,
>
> These are great!! I love the Keep and the circular staircase is great. I
> thought that the lugnet.castle folk might want to see this so I have added • that
> group to the list.
Yep, thanks for that!
I really liked all your creations, especially the Jusar Keep and the mountain.
I was wondering about a couple of things, though:
-How did you make that double staircase? It's truly amazing and if you could
maybe show a more detailed picture or Ldraw instructions that would be great!
-What piece did you use for the round table? I've never seen it before...
-I really liked your mountain, and especially the stream in it. Is there a
specific set in which you found all those blue arches, or was that a piec
auction?
Keep up the good work, and post in .castle next time too! We wanna see your
stuff! :-)
-Shiri
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Shiri wrote:
> -What piece did you use for the round table? I've never seen it before...
It looks like a Belville part. 5890 has two, one yellow, one white. I've
also seen it in a few other sets I think (5808 has one I think, 5895 has
one, 3117 has two), 3115 has an even bigger table (which is in two
halves).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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The round table came from the smaller Hovertron set in the Explorians
line, I bought a bunch of them just for the round "Table" in them :)
and the "arches" in the stream are the rounded 2x3 bricks, I got a bunch
of them in one of the Freestyle Poly bags from a couple years ago. I
wish I could find more of those...all I can somewhat clearly remember
was it was in the 1800 number range I think... Shooting the pics for the
Mountain turned out to be a sad day :( Only half of the mountain
survived after the shoot.. the other half fell from 5 feet as I was
carrying it back to my Lego room afterwards :( I still have the built
half together and the rest in a bucket hoping to someday reconstruct and
find all the broken pieces. That's the first and only time I cried while
picking up and inspecting Lego... I had a couple of secret compartments
under the river and on the side of it I didn't get the chance to photo
that day, now I really wish I would have taken the time. One of those
cases of live and learn... the hard way!
I don't have time to do an ldraw of the staircases, too much turning and
the like with the parts for me right now, though I will seriously try to
get some better picks. Ones that show more details! I can kind of
explain it possibly... I used 2x6 plates for the steps and 1x1 plates
and 1x2 plates to hold them together, take a back corner of the first
2x6 put down the 1x1 plate, on the opposite back corner connect one stud
of the 1x2 plate so it's hanging off the back 2x6 then place the next
2x6 plate on the 1x1 and on the back part of the 1x2, this gives it a
little curve, you could continue all the way up a narrow tower with this
supports might be a bit of a problem.. though playing with it might give
some idea to fix that.
For the hand rail I used more 1x2's some 1x3's and round 1x1 bricks and
1x round plates. I used the 1x2's on the short side with the 1x1's under
the stairs, and the 1x3's on the side with the 1x2's under the stairs. I
used the round plates so the rail was even.
I really don't think this is a new way of building the stair case.. I'm
sure someone else has done this before. I know I've tried a few other
ways in the past and never liked them.. I had just gotten a bunch of new
black 2x6 plates instead of some 2x8 plates I had ordered and decided to
try to put them to use.. and it worked out pretty well :)
Hopefully the directions above are clear... I know they seem to be to
me.. though when someone else is trying to explain something...
sometimes it just doesn't click.. Pictures are always better :)
Tamy
Shiri wrote:
>
> In lugnet.build, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > Tamy,
> >
> > These are great!! I love the Keep and the circular staircase is great. I
> > thought that the lugnet.castle folk might want to see this so I have added • that
> > group to the list.
>
> Yep, thanks for that!
>
> I really liked all your creations, especially the Jusar Keep and the mountain.
>
> I was wondering about a couple of things, though:
> -How did you make that double staircase? It's truly amazing and if you could
> maybe show a more detailed picture or Ldraw instructions that would be great!
> -What piece did you use for the round table? I've never seen it before...
> -I really liked your mountain, and especially the stream in it. Is there a
> specific set in which you found all those blue arches, or was that a piec
> auction?
>
> Keep up the good work, and post in .castle next time too! We wanna see your
> stuff! :-)
>
> -Shiri
--
Keep on Bricken'
-Tamy
Follow the bouncing boxes!
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html
http://home.att.net/~mookie1/
http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site)
Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!
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In lugnet.castle, Tamyra Teed writes:
> The round table came from the smaller Hovertron set in the Explorians
> line, I bought a bunch of them just for the round "Table" in them :)
> and the "arches" in the stream are the rounded 2x3 bricks, I got a bunch
> of them in one of the Freestyle Poly bags from a couple years ago. I
> wish I could find more of those...all I can somewhat clearly remember
> was it was in the 1800 number range I think...
Thanks! I thought these were the 1x2x1.3 type arches, but curved 2x3s might be
just as hard to find :-(
> Shooting the pics for the
> Mountain turned out to be a sad day :( Only half of the mountain
> survived after the shoot.. the other half fell from 5 feet as I was
> carrying it back to my Lego room afterwards :( I still have the built
> half together and the rest in a bucket hoping to someday reconstruct and
> find all the broken pieces. That's the first and only time I cried while
> picking up and inspecting Lego... I had a couple of secret compartments
> under the river and on the side of it I didn't get the chance to photo
> that day, now I really wish I would have taken the time. One of those
> cases of live and learn... the hard way!
Oh, I'm sorry. I hate when that happens. (that you want to do something and
forget or something, and then you can't because something happened, that is)
btw, the only time I cried over lego (I think that's the only time) was when,
a year and a half ago, I realized that I would *never* have a chance to buy
the 4558 metroliner... I don't think so anymore, but I don't want it as much
either - I've sort of channeled into castle stuff right now.
>
> I don't have time to do an ldraw of the staircases, too much turning and
> the like with the parts for me right now, though I will seriously try to
> get some better picks. Ones that show more details! I can kind of
> explain it possibly... I used 2x6 plates for the steps and 1x1 plates
> and 1x2 plates to hold them together, take a back corner of the first
> 2x6 put down the 1x1 plate, on the opposite back corner connect one stud
> of the 1x2 plate so it's hanging off the back 2x6 then place the next
> 2x6 plate on the 1x1 and on the back part of the 1x2, this gives it a
> little curve, you could continue all the way up a narrow tower with this
> supports might be a bit of a problem.. though playing with it might give
> some idea to fix that.
Thanks! The pic was a bit fuzzy, but with an explanation, I get it...
> For the hand rail I used more 1x2's some 1x3's and round 1x1 bricks and
> 1x round plates. I used the 1x2's on the short side with the 1x1's under
> the stairs, and the 1x3's on the side with the 1x2's under the stairs. I
> used the round plates so the rail was even.
>
> I really don't think this is a new way of building the stair case.. I'm
> sure someone else has done this before. I know I've tried a few other
> ways in the past and never liked them.. I had just gotten a bunch of new
> black 2x6 plates instead of some 2x8 plates I had ordered and decided to
> try to put them to use.. and it worked out pretty well :)
I think I saw other people building staircases but they never had two supports
for every step - only one, that didn't seem stable to me.
>
> Hopefully the directions above are clear... I know they seem to be to
> me.. though when someone else is trying to explain something...
> sometimes it just doesn't click.. Pictures are always better :)
Yeah, an image is worth a thousand words :-) But I got it, thanks!
-Shiri
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In lugnet.castle, Mookie wrote:
> I don't have time to do an ldraw of the staircases, too much turning and
> the like with the parts for me right now,
Here's a file showing how one-half of the stairway is put together, along with
the outer banister. The angles do not make for a neat 90-degree turn, so I
fudged things a bit. I don't know how much you have to fudge the joints when
you do a RL construction.
LDLite meta-commands have been used for the rotations. AFAIK, only LDLite will
render this file.
Steve
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