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How do you guys do it? —Dave Lander

Ya know, I've been into Lego for a while myself. I haven't had the time or money I'd have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still love Lego. I've been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one question for (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) Ditto what Kevin said. I look at my ships from five years ago, compared with FdG (see the left side bar in .build.military), and then Takao ((URL) and there's a definite progression, aside from size of course. It's a simple process of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) How? Start building. You'll get better. That's not a flippant answer, it's the truth. Do as many of the following things as you can: - Build stuff "in the style of" official sets, perhaps working from their instructions to learn various idioms (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Anne Carasik

(...) Experiment. Build. It sounds simple, and that's all the really is to it. What I find helps me is I keep a project list of some projects I'd like to work on. Some of them have came to be, others have just sat around in pieces. For example, I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Gil Shaw

(...) Basically just throwing in a 'right on' to all that's been said. Only thing to add is that you've already taken the most important step, and that is joining this community. I lurked for over a year before starting to build. Then, I tried to (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Kevin Salm

(...) Many excellent suggestions have been given to you so far. They are all good ideas. As for getting more Lego to build with, you don't have to consider buying more Lego to be a major purchase. If your cash flow is small, just buy Lego in small (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Larry Pieniazek

In lugnet.build.military, Kevin Salm wrote: Some excellent followup thoughts and money saving tips! ... But one or two I gotta riff on... :-) (...) Am I misremembering or didn't you formerly have something to do with vending machines??? :-) If so (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Kevin Salm

(...) Okay, smart Guy...... Oh, before I start my reply I would like to say I find this thread also great fun. Even if Larry pokes at me :) (...) Yes, I used to fill vending machines and I would guess that about 40% of my income was due to everyday (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Inadvertantly!!!!... I seriously forgot that you smoked... it's not something I pay much attention to (except when I get a load of bricks from Europe and it starts reeking up the house as soon as I slice into the first layer of packing tape, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Kevin Salm

(...) It is not something I advertise. Smoking is not something I am proud of and I do try to smoke in ways that do not interfere with non-smokers right to clear air. ____ (20 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Patrick S. O'Donnell

(...) -Major Snippage- (...) To further what Larry P. mentioned in a previos post, as well as Kevin Salm's above... I've had the experience of placing my own 32 foot long cable-stayed suspension bridge of 33,000 LEGO pieces in the front window of a (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Kevin L. Clague

(...) Many great suggestions by others..... I do a lot of mutations. Start out with something, get and an idea on how to change it, change it. Try something else throw it out, try again. Don't expect that it will come out just the way you want the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Dave Schuler

(...) Welcome aboard, Dave! I don't have much to add to the wisdom already dispensed on this thread, but here are a few other suggestions to help you in your building (some of these may be repeats). 1. Start with a cool first name. (You seem already (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

Re: How do you guys do it? —John Gerlach

(...) As others have said, Welcome! Lots of great ideas in this thread, as a 'old-timer' I thought I could toss out a couple more. Don't feel you need to build HUGE things. Yes, some of us love to build massive things like 8-wide trains and 4+ foot (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military, FTX)

Re: How do you guys do it? —Anne Carasik

(...) There's one I'm still looking for, that someone posted on .space a while ago. It's the coolest thing I've seen. (...) Depends on the builder :P For me, that's true. I have a hard time building small, which is why I build both big and small, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)