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Re: Dozen LEGO Roses
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lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 2 Mar 2004 02:26:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote:
   My wife and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary and this is what I gave her:

VERY nice roses, John. Where were you when we were trying to make roses for Christina on the spur of the moment? We had a lot of trouble with connecting the flowers/buds to the stems (although I would argue that we did pretty good for the amount of time we had and the parts we used.)

Thanks. That’s a good question. I didn’t even know you did it until the moment they were presented to her! I will say this: it took a rather long time to collect the necessary parts to put 12 roses together...

   I am most interested in how you transitioned from the petals (vertically aligned plates) to the bud/stem interface. None of the pics on MOCpages had that.

Yeah, I’m going to get Ross to LDraw one so folks can see. One of the more creative techniques was a Ross original, but you probably surmised that already;-)

JOHN



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  Re: Dozen LEGO Roses
 
(...) Maybe you can leave some of the petals off, all that rotational stuff will be time consuming, the key points are the directional transitions, I think. Since we were working from an event kit we had limited SNOT capability in red. I gotta ask C (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Dozen LEGO Roses
 
(...) Uhm, yup - we already guessed that... *grin* My only question, how did you keep this project secret from her? Congrats on 20 years - that's a good start! JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.general, FTX)

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  Re: Dozen LEGO Roses
 
(...) VERY nice roses, John. Where were you when we were trying to make roses for Christina on the spur of the moment? We had a lot of trouble with connecting the flowers/buds to the stems (although I would argue that we did pretty good for the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.general, FTX)

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