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| | | (...) (snip) (...) Red has always been the most common basic color, so that's why I always built my castles with red ones. I'm actually going to start working on my next one soon, and it will be gray to keep the purists happy. Dan (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! —Kela Akira Kitkowski
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| | | | | (...) my (...) soon, (...) You could claim it was some Red Granite or some other stone that is mined locally and unique to the area. (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! —Daniel Siskind
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| | | | | | (...) Actually the stone was salvaged from the lost city of Nazarine, stained eternally from river of blood left that washed over it after the butchery of its citizenry at the hands of the Northmen... doh! I'm giving the story away! Dan (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! —Kela Akira Kitkowski
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| | | | | | (...) its (...) Hey...waitaminute!! That sounds awfully familar... (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | (...) "purists"!? there are purists in .castle!? ;-) THE original, most "purist" castle is bright yellow! red, being, as you said, the most common lego color for bulk and diversity makes it the ideally pure building color. the elaborate (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Blood Stone Castle completed! —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | (...) Speaking of purism, I have another question along those lines (and one that you can probably answer better than anyone else, Craig). So how much of a faux pas is it to modify plates, etc. for your structures? I can see it for minifig character (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | purist modification, from(Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!) —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | (...) well this throws the "have you ever warped or broken parts" thread into a new light of consideration! ~ doing it on purpose! if it's a good idea, such as yours and you can spare the piece, why not!? i'm looking at these pieces now, and will go (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: purist modification, from(Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!) —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | (...) Oooh, I must have missed that one... But I've got a doozy involving 24 gray castle walls if the thread resurfaces. :) (...) Ick. :) Then you're suddenly at brick height with a slightly lesser range of motion... (...) :) (...) Cool! I just went (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: purist modification, from(Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!) —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | (...) it's only a few hours old in .build! (...) gah! now i have to do another one! that would work even better! the pieces fit together quite nicely, anyway if not for that center nub. accomodating it is better than removing it. the side bar plate (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: purist modification, from(Re: Blood Stone Castle completed!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | Hmm, just stumbled into this discussion, I'm wondering if you are aware of a similar LEGO pure solution? The 2x4 plate with hinge (<part 3315>) will work with the hinge brick (for a use, look at the draw bridge in 6086), so if you can live with a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Hinge parts (was Re: purist modification) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) Yup, forgot about Male: <part 828> (Tractor Chassis Excavator Arm, Large) Female: <part 3433> (Tractor Chassis Excavator Bucket, Large) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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