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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with
us and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within
a day or two...
Kirk H
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Here is the promised review.
The show was sponsored by the Texas & Pacific Historical Society in Marshall to
raise money for the T&P museum and the old historic depot. The Marshall Civic
Center housed the show. In addition to the NETLTC, there were 2 HO layouts, 1 N
scale, and 1 Lionel layout. We were debuting our modular tables and we only had
6 full sized and 2 skinny tables finished - so we displayed a much smaller
layout than at previous shows (10 x 15ish). Our smallness was a benefit because
the show organizers miscalculated the meeting space and didn’t have room for us
if we had been full sized.
The show was lightly attended with the strongest crowd numbers showing up Sunday
afternoon. There had been some media coverage on Saturday. I was interviewed
for a local radio station. As usual, the Lego trains are a real crowd pleaser
and we get the usual - ‘didn’t know Lego made trains’, etc...
We have done shows in Tyler, Tx and now in Marshall, TX - all of these shows
have been for rail historical societies. One of my personal Lego train goals is
to model the fallen flags from East Texas. So the Cotton Belt folks in Tyler
(birthplace of the St Louis and Southwestern - aka Cotton Belt) really like my
Cotton Belt engines and the T&P folks (birthplace in Marshall) really like my
T&P engines in ‘Swamp Holly Orange’. Well - Lego orange is close enough! So we
have won some friends.
Our future plans are to build more tables and improve the layout and add more
engines and rolling stock in road colors from East Texas...
for pictures visit the NETLTC website:
NETLTC
also see tony’s pictures - links below...
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.events, Anthony Sava wrote:
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going
to be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend
one day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on
their layout, plus they made me an official member :)
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It was really nice having Tony visit our show and share his steam MOCs with us
and the public at the show. I will be posting a review of the show within a day
or two...
Kirk H
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I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the
video once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full
Gallery
-Tony
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I just recently found out about the existence of the North Eastern Texas LEGO
Train Club (NETLTC), and even more recently discovered that they were going to
be attending the train show in Marshall, Texas. I was only able to attend one
day but the members of NETLTC were kind enough to let me run my trains on their
layout, plus they made me an official member :)
I took some pictures of my time there, plus some video. I’ll link to the video
once I can figure out how to get it out of the camcorder and online.
Full Gallery
-Tony
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween
Howl’r event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!”
exhibit. We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and
while only Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us
I think we did pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
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Looks like it was a lot of fun! I esp. like the use of upside-down 1x1 orange
bricks for the kiddies trick-or-treat bags!! Very nice detail for sure.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that you managed to take a photo of BrickLink’s
main Admin/owner as seen below! ;-)
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TexLUG was invited to attend the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Halloween Howl’r
event in San Antonio, which corresponded with their “Here Be Dragons!” exhibit.
We were asked to put together a medieval/dragon themed display, and while only
Chris MacDougald and I were able to attend, between the two of us I think we did
pretty good (well, the young master MacDougald helped, too).
We also added a ‘Trick or Seek’ to our layout - a laundry list of hidden
findables in the layout, with a little prize going to whomever could find
everything on the list. On the list was everything from 10 Harry Potters to
Spongebob and David Hasselhoff. It went so well I have suggested a seek and
find be a permanent part of all of our future public displays (though our mail
server seems to be down at present).
The lighting was horrible for photography in the museum, so I apologize in
advance.
Full Gallery
--Tony
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What: TexLUG-SA Meeting
When: May 19, 2007 - 1PM
Where: Goerke’s Country Tavern
Who: TexLUG Austin, San Antonio, and the surrounding areas. Or anyone else
interested in LEGO.
Why: Because we want too.
See: http://www.texlugsa.org/2007/05/09/may-meeting/ for more details.
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Eric Strand wrote:
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
Tony,
I had been following the planning of this event and it looks like it really
turned out well. I really like all of the trees, and the snow trees in the
winter waterfall module look very striking.
I noticed a 341 tucked in there. http://guide.lugnet.com/set/341_1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2360692
For someone like me who enjoys OLD items, this was a nice touch.
How long did the moonbase and town last before the dragons took over? Great
little details!
Eric Strand
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Hehe... Lee, the guy who spent a very long time to get all the parts for that
#341, was also the one responsible for infesting the layout with dragons. The
ifestation happened on Sunday, but didn’t last long. Thanks to Tim, though,
Batman took over dragon duties in the viking diorama in the dragon’s absence.
Lee also infested the town, as well, including a great pose of his dragon
wrapping itself around that tall mountain, but I was a fool and didn’t take a
picture of it.
Wish I could take credit for any of it, but fortunately we have a lot of
talented, crazy people in TexLUG.
--Tony
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Anthony Sava wrote:
Tony,
I had been following the planning of this event and it looks like it really
turned out well. I really like all of the trees, and the snow trees in the
winter waterfall module look very striking.
I noticed a 341 tucked in there. http://guide.lugnet.com/set/341_1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2360692
For someone like me who enjoys OLD items, this was a nice touch.
How long did the moonbase and town last before the dragons took over? Great
little details!
Eric Strand
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Mod Gallery
TexLUG was invited back to the Healthy Baby and Child Expo in San Antonio,
Texas, this year, and I think it was a pretty successful event.
Our display featured a single main-line train loop traversing four different
distinct areas - moonbase, winter/vikings, Harry Potter, and town. We also had
a wireless camera set up on whatever train was on the main line sending a
signal to a TV on the display, giving visitors a train’s-eye view of the layout.
On a personal level, this was a great event for me because I was able to see all
four of my steam train MOCs running on a huge layout. The Polar Express was by
far the crowd favorite, with my little 4-4-0 being more popular with the older
‘kids’. Plus- no train motors died this time! Woo!
--Tony
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This past weekend TexLUG Houston held a private event for the children of the
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. It was a pretty mixed bag of themes, but
everyone had fun. The LEGO Company donated 200 X-Pods to be given away to the
children who attended.
Pics 01 - 38
Post-Mod Gallery
We’d like to thank Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital for having us, and the
LEGO group for the donated sets. I think we really brightened some days.
--Tony
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Calling all TexLUGers (and surrounding areas),
TexLUG Houston is sponsoring an event at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in
the Texas Medical Center (Houston) on December 15-17.
We invite anyone interested in participating to contact us as soon as possible
so we can finalize our displays and event plans.
Please either follow up on the newsgroup, the TexLUG mailing list (see
www.texlug.org for information on the mailing list) or with me directly at
theinformaticist at informaticst-dot-com
Play well.
Matt Sailors
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Howdy!
All the AFOLs from Texas and neighboring states are invited to come see and/or
join the Fall 2006 State-Wide meeting and public display in Houston!
The details:
When: October 7-8th 2006
Saturday 7th 10am-5pm Public Hours 1pm-5pm
Sunday 8th 1pm-5pm Public Hours 1pm-3pm
Where: Clear Lake City - Country Freeman Branch, aka The Freeman Library
16616 Diana Lane
Houston, TX 77062
http://www.hcpl.net/branchinfo/fm/fminfo.htm
Theme: This season's theme is a combination of Castle and Space, so bring your
CCC buildings and your Moonbase Modules. As always, MOCs of any theme are
welcome to be displayed.
See y'all there!
--Anthony
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All,
This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is
cancelled.
The robotic line follower contest
scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed.
Look for an announcement here for a
future date.
Future TexLUG Austin gatherings will be
announced as they are arranged.
-Tim
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All,
Come on by the next Austin TexLUG meeting this coming
Sunday. (And yes, it *is* on Mother's Day. Show your
Mom you love her by getting out of the house for a
couple hours!) Particulars are below.
If you have a creation to show, bring it. I'll be
bringing tiles for the upcoming line-following
contest (the paint is drying as I type this), so if
you'd like to try out your 'bot before the 6/11
contest, now's the time.
For contest details, see:
http://www.io.com/~rueger/lego/texlugaustin/line2006/
See you there...
-Tim
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Date: The second Sunday every month (next meeting 5/14/06).
Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm
Location:
Austin Public Library, Little Walnut Creek Branch
835 W. Rundberg Ln.
Austin, TX 78758
(Just west of the Lamar/Rundberg intersection)
Phone: (512) 836-8975
URL: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/little_walnut.htm
(has map link)
Come on out and join in the fun!
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Sorry for replying to myself...
Bummer, I thought the folder was public. It was before I added the NXT stuff.
Seems like it is taking longer than normal to go public. I guess the wait is on
(again).
Christopher R. Smith
Littlehorn
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Hi Folks, It's been a while since I posted anything on LUGNET. I have been
working on keeping my wife and life ready for our new baby. Which should be born
in a day or so. Over the past couple of months I managed to grab a few moments
and build something with the NXT toolset while in the MindStorms Development
Program (MDP). Here is a link to some of the items ready for posting. I have
some others and will be posting more over the next few days/weeks.
So, take a look and maybe tell me what you think!
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=180625
Christopher R. Smith
Littlehorn
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I must warn you it’s nothing exciting. It’s just a blatent rip-off of Casey
Mungle’s corrugated tanker car design, I just gave it a Texas twist. I’ve been
on a ‘build for the club’ kick, and I thought it’d be sweet to have this riding
around our layouts.
(CLICK)
Post Mod Gallery
--Anthony
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Howdy!
TexLUG Houston will be having a meeting this Saturday the 22nd of April. Feel
free to come on by and have some fun!
Who: TexLUG Houston
What: General Meeting
When: Saturday, April 22, 2006
Where:
19525 Wied Road, Suite #106.
Spring, TX 77379
Why: Why not?
Time: Setup - 11 AM. Start - 1 PM. End - Cook it 'till it's done.
Phone: 281-651-7747
See you there!
--Anthony
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