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Re: TEXLUG Meeting Wrap-up
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:31:51 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.texlug, Thomas Avery writes:
> Take a look at all the great MOCs at the meeting:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13395
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> The meeting was a great success. I think everyone had a great time and
> enjoyed the gathering. • I know I had a really good time!
>
> We met on Saturday at Jason's house in Austin. We started at 10am and stayed
> until after 6pm.
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> We had a good time playing with the trains and looking at everyone else's
> MOCs. Everyone did an excellent job with their MOCs and showed off their
> excellent building abilities.
>
> LIST OF ATTENDEES:
> (13 total)
> TJ Avery
> Indranil Basak
> Mr&Mrs Leonard Erlandson
> Shawn Gibson
> Laura Hayden
> Pat Hough
> Tom Reed
> Tim Rueger
> Anthony Sava and fiance (Christina)
> Jason Spangler
> Bill Swanberg
> John Voltin
>
> MOC CONTEST RESULTS:
> first place: Laura's Cathedral
> second place: Anthony's Griffon
> third place: Tom's Fantasy Train
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> NOTABLE MOCS:
> Laura: Norman Era Cathedral and village
> Anthony: Griffon, castle, green scorpion dragon, nightmare
> Tom: Fantasy train, black ship (pirate, death, death-pirate???), pirate
> outpost, black futuristic loco, boxcar
The ship was "The Sea Snake!", the outpost was Morgan's hideaway!, and the
boxcar was not my original design..I think I got the idea from Jason McKee
(I hope that's the right name..my apologies if I made a mistake there! I
just changed the color scheme.)
> Erlandsons: Red loco and blue boxcar
> Shawn: ICL building, unnamed white building ;-), red "tycoon's" car
> Pat: massive space ship, 2 buildings
> Tim: Mindstorms controlled RR crossing
> Jason: blue house w/ yellow trim and sloped roof
> Bill: Santa Fe B unit (and nearly a mile of track!)
> TJ: 3 bridges, row buildings, U.P. loco, 4 freight cars
> (if I've left anyone out, or mislabelled anything, please let me know!)
>
> SOME ACTIVITIES:
> (Please reply with more if you can, I know I didn't get everything here.)
> The train layout was just for fun and to get an idea of how much train stuff
> we had as a group.
It was my first time seeing a lego train layout in person. It was way too
cool! I'm trying hard to not become a train-head, but I can see the appeal!
>
> We started by laying out a huge double oval in Jason's den. From there we
> added sidings and integrated buildings and bridges.
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> We ran various train combinations around the tracks and bridges, and we
> found out the hard way which train cars didn't fit through the bridges.
Unfortunately, that applied to most of my cars. But the bridges were great!
I just wished I could have planned for the clearance.
>
> Throughout the day we rearranged cars and locos, added sidings, added
> buildings and created small sections of towns. Tim and I built a small
> elevated oval that crossed over the main ovals.
>
> Anthony posed his green dragon in various pictures and let his griffon
> attack Laura's cathedral. Needless to say there were many unique picture
> taking opportunities.
The Griffon attacking the cathedral was brilliant! A perfect combination!
It almost looked like it was meant to be that way!
>
> Indranil showed off his 12v trains which were quite interesting. Most of us
> have never seen the old 12v's.
Yes, those were very interesting! It was a very enlightening experience for
us "non-train heads"! hehheh
>
> There were a few derailments and other crashes, but nothing serious. No one
> was crazy enough to stage a head-on or other catastrophe. We managed to shut
> down a controller by running 4 locos for an extended time.
>
> Pat brought his huge blue container of parts (sorted this time!), but the
> trading activity was much less at this meeting. I guess everyone focused on
> building MOCs and bringing them to the meeting.
>
> We mostly sat around and talked about Lego while watching the trains. It was
> great spending a whole Saturday with other AFOLs and sharing our common
> interest in Lego.
>
> SPECIAL THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO:
>
> Jason: for hosting the meeting and providing a meeting place (thanks to his
> wife too! Although she wasn't there, I'm sure she had a part in the decision
> to allow their house to be invaded!)
An extra "Thanks" for letting us invade your abode! I hope the damage was
minimal! Your hospitality was most welcome!
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> Laura: for helping with the meeting coordination, making sure we all had
> enough to eat, and helping me with the MOC contest voting.
Thanks to you too TJ! Both of you were instrumental in getting these
meetings off the ground!
Also a "big" thanks to Tim and Bill for bringing all that track and the
train stuff! There was no way we would have had such a great layout without
their contribution. I'm still in awe of the amount of track those guys had
with them. I hope to see them at the next meeting. They were great
additions to the group!
> Those who paid for the pizza and did not demand to be paid back. Perhaps
> those who didn't pay can pick up the bill at the next meeting.
>
> Those who brought food, drinks, and snacks.
>
> Pat: for updating and maintaining our website:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~houghpt/default.htm
>
> AND FINALLY:
>
> I think having a train layout is a good way to bring all of us together. We
> all had a great time with it, and all of us contributed to it, in one way or
> another. It was a blend of town (past, present, and future), fantasy,
> Technic, and robotics (Mindstorms).
>
> I'm sorry if you were unable to attend, but we'll have another meeting again
> in the near future. Keep an eye on the TEXLUG newsgroup!
>
> TJ Avery
I want to say I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the "regulars" again and meeting
the newbies! This was a lot of fun and I am in awe of all the great
designs, MOCs, etc. I hope those that didn't make it will be able to the
next time. You don't know what you missed! Kudos to all that helped to
make it happen! I think we've got a great group in the making... I look
forward to the next time!
Thanks All!
Tom
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