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(...) May 5th?! That's too far away! :) Anyways, seems like my li'l picture didn't come out very well so I've created a *simple* drawing showing the layout of my castle. You can find it at: (URL) I don't know what will compliment it... After seeing (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: Castle discussion
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(...) (URL) 8318) Bryan (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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Lego got a brief but cool mention in a recent issue of US News and World Report. The article was about monorails- history and future use. The author talked about a website((URL) I think, not sure though) where they discuss all aspects of monorails, (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My website is operational
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(...) your characters were well designed and creative, especially the elementals. Leviathan (and I don't mean whale, Shiri =] ) is great! I've been trying to come up with a good figure for a water elemental and you hit the nail on the head. Also, we (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: FOTW on Blue Tubs from TRU!
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I have round hole screens at work that I could use, but I still have the problem that they mix 2 different colors of 1x1 bricks in each of the 3 bags they are in. Plus, the smaller bricks don't really get in the way of picking out the bigger ones. I (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Excellent! Can't wait to see them. (...) Nice find. Hope the motor still works ;-) Robin (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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I know this is a Kerosene Cat[1], so I am not going to ask my dad. I don't really want our state of the art nut plant featured as a Lego sorting station. The big problem with the sorting equipment is that it is used for sorting walnuts. Walnuts (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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Mike, when are you planning to sort through the tubs?? I could make it down for the weekend of the 22nd/23rd Paul Sinasohn (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Castle discussion
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(...) viewed it with a fixed pitch font ;-). Thanks for the new schematic. Do you have a lot of minifigs in and around the castle. When I build, I typically focus on the structure and the architecture, but I'm (re)learning that most people (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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(...) Actually, someone already makes one. (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Mark, I can't buy them for less than one cent each, so selling them for that after working on them isn't possible. Besides, I offer them out at one cent for thousands and let the market set the price. I go as fast as I can on the auctions and make (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Gathering of the Wise (was Re: possible translations)
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(...) Whenever this happens, I've currently got two templars[1] to send. Jason [1] Mage-types with causes, attuned to the subtle social and spiritual patterns that are used to determine fate[2], able to use warrior weapons. [2] Okay, reading this (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| | Re: New Animation
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(...) used? I've been throwing an animation idea around with some of the folks around here, but it's all been talk so far... Did you use a digital camera,or a camcorder with one frame at a time? Did you have to assemble the frames into a movie (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: 5071 - What's it worth?
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(...) Yes, they're different. The 5071 wheels are larger by quite a bit. I forgot to mention before that the 5071 pack was numbered 1143 in the olden days, so I guess 3 sets/packs have contained the wheels. Same rarity factor, though. See (URL) a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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| | Re: I'm Falling Apart!
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(...) On item that might help is the smallest cable ties sold by Radio Shack. About three inches long and 1/8th inch wide, they can bond beams strongly together at a critical point. Disposable, you just cut them off to get rid of them. They also do (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ...its great! :-) I kinda like the 2 fps better, they're both choppy, but the 2fps looks more like ud expect it to be choppy so the choppiness worked with it. (ps: and she shouldnt just leave her tools out like that) ...you can go back to (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) well, the camera used was a sony MVC-FD88 mounted on a tripod. The frames were assembled with mpeg_encoder (for the mpeg movies, on my end) and by an unnamed application (Chris?) for the avis on Chris' end. The filming took about 2-3 hours of (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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(...) On the other hand, I've not got enough artistic talent to fill a thimble-- but I can work around that in Lego. I can borrow from other peoples' ideas, but build my own structure behind them. I can use tools to generate exactly what I want, and (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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I've got a little question. Why are you working so hard on BFC. The rendering in Ldraw, L3lab, MLcad,.... is already very fast. Is the speed improvement gained with BFC supposed to provide the extra time, so you can turn an model in realtime, with a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Wild West MOC's
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(...) Those all sound very good, can't wait to see! -John Rudy (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | RE: FOTW on Blue Tubs from TRU!
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Aaah the wonders of the internet. To bad they are in NZ. Justin do you own these? How big are they? They look about a foot on a side. Wanna bet the kid in the picture is the son of the owner of the plastics molding company who got tired of sorting? (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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No, I don't. I think for rough sorting, though, they'd work fine. I think you can order them off the website. (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: [CW] The Lapidarium
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Wow, James, that sounds intriguing... I'd love to hear more. In fact, I just made up some more. I have a feeling that one of my magicians (not in the present; at least seventy years back) had gained his amazing power (either directly or indirectly) (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| | Re: Ohio builders :)
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(...) I have just recently gotten into RPG's, and have played pen'n'paper style (D&D, Vampires, Shadowrun) only a little bit. My knowledge is extremely limited, but I'm always up for more fun :) (...) I live in Cleveland, 2.5 hours away, so a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Question: 6091/6098
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Can someone please tell me if the instruction book that comes with King Leo's Castle set number 6091 is actually the instruction book for 6098 (the equivalent set sold in the rest of the world)? Thanks, Grahame (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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koen <koen.jordens@studen...ven.ac.be> wrote in message news:FsK5CI.BxG@lugnet.com... (...) time, (...) "Fast" is a relative term. For very large models, Datsville for example, it takes long enough to render that even a 30% increase in speed makes (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Sneak peek of my Blacktron site
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I uploaded some pictures that I'm using for a new blacktron website. Just a sampling of some of the stuff that will be on the site. There is a Blacktron APC, as well as the big lander which is done on the outside. A supply truck with ejection chair (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space) !
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| | Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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(...) I wasn't referring to power so much as overall weight bearing down upon the rails themselves. So if you had rails on a soft bed, you couldn't utilize engines whose weight wasn't distributed over X amount of drivers/and or unpowered wheels; it (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Http://www.etoys.com/ They had them a while back, look under adventurers. -John Rudy (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Sorry, The mouse button stuck! -John Rudy, Who feels like such an Idiot! (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Ordering from S@H (From Canada)
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I don't know about you US people but ordering from S@H has become such a chore for us Canadians. They don't keep your information on file. You have to jump though all the hoops and the price they quote to you in Canadian dollars is usually not what (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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(...) Looking forward to see them. What did you make the Cantina out of? I have been working on a hotel/ cantina that uses the white log walls to give it more of a stucco look to it. David (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.western)
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(...) home (...) I have read that it is not actually a solid cone angle, but a peak central lobe and a few side lobes. I think the best way to figure this out is to mount your sonar sensor on a rotatable head and go out to an open field. Place a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Another Point to Ponder ...
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HA! lolololol - I kill me! This was supposed to go just to Mike, not to the whole newsgroup. Oh, woe is me and my pitiful little plans for miniworld domination! Might as well plaster my battle plans on a bulletin board before the next meeting ;) (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Question: 6091/6098
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(...) Well, both are the same... it was realized around here that TLC somehow mixed up the numbers, all the sets labelled 6091 had instructions with 6098 and the catalog numbers are somewhat confused. However, the two sets are supposed to be (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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