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(...) lol Nothing as exotic as that;-) --although that was my first inclination to use Ninja doors. BTW, here is a picture from a Walther's catalog showing the prototype which inspired my shed: (URL) The doors you "built" look very nice. I really (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEOG football/soccer field
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(...) Yeah... my thought was to buy two of the sets to get two more "kicking stands" and one more extra minifig for each team. The small field square can go back in my loose parts bin. Integrating the larger goal (with what appears to be a goalie (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.games, lugnet.general)
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| | TRU Sale: Anyone looking for these?
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Hi, I was checking out the TRU sale and found a few sets that I'm not interested in but I thought someone may be. By the way, This TRU was giving the sale price to already discounted sets. Freestyle 4163 "Electric Building Kit"- I was wondering if (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Idle Grumblings
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So I had a brilliant idea for my current WIP: inlay a design so that the entire roof is a giant Wolfpack symbol. The problem? Not enough plates. I have the symbol all designed, I just don't have the sheer mass of plateage I'll need to support it. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) That wasn't even a mecha. That was a Terran Marine, from StarCraft. The little guy was a technic scale Marine, even though it had a minifigure's head in it. (There is no way to mount a Technic guy's head like you can a minifig's.) (...) Yeah! (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Southport Lego Show Guest List
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Carbon 60 (<Ft2Ix1.Crn@lugnet.com>) wrote at 17:22:13 (...) Scottish, Southern, mine & yours. Yep. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | 40% Off Star Wars at The Science Center in Newport, RI
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I spent this past weekend in Newport, doing the tourist thang, when I stumbled upon a really cool toy store right on the waterfront in the historic district of Newport. The Thames Science Center (URL) seems to specialize in the kind of construction (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ri)
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| | MS Access inventory application
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I've been thinking about automating some of my b.s.t. activities, and was wondering if anyone has developed a database application to keep track of customers, invoices, inventory, and their own collection? It seems to me as if MS Access 97's sample (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: My NEW Lego site!
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(...) power (...) Ya that would be for lugnet.off-topic.debate (...) Ah. Well that is good to know. The tech specs would have a single Star Destroyer wiping out the entire fleet at Wolf 359, including the Borg Cube. (...) An Imperial Star Destroyer (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Idle Grumblings
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(...) Perchance, this is an allusion to the creation of the Globe Theater in ABS brick? Do any minifigs have little, trim moustaches and goatees? This also makes me wonder, how would one make frilly ruffles around a minifig's neck? Decipheringly, T (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | R: LEGO Service
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Mmmhhhh, potrebbe essere la fine dei mitici, anzi mitologici 3033 di Carlo. Ezio Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message Ft5MCD.1AK@lugnet.com... (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Idle Grumblings
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(...) Gah! I have nowhere near the number of bricks I'd need for that... (...) Actually, yes. Check out the Imperial Armada figs...(and heck, some of the Castle ones...) (...) Hmm. With a scrap of cloth, a needle, and a bit of thread, one could fold (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Gate of the Present Circular Loan? (Not EXACTLY a Jambalaya)
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I'd like to be on, and I've got a co-worker who is originally from France - if I get the book before May 1, she can translate it. If I get it after, i'll find one of my sister's friends, several of them speak French... Paul Sinasohn (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Southport Lego Show Guest List
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Tony Priestman <Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:FUcErVAZb0+4EwJ...n.co.uk... (...) 4? (...) ...and the Cheshire Mini Fest ;-) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: voltage question??
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(...) If you cannot get any of these wheels there is another solution. I have had one of these motors since (about) 1969. The motor was overworked and abused, regularly with 12v instead of 4.5v and gave no trouble at all. I took it out of storage (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: TRU Sale: Anyone looking for these?
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(...) I had no intenetion of ever buying any Frontier Patrols, but the local store slashed it to $2 a set, and then with the BOGO, I had to stock up on them. Minifig packs at effectively $1.50 each are just too tempting. Bruce (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Epaulets?
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Does anyone know if the handy little LEGO epaulets ("frilly shoulder pieces"?) were ever made into dat files? If not, does anyone know a decent facsimile, at least something to spruce up some minifigs for use as naval officers? Thanks in advance. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern [DAT]
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(...) This is VERY strange, and now does look like a bug in MLCad 1.8 (any chance you could take a look Mike) The offending line is 4 16 4 21 -10 7 21 -10 4 23.5 -10 3 22 -10 which MLCad 1.8 thinks is a bowtie, but rotating the points (1234 to 4123) (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: please help id: 1x2 "police" brick
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(...) Ugh, a public apology for the way these links turned out. I've corrected them above (I think). (...) the mixed lot of parts. I have a feeling that I've probably extracted all of the complete or nearly complete sets from this lot, but it's (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Q: A good Deal? Pitsco-Dacta Window and Door Pack
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Yes, the S@H pack is DEFINITELY better, as it comes with some glass panes for the 1x4x3 windows, and has the 1x4x5 windows with glass. And the glass doors with bars (the bars divide the doors into 6 "panes"). None of which are in the Dacta pack. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: New "Grunt" Mecha Added to Site!
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You're too kind Pat! I would certainly enter such a contest, if you were willing to organize it. Speaking of quality model, a Cool LEGO Site Of The Week nomination would be swell too <nudge, nudge>, boy would I like a NOMINATION, that would be the (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Q: A good Deal? Pitsco-Dacta Window and Door Pack
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(...) Just a quick correction. The "doors with bars" or Six paned doors are in the Dacta Pack. I personally prefer the Dacta pack just for convienence sake seeing I live close to The Construction Site which carrys the Dacta line. Eric Kingsley The (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Obi Wan Kenobi Training Question
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I sure hope this adds to your confusion. There are many great theories about who trained Obi Wan, but my question is how old was he when he was trained? In Empire Strikes Back, Yoda objects to training Luke saying that he is too old, ghost Obi Wan (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LGEO -> L3P
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(...) True, but often you can hardly read the logo anyway--but the texture is still there, which makes the studs look more realistic. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Has anyone had a DYA order take over 4 weeks to get to the USA?
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(...) Good news, both of my DYA packages came today. Thanks so much to those who answered my question and helped me keep my sanity during the wait :) One package was actually so large my mail-woman couldn't fit it in her car with all the other mail (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: Rough Draft: Hiawatha Engine
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Okay Mike, here are some pics of the GMLTC's own John Gerlach's (J-1) Hiawatha Hudson [1] that I took at our last train show. I will let him speak for his beauty:-) (URL) wheel config is actually a 4-4-4; John (J-1) can explain:-) (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | What would a howitzer be ??
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Here's my dilemna - how should I treat a WWII-style howitzer in Brikwars rules? The barrel, from breech to tip, is 16 studs long, and it's simply mounted on a two-wheel chassis with which to be towed by my Sd.kfz 251 Halftrack. When we last played (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Huge House
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I was looking at Terry Cruse's site when I saw this huge house: (URL) construction pics are at (URL) along with the best navigation links for this confusing site with great models. Alan (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Rough Draft: Hiawatha Engine
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(...) You are correct, Sir! I was wrrrrrr.....wrrrrr rrrreally in a hurry;-) -John (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: TRU Sale: Anyone looking for these?
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(...) OKAY EVERYBODY! A QUICK UPDATE! There are only two of the "Sand Dollar Cafe's" at this TRU! So far, I have had 4 requests for them! IF anyboday lives or knows of someone who lives in Louisiana, I know of a TRU store there that had about a (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Wanted: 8862 instructions
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Hi All, I've just acquired an 8862 minus instructions. Would anybody have a copy of the original instruction book that they would be willing to part with? TIA Regards, Conrad Venn. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | J-Box Update
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I have updated JB2, but am unsure of progress on JB1 and JB3. JB2 has gone round at an incredible speed! -- Liam. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Web Page Update!
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I've updated my web page. I added a couple things, and took a few off. Also, this has nothing to do with Lego, but I've got a bunch of GI Joe stuff to get rid of, as noted on my page. So, excuse this shameless plug: If anyone wants to buy GI Joe (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) Agreed. I know that Mike is planning some. I've already started one. I actually had a simple one at the battle. But, I think I forgot to show it to anyone. I may email Mike and volunteer to do the charts for BW2000. (...) Those were a lot of (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) I like this one. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) Get cracking. Start working up the text and we'll work out a way to merge it with the pics. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Lego Warcraft would be soooo cool...
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(...) WHAT!!!!!!! It was in Irvine???? I live there! When was it there? (...) would (...) Alex Alex (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | power transmission of fake 4460
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I made a small update of my pages and added some of my latest buys like 116(yeah!!), 166, 4546 and new pics of 7727 and 7730. But what I would like to post here is the supplement of my april fools site: (URL) added two new pictures there with power (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Huge House
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Where did he get all those round-pillar 1x4 railings?? !!!!!! The Parthenon roof is nice. But I have to worry about anyone who chooses Linda Tripp to build a model of. I would have tried Catherine Zeta Jones. Paul Sinasohn bearitone@my-deja.com (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Anyone see any copies of 6746 Chief's Tepee?
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(...) I just saw a reference to this set in market.shopping regarding the TRU sale this week...check it out... (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: 4-15-2000 meeting pics
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(...) (URL) a pic of the first draft of our monorail station: (URL) hey Will, do you have a larger picture? Chris And I built the base the night before, and I built the overdone top at the meeting before Chris arrived. He diddn't like it so I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: power transmission of fake 4460
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(...) KL (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Next Ohio Brikwars Meeting
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(...) The 6th and 13th are out for me. I was going to propose Memorial day weekend. However, that seems to be a problem for Drew. June 10th would be ok with me. The 24th would be bad. Are you sure that the Memorial day weekend is all out for you (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: MOC: 'Long nosed diesel'
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Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:Ft5t6n.IKK@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) piece. (...) How about the 1x4 twin light units from 9v Town vehicles, connected via cable. The bulbs would have to show through the front, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) Had the tree not obscured my Pilot's vision, I would have just left it there for the duration of the game. (...) I saw that yesterday about the -2 UR for opportunity fire, that and you can't have fired on your previous turn, not on the turn (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: the latest news
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(...) If we counted an "element" as a single piece in a single color, then the brick-only tubs alone would contain 66 different elements: 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6, 1x8, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x6, and 2x8 bricks, in black, red, yellow, green, blue, and (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Next WAFOL gathering? 4/28?
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Hello Wafolites! We should pin down a gathering time as soon as possible. The last proposed date was April 28. There is much to see and talk about. Since our last meeting, I have been building like crazy and have been to the MNPLS LIC and Legoland, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.wafol)
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| | Re: What would a howitzer be ??
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(...) Well it does say that you can tow other, smaller vehicles, with a movement penalty equal to that vehicles power rating. (2000 rules 4.1.3 - third from last paragraph) If you treat the Mass Driver MkII as a vehicle in and of itself, you'd only (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Meeting
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(...) I'm not likely to field another keep any time soon. Re-reading the rules Saturday made me realize that my real strength as a TL2/3 army is in my ability to field fairly fast and powerful units (mounted knights) fairly cheaply. For the cost of (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: power transmission of fake 4460
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(...) Yes it does, but since the torque runs via the vertical shaft, the wheel sets are trying to spin and due to this fact, the engine runs on straigt track at least as bad as most engines do in curves, probably worse. But I works and runs just a (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: the latest news
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(...) Like for example the old armless minifigs, they probobly dont have those anymore. (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: TRU buy one get a second at 50% off
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(...) Don't forget the $10 off coupon on Star Wars Episode 1 LEGO (on purchases over $49.99). With the BOGO 50% off sale, this is the time to stock up on those Gungan Patrols! :-) Usually you can find the coupons lying around the store if you don't (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Rendered image to jpg?
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I have a really silly question. I finally figured how to use Pov ray a little but I don't know how I would go about saving my finished model after it's rendered, in another file format like jpg. I'm trying to put a few models on my website. Told (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: The Eastern Invasion Is Here !!
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(...) Thanks for this very detailed and analytical reply. I enjoyed reading it. (...) I will be putting some of these techniques on my webpage to be launched in 2 weeks devoted to Building Japanese castles with Lego. (...) Oops !! I got tired of (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Lego Warcraft would be soooo cool...
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Maybe they're there now. They were in Canada before (where they started). -- Paul Davidson Alex <legowiz@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Ft6nnL.89v@lugnet.com... (...) take, (...) Blizzard (...) (26 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Holiday LEGO fun??
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Hi there lads and lasses, The holiday break is almost upon us (for those not already on school holidays), and I was wondering if we were all still interested in meeting up for a few hours to check out the Vikings display at GB's in the city. I (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Lego at Dollar Tree
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In Greensboro, a Dollar Tree Store (everything's a $1.00) has Primo #2000-Teether, Duplo #1759-7pcs Blockbuster promo, Lego Space Insectoids #6943-19pcs.Speed Sled, and Lego Space U.F.O. #6818-35pcs. Cyborg Scout. Is there any interest from NC (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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| | Re: the latest news
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(...) The tubs don't have 2x8 bricks in any color. They don't have 2x6, 1x6, or 1x8 bricks in green. There might be other omissions I'm not remembering. (...) I would also consider the following size of bricks and plates as "basic", even though they (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Lego Warcraft would be soooo cool...
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The way this works is a creative company invents a gaming engine and several others copy it. Classic example Wolfenstein/Doom invented by Idg. These guys invented the 3D shooter engine that was copied by many others. Once software engine is created, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: The Next Ohio Brikwars Meeting
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(...) I'm not especially interested in BrikWars, but I'd still like to meet some of you sometime. May 6 might work for me, but the 13th is the birthday of my brother and of a friend of mine, and the weekend of the 27th is prom, so those dates (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Holiday LEGO fun??
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(...) Saturday morning is good for me. We could probably do a quick tour of DJs and Playscene as well. Re the GPSP (7151) -- GBs city has a [whole pile] of them. --Dave PS Last time I went there I was bemused to notice that Level Five has about (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: MOC: 'Long nosed diesel'
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Huw, Very nice work! I love the nose extension. Very characteristic. The 1x4 light brick could be used if the 1x4 quarter round green bricks are used instead of the green 1x1x1.3 with tab. Since the 1x4's don't have the tab, maybe that 1x4 light (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Sets I am looking for
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If anyone has these sets and would like to part with them let me know. Preferably I would like them mint and in a sealed box, but that is not always possible with the older sets. I also will want them if they are opened but complete. Here they are: (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Holiday LEGO fun??
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(...) As you all would know, I'd go along and see two 2x4's stuck together so count me in, you guys set the time but Saturday morning sounds good. Where's Santosh and his shareholder card (does this card get us free Cokes in the VIP frequent buyers (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Holiday LEGO fun??
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(...) Ok then, count me in. (...) Is that a challenge? (...) Is that what you call those small 1x1 plates? James (who's started on the chocolate already...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Brickshelf 2nd anniversary
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The Second anniversary of the instruction scan site (now brickshelf.com) is coming up on April 19, 2000. I searched back through deja.com, and found the original messages: (4/19/1998): (URL) I have hear alot of requests for instruction scans here, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf) !
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| | Re: LEGO Easter Egg Hunts
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(...) Last year I did an Easter LEGO hunt for my son (7 years old at the time) by hiding the entire unopenned boxes of small and medium sets (about 12 total) around Grandma & Grandpa's house. We had a good time. It was around this time that I fully (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Obi Wan Kenobi Training Question
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(...) Actually, no. Ben says that he was reckless (like Luke's father) and full of anger (like Luke's father), but never too old. CREATURE: (irritated) I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience. Luke's head spins in the direction the creature (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Obi Wan Kenobi Training Question
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I think you disproved yourself in your own message. If you look at the bottom of the transcript you posted.... "YODA: He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training." (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Motors now in stock
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I made it to TRU today and purchased some sets, so I now have a supply of these motors in stock. A great deal at $10 each! Troy -- ---...--- Visit Troy's LEGO® Brick Store! (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | FA: Lego Compatable Purple Plates,3X1X3 w/studs, brackets, Znap
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Again some more of the pieces Lego should make in bulk. 100 Lego Compatable Purple 1X2 Plates (URL) Lego Compatable 3X1X3 Purple Slopes W\stud (URL) Lego Compatable 2X2\2X2 Purple Brackets (URL) Lego Compatable 2X12 Purple Plates (URL) Lego (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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(...) Man, no kidding! I had always passed this set by thinking that it had too many specialized pieces, but on your recommendation I went and picked up two at K-Mart tonight. Great elements and 'figs! Chris (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: LEGO Easter Egg Hunts
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(...) A few years ago the Easter Bunny broke up a DUPLO safari set and hid the pieces in eggs around the house for my older son. It would be great to do it with LEGO this year, what with some of the great poly bags and small sets EB has accumulated (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Obi Wan Kenobi Training Question
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I bow to your superior knowledge, either that or to the fact that you had a script handy, either way it is clearer to me now. Thanx Scott (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Holiday LEGO fun??
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The shareholder card for Coles Myer is right as I type, smuggly sitting in between this chair and err lets say me. If you guys bring along cash then I can walk to the counter and just buy everything for us (individually or collectively).Peter, (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Obi Wan Kenobi Training Question
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(...) That's *Luke* that's too old, not Obi-Wan. Go back and read Scott's message. Scott thought that Obi-Wan said that he wasn't much younger than Luke when he began his training, and was confused about why Anakin & Luke were considered "too old" (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ah, the wonders of the Internet. 8) I did a Yahoo search on "Empire Strikes Back"+script and turned up two sites with the complete shooting script... J (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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What you can do if you have Windows 98 is when you have the model in Pov ray hit the Print Screen button (top row, right side). Then open Paint, click on Edit, and then Paste, and boom there it is. Course you'll want to crop it a little bit and (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: The Next Ohio Brikwars Meeting
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(...) Positive. Family reunion to go to. (...) No Brik Wars for an entire month?! Noooooo!! We've cancelled out every weekend in May .... that leaves June. How is June 10th with everybody? Its almost two months away ... Adrian? Jeff? :( BTW, Jorge (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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(...) But how about a suggestion for that big brown piece at the front of the skiff? :) I don't want to be stuck with 5 of those. Bryan (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've always found extra parts in Megabloks sets. Heck, one of the Battleship sets I bought had an entire extra bag of parts (the one with the wheels, red trapezoids, antennae, etc.). I only hope some poor kid isn't missing the bag from his (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: NQC on Linux dilema...
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(...) The first thing I'd try would be to add a pair of printf() statements before and after the tcdrain() call in PSerial_unix::FlushWrite() (in file platform/PSerial_unix.cpp). Call be paranoid, but calls like this always make me nervous...they're (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Dear All Does anybody have a routine to measure the width of PWM pulses from an R/C receiver (ie the pulses which control the servos). TIA David Young (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | TRU BOGO 50% off price matching story
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When I was at TRU on Saturday I asked the manager if he knew the specials for the coming week. He said he did but then wouldn't come out and tell me whether LEGO would be on sale as I had heard. I told him I would like to know, since it was Target's (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rendered image to jpg?
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(...) There are better ways, especially if you want to preserve 24-bit color without a 24-bit color display. By default, POV outputs TGA files after rendering, but I don't know where. In povray.ini, there's a line that you can change to send the (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Some POV-Ray Questions!
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(...) You add a "plane" object to your POV file, or the easy way is to turn on the floor when using L3P. If you're using L3PAO, all you have to do is click the checkbox. If not, run "l3p -h" to get the list of command line parameters. Adding a floor (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | More previews from BCS
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Hi all! I have put up a few pictures that I thought you guys might enjoy seeing. The capital ship I have been working on isn't quite done, as the rear engines are still not attached yet, but I'd love to hear some feedback anyways. I am still (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Japanese cool mini-figu site updated
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Hi all !!: I would like to introduce my friend's extremely cool mini-figu site. It's about rearrangement of minifigure. From Japanese black NINJA to the famous American movie Matlix, you can see various rearrangement and a lot of fun. Check this (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.jp) !
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| | Re: 8062 for sale (definitely)
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To follow up: I did indeed pick up a few of these sets. I am offering them at $50 plus shipping. Let me know if you are interested. -Nick (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Pictures
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Well, I'm not sure what my brother-in-law did in regards to uploading the pics of BrikWars to BrickShelf, but something went wrong along the line. Yesterday he gave me copies of all the pics he took on floppy disks along with his password for (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: LEGO Easter Egg Hunts
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) use (...) This sounds more like Suzanne. Rose (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday)
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| | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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(...) Make ovens out of them. (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Best SW set for Castle purposes?
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(...) Like this: (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Ask LEGO! Updated
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The latest batch of questions has been answered, and can now be found onsite. Tim link to "From Bricks to Bothans" can be found on the main lugnet.starwars page. (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Wow! Those models are so cool! Those Akira models are amazing!! I also really like the Matrix scenes! And that Japanese Garden is beautiful! Tell Sandou to keep up the good work, and keep us posted!! Jeff (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Check your receipt for sale prices at TRU
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(...) As a pathetic employee of that toy store known anagramically as TRU, I'll have to say you've basically hit this on the head. Another solution is just to hand the items to the cashier one at at time to make sure you get the highest pair rung (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Inaugural Ohio BrikWars Pictures
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(...) Inaugural Ohio BrikWar battle report! (...) Oh shoot! You know what we forgot? The group photo at the end, where it shows the players together. :( Drew Lawrence (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Japanese cool mini-figu site updated
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(...) Interesting alternate designs for minifigure legs...I will have to experiment w/ some of these techniques. (...) It was very fun indeed...a great mix of ideas and concepts from video games, movies, anime, sci-fi...A fresh perspective on some (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Brickshelf 2nd anniversary
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(...) Break out the LEGO champagne!(to see the LEGO champange, go here (URL) It's time for a celebration! Alan (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Brickshelf 2nd anniversary
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(...) Congratulations! and (at least) three cheers for Kevin Loch! (And not just because he was the first[1] other AFOL I met after coming out of my dark ages...) (Cheer1) Kevin has certainly done quite a bit better than his original simple and (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.publish)
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