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Hi Ross and many thanks for your support ! I also thought about using specific Technic "swashplate", but I concluded as you did : collective control could'nt be achieved because of friction. So keeping the large technic turntable was the best way... (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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A couple members of our club, the SCLTC, are investigating DCC. One member, Ted has picked up a Super Chief system from Digitrax. An I've just purchased a Zephyr system. I also picked up a DH163, and a DN123 decocoders. My gear should arrive today. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Brian, That's a great mountain & layout. I can see kids' eyes popping and jaws dropping. It looks like you used some scale compression on the mountain slopes to make it appear taller - is that right? Try taking some pics from a kid's approximate eye (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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(...) Would you guys want a code repository for this? I have a SVN repo set up that I could easily add this as a project... Just LMK! (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hej Anmäler mig till SWELUG7 Kommer med tåg till Örebro 15.55 enligt tidtabellen. Johan Vettefors (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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Some design ideas for a carriage roof, trying to get those shallow curves without using slopes or stacked plates: (URL) view of the components: (URL) you 8-widers, just add 2-stud wide bricks down the middle. As with wagons, I think steam-age (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Model Railroader Magazine
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(...) <snipped> (...) I have to agree. I've been too cheap to subscribe, but I'v been buying back issues for $.50 to a buck each at the local train shop. Also try train swap meets. Mat (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...e.DOT.com> wrote in message news:IBCp8t.3Co@lugnet.com... (...) Hmm, I'm calling BS here. There is a river in Colorado with so much of a certain kind of mineral content in it that the water is indeed blue. (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) It's big, it's cool, and there's lots to like. The roadway and parking lot, for example are really neat. Always glad to see people building mountains. Spotlighted! I have a couple of bones to pick though... Water isn't blue. I think it's much (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) I'm sure my wife can empathise with that! Our dining table is covered with Lego. I was building 48x48 modules on the table but fitting them together takes up the whole table! It is better to have a large flat surface for building on the big (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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| | Sacramento Brick Builders in the Sacramento Bee
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Hi all, A nice article on the Sacramento Brick Builders appeared in today's (Thursday, Feb. 3) Sacramento Bee. The Bee is the major daily newspaper for Sacramento, CA's state capital. Link to online version: (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.nv.ren, lugnet.org.us.sacbb, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Hey, why would the grumpy Ogel make them wear those silly hats anyway? I've never seen him laugh.... Thanks for sharing, Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.fun, FTX)
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Thanks for the laugh, René. Peace and humour, Professor Whateverly (URL) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.fun, FTX)
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| | Model Railroader Magazine
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Hi All, I am so excited about Model Railroader Magazine that I had to post this!(1) I know it sound a bit corny but the amount of high quality color photos of both trains and scenes has really increased in the last year. I find myself constantly (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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(...) I agree awesome work, highlighted for sure. My biggest problem with large scluptured modules is not where to store them but having the room to build them. My LEGO room isn't big enough for me to keep a few modules setup over a long period of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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| | Re: A lil' Mountain with10 Tunnel Portals
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Hi Brian, Awesome, awesome! Great job on this, the use of bridges and retaining walls, etc... I love how we (L-gaugers) are getting more and more sophisticated about our layouts. Of course we all know that GMLTC has been sculpting layouts for ever (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing: SWELUG 7
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(...) Okej, här kommer detaljerna: Alla är välkomna till Alhagsvägen 3 i Karlskoga för SWELUG-möte nummer 7 med start fredag kväll 4/3 från cirka 18. Pris: kostnader för mat delas solidariskt, den som vill donera priser till RobotWars och (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) I really like the multiple levels. I think train displays have continuously become larger and larger on two dimensions, but adding height (apart from really tall buildings) is something that we should all aim for. Having built mountains and (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.indylug)
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| | Re: Layout Started
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Some simple model railraoding techniques might offer some depth. Perhaps a blue gradient staring at about 12" above the table top, to about 36" above the table (depending how high the tallest buildings are). Since its already light blue, get some (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3 - Balls
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I just mailed out a bunch of balls to people that requested them. If I didn't send you an e-mail stating that I sent you balls, then I lost your request. Sorry. Please ask again. Steve (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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