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Has anyone created any LDraw files for large models or scenes? Something where a story could be animated? In a future/space settings? Something like Riot13: (URL) would be so nice if someone made something like that. :) (hint hint) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MINI Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactica
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(...) It's definitely a trickier one, that's for sure. But I think you nailed the essential idea of the Cylon Raider. As with the Viper, I had enough pieces (mostly) to construct four copies, so I've got a little armada going on: (URL) (Click for (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Sears Tower: Supersize Me
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After building a (URL) microscale Sears Tower>, I decided to do a larger compressed version for use in our train layouts. The resulting (URL) model> debuted at MichLUG's GATS 2005 display in March. However, I still wasn't satisfied with the size and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MINI Cylon Raider from Battlestar Galactica
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(...) (URL) The overall saucer shape is good (with the down-canted wings), and the 2x2 Racers slope really nailed the canopy's shape (the original is louvered, and painted black); but the engines aren't quite right, IIRC. They are black, but the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Alien delegation
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(...) I like these -- they're whimsical. Mr.Rignault has made good use of the Lever Base, 1x1 Plate With Tooth, etc. to depict bulbous eyes, noses, beaks, protruding tongues, moustaches, feelers and eyebrows. The naturalistic browns and sand-colors (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Vikings in North America... Please?
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(...) Don't know about the USA, but we have the Viking sets in Canada... SRC LUGNet #765 StRuCtures™ Bricksmith™ (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | I want LEGOLD
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(...) There's basically only three things I buy - with my discretionary income - DVDs, LEGO, and Gold(&Silver), so these gold LEGO bricks are a hit with me. I would however like to request/suggest that TLC partner with the Royal Canadian (or a (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Eric, your fanatstic work always gets my attention. I like to build big, and I've got a lot of parts, but that globe is a challenge I'm not ready to tackle... yet. ;-) Tim (Smith) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Question about image generation
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(...) LDLite or LDGLite, possibly with a special ldraw.ini color file that gives black edge lines (although the default for trans white might be black already), or maybe MegaPOV are all ways I can think to do it. Ask Dan Boger. (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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There's no way I could have ever built my latest creation without the earlier work of the following two LEGO guys: - Bruce Lowell, creator of the first "Lowell Sphere" - Bram Lambrecht, author of the web-app that allows creation of any size Lowell (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture) !!
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| | Spite Your Face Productions on the cover of Digital Creative Arts
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I was browsing the local magazine rack and stumbled across issue 21 of Digital Creative Arts. On the cover is LEGO Minifigs and lloking closely I found that Spite Your Face Productions has an article inside titled "Make Your Movie: (And Your Name)." (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Bricksmith for Macintosh 1.2: Faster, Nicer
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The Bricksmith fairy has come again, with a shiny new upgrade to put that special sparkle in your Macintosh LDraw experience. (2 URLs) Bricksmith 1.2> adds the following features: Speed increases of up to 33% Search in the Part Browser Hide/show (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | 7015 Build
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I have just completed building 7015, the littlest Vikings set. Its great! Took about 10 mins. The resulting beast is one of the nicest fully articulated/posable lttle models I've seen recently. Nice parts selection too for such a little set. And if (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question about image generation
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(...) The black lines are normal edge lines (type 2 or 5). As has been mentioned, that was drawn by LDGlite which seems to use silly thick black lines to represent them. Different renderers use different settings (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Informazioni Legofest di Crema
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(...) ... e io ti patcho il compilatore C in modo che non richieda i punti e virgola :-P :-P :-P CiaoCiaoSergio (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Question about image generation
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(...) Nope, that's right: ldglite -a1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1 -ld -Q -v3000,3000 -W$scale -S$scale -i2 -MSfilename.png somedat.dat (I think, it's Steve's code) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Hobby Show pics - 2005
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I'm neither the greatest photographer nor the greatest writer of captions, so keep that in mind as you view these: (URL) in advance for any embarassment or insults I may have caused with the captions. It's all in good fun though, so please don't (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ham)
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| | Re: One New Train in Two Liveries-- Your opinion
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(...) James, That is a great model, but I am not your target audience. I love the set, I just can't see spending that much on a train. I say this knowing that I have probably spent almost that much on the trains that I have built myself, but it (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: One New Train in Two Liveries-- Your opinion
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--SNIP-- (...) To be honest I toyed with that idea myself for The Ghan and was swayed more by laziness than generosity. I think that both are worthwhile. In some ways I think releasing custom kits and instructions is actually more beneficial to the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Photo of Train MOCs in local newspaper
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Following the recent Birkenhead (UK) model railway show, at which we exhibited our small layout (12'x6'), the exhibition manager sent me the photo that appeared in the local free newspaper, the Wirral Globe: (URL) layout is top right and the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk)
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