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(...) I look at my spending as a pack and a half of cigarettes a day! Face it, if you're working, paying taxes, you deserve something for yourself. I don't believe we're all here to just scrape by. Like the Rush song - ROLL THE BONES! "Why are we (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Delta - another infantry support bot
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(...) In my opinion, the binary load lifter looks an awful lot like in AT-ST but with a little modification. Imagine adding a set of arms towards the upper rear portion of the scout walker's head. The hands of these arms would look kinda like giant (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mecha: Talon
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(...) Those are supposed to be the sensor domes that are linked to a sophisticated targeting system. (...) As I said to Eric, I was really trying to fuse two mecha styles in to one when I made this one. I was originally going for a more reptilian (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: New Mecha: Talon
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Nice. The Bley/Grey look works well on a mech. It gives it that metallic utilitarian look. This mech says it means business - and is design for close range destruction (with the large heavy weight arms - good for smashing), while having serious (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | December meeting of SandLUG
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Sorry for the late notice. It looks like the 17th of Dec works best for the SandLUG members I've talked to. We're meeting at the the SDMRM (URL) in Balboa park. And there'll be 3 members from SCLTC on hand. The museum opens at 11AM and closes at (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.sandlug, FTX)
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| | Re: New contest
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I take it you are thinking about using the CMUCam or some similar system with some level of intelligence on board the camera processor. After all -you are really not going to be able to shift the amount of data required to process on board the RCX, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Peladofigphobia
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(...) No, they're not brainless, they're (URL) hippies>. Although it's true that they have no noses (URL) from which to scoop the brains out>... What concerns me is the significance of the (URL) solid-stud> heads. Are these older figs all (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mecha: Talon
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(...) -snip- (...) I wanted to mention. I need another 10 Technic Turntables for my current robotics project. Aside from that, I'm not sure I'll be making any 3 foot Mecha for a while at least. For now, it is still a challange to build on a medium (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Mech Bay 09 - The Cub Den
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(...) Mitsubishi made one in 1945 I'm told. ;) (...) I think there are some cool building techniques on the middle levels of the Mech Bay. I'll snap some pics of that. I also owe people some shots of the Cub's ankles. Now I'm taking a break from (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New contest
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(...) Hmmm, here is a similar idea by a group called "Evolution Robotics". The system (called NorthStar) is designed that a robot with a simple reciver can identify a room (and its position within the room) by reading the number of IR dots being (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Mecha: Talon
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(...) Thanks, Marco I'm glad you liked the ladder system. I had seen something akin to it done on one of Brian cooper's mecha, and thought it would be a nice detail. I'm steadily putting more detail into my work. Talon isn't a very large mecha, only (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Natali Lego
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(...) più affezionato a tutti ma in particolare Natale 1980: Technic Auto Chassis 8860. Ho ancora la scatola ;-) (URL) LEg GOdt Domenico (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: SF LEGO at Philcon 2005: call for participants
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(...) -snip- Good luck this weekend Phil! I am unable to attend. Please let us know how things went. Highlights, thoughts and how the Lego events go. Thank you! Eric Sophie (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.us.delvalug, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Vintage LEGO sets being sold on eBay by LEGO
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(...) Hehe, good term to call 'cleaning the old mess from Enfield warehouses' as 'opening the LEGO vaults' :-))) It was mentioned in Lego Life, that they found 300 sets from seventies in Enfield. -- Jindroush www.kostky.org - For Czech Lego fans (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Albatross Heavy Lifter Aircraft
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Interesting build! I visited your website and WOW I really like it! e (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Natali Lego
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Il Natale si avvicina... ed io dopo taaaanti anni ho deciso di regalarmi un set "importante", ovvero il treno 4511 (più binari aggiuntivi e qualche vagone). Ora siccome se siamo qui vuol dire che da piccoli eravamo appassionati di Lego, mi chiedo: (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: How much weight can a LEGO chassis carry around?
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(...) I don't see how that solves any problems. (...) How? The trailer still has to have a bunch of axles in order to spread the weight - and when you do that, the trailer is (in effect) skid-steering. (...) That's the cool thing about using a (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Novità da Cafepress
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(...) che bel complimento! Veramente mi sento lusingato in qualità di autore del logo. No, il logo è stato realizzato con MLCad e renderizzato con Pov-Ray con l'opzione che ci fosse il logo su ogni stud. Ciao (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Kuranda Scenic Railway
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(...) Cheers Eric, the brown lines is a reflection as far as I know but it looks like rust so I quite dig it. The metal on the train tracks always does strange things so I never know what it will look like until the render happens. Tim (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Kuranda Scenic Railway
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Wow, coolness, I love seeing these renders. Good build.Question: That brown line on the rail, is that a reflection of the ground? I'm not familiar with using CAD. Thanks for sharring. Build on! e (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains)
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