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Remember Ben, *gauge* refers to the distance between the rails, and is not to be confused with *scale*. I don't have any HO or N track lying around so I can't measure, but if someone did we could figure out what the "real world" radius of LEGO track (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks, Larry, I found it. Now that's a snowplow! Lego Train Minifigs on the *awesome* 4533 Snow Remover going down the track: "Gee, Bob, you would think this snowplow would have some kind of cover on it so it would protect you from the snow and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I built a little building, and while I haven't yet had a chance to take pictures of it, I did make an LDraw DAT file of it, and convert it into a POV ray file through L3P- so I took some screenshots and started the Lego section of my homepage. The (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build)
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Tim, You need to fix that bug in your poster SW that is not referencing quite correctly! :-) I keep having trouble finding your replies. Well, found it so here I am. To net it out, I agree with you, mostly, on this. (and I tend to think of you and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For logical reasons. To be fired, you have to be employed, or at least there has to be some sort of fixed arrangement that you can be dismissed from (you can be fired from a volunteer job, but you can't be "fired" from hanging around the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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See Will Chapman's model, you can find it from the PNLTC.org site. Scott Edward Sanburn wrote: <that snowblower sucks> AGREED. Needs a rebuild in the worst way. (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I want halves. There are a number of pieces that form the entireity of some shape that I wish came in halves. I won't try to exhaustively list them but here are a few examples. Fenders. There are two 2x4 pieces used in a lot of vehicles, one with (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) TLG sent the author a letter saying that they had the copyrights over the bricks/studs and if he didn't remove his pages he would be sued. The author got so disappointed that he left the net. Leonardo (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) are one of the hardest things to make, IMO). I did a fractal terrain thing on my jade outpost model. (URL) ended up with a set of 32x32 "terrain" baseplates at varying resolution. One trick is to only include the visible bricks, and group (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Greg Majewski wrote in message ... (...) [...] (...) Hehe, does this include RCX inputs and outputs? The list could get pretty large - Mmmmmm, miniature video camera with built-in vision-processing chip ;-) More seriously, though, I feel that it'd (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Update Auction Sets from the 70's, Edition 2
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* * * Sets from the 70's: Edition 2 * * * Advances have started (G1, G2, Sold / 24 hrs each) Set Name St Bid Bidder 133 Locomotive - 61 Johan Bosma 134 Mobile Crane and Waggon - 51 Johan Bosma 137 Passenger Sleeping Car - 56 Johan Bosma 367 Space (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Ok... I think this is getting off the beaten track some here... I don't think anyone minds Jonathan asking questions... what they do mind is the tone of his messages. Which he's been called one more than once.. I also don't think anyone would mind (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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On of my rare posts on rtl got me thinking and decided to post something here that would get the attention of the more serious Lego trainers. It's been hashed through many times before. If you were to build trains based on the scale of Lego track, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Funny, after almost a year away from the lego ray-tracing world, I had just gotten back into it and had downloaded the latest versions of tools I had tried in the past, including leocad. I just spent the last couple of hours playing with (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | FS/FT Some Space Stuff 6951, 6926
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I have some space stuff which I am currently sorting out. So far I have found 2 x 6951 and 1 x 6926. Is there any interest in these? Are they worth sorting? I noted that 4 train windows are used in the 6951's. There are many other small sets from (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) <snip...> (...) No parts packs page? Uh oh.... Kevin (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I didn't place all 10,000 parts separately, though. Thanks to Jacob's fractal landscape generator, I was able to convert a contour map and a color map of the Fallingwater landscape into a DAT file. To create the contour map, I first scanned (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDrawing sets is useful, I'm not disagreeing. But the thing is Jonathan has stockpiled bunches and bunches of these LDrawn sets and will just submit a flood of them without editing out his own 'parts' first. I'm more concerned with adhesion to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [...] Bryce, excellent post, thanks for sharing. I think when someone who recently joined the group sees a large problem here like the rest of us, its really time to do something about it. And I don't think any harm was done by your 'smart (...) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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I would like to see a rack gear segment that would mesh with the worm gear, slanted teeth with a concave contour. I would also vote for a plate with studs on both sides. Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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