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(...) It makes a royal mess, but it is workable...I am not going to try with the new hull, as it is rather wider than my canals are. (yes, I have made more than the aveage amount of work into floating water...no, I have not finished or filled it (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: 7994 City Harbor Question - water
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(...) It makes a royal mess, but it is workable...I am not going to try with the new hull, as it is rather wider than my canals are. (yes, I have made more than the aveage amount of work into floating water...no, I have not finished or filled it (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: More OT: Bacon
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Antonishen wrote: "Bacon is how vegetarians change their minds." They have minds to change? Who knew! :-) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I'm a sucker for plain, well-textured freight wagons and this one is a great example. With custom bogies I think it would be perfect. Tim (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I didn't notice the motor so much as the fact that the boat floats. The image on the box and the promotional TV spots feature the boat in real water. I wonder if anyone has attempted to incorporate real water in any of their layouts. Is it (...) (17 years ago, 21-Dec-07, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) These off color bricks are from the mid to late 70s and maybe into the very early 80s. The are neither kind of plastic that the Samsonite and early sets were made from, a totally different soft plastic and they grip the same as the newer (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Well the lack of "grip" is a strong hint for CA anyway. Even if the bricks are not warped, there is some extent of shrinkage which causes the lack of grip - I think I heard from different sources that CA bricks never had too much grip to begin (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Legofest di Ballabio 2008: aperte le iscrizioni
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Da oggi sono ufficialmente aperte le iscrizioni al Legofest di Ballabio. Il sito è già in linea da diverso tempo ma subirà diversi aggiornamenti e modifiche nelle prossime settimane. (URL) persone mi hanno già fatto avere le iscrizioni tempo fa e (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Our off-color red bricks are from the 60s, and the plastic they are made from seems to be at least as hard as ABS, so they aren't made from this third, softer plastic. They are most likely CA, but the fact that none of them are warped is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Thanks Jonathan - I'm happy to get some feedback on it since I really was a bit unsure lately whether this behemoth was worth all the time and effort. But maybe I will finally get it finished (with all the fine-tuning that is) to show it on a (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi John, actually I remember having seen (and admired) your bridge - what kept me from simply being the old copycat was for one the sheer lack of appropriate bricks and on the other hand the fact that bridges like these are not exactly (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | More OT: Bacon
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Just wanted to point out that bacon IS considered a "gateway" food.... one of the items that finally temps vegetarians over to the omnivore side.... from (URL) Kelso was a 12-year veteran of vegetarianism when she went AWOL. She blames pork. "Bacon (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My attempt at a railway bridge
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(...) technic bridge! I also know of the woes of building an awesome bridge, and then not even being able to use it on one's layout:-( But it is fantastic that the kids are coming into the age of being able to participate in your LEGO hobby! It is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) MindScript is a programming language created by LEGO for use with the earlier generations of programmable bricks such as the RCX, and Spybot. It cannot be used with the NXT. The NXT does not have any text-based programming languages that are (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Q: How to handle commissions?
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(...) Charging for the parts is a pretty straight-forward thing. Charging for the time invested is pretty straight-forward as well. Like you said, it's the intangibles that are the hard part. What I have found is that the price of a LEGO work is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Grunts - Episode 3.
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(...) (URL) read it daily :) Dave K (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Q: How to handle commissions?
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I've got to admit being slightly lost & stunned on this one, and would appreciate any advice from people who have done this before. Recently I've had someone ask to commission a copy of one of my models, and i'm trying to figure out how the heck (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nice. It is nice and beefy - but not too beefy. I find a lot of technic built bridges to be a bit to big and clunky for my taste but this has a nice feel and size to it IMO. I wish TLG made sand blue/sand green/teal technic bricks. That would (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFE$T di Crema
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(...) Da buon ultimo, come abitudine (ahime!), mi aggiungo anche io. Grazie per i ringraziamenti, ma devono andare a chi ha partecipato. (...) Devo dire che e' stato impressionante (nonche' faticoso ed emozionante) avere la sala quasi piena di (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LEGOFEST ROMA
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(...) Anche fare il Legofest nei locali del museo? Sarebbe perfetto, non trovate? Giuliano (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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