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Since it's very unlikely that the tank would be done for the Indiana Jones sets, I tried to do my version of it based from pics that I found in the book From Star Wars To Indiana Jones. Now it's on display in the LEGO store at Bridgewater Mall in (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | University meets NXT
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Just enjoy this site: (URL) (in German) They developed a project "NXT meets Matlab" at (URL) (in English) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hiawatha steam locomotive
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(...) We'll I finally was able to snap a few photos of the front truck fix for my Hiawatha at (URL) last week's show>. Before the fix the engine ran fine at home but would always derail at shows. After some diagnostics, it became clear that with the (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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(...) It is useful, thanks Dave John P (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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(...) John: That might work if you were using precolored pellets...but honestly...if you were using precolor, you wouldn't see the variation. :-) With both concentrates and liquid color, there can easily be shot-to-shot variation if (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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(...) Excellent lesson. This kind of material would have been welcome in this group a couple of years ago. Better late than never. Thanks for the info. Doug (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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(...) Thanks, it is starting to clear things up for me. Would a solution be to make the bricks from one batch, or at least put bricks into the box from the same mixture? I am somewhat familiar with dye lot variations as I worked in the needlecraft (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Roof question
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(...) And my apologies for responding to myself but... aren't you somewhat of an expert of multi-layered, multi-hinged shapes? You could probably do something really neat by hiding a multi-angled shell under plates stuck on studs up (or even with (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Roof question
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(...) Angling some wing plates is the only solution I'm aware of and it's not that great IMO. Basically it's a nasty problem. You may be able to try something tricky with 1x1 slopes too. Tim (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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(...) John: Not quite. Flextronics is a molder, while the suppliers they would buy precolored pellets from are compounders. The difference is all in the method and intensity of mixing. When a compounder colors a resin like ABS, they do start with a (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-08, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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