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This year, for NALUG's annual train show, I've ended up building a weird custom train car to carry a Space Shuttle solid rocket booster (SRB), along with a factory to build the SRB's. Not exactly realistic, I know. :-) See: (URL) Gray (NALUG) (13 years ago, 11-Jun-11, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?
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(...) It sounds much, much better than I would have expected. :-) Play well, Jacob (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: LEGO Kof mit Schleim!
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(...) Cool! Play well, Jacob (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc)
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| | TRU sale June 10-16
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Flyers good from Friday June 10th through Thursday June 16th. TRU: "Join us on Saturday June 18th from noon-2 pm and build a LEGO race car with your Dad! While they last. Max. 100 per store." All LEGO atlantis, Technic and Basic construction items (...) (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Star Wars Helmet Rebel
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(...) Yep... and it is not even available in LDD (AFAIK - Maybe I missed it??? That would be the easiest solution) For the record: design number of this shape is 30370. (...) Quite explainable, this part is really complex to build. And 3D scanner (...) (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Kamino Cloning Facility
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(...) Nice work! Play well, Jacob (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Kamino Cloning Facility
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(2 URLs) As usual, click the pics for more details! AC (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Google, Apple, Disney, BMW and LEGO are the World's Most Reputable Companies
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(...) LOL Sony top 10 I guess this survey wasn't done in the last couple of months. ROSCO (13 years ago, 9-Jun-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Star Wars Helmet Rebel
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Hi everybody, I'm sure this has already been asked a million times before, but the Star Wars Rebel Helmet Rebel (x164 serie on Peeron) haven't been modeled anywhere yet. I did give it a try but as I'm only starting authoring parts since a couple of (...) (13 years ago, 8-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Mercedes-Benz and LEGO Partner to Celebrate Unimog U 400
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Mercedes-Benz and LEGO® Partner to Celebrate Unimog THE FIRST DO-IT-YOURSELF UNIMOG U400 WILL BE ON OFFER FROM LEGO BEGINNING IN AUGUST 2011 Anyone who always dreamed of owning his own Unimog now has the chance to put one in his garage: The first (...) (13 years ago, 8-Jun-11, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Google, Apple, Disney, BMW and LEGO are the World's Most Reputable Companies
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Google, Apple, Disney, BMW and LEGO are the World's Most Reputable Companies According to Consumers Across 15 Countries NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) share the top spot in a study of the world's most reputable (...) (13 years ago, 8-Jun-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | LIT Attendee
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If the OBB member that just attended the LEGO Inside Tour (LIT) would please contact me by email it would be very much appreciated. Thank you! (13 years ago, 8-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC) [DAT]
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(...) Hi Reuben! Thank you for hosting my program on your web space, for promoting my program to other part authors and Thanks to J.C. Tchang for writing this great manual! I am still working on the LPC. Here is my TODO-List: - To write a (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) It's "mustard" ya returd.... (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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(...) J.C. Tchang has kindly put a manual together for the LDraw-Pattern-Creator. At the moment this is only available in French. I have added some links to the manual on the following page: (URL) can browse the manual online or you can download a (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) speaking of musturd.... (Excuse me, but) do you have any grey poupon? enfrancais... (pardonnez-mois, mais) avez-vous des poupon gris? Ben (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) Google translate just isn't up to translating "Hey Mister!!!" Here's what I got Excuse-moi, monsieur, votre robot pue .........manque de qualité .........n'est pas bon .........ne peut pas couper la moutarde or maybe .........aspire or maybe (...) (13 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) I'll take that bet! I'll be OLD school Canadiens vs Leafs. And by old school, I'm talking Pre-1968. As for your last comment, All the French I learned was when I was in St. Nazair France, so Its "ship builder French" Lets see if I can do this: (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) LMAO, hey misters, I have had a bit of a look at what QueLUG builds, and there are a few very talented robot guys in that group... so if I were you both, I would watch my smack, or they might put all of rtlToronto to shame. Just saying! Janey (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Friday, come out to watch dave cry - was: Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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Come one, come all to the Annual rtlToronto June Dinner. That's right folks, step right up for this Lego Fan Dinner that we have once a year. Only in June do we have the June Dinner. This year we will be having chicken at Swiss Chalet, and maybe (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's not-a-bot
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(...) Chris throws some random words into a LUGNET post in order to appear to do this smack talk thing.... Really Chris? Smack talk?? Faking an e-mail from me?? Really?? You reached that far to try smack talk?? Really??? And this tug o' war thing?? (...) (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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Looks impressive. I'll give it a try with a patterned part I want. Jaco (13 years ago, 6-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) Could be an effect of the 'ambient' value for the transparent colors. If you look at the pov file I sent you, you can see that I have used the following for color47: #declare Color47 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { (...) (13 years ago, 5-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) Thanks for the tips... I used LDView to conver, and got a render that's much closer to the original. However I've got one niggling difference that's bugging me. The transparent colors seem "lighter" somehow, meaning that the interiors of (...) (13 years ago, 5-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | June 18th, 2011 SMART Meeting in Woodinville library
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Due to the amount of interest expressed at the last meeting, we'll be having a SMART meeting this month: on June 18th, at the Woodinville Library from 2 to 5pm. They only have a single meeting room, to the left in the lobby. The purpose of the (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Dave's not-a-bot
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Dave Koudys, sent me a private e-mail. He said He could not post to Lugnet. (just like I get from Steve, and Jeff) So, On behalf of Dave Koudys: ---...---snip------- "Chris, I can not post to Lugnet, can you send this to all my friends at (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: new gear? - Column Gear
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(...) Philo you were right! The new Column Gear meshes perfectly with the newly named Gear Rack with Two Studs. (GRWTS)(1) These are deep links to the new MOCup (3 URLs) The nice feature about the newly named Gear Rack with Two Studs (GRWTS) is that (...) (13 years ago, 4-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: new gear? - Column Gear
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(...) Note that the studs are not fluted like the rest of the round brick, and even though they are not fully round on the outer surfaces, they _do_ stick out past the fluting below them. This means that, while you may be right that this could be (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) --snip-- (...) To take a stab at it: * The light is very high. You'll have to tweak its angle. * If you use an area_light you'll probably get the soft shadow edges * Reflection is turned off or very low * The ground has a fairly high ambience, (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: May
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(...) Thanks, Janey:-) JOHN (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Kof mit Schleim!
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(...) Gahh! Well, they have been moderated now. Enjoy. JOHN (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) Received and replied with a zip of the .pov file and accompanying images. The settings for the brighter render is probably in the out-commented light settings in the .pov file (and without radiosity) - I don't know for sure, I fiddled so much (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LEGO Kof mit Schleim!
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(...) Deeplinks, Brother John, Deeplinks! (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) Hi Anders! I sent a note requesting it to the address shown in your post, is it still correct? Mine is, so you can use that one to send it. I really like the way that image looks (as well as the next one in the Brickshelf gallery) so would be (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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Hi everyone, I recently made contact with Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89], and he kindly sent me a copy of the source code for his LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC) program. I've compiled a copy of the code and put some links on my website where you can (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO Kof mit Schleim!
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(URL) After reading about this locomotive in an article written by Tim David in (URL) RAILBRICKS 8> and seeing (URL) version> built by Gavyn Rogers, I decided to give it a go. After all, it is the only true LEGO locomotive. (URL) I used pics that I (...) (13 years ago, 3-Jun-11, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX) !
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| | Re: May
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(...) Wow, sounds like you have been busy, looking forward to the pics. The trolley is awesome, love the use of the fences and the shaping you did around the front, and the lower part of the sides. Cheers, Janey "Red Brick" (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer 2010-03 beta
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(...) works"... I was rendering in POV in no time flat (as soon as I brought the specific .pov and .inc files I needed over) Thanks. (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) If I understand it correctly, 'ambient' is what you see if all lights are off. I usually turn this down very low (zero). 'Diffuse' is reflected light from other surfaces, you'd want quite a lot of that. (...) Yes, I think the default (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: How would you do it?
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(...) Actually, the sum of *all* your lights should not be too much over <1,1,1> as some parts of the image may be saturated. I usually use 0.5-0.7 for the *brightest* light, and 0.1-0.3 for filler lights. Remember it's easy to modify light (...) (13 years ago, 2-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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