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| (...) the cantilever covered petrol pumps (although an incomplete containental version is also shown), the round top Esso sign, the round top street lights, and the road signs (2). Curious to me is the appearance of hollow bottom trees in this set. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) (snip) Hello, Samarth, and welcome to trains-- glad you decided to delurk:-) I'm also gratified to see another 8 wide convert; (BTW thanks for the kind words) inspiring young minds with LEGO trains is a major reason why I build and share. You (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) I liked the sunroof solution. (...) :-( But you rendered it in ldraw, no? (...) Actually, I agree with you. Though the track gauge is about right for 1 stud = 1 foot, that would actually make for a 10 wide scale, since most modern locos are (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Ahh, one learns something new every day! I was wondering if there was some way to defeat that! Now I can go back to snipping like this: <snip> in formatted text mode (it's the simple things in life...:-) Thanks for enlightening me, Bram:-) (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Work 'em a few cycles and see if that helps. Otherwise it might be the rubber seals that are stiffening from age. Sucking some sort of lubrication into the piston is quite feasable. Also to lube the shaft. Opening them w/o destruction is not (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hi, I have a baseplate that I can't find on Lugnet or Peeron. It's 50x50, less than plate thickness (whatever the term for that is), green, and has smooth grey roads 14 studs wide. The roads enter on three of the sides, curve a bit, and meet close (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Cool ASCII art there. The roadplate is a Samsonite plate from the 1970's. Fairly rare to find today. It's listed as set 078 on Lugnet: (URL) a few pictures on Brickshelf: (URL) one I've seen had very unusual rounded top studs, instead of the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Is there anywhere I could get the rules for that. I saw another Lego based battle-mech game, but it was far too simplistic, and the system was entirely random. It would be interesting to see a more mature battle system Danny (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| I have a really interesting question about those two parts in black: (URL) > and (URL) > Peeron and BrickLink say that the thin version comes from many sets like 6971-1 - Intergalactic Command Base (1984) 6891-1 - Gamma-V Laser Craft (1985) 6985-1 - (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Luca, There is more information to consider than just the dates included on Peeron. First, the dates on Peeron are the introduction dates of the sets. Many of the Classsic Space sets were released for years. So you can find variations in the (...) (19 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Thank you Clark for your very good explanation! You are very helpful! I can't say if my CS sets were bought during the 1987, later or earlier! And if I bought them later, it was anyway possible that those sets were produced during the earlier (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks, that's a picture I have not seen before. It is a different version with a shorter bridge and only 2 platforms. But the platforms are longer and there's a roof above the platform. Can you get a higher quality picture of it? Niels (19 years ago, 8-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Brett, You are thinking of the castle in the first edition of the Brick Kicks Magazine. It had an article about Karsten Kristensen and Francie Berger who were master model builders in the 80's (I believe Karsten still is a Master Builder) (...) (19 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) You are welcome. I try to keep a heads up on as many LEGO castle products as possible for my online lego fan role [1]. Plus it is a superb castle! If I only had 30 Black Falcon's Fortresses I would give it a go. Additional larger pictures (...) (19 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| Ha, just say over 50, though I didn't get into lego until my kids did. Now that they are loosing interest, it is all mine (maniacal laughter). They have orders that there are to be NO grandchildren, as I won't share!!!! Don't do much building other (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Direi che non ci sono grossi problemi. Devi solo aggiungere una parte che porti i binari ad interfacciarsi con il modulo standard (largo 6 baseplates). Per le strade non saprei cosa sarebbe meglio, ma qualche idea potrebbe nascere col tempo. (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| (...) Stai suggerendo di fare un modulo di collegamento con una "S" per interfacciare il mio? Sarebbe comunque tutto vuoto nella parte centrale per mancanza di tempo e poi non so se i treni larghi 8 sono così contenti di fare la "S". La mia idea era (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| (...) Awesome! (...) The underlying assumption that any 'undefined' color code between 256 and 511 should be rendered as a dithered color is still valid. Dithering is a 'default' behavior, and should be used if no other definition exists for a (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad)
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