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| (...) Nothing that complicated - we used our regular tables (40"x60"), Conan threw together some simple plywood boxes to get up to track height on each end of the layout. (16+ bricks on the low end, 24+ bricks on the high end.) We put a simple loop (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: GMLTC layout 'show' pictures
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| (...) Looks great. A couple of the buildings are just incredible. The brickmania building with the almost curved roof! The grey and sand red building next to it, the beautiful and expansive train station. Wow! I wish I could see all this in person. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My point.
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| (...) Heck, I wasn't especially impressed by the little teaser...but then again, it's getting harder and harder to impress me with all the great stuff that people have built to compare to. It was the rude and un-called-for way in which you stated (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | why the bad attitude?
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| (...) Words from someone who has been eating too much humble pie? (cough) (...) I must be missing something -- all I saw that Jude said in his announcement was, "I left you a little teaser for now." I don't see how that is tantamount to making (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: No promises when I'll be done, but...
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| (...) buzz (...) simple (...) Frankly, I didn't intend the post for you. It was for my friends here on LUGNET, you know some of the ones who replied to you as well as others. I have been active in the community for a little while now and only have a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: No promises when I'll be done, but...
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| (...) <snip> Ouch!!! That is far from what the page is gonna look like. I just wanted to get a buzz going. I did not want to invest much time in the layout of a page with a simple preview picture (the little teaser). BTW, are you afraid of yellow or (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Trees: how to build them?
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| (...) GMLTC has access to something like 2 million + bricks... they use *everything* for filler. (and it kills me, too.) :) thanks, James (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: what makes a legend?
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| (...) Oh my, such a simple question, but with so many complicated ways to answer! This is like asking 'what makes a good wine', or 'what makes a good movie'... Good pieces, sure - but not everyone buys a set just for the pieces. Some people buys (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Trees: how to build them?
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| (...) Here are a couple that I built for the new GMLTC layout: (URL) two sizes of "multi-node leaf things" (good term, Amy!) are just stacked on a piece of Technic flex tubing, and the tubing is stuck into the center of a brown 2x2 round brick. An (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| | Re: Trees: how to build them?
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| (...) That is the 'grid' layer of the 'grid and tower' system we use to build up from baseplate height to just below ground level. Check out my crude drawing here: (URL) left to right: 2x2 brick towers (between 5 and 7 bricks tall), 2x4 brick grid, (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Sneak Peek
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| I've meant to post pictures of Plasticity II and thought I'd at least post a teaser picture for now. You can see the framework of the new city in my new LEGO room: (URL) make sure to click on the thumbnail to enlarge, as the small version is very (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | More 'under construction' GMLTC pictures
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| Yesterday I promised more pictures of the GMLTC layout, here they are. Two buildings, a sand-red and white one by me, and a yellow one by Conan: (URL) need to put some sort of "Hotel" sign on the marquee...) A few of the hotel rooms are detailed and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | any AFOLs in the Minot area?
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| The GMLTC is looking for a few good AFOLs to help us out next week at Hostfest. We were planning on being there with 8 GMLTC members, but due to various problems we might be down to only 4. We'd love to find a few people willing to help us out with (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.us.nd)
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| | Re: Dual Memberships (was "Spyshot!")
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| (...) The original question was whether he (J-2) being a member of the GMLTC *and* the TCLTC was causing problems. The GMLTC is unique in that almost everything is built from bricks that belong to two people - Conan and his uncle Chuck. We meet at (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Spyshot! TCLTC layout pic
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| (...) Speaking as an "active" GMLTC member, I think it *is* causing some friction. Of course since J-2 has only attended a couple of GMLTC building sessions in the last several months, perhaps we should consider him an "in name only" member... He (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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