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| (...) <snipped highlights> Bravo! Excellent! Kudos! Well done! And it sounds like you even had fun at the same time... <grin> Get used to having people 2 to 3 deep around your entire layout, because that's the way it will be at almost every show! (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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gmltc
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| (...) The "Club" hasn't really discussed anything regarding tables or club assets so we don't know at this time if anyone else wishes to have tables made. You've made your personal preferences on the tables quite clear and if/when the time comes to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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gmltc
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gmltc
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| (...) Wow, now that will look truly great. Don't get me wrong, the GMLTC layouts always looked great, but everything was well red. I kinda looked like New Jersey at crop planting time. The green base-plates at the NELUG's layout (it was NELUG I am (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
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gmltc
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| (...) Heh, there's a little more to the story (maybe it was mentioned earlier, I don't know). One of the GMLTC members created a minifig of "himself" using a brown head brick, and stuck it on the GMLTC layout at the Kidvention. It didn't last very (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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gmltc
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| Over the past few weeks I've been trying to expand my collection of ground vehicles. The results can be seen here after moderation: (URL) in my Teaser folder after moderation here: (URL) new MOCs are the venerable M113 APC, the much feared ZSU-23-4 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) lol We at the GMLTC have run trains for 5+ hour stretches and the motors run like champs. Sometimes on longer trains they poop out and we give them a rest. That's all they seem to need. The motors are well designed to run for long periods and (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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gmltc
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| (...) Hey Kim- Glad to help out someone off the plywood;-) John Gerlach posted on his Brickbay page the pattern we at the GMLTC have perfected. Check it out here: (URL) careful up there at 5 bricks high-- you might need oxygen;-D -John (J-2) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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gmltc
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| Hi, I was looking at your site (URL) I was wondering what was up with all the thumbnails? They all have something written across them. Chris (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| I'm working on a module for the PNLTC display at GATS next year (in Feb) and I'm interested in building up a bit of a Lego landscape similar to the GMLTC modules. Now don't go thinking I've totaly abandoned plywood. I'm still a dyed-in-the-wool (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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gmltc
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| I haven't touched the page I made up in a while, but here it is: (URL) Poindexter PS: Target is carrying the 3033 blue tub here. Perhaps we will see cheap prices in January. Of course, they will never have the volume to make some seriously large (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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gmltc
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| (...) Pretty much it. The green bricks are your outside wall, and you tie into the wall every 5-6 bricks high. That is why you need the rim of 1x4s, to avoid "disturbing" the alternating binding appearance from the outside. It's a very clean and (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page. (URL) lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to see several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than these, but my memory fails me now. I had to take (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Green, tan, brown, dark gray, 220, 221....whatever it takes;-) In our group, expense is not an issue-- it was always about availability with reason. Now that the earth tones are appearing in bulk, you can rest assured that there will be no (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| Actually we had the green farm module before they were really selling green bricks in quantity. Before they were selling the green 2x4s in sets, about 100-150 of them followed me home from the model shop. (They let me keep all of my creations that (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| I believe from my memory that I can build four 30"x45" modules with about 200 of the blue tubs. It would build 3 normal modules and one 2x4/2x6 hybrid module. The hybrid would use 2x4 for the walls and 2x2 for the towers, but use 2x6 for the lattice (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Nope, it's all you need (for pictoral reference, anyway). From left to right: 2x2 bricks, in towers. Height on these will vary depending on how high/stable you want your structure. IIRC, GMLTC uses 5 high towers, Mike P. uses 6 high. Both (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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