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| | Re: LEGO Star Wars Anniversary Set - Help Decide
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| (...) Jude- I agree absolutely! Make C3PIO with gold film bricks (there's GOT to be a solution) and put some electronics in R2 so that his head turns, lights, and he converses with C3PIO in their classic Laurel and Hardy banter with C3PIO talking (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| (...) How much clearance should I have track to (...) At work they like to quote the statement "Standards are great. That's why we have so many of them." Standard height is whatever you and whomever you interoperate with agree on. At SCLTC, standard (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| (...) Yeah, after I built this I realized that I had the technic pins at the top too far apart and should move them each in slightly to form a triangle. Right now the track and track bed are supporting most of the load I think. I pulled out my old (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Long Span Suspension Bridge?
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| I've found the deck can be pretty insubstantial; even in minifig scale, the truss carries the weight. The Notre Dame Bridge is about 320 studs long and has been up for over a year now: (URL) At least, I have heard no news of its collapse. It can (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Tiny Cartman Mosaic, mostly from set 6163
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| I was bored yesterday, and decided to finally put my recent clearance purchase (set #6163) from Target to use, making a (small 16x16) Eric Cartman Mosaic: (2 URLs) All the pieces (except the tan pieces) are from the 6163 set. I didn't even have (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Re: Couple of queries with LDD exporting [DAT]
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| (...) Right, done that and got rid of the errors, thanks for pin-pointing the location. Strangely all the 'missing' primitives were already in the .mpd file. I've also got rid of 553.dat There does seem to be a strangeness about 30367.dat (Cylinder (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Couple of queries with LDD exporting [DAT]
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| I have exported one of the Hobby train models from LDD into LDraw format, and done some tweaking on it, (missing parts and re-ordering for instructions) I have tried to include all unofficial parts in the .mpd to make it properly compatible with a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | tiny house (half timber) and child
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| Hello all, Our son Hillel was born on Dec. 30, 2007. In the couple of weeks before his birth, I seized on the notion of building a tiny house out of Lego. Maybe the AFOL version of a nesting instinct? (URL) moderation, you can see more pictures (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: off-color red bricks
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| (...) Was this other plastic type used in the 60s or earlier? These red bricks in our collection are glossy and have an orange-ish tint, which fits the description for CA (at least based on what I've read here on LUGNET), but none of them are (...) (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | End effector that can "feel"
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| Hey everyone. I have built a realistic grasping end effecter that can feel when something in is its grasp (without touch sensors). I have attached a deconstructed version that I use. (URL) principle is pretty simple. As the end effecter closes and (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IT'S TOO DARN QUIET!!!!!!
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| (...) I don't have any pictures, since I had to dismantle it when I moved, but I had pretty good luck using a technic turntable, driven by a worm gear. The span consisted of four pieces of straight track, built up with some plates and tiles to make (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HNK)
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| (...) Thanks :) (...) The building is indeed modular, it has been designed as such because I knew I would need to put it apart for transporting. Basically every wall section is a separate module (details on how it is "cut" can be seen (URL) if (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HNK)
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| (...) Hi Matija, I also was following up your updates in the brickshelf gallery on the HNK building. And right from the first CAD file I saw I must addmit that this building is absolutly fantastic. It's a very challenging building to convert it into (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jan-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Town Plan 10184
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| Well, got mine today and had to put one together. The positives are 1. it simulated the old town plans with new elements. 2. there are a lot of hard to get parts in it (garage parts and brushes). 3. There are new elements that I have not seen (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Mech, The Pitbull
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| Hey this is really cool! You did great with all those wedge plates and the colors. I like me some Omni Mech, so this is very good to me. The way you mounted those guns around the front of the mid section is a nice touch. Good to see what you made as (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Meta Question
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| I haven't been around in a while, but I remember Lugnet being a bit more.. well.. alive. The wiki page doesn't illuminate much, and catching up on four years worth of posts doesn't seem terribly feasible. So I was wondering really, what happened? (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jan-08, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: off-color red bricks
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| (...) Well the lack of "grip" is a strong hint for CA anyway. Even if the bricks are not warped, there is some extent of shrinkage which causes the lack of grip - I think I heard from different sources that CA bricks never had too much grip to begin (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.color)
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