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| Bram Lambrecht: (...) I forgot to set the height differences to something sensible. Didn't think about the forest part. We definitely need some nice trees. It is quite hard to recreate a landscape from memory (of a photo :-). I have put a slightly (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Larry, I wish I had 50 for you. I guess you should focus on the first 25 windows and build just one side. Then you can just sit in a circle and have the train run around you. Pretend you don't know the other side isn't there. :-) (...) Agreed. (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Plans vs imagination
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| Silas P wrote in message ... (...) I tend to do both - I build the official model or models when I get the first one of a set, and often record models or ideas as instructions as I build. But I also buy sets for parts, and buy bulk stuff from time (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Train Windows service packs
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| (...) I do too. I know individual letters (as opposed to form letters) are best, but will they think something's up if all our lists are the same? (...) Yes; we should make it fairly easy for them as far as not implying a new production run. I (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | FA: Freight train lots - ends May 31 (Mon)
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| Freight Train Auction ===...=== This auction consists of freight cars, track, cranes, trucks, minifigs, freight loads and autos from three sets, the Freight and Crane Railway 4565, the Crane Car 4552, and the Train Cars, 2126. Most items have (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) there were a lot of train service packs available at Toy retailers. They would have them either hanging from stands, or in a big box underneath the LEGO displays. Back in the 80's and early 90's, I purchased a lot of specialty pieces (fences, (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Train Windows service packs
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| Hay, I think the service pack sould have the following: 1 gray left train door w/clear glass 1 gray right train door w/clear glass 1 red left train door w/clear glass 1 red right train door w/clear glass 4 gray 1x4x3 windows w/clear glass 2 red (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| On the contrary, this isn't ludicrous at all. It's a great idea! Why hasn't it been done before. Build a circle of track with sixteen sections of track. Make a train car using four train motors separated by 90 degrees each. Fill in the entire middle (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: More train ranting (sorry)
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| I have never known LEGO to ever use anything other than their own internal ideas for what might sell. Set design and process has always been done in Demark (But as some of you know that has changed with the restructure of Futura...) One of the guys (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Plans vs imagination
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| (...) Yes loaded, but surely rhetorical, Do you ever need instruction? I see the whole thing as something totally positive. Life's full of problems and puzzles and we're all seeking solutions. People use this forum (Lugnet) to brainstorm - use other (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Train Windows service packs
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| Larry, I agree with you that we should drop the nose section, but as for color, you really missed out on an obvious one - GRAY! How else are we to recreate the metroliner? Besides, I need enough AMTRACK cars to simulate real wrecks and derailments. (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | BAYLUG LEGOFest Q's and Comments
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| Hi Zonker and everyone, Do you know Ray's email? He left before I could get a grab bag. Do you know if he has any left? I'd like to see if he has any yellow parrots left. ;-) How was dinner. etc., on Sat. evening? I think the meet was a huge (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Chrome Queen's ship (was Re: 15 lbs and counting)
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| (...) use (...) one (...) Well, the ~$90 playset of the Queen's Ship by Kenner is finished in a dull gray/silver, nowhere near the siny chrome/silver it should be. I would imagine any Queen's Ship from Lego would be the same[1]... unless they (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | The first BAYLUG meet
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| And here are some of my lengthy views to add to the others: Good location. It was central enough for me and easy to get to. I like the access to the parking lot without having to wind through the whole library and get stuck in a back room somewhere. (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: WTB: 3x4 blue low-sloped bricks
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| (...) Nope, I'm looking for the regular 4-wide slopes. However, to me, the buckets aren't really worth it, because I've got more colored bricks than I have projects for them (currently), and my interest in town is somewhere around zero, which means (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: mockup of the SW PIECES
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| i am aware of that. they are not even suppost to be anhthing like the real one. the landspeeder engine is just something i threw together to distinguish it from the 1 x 2 with jet engine. i deleted the studs and added 2 studs to the outside so that (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Train table construction and securing track
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| I'm wondering how people secure their track to their train tables. I've been thinking about the possibility of building up a foundation of bricks to be able to have some scenery below track level. I know someone has a web page which shows some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Big sqooshy LEGO bricks!
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| Does anyone have a cost on them? How common are the red roof bricks? We will see them in the next Auczilla? Answers to the first question would be appreciated. -Nick Thomas Main wrote in message <378A0E06.B0456EA6@a...te.edu>... (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | First BayLUG meeting deemed "a success"!
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| We met at the Fremont main public library in the Fukaya Room. This room was large, seats 96 folks, and we had (14) 2.5'x 5' tables set out for our use, whith lots of chairs. We had a bunch of power outlets on the walls, as well as in pockets in the (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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