 | | Monthly Racer: Liam Lenaghan in Lime Limerick Model L
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Lime Limerick Racer ===...=== Limerick Ltd. is proud to present it's latest racer, the Model L. But the company driver is the trusty old Liam Lenaghan: (URL) on the picture to learn more about the Lime racer>> Please let me know what you think (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | BrickTopia - Capitalist Pig Reeducation Center
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This is a new skyscraper built in a Chinese "adventurers" style (with some sci-fi thrown in for extra fun). (URL) miss the bonus "art" photos: (URL) is appreciated, Brad (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: Steampunkers Untie! (Delurking with a new MOC)
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks Gary, I appreciate the comments. I had quite a fun time building this one. Esp. figuring out how to make 280 degree bends fit well together. It'll be at Brickfest PDX if you want to see it in person. As for the colors. I'm (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: Steampunkers Untie! (Delurking with a new MOC)
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(...) My first reaction was "how ridiculous", but as I kept looking at it it started growing on me, and I realized it was quite inventive. Weird, but a good sort of weird. Only thing I'd change is to tighten up the color scheme, but that's just me. (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Steampunkers Untie! (Delurking with a new MOC)
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Submitted for your digression. The first documented photos of the proto-fleebnork. We've all been wondering about the natural history of these amazing critters. What was the first documented sighting? Who was the naturalist who first discovered (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) A couple of new pictures uploaded on the (URL) page> Christian (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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Thanks for the info guys. I am on a break at work right now so I will get the details later. However, that is what I like about realistic MOCs, the details. I never appreciated how challenging Lindbergh's flight was until I saw a screenshot of the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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In lugnet.adventurers, David Laswell wrote: (snip) Thanks for the better references, usually Google is so good that it's not worth the bother trying anyone else. This wasn't one of those times or else I wasn't using good terms. (...) Right, that's (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) Yahoo spits up three right at the top. They have varying degrees of technospeak, so I'm posting all three: (URL) course, the go-to website on how stuff works is, of course, www.howstuffworks.com: (URL) may not always have the best description (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) Thank you! You are welcome. I consider my work "Link-creations", copying is allowed as long as you link to my site. An e-mail would be nice too! (...) Yes, it's the red 9 tooth samsonite gear. I was very tempted to paint it black, but I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) It is a device used on an aircraft to measure airspeed. If you know the static pressure you are in, and you also know the apparent pressure that you are experiencing in the direction of travel, ("ram air") the difference can be used to (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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Hi Christian This is a really well put together MOC. I love the external details for the instruments and the use of rubber bands (LEGO rubber bands of course!). By the way, what is a pitot tube? Oh, and I never did get around to commenting on your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) Way cool. If you're not coming to Portland, someone ought to, with your permission, build a copy of this for the MiniMOC fly in at BrickFest PDX... Some questions: The "radial engine"... Is that an old samsonite gear or what? I wasn't clear on (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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(...) Correction: first solo crossing of the Atlantic. The first non-stop crossing took place in June 1919. More about that later... Christian (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | MOC: Spirit of St. Louis
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MOC: Spirit of St. Louis ===...=== What is Ryan NYP? That is the New York to Paris plane that Charles Lindbergh used for the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in May 1927: (URL) on the image to learn more about this MOC>> Charles Lindbergh (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !!
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| | Monthly MOC: Brown Racer
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Monthly MOC: Brown Racer ===...=== This is the next racer in the continued effort to make a racetrack filled with racers in different colors. This time it is Belmont Boscop in his Brown Binerva from Belgium: (URL) on the image to go learn more about (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MHoF : Harry Cane might be disqualified
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(...) As I already said, maybe I don't correctly understand the work electionneering, but what I meant was that I don't want people linking to my site with the express message to "vote for Mr. X". Of course, here on Lugnet as on other websites, I (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: MHoF : Harry Cane might be disqualified
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(...) Then there is certainly a problem. I have often seen posts in specific forums urging people to vote for a fig in their particular theme. You almost encourage that yourself by posting to the different Lunet newsgroups saying "these figs from (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: MHoF : Harry Cane might be disqualified
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"James Wilson" <wilson_j_s@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HrEB4q.Iow@lugnet.com... (...) You'd loose that bet. A brief scan of the members country page tells us over 800 members are non US (compared to around 1500 US), and bearing in mind the site (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MHoF : Harry Cane might be disqualified
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Well, I would gladly encourage people to talk about the election of the MHoF and the candidates. I've posted many messages here to let people know about it and I am glad to see referrers to my site that I had never heard of before, some from Japan, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general, FTX)
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