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Re: Steamed Onions
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lugnet.adventurers
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Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:52:25 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Niels Bugge wrote:
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In lugnet.adventurers, Kevin Heckel wrote:
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What about “Parts > 100 stud^3 = lame”?
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Well, at that point, we may as well just make a “no BURPS” symbol. Which I
couldn’t wear, because I can’t get enough of ‘em!
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I thought you wanted it made shorter?
Has “burps” some kind of lego connonation I’m not aware of or are we OT?
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I mean Big Ugly Rock
Pieces. And the equation works for me, btw.
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I can’t figure out how people have time for such neither, I’ve worked on a
90 stud ship for the last 70 days, and I don’t think that can be called
neither finished nor capital. Of course it doesn’t help that I’m building
it in MLCad; there’s a lot of “what the hey now-staring” at the screen
involved in such a project. The 90 stud hoverbus I made in the spring took
150 hours over a couple of months.
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Well, i guess it cuts down on gruschteling-and-tracking-down-part time.
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That depends a lot on how well you’ve sorted your collection, but yes, rare
parts, and parts you don’t have are of course easier to add digitally ;-)
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Yes, I do need to get to that whole sorting ordeal one day..
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I never did use MLCAD much, I always wanted to use parts that weren’t
rendered yet :P
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Who knows, those parts can be modelled by now, so that’s not an excuse :-p
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You got me there.
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The best part about it is that it’s a lame part that can never really be
de-lamed. It’s a zeppelin, and zeppelin it will stay. Luckily, I like
building ‘em.
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The only de-laming that’s possible is the fact that the ones building
successfully with them raises in our esteem, but that don’t rub off on the
part. A lame part can never ever be de-lamed, that’s my opinion.
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What if the lame part ends up being integral in a MOC trend? (Like the Pod
craze, but those dome parts weren’t lame in the first place.)
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10x20 spaceship is right. Boat parts were used to good effect in
this fine ship, the domes are
salvageable, and I bet with a bit of pluck and a bit of schleim, somebody
could make a turret through that dastardly window. I think it’s better that
the castle wall is a lame space part, we wouldn’t want to let cap ship
makers get lazy ;)
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That ship looks slightly bigger than 10x20… If we’re going over that size,
and into cap. ships then they can be ok but only for a few crazy bastards
with too many bricks and too much time on their hands. But as TLC doesn’t
seem to be particularly interested in that segment, it is lame for them to
make such big parts.
I once build a big blimplike spaceship by putting two
pirate ships together, but it wasn’t very swooshable and took up too much of
the table. (and was too hard to separate = no play value)
You might be right about the cap’ers, but they would’ve made darn good
containers without those arcane looking leaks. Now I’m stuck on octagonal
containers which are harder to stack and can’t hold as much cargo.
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Mmm, octagonal.
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I’m sure I’ve gotten more than 300 parts in a bag (mmm, corner slopes), you
know, when I’m not getting trees or somesuch.
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What kind of corner slopes?? I’m with you on the trees (although I won’t
touch them sold by volume!!) the only slopes we got is those nice curved 1x6
ones in black and white.
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Red 2x2 45 degree slope bricks. I got over a hundred. As for trees, I worked it
out, and by volume (in a bag) I was able to beat the Shop at Home price on them
by about 1/3, not including shipping (or gas to get to the outlet:P) The trick
is to interlock the buggers. And, of course, fill the gaps with transparent red
1x1 tiles or something ghastly like that.
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What? New offer? So tempting...
and yet I don’t have the money...
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Oops I accidentally cut that part out of the last message: It is to fill one
of the big basicboxes with 5 kg lego from the sets TLC can’t get rid of for
$100. Sooo good but it also takes 4-5 hours to plunder the good pieces so
time and money is a serious constraint, but still I have a hard time staying
away; my Grandmother says I’m possessed, and she might be right, but at this
point 5000 pieces is a serious boost to my collection (42,927 from sets + a
couple of kg’s of extras, stolen stuff and the like)
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Ooh. I will definitely have to ask about that. Maybe if I could plunder the
pertinent bits of the Adventurers sets, I wouldn’t have to wait for onion domes
in the mail...
Kevin
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Ahaa! (...) You mean... that you haven't sorted your lego?!! Right! OK, really: How have you sorted it? (...) Yes and we’re still waiting for someone to model those oniondomes... Somebody who really likes them - like you ;-) That’s always a (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| (...) I thought you wanted it made shorter? Has “burps” some kind of lego connonation I’m not aware of or are we OT? (...) That depends a lot on how well you’ve sorted your collection, but yes, rare parts, and parts you don’t have are of course (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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