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I decided to put all my firehouses into one folder on brickshelf (though, I forgot to take photos of one of them). Here they are: (URL) Some have been seen before, some have minor adjustments to previous versions and a couple haven't been shown (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !
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| | Fabuland Housewives Episode I redux
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Or reduction, that is. I've been studying the traffic patterns at BrickZone.net and have realized that a lot of people stop viewing the first episode about halfway through. So I've condensed the first episode from 346 pictures to just under 200. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.fabuland, FTX) !
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| | 2nd Joe Vig contest entry - How Joe learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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During a tedious argument with his girlfriend, Joe Vig finds an unexpected release... (2 URLs) Mocpages> - (URL) Brickshelf> One should probably have seen (URL) a certain movie> by the aptly named Stanley Kubrick to get this entirely. Note: I know (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | NXT electronic additions
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Here's a link to my NXT electronics folder: (URL) , which contains two experiments: My first experiment was to get the NXT to light an LED, in a similar way to the way the light sensor works. My thanks to Philo for sharing a tutorial of how to (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Motor Technique
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Here are some pics of a technique I've used for many years, driving a technic axle from a 12V train motor: (URL) the advent of the RC Car motor, this was the most power that could be obtained from a single LEGO motor and used on a Technic axle, 12V (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Latest track features and layout module developments
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Here are pictures of LEGO representations of the TPWS and AWS train protection systems used in the UK, which use equipment mounted between the rails: (2 URLs) both cases I've used translucent orange wands, in the absence of opaque ones, to represent (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Space MOC: the PX-1 Personal Speedercraft
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I just made this last night. It's a personal, one-man speeder, designed for maneuverability and speed, which makes it a popular choice for races among the young and reckless. Here are the pics: Front Angle: (URL) Front View: (URL) Side View: Notice (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Space MOC: The Victory Storm
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This is my latest mini spaceship, the Victory Storm. There was no particular reason for the name - it just sounded good. :) I enjoy making mini ships, partly because I don't have enough pieces to make SHIPS, so look out for more from me in the (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament - How Jesus of Nazareth Got Kissed, Got Crucified, and Came Back to Life
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(URL) The Brick Testament> website has been updated today with seven new illustrated which complete (URL) The Life of Jesus> section of the site. Five of these are new version of stories I first illustrated four years ago (with significant added (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !
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| | TexLUG Austin meeting cancelled; line follower contest postponed
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All, This Sunday's TexLUG Austin meeting is cancelled. The robotic line follower contest scheduled for 6/11 has been postponed. Look for an announcement here for a future date. Future TexLUG Austin gatherings will be announced as they are arranged. (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, lugnet.loc.us.tx)
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| | The Move Is On...
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Hi all, I think it is time to let all of you know that LUGNET will switch servers - as some delinquent computer firm liked to put it - "real soon now". We are currently sorting out the domain re-routing procedure, but after that it is anticipated (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Aoyama
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Hello, an actual MOC this time. Presenting, the Confederate Ship Aoyama: (2 URLs) (The photographs are somewhat poor, I didn't notice I had the camera set to "landscape") Any feedback appreciated, Derek (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Manga styled street cleaner
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Although I wasn't intending to do so at first I mucked around with the pictured rear end. As suggested by Aaron Sneary this is a street cleaner model. I've also taken Didier's suggestion into account for the presentation. (2 URLs) Flickr> (URL) BS (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Manga styled ute
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Take this (URL) art>, hack off its back and get a little futuristic ute. (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flikr> Please let me know what you think. Tim (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | BrickNebula Episode 15: Marcon Recap
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I am pleased to announce the (URL) BrickNebula> PodCast, (URL) Episode 15: Marcon Recap>. This is a quick podcast -- it's a audio recap from our club meeting about the Marcon display. It might be boring to the casual listener -- and if you're a fan (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.oh.col, FTX)
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| | Crocodile : amphibian machine for adventurers
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Hello everybody, A new moc : a 19th century machine for exploration. For more, follow the link. (URL) Comments welcome, Enjoy, Eric (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | The Hyperion Hawk
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A ship I just finished building based off the (URL) Hyperion> from a show called (URL) SkyLand>. The Hyperion Hawk: (2 URLs) PLMKWYT Jamie (URL) Pope's 7> (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Ugly brute...
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Bulleid Q1 class 0-6-0 (URL) The Bulleid Q1 locomotive is an obvious choice (to me anyway) for a Lego train MOC, angular, uncomplicated, and as an added bonus a little bit unusual. The Q1 was designed during WWII and as such dispensed with any (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: German DB v200 and others for LDD/LEGO Factory
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote: (snip a lot of errors) Ugh! I'm sorry. I found another error in the model. I had some part collisions inside where the fake diesel motor sits. OK, round three: The DB v200 without the 9 volt train motor (504pcs, (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | School's Out For Summer!
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To honor of the end of the school year, I've built a six-wide school bus: (2 URLs) MOCpages> (URL) Brickshelf> No more pencils, No more books, No more teacher's dirty looks... Enjoy! Spencer (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | The Sunny Shores Retirement Home
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Welcome to... (URL) It has been awhile since I built a Town MOC, and places like this do exist in World City. "Big Daddy" Nelson (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | S.I.E.G.E tank
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Hello everyone! Here is my latest project, the S.I.E.G.E tank. It was in function inspired by its namesake from Starcraft. Let me know what you think! (2 URLs) Mocpages> - (URL) Brickshelf> (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | My Legoland competition MOC's
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I was a finalist in Legoland Model Builder contest held two weeks ago. To prepare for the regional and final contests I gathered twenty some-odd pounds of bricks and plates and tried to build some sculptures. As a math teacher/math geek I sort of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !
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| | New Custom Molded MODERN Minifig Weapons from BrickArms
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BrickArms is OPEN! Hi all! I've just opened my new BrickArms store offering custom molded minifig-compatible modern weapons (try saying that five times fast!). Each was designed using a 3D CAD program, and the molds were made using Computer (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Two LDD train MOC's: an open hopper and a covered hopper
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Oops... I announced these in .trains, but I forgot to announce them here. I recently uploaded two models to Factory... One is a covered hopper. There is a bufferless version (URL) a buffered version (URL) other is an open hopper. There is a (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | My Own Inverse Pony Ear Bus Stop (was: "Raeynop" schleim technique)
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(...) Yes, you are right. Sort of; it should be a 2wide plate (or a 2 + (2 * n) wide). This insight of yours and your reply to this (by now quite old) post got me thinking again about what this technique actually could be good for. The result was (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Micro-scale Bible Vigs
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I'm sure the I'm not the first to think of making micro-scale vignettes, but I've never seen any others, so I'll take the credit. ;) The nice thing about them is that because they're built on micro-scale, with such a small base, they have a very low (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Server switchover
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LUGNET is in the midst of its change-over to new servers. I apologize for any dupicate posts you may receive via e-mail. I'm not sure what the cause of that is yet. There's potential for a short outage. -Suz (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | US S@H Phone Specials, May 31--June 6
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1-800-835-4386 (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) US S@H Phone Specials, May 31 to June 6 4680 Traffic Patrol 2.99 1.50 B004 2x4 Ridge Roof (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: 200 and building! And calls for....
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(URL) 200? Already? BrickFest has passed the 200 registered attendee mark a little faster than I thought. While this is a great thing, it does mean I have to reevaluate things to make sure that things run smoothly. So I will encourage those who have (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Lunar rover
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Hello everybody, A new moc, a lunar rover, inspired by my old Airfix figures set and memories of space conquest images seen on TV, a long time ago in a galaxy ... not so far away ;>) One more model online but I'm still late for the others, phew! (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Republic Base (Front view)
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(URL) All done!> (URL) AC (18 years ago, 31-May-06, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | NMRA 2006 Hotel is finalized - pls make your reservations now
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RE: ILTCO multi-club train layout at NMRA show in Philly,PA July 7-9th (setup July 5th-6th) Hi All, Well I received confirmation today on our hotel room block (see contact info below). We have a group rate of 79.99 + 14%tax /night, double queen beds (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.announce.iltco)
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| | Lifesize human sculptures for Space Gallery
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(2 URLs) I've been a haven't posted much to Lugnet recently, but I've been busy. I think it's worth the wait... I did three large pieces for (URL) Space Gallery> in downtown Seattle. They will be on display for the month of June 2006. -(URL) David (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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| | Scenes from Da Vigci Code
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Hey all, All credit to Nelson Yrizarry for the name "Da Vigci Code", which he coined in (URL) this post>. He has since gone on to post (URL) his own MOC>, but when I read that first post it inspired me to illustrate a couple of scenes from The Da (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | List of authors who have not yet affirmed the LDraw.org Contributor Agreement
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We (LDraw.org) are still trying to contact all the authors who have contributed to the Parts Library over the years but have not yet affirmed the current version of the Contributor Agreement (URL) Below you will find a list of all the authors (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
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| | GeekBrick Live Episode 1 Available!
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(URL) GeekBrick Live is ready and available for download. (URL) del.icio.us Links> (URL) Flickr Set> Click below to get the episode: (URL) Normal Feed> (URL) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Would You Like To Play A Game Of Chess? I Play Very Well....
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(URL) Built by my son, Ross. Portable. I lost my queen in our first game because I couldn't tell the pieces apart. He didn't care;-) Enjoy, JOHN (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Factory Train Contest Entry
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My son Ross was messing around in the LEGO factory, and I encouraged him to submit his efforts to the contest, so here it is: (URL) It is based loosely on his (URL) GP50> The color scheme is by necessity, not by prototype. Could be CP though. The (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Pinball Machine - Poorman's Version
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Utterly impressed (but also discouraged) by the LEGO Mindstorms pinball machine at (URL) my own Lego pin delayed many years by the purchase of a real pinball machine: (URL) I have started to build my own Lego Pinball Machine. I'm aware that I can (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.se) !
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