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(URL) I finished reworking my Bullet Train based on the airliner in time for the NMRA Train Show. Among the improvements where articulated cars and lowering the entire train by two bricks. (URL) The articulation is achieved using a pair of (URL) (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | MOCs from NMRA
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Its been several months since NMRA and I have finally gotten around to photographing several of the new MOCs I displayed. Colonnade Apartments (URL) The Colonnade Apartments were built in 1905 and survived until 1963. I used SNOT extensively on the (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | NWBrickCon - The Wacky Race Continues!
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NWBrickCon Seattle, Washington, USA October 5, 6 and 7, 2007 The Wacky Race will be at NWBrickCon 2007! Will You? This will be the 4th year that competitors have built and crashed their crazy and wacky racers here in the Pacific Northwest! Each (...) (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | Indiana Jones sets leaked?
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(Picture deleted by request of holder of rights (copyright violation)) Do we need a lugnet.licensed.indiana ? (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.licensed, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce, lugnet.year.2008, FTX) !
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| | Chevron Camp
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They've come down from their (URL) icy outpost> to make camp on their journey to a neighboring kingdom. (URL) AC (17 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon SPACE and Moonbase - call for MOCs
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We have are going to have a spectacular SPACE and Moonbase display this year at Northwest Brick Con. There are 18 tables to fill between the two themes. That seems like a lot but it could fill up super fast with just a few enormous MOCs. I already (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | NWBrickCon Town / Train Area - call for MOCs
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Calling all MOCs for the town/train/city display for NWBrickCon! This year, we have another great space to show off a fantastic town/train/city display and I encourage everyone to bring anything they’d like to display. Please email me with what you (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Math display case filled with Lego models
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Last spring, my colleagues got funding for two shiny display cabinets for my math department. Appropriate displays were just slow enough in coming that I could (quickly) haul out several of my Lego math demonstration models and fill an entire case (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | NWBrickCon 2006 Castle Area
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NWBrickCon is less than a month away. Tedward over at Classic Castle emailed me about having a Grand Tournament as the theme for our castle layout. I think this is an excellent idea and the plans are in motion for bringing this together. More (...) (17 years ago, 10-Sep-07, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | The Brick Testament - David Joins the Philistines
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(URL) The Brick Testament> has been updated today with six more new illustrated stories from the saga of (URL) David vs Saul>. (2 URLs) to view the new stories)> (NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take note of (...) (17 years ago, 9-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !
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| | Retro-esque Batmobile
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Da na na na na na Na na na na na na Na na na na na na BATMAN! Ahoy, I loved the original Batman TV series, and to this day remember the words to the theme song (see above), so I thought it might be fun to build the Batmobile from the series. I was (...) (17 years ago, 8-Sep-07, to lugnet.licensed.batman, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Homemaker MOC
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Hi all, I let me inspire by the old bigfigs, because I got some for me new parts. I have a lot of these sets in house, loving them from my childhood on, but never actually built a MOC out of them. Time to change, here they are. Small once, but be (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Update to the LDraw Library Header Specification
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At the request of the PT Admins, the LSC has amended the format of the !LDRAW_ORG meta-statement to permit zero or more qualifiers. The format of this meta-statement is now 0 !LDRAW_ORG Part|Subpart|Primiti...e|Shortcut (optional qualifier(s)) (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, German Rail Bus VT 95 by "Primus" Burkhard> (URL) SOTM, Backlot by Willy Tschager> (URL) - Best Part, Minifig Mechanical Head and (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Keeping me on a string...
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A few months ago, I made the announcement (in the correct newsgroup!) that I would sell my entire collection (Technic, Model Team, and 12V trains) of sets from 1978 untill 2004. All the sets were really low priced (compared to the lowest (...) (17 years ago, 6-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Ten Days Left: NWBrickCon 2007 Advance Registration Closes September 15th
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NWBrickCon 2007 Advance Registration Closes on September 15th. Benefits of Advance Registration include a lower price ($44 vs. $50 at the door) and a personalized engraved brick badge. Note that you must have both registered and *paid* by September (...) (17 years ago, 5-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon) !!
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| | The Mercurials comic - Episode 1:5
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Hello all. The latest episode of "The Mercurials" online sci-fi photo graphic novel has been posted. Chapter 1, Part 5, finds the remaining crew of the CS Mercurial in greater jeopardy than ever as they make their way to the bridge of the drifting (...) (17 years ago, 4-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Warehouse district - sneak progress shots
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Hello, I had my camera out this weekend and decided to take some progress shots of the viaduct that gets vehicle traffic down to the level of my new, forthcoming, layout section as well as the first of a few warehouse/factory type buildings that (...) (17 years ago, 4-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !
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| | lugnet.fun
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Only a few days late, here are (URL) september LEGO horoscopes>. Enjoy! (URL) en Français)> (URL) in het Nederlands)> I can't believe I've bothered doing this for a year now... Jean-Marc (17 years ago, 3-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | My layout
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This is what I have built for TSL 2007. It took about 4 months. The houses are Café Corner compatible. I had some houses from before but when Café Corner was released I decided to give it a try. The houses only have facades to save on bricks (money) (...) (17 years ago, 31-Aug-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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