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During Festival of the Masters, GFLUG held it's first annual LEGO Powered Boat Race. What is that, you may ask? To give you a little background, the theme that GFLUG members were to build MOCs according to was "Transportation: Past, Present & (...) (16 years ago, 12-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, FTX) !
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| | N&W J-class steam locomotive
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I was finally able to clear out enough time and off enough room to photograph my N&W J-class steam engine (northern, 4-8-4) and consist. (URL) Full Gallery> I wanted to build the N&W J class for some time, but the bullet streamlining around the nose (...) (16 years ago, 12-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | MOC: The Old West
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Just wanted to share my Old West town created for the Festival of the Masters event, taken place at Downtown Disney, in Orlando, Florida: (URL) (photo by Joe Meno) (URL) (photo by Todd Thuma) (URL) (photo by brickbuilder711) The Old West town was a (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.western, FTX) !
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| | MOC: Microscale Disney Magic
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I'm not one for announcing my MOCs, but I've been working on this one for awhile now & thought it deserved to be talked about. Introducing the Disney Magic Cruise boat in micro-scale: (URL) (photo by Joe Meno) (URL) (photo by Todd Thuma) (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, FTX) !
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| | Point Brique Historic Cable Railway Redux
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I've long wanted to try my hand at one of those 'redux' MOCs which get talked about every so often, so when the opportunity to exhibit a layout again arose, I leapt at the chance to redux Point Brique. (URL) The PBHCR originally formed a part of the (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Modular LUDO board game. 2+ persons
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Hi all, this is my first MOC announcement. Here you have a modular LUDO game. Currently I made versions for 2 to a maximum of 10 persons - of course can be easily extendable. Example: (URL) Folder when moderated: (URL) files in folder until (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.games)
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| | Working Container Crane
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Finally got it working! I just finished a working container crane. It uses a nxt, three motors, a light sensor and a electromagnet. (yes it is not completely pure) The crane will randomly choose a container from the ship and more it to a randomly (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | LDraw.org's October 2008 Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winner of the October 2008 Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Technic Differential with One Gear 28 Tooth Bevel by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> (URL) POTM - Most Desired Part, Technic (...) (16 years ago, 4-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | New MOC: PT5 Albescent Cormorant
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The Cormorant debuted at BrickCon 08, but it's history goes back 9 years to a post-Mindfest build inspired by my haul from that event. I ended up with a bunch of wings with no matching pairs, so I built a ship to use them. (URL) The first draft> (...) (16 years ago, 4-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
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| | Recent Alternate Models and Instructions
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Here are some new alternate models. Perhaps I should call them combination models, because they're built with pieces pooled from a couple specific sets. Titles link to building instructions and more photos. (URL) ECM Corvid> ((URL) 6205> + (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 3-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | MINIs Hound's Tooth (Bossk) and Mist Hunter (Zuckuss)
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Hello dear lego friends, After having posted the (URL) One> almost three years ago, I thought it was time for some more ships of the bounty hunters. They all appear as character in the original trilogy movies, so why not have all their ships. ;) (...) (16 years ago, 2-Nov-08, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | MOC: Tower Crane
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I have recently finished a Technic Tower Crane with Power Functions. (URL) As with most of my Technic I was aiming for functionality rather than aesthetics, and I think after many hours tinkering I have achieved a successful Model. It stands at just (...) (16 years ago, 2-Nov-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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Hi folks, it has passed more than a year since the last election of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) were held - also because the SteerCo missed the actual deadlines. Nominations are now open. All nominations must be received and recorded by (...) (16 years ago, 1-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | luther 2.06 - The Abduction
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Hello! (URL) When Luther was summoned to the Reichstag (diet) of Worms, his sovereign prince obtained from the Emperor free passage for him. The man knew why he was doing this. At this diet the Emperor, as expected, imposed the Ban of the Empire (...) (16 years ago, 31-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Mars object meets its destiny
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As originally reported (URL) here>, the strange object discovered on the Martian surface has been destroyed. Details follow. The strange object encountered on Mars by advance units of the MM Central Command was deemed to be dangerous based on the (...) (16 years ago, 27-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | New Ldraw parts authors tool: PathTruder
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(URL) This new utility allows to create a surface by extrusion of a shape along a path. The path is defined as two sets of lines, provided to PathTruder as two LDraw files. The shape, also a set of lines, is the third required input file. The fist (...) (16 years ago, 27-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | National Parks of Mars (MOC)
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Hello all, I have been working on this one for a while. Several years of work and nearly finished, but though I would post it now and just update the pictures as i finish it. This is what I think a park would be if it were built on mars. Although (...) (16 years ago, 25-Oct-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Dali's Persistence of Memory
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My fifth and (I believe) my final pointillist mosaic: Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory (URL) The other four were the DaVinci's Mona Lisa, Picasso's Don Quixote, VanGogh's Starry Night, and Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice They can all be seen (...) (16 years ago, 25-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX) !
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| | UP Western Pacific Heritage Series in 8-wide
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(URL) I am very proud to announce that I have converted to 8-wide trains. The UP Western Pacific is my favorite of the three that I have built so far, but I have several more that have finished the design phase and will be building over the next (...) (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Australian Worker's Cottage
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(URL) Hi all, Thought I'd break with my recent lazy tradition and actually announce an MOC. The above is a fairly simply designed Australian worker's cottage: a style of house quite common in certain suburbs of Australian cities. As some people know (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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