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I recently bought a 8271 just because I met Natanael Kuipers during our LEGO-meet here in Eskilstuna last month, and this set was his first design for LEGO (and the cheapest one). I even got his signature on the building instructions! The original (...) (16 years ago, 23-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | The Brick Testament - The Book of Job
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WARNING: This post contains links to MOCs illustrating subject matter that may be considered inappropriate for children. Happy Thanksgiving! (URL) The Brick Testament> has been updated this week with eight new Bible stories illustrating the (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 22-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Temporary Outages Today...
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Hi all, depending on from where in the world you connect to the net, you may have experienced access issues with LUGNET today, starting around 7 a.m. GMT and lasting to approx. 3 p.m. GMT (literally as I write this). The reason for this was a (...) (16 years ago, 21-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | "Coffee Pot" steam railcar & carriage
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I’ve long been a fan of the Coffee Pot narrow gauge steam railcar, running on the South Australian Narrow Gauge, and now part of the (URL) Pichi Richi Railway> in (URL) Quorn>. I understand that the Coffee Pot is no longer running, but has been, (...) (16 years ago, 19-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Vignette - Pirates in 2008.
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Is this the true face of the pirates who have seized the Supertanker off the coast of Kenya? (URL) Dr. S. (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce, lugnet.pirates)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - New committee
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Hi folks, since only 5 people have accept their nomination in response to this message: (URL) volunteer for the job the election itself has become obsolete. Congratulations to the new LDraw Standards Committee members (in alphabetical order by last (...) (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Frigate Le Coureur
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(URL) Since people seem to be visiting here again I guess I may as well post my piratical attempt here: the (originally) French lugger Le Coureur. The real thing ended up somewhere else and is lost to history. See the (URL) TBB post> for more info. (...) (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | A few more ships
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Barely touched the hobby this year, but last year's friends insisted I run ESPG again. Of course I couldn't do it without building something... Teaser... (URL) After Moderation... SS Korena (URL) SS Minuet (URL) SS Pioneer (URL) SS Robin (URL) SS (...) (16 years ago, 18-Nov-08, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | 2009 AFOL Event Schedule
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Hey all, this is Andrew, one of the 2008/2009 Lego Ambassadors and Administrator over at BZPower. Lego Community Development Manager Jan Beyer recently contacted me with a task that I need everyone's help on. LEGO and their community team would like (...) (16 years ago, 17-Nov-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.ambassadors)
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| | New MOC: Bloobit Mecha
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(URL) Bloobit Mecha Gallery> ==== New member of the Biomechanical Bricks family! Completed November 2008. Brother to the (URL) Grelnix>, 18 pounds 36 inches tall. Started summer of 2008. (URL) Features: • Two pilots, (URL) 1 in the head> and (URL) 1 (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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| | LEGO Powered Boat Race
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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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| | The Brick Testament - Slaughter of the Innocents
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WARNING: This post contains links to MOCs illustrating subject matter that may be considered inappropriate for children. (URL) The Brick Testament> has been updated today with seven new illustrated Bible stories that bring a close to the (URL) King (...) (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !
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| | 8-wide OMYA Tanker
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I just finished my second 8-wide car, an OMYA tanker: (2 URLs) NELUG Gallery> For the full story, see my post on the (URL) Trains-n-Town> website. -Elroy (16 years ago, 21-Oct-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Eb'Cafl MOC
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Friends keep telling me that I should go back to posting my MOCs here again, so I'll give it a shot. I built this thing for a display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum back in the spring of 2006. It kept getting damaged in transit to (...) (16 years ago, 19-Oct-08, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | 5th Annual "Living LEGO-cy" Christmas Show
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Museum of American Heritage 351 Homer Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Schedule: Show Hours: Friday-Sunday 11am-4pm Monday-Thursday closed Admission: Donation We are pleased to announce that our 5th Annual "Living LEGO-cy" Christmas show will be on (...) (16 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.org.us.sacbb)
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| | Michiana-LTC at SJVRR Swap Meet - Sunday, October 19
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To all, The Michiana LEGO Train Club is pleased to display at the upcoming SJVRR Swap Meet on Sunday, October 16. Time: 10:00AM - 3:00PM CST Address: Elks lodge 3535 East McKinley Avenue South Bend, Indiana 46615 Admission: Individual $4 Families $8 (...) (16 years ago, 16-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains)
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| | Woodshop
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(2 URLs) Enjoy! -Duane (16 years ago, 14-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Cask Rolling Stock
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I have always had a fascination with nuclear power and anything related to it. I still firmly believe that nuclear power is one of the cleanest and most efficient methods of producing mass amounts of power and I sincerely hope that we continue to (...) (16 years ago, 13-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | L3PAO 1.9 Beta
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The beta update of L3PAO to go along with Lars' L3P 1.4 beta is now available. The .zip contains two files. Replace your existing versions with both of the files in the archive. There may be issues with certain activeX controls not being installed (...) (16 years ago, 11-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | new moc: microscale auditorium
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(2 URLs) this moc started out as a study for different radii of curved walls. then i decided to go ahead and finish it into something. i was thinking along the lines of a large public building/display space - art gallery, auditorium, theatre, etc. (...) (16 years ago, 10-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | New group on Flickr created
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I have started a group on Flickr called Lego Complaining: (URL) It's open to the public so anyone can join. I invite everyone to come take a look at it and for all gentle readers to join if they would like to. Here's the group charter: ===...=== We (...) (16 years ago, 8-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.db.inv, FTX)
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