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| First Annual Custom Brick Community Building Contest: Hosted by Brickmania.com and co-sponsored by BrickArms and BrickForge Hello everyone! At the urging of friends and supporters I am calling for a community wide building contest aimed at (...) (16 years ago, 2-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
| | | | | LDraw.org's March 2009 Model and Part of the Month Winners
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| Congratulations to the winners of the March 2009 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Brabham BT46B the fan car by Luca Rusconi (aka RoscoPC)> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Minifig Accessory Satchel by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 2-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Brickworld Event Schedule Outline
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| (URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team excited to announce the preliminary event schedule outline has been posted on the Brickworld web site at: (URL) You will notice that 3 of the 4 classes are set. As soon as the 4th class is (...) (16 years ago, 2-Apr-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.people, FTX) !
| | | | | HispaBrick Magazine 004
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| We are proud to present the latest issue of HispaBrick Magazine, a fanzine written mainly by the members of HispaLUG, which is now available in Spanish and English from the magazines website: (URL) have seen a considerable number of downloads of the (...) (16 years ago, 1-Apr-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.es) !
| | | | | LEGO remodel job while away at BrickFest
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| When Thomas Michon returned from BrickFest on Monday morning, he found that his room at Olin College had been remodeled with a new door by classmates using 9000 LEGO bricks. (URL) -Ted Michon (16 years ago, 31-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
| | | | | Tank truck
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| Hello, The difficulty with the minifig-sized tank trucks is to get a 6-wide tank. One of the solutions is to use 6x6 round dishes ( (URL) for instance, like Pierre Normandin did> ) I wasn't really satisfied with this solution. The coming of the (...) (16 years ago, 30-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | UP Rio Grande Heritage Series in 8-wide
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| (URL) Here is my fourth addition to the Union Pacific Heritage Series: The Rio Grande. I've been dragging my feet on finishing the railings for this one, but since traffic has been a bit light on LUGNET, I finally kicked it into gear and got it (...) (16 years ago, 29-Mar-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Video about Emerald Night Train
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| Together with the information below, here's a video about the new Emerald Night Train #10194 (2 URLs) all, As a follow up to the LEGO 9V Train Communication lll, there is one change we would like to inform you about concerning the LEGO Transformer. (...) (16 years ago, 28-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !
| | | | | Things to Remember for BrickFest 2009
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| Just remember a few things you may want to bring to BrickFest: The draft set (8632: Swamp Raid) if you want to draft. The Build-in-the-Bag set (8119: Thunder Racer) if you want to participate in the Build-in-the-Bag. (Make sure to get one that's (...) (16 years ago, 25-Mar-09, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community)
| | | | | new mocs: doorway studies 5-8
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| in keeping with my newest building theme, i continued the (URL) doorway studies>. there are many advantages to doing these studies: i get to use a variety of architectural styles, a wide of variety of colours, they take up much less space to store (...) (16 years ago, 22-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !
| | | | | new mocs: doorway studies 1-4
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| last year i dismantled one of my favourite creations, (URL) st. paul de vence>. i had intended to keep it around but i was going through a building slump and decided it had to be undone. as i did this, i realized i was more emotionally attached to (...) (16 years ago, 22-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
| | | | | Luxury Motor Yacht
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| Luxury Motor Yacht based on LEGO cargo ship hull from set (URL) 7994: LEGO City Harbor> (2 URLs) See the (URL) Flickr photos> or (URL). For the full story, be sure to read (URL) LEGO Luxury Motor Yacht> on Brickpile. (16 years ago, 18-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | "Wasp" Droid Host Unit & "Versus" section @ Brickshelf
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| Check out the "Wasp" droid host unit (starfighter type) (URL) also added a "versus" section to my gallery where I've posed some of my U.E.S.F. vehicles and mecha along side their Vedraan counterparts. (URL) (16 years ago, 17-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic.bionicle) !
| | | | | Mechahub Civilian Mecha Contest
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| (URL) Pilots and service crews, gather around! We at Mechahub are pleased to announce an exciting new contest. The theme for this contest is Civilian Mecha. The only real restrictions are that the mecha possess no weaponry (i.e. not for military (...) (16 years ago, 14-Mar-09, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
| | | | | NXT based 3D scanner
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| (URL) As a LDraw parts author, I am always interested to find new ways to model LEGO parts. Many parts have a clear geometric structure and are relatively easy to create, but parts like minifig animals or wigs have no defined geometric shape and are (...) (16 years ago, 14-Mar-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
| | | | | New Flexible Track Pieces (was: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?)
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| (...) Here is a further picture, showing 64 flexible track pieces in set 8867. The gaps between the two halves of each track piece are smaller than in the previous picture, and there are fewer studs for attaching ballast: (URL) To ballast it means (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Virtual Lego Room Tour at BrickFest 2009
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| BrickFest 2009 will see the first Virtual Lego Room Tour. When LUGs have a meeting at a member's house, the one thing that everyone always wants to see is the owner's build area. A Lego Room, a Lego Garage, a Lego corner-of-one-table-...-rec-room. . (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.storage) !
| | | | | Build in the Bag at BrickFest 2009
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| This year at BrickFest Jon Rasmussen will be running the popular Build in the Bag competition. The way it works: you bring a copy of set 8119: Thunder Racer (URL) the event, still in it's sealed polybag. Jon will have ten copies at the Fest if you (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community)
| | | | | Draft at BrickFest 2009
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| There will be a draft at BrickFest this year! The draft set is 8632: Swamp Raid (URL) draft is a fun activity that turns sets into the parts you want. If you are unfamiliar with drafting, Dan Sabath gave a good description here: (URL) 2009 will be (...) (16 years ago, 13-Mar-09, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community)
| | | | | Brickworld - Build On The Spot Challenge
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| (URL) Share - Learn - Explore - Discover The Brickworld Team has arranged to create and execute a Build On-The-Spot (BOTS) challenge at this year's event. This challenge will be completed in addition to the regular Mindstorms displays and events. As (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-09, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.people, FTX) !
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