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Announcing the first annual Town building contest! Go here for details: (URL) must be in by Feb 15th. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general) !!
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OK, I guess I'll start entering: Medium? Building: ---...--- Fallingwater (URL) selectively compressed rendition of FLW's famous design, built from the floor plans. Small Vehicles: ---...--- Rolls Royce Phantom I (URL) simple 4-wide minifig scale (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Oops, forgot one. Pickup with Truck Camper (URL) camper is removable from the 5-wide pickup bed, has an openning rear door, two bunks, and a kitchenette. I can take pictures of this too, if someone wants to see them. --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Here is what I have so far: Diorama (URL) Street multi-building scene. Small Building (URL) origionally built for my Medieval town this church has become a fixture in my modern town. I hope to be able to do more but time is tight so we'll see. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Structures (URL) Girder bridge Jacob Sparre Andersen One meter long girder bridge built from 1*8 plates. Play well, Jacob -- Growing older is compulsory. Growing up isn't. (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) A few suggestions: First, Javascript isn't necessary to load images, operate buttons or pretty much anything else. Some people surf with it turned off to avoid pop-up advertisements. Javascript is a tool for advertisers and little else. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Here's one for you: Small Building (URL) common North American Bungalow, made for NALGUG's display at GETS train show in Sept '00. More entries will come, as things get built for SuperTrain 2001 in Calgary. James (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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17 entries already - keep 'em coming! (URL) House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) means (...) machines (...) Javascript (...) to (...) If you looked at the source code for his page, he is using this function. Bram's winload() function is not a platform specific call. It is a wrapper function for the window.open call. Bryan (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks for your concern...but I'm going to redo my entire LEGO site (soon hopefully) using a couple CGI scripts so it will be easy to update and simpler. (...) For now, just click "View all enlargements at once". (Not a Javascript link) --Bram (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Indeed. It's working today, too. Very nice entry, BTW. Amy (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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What discerns a small building from a medium, and a medium from a large? Is it posted somewhere and I missed it? (I tend to do that from time to time :) ) Dave www.bricktannia.com (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Photos of my Cadillac, Camper, Tanker, and Reefer are now up on Brickshelf. (URL) you can see, I love taking closeup macro-mode shots for their dramatic effect :) Please LMKWYT! --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) And they are all very nicely done! (...) Add up all my above feelings for some other dramatic effects. Doubtful if you wish to remain closeup though.. -Tom McD. when replying, oops.. forgot the spamcake fritters with blue cheese dippin' sauce (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) <snip> (...) go so well together, and the Timmy foreshadowing/ finishing touch is hilarious. My wife and I had a question about the "Rent" sign on top of the building. We both loved your theater building, and my wife thought that "Rent" was an (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Small Vehicles Web-URL: (URL) Roadster Short Description of model: A convertible classic style roadster, powerful V-6 engine, stylish looks that's garunteed to turn heads. :) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Kevin here is my town layout. (URL)Kevin (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Medium Building (URL) Name: Library Description: A library for a small university KL (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Large Building (URL) Name: Office Building Description: 32x64 stud 5 story office building I build out of K8 for the Fairfax County fair. It was actually built for Centex Construction Company who hosted the LEGO play area at the fair that (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Medium Building (URL) Name: Car Dealership Description: This first thing that came to mind when I received my first buld order of clear thin walls. KL (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Medium Building (URL) Name: Refinery Description: The pictures pretty much say it all. It's Hazmat time! KL (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Large Building (URL) Name: Office Building under construction with motorized crane Description: The yellow building in the pictures is a steel frame office building. The crane is 3 way motorized and could pick up objects as heavy as a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Large Building (URL) Name: Octan Tower Description: The office building with the Octan sticker in the pictures (*not* the vertical white/black striped one). KL (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Large Building (URL) Name: United Legoland Bank Description: The black and white vertical striped building in the photograph. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Diorama (URL) Name: Downtown Wamalugville Description: The raised downtown portion of a larger train layout. Includes underground metro station and several large buildings (one of them was built by Abe Friedman). (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Dave Amos wrote in message ... (...) Is (...) :) ) I didn't really go into detail on this, and we may end up moving some buildings from their original category depending on how things work out. Here's some guidelines: Large - think BIG. At least 12" (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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My entry Datsville Petrollium (formerly ldraw.org model of the month, if that disqualifies it then I withdraw my entry) (URL) dont think I used any parts that dont exist, I checked all of the special parts (the decorated parts are stickers from the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <3A56D0DA.245617B@tp...com.au>... (...) No problem that I can see. (...) I can't get that link to come up at all - is it just me, or is there something wrong with it? Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Diorama Web-URL: (URL) Christmas Parade Your Name: Marc Nelson Jr. Short Description of model: A small-town parade featuring floats with Santa and elves, and a marching band. (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Macro Scale- 18 wheeler (URL) small 18 wheel tractor trailer. Large Vehicle- Large 4 wheel drive articulated tractor (URL) large articulated tractor of my own design sporting New Holland colors Cale (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I can get there no problems so there is probobly a problem at your end. (23 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <3A57A860.75F5887C@t...com.au>... (...) OK, I'll add it to the page and assume that other people will be able to see it. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Cale Leiphart wrote in message ... (...) Thanks Cale - according to the category description, these 2 should both go in Large Vehicles, so that's where you'll find them. Kevin (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Sorry misunderstanding on my part. I ment to enter the semi in the micro fig catagory. Micro Fig- 18 wheeler (URL) micro fig scale 18 wheel tractor trailer. (ignore the macro lables on the pictures) Thanks Cale (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Cale Leiphart wrote in message ... (...) fig (...) OK ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) This might sound strange but you are both right. I actually did the sign before I even thought of doing a theatre and at the time the sign was ment as a "For Rent" sign. Your wife is right however in that the show "Rent" is a very popular (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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<snip> (...) <snip> (...) answer similar to the manner you did - even down to the "It's LEGO, so you can imagine it either way". I got a good chuckle out of that, since it appears we AFOLs think a lot alike. Whatever you change the sign to, I hope (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Any chance that you could put thumbnails on the index pages, so that people (like me) who like to do a quick scan of what's there before clicking on links can do so? Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Adrian Drake wrote in message ... (...) Not unless contest entrants supply me with (the URL of) thumbnail images. Kevin (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hmm. I guess, by the rough guidelines here: (URL) is more of a medium building. James (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Well maybe but I think it fits better with the buildings currently in the small catagory than the Medium. The medium buildings are fairly large where the Large buildings are Massive. I think the guidelines either need to be made larger using (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) If you're going to include thumbnails you'll want to make them uniform size, for fairness. If you can't do this automatically it's probably more trouble than you'd be willing to put up with. You could insist that thumbnails submitted be a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Structures Web-URL: (URL) Covered Bridge Name: Frank Buiting A covered bridge. I've put up pictures in two colourschemes because I'm not sure if brown 1x8 tiles exist. I have build parts of it with real LEGO but I don't have enough to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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First a few of my youngest sister's models: Category: Medium building URL: (URL) Converted Warehouse Design: Katrine Sparre Andersen Comment: A warehouse that later was converted to an apartment. Category: Medium building URL: (URL) Blue no. 4 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) small (...) Yeah, I think in a while I will go over what's in the categories to date and update the guidelines to fit them. As a first go at this contest, I'm making it up as I go along :-) Kevin ---...--- (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Kevin Wilson writes: ... (...) Well Kev, here's another question you'll have to make up the answer to on the fly: remember the Optimus Prime in LEGO that I brought to VLC? Are we allowed to enterr transformable mecha (in vehicle form (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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A. Mark Wilburn wrote in message ... (...) I'd say it would be fine to enter it as a vehicle. Just gimme links to the vehicle pics and we'll ignore its Mr Hyde persona :-) Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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A couple entries: Large vehicles: (URL) Diablo 6.0 Bram Lambrecht Complete with working headlights, motorized steering and rear wheels, spare tire, 6.0 liter V12, comfortable interior, and opening doors. Large vehicles: (URL) Time Machine Bram (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: (I don't know which category - small building?) Title: City X'ers Head Quarters URL: (4 URLs) Jacob Sparre Andersen Description: Design office and exhibition area for City X'ers back in the 90'ies. Category: Small cars Title: City X'er Box (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message ... <snip> (...) bricks. (...) I can't get the link to work for this one Jacob, even adding a ".jpg" onto the end. What should it be? Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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I would like to submit a model for town building contest please. I've enclosed the necessary data below. Thanks. Fredrik Category: Small vehicles Web-Url: (URL) Articulated rig Your name: Fredrik Glöckner Short description of model: Steerable 6-wide (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) (URL) .sig at the moment. (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Here is another entry: Large Building (URL) Brad Hamilton This is a natural history museum showcasing a wide variety of exhibits. Kevin Wilson <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:G6oD3o.B8z@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) Well, the first flood of entries seems to have slowed to a trickle. This is where we stand so far: (URL) Town Layout (6) (URL) Diorama (3) (URL) Large building (16) (URL) Medium building (21) (URL) Small (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin i would like to enter my "Midfeild Terminal" in the large building catagory (URL) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I have posted new (better) pictures at Brickshelf: (URL) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Boats Title: Rowing boat URL: (URL) Jacob Sparre Andersen Description: This is the original launch for the sailing ship Luna. Inspired by a LEGO exhibition, I built it "sideways". Play well, Jacob -- No .sig at the moment. (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Link isn't working.CWLeach (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Supertrain has been good for my town building... Here's three more entries: Split-level home small building (URL) simple split level with attached garage. Loosely based on a house I can see from my living room. Rural Schoolhouse Medium (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message ... (...) Let me know when the link works, Jacob, and I'll add it to the page. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) store: (URL) auctions: (URL) Lego Web (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Category: Medium Building Web-URL: (URL) Red Barn Your Name: Thomas Main Short Description of model: A countryside red barn with many features for playablility such as a working winch, sliding barn door, removable roof, removable top section, and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Hi everyone, Here is my first try in the Town show: Large Building link: (URL) link: (URL) wrap has caused this to drop a line. Cut and paste in browser bar.) I also have the DAT files on hand for anyone who may want to see. I'm still acclimateing (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: (...) Strange that you have problems. I posted through the web interface and remembered to check the link before I committed the article. - And I _know_ that it is correct! But have a look at (URL) not a valid URL) or go to (URL) choose (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Looks like a jump.cgi problem... If I click on the link, it doesn't work; if I cut & paste it into the address bar, it works. James (redirecting to .admin.general) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general)
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message ... (...) Kunne ikke finde resoursen (...) I get the Shipping page, but whn I click on the rwoing boat pic I get ---...--- ---- "Not Acceptable An appropriate representation of the requested resource (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Sorry for all the problems with locating my rowing boat. Now it should - no matter what languages you have told your browser you know - be available at: (URL) well, Jacob -- No .sig at the moment. (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Large aircraft URL: (URL) BAe 146 (two-engine cargo version) I had ideas for a new way to build wings and a retractable main landing gear, so I had to build an aircraft to put them on. The built model is a mess colour-wise, but I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Here are some more entries: Large Building (URL) is a combination train/monorail transit terminal Diarama? (It will be a city once its filled in, but there are currently only 3 buildings): (URL) is the beginning of Bricktopia. It currently only (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Building (?) Title: Skyscraper under construction URL: (URL) My minifigs are busy building a skyscraper, but I am a little bit annoyed because they haven't given the planning authorities (me) a blueprint before they started. - But (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Vehicles Title: Family car Design: Tobias Jørgensen Building instructions: Jacob Sparre Andersen URL: (URL) A four-seated car. It runs on a boxer-engine, but it's not a Beetle. Play well, Jacob -- "simply because no one had (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Small vehicles Title: Formula One Racers Design: Jacob Sparre Andersen URL: (URL) Three Formula One racers inspired by <set:6335>, but built without the specialised bases used by the cars in that set. Play well, Jacob -- "simply (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Aircraft Title: Red Bird Mark II Design: Jacob Sparre Andersen (very much based on an official model) URL: (URL) The Mach II Red Bird had several shortcomings, which I have tried to something about. The Mark II has space for a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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Kevin: Category: Aircraft Title: Sal Colibri URL: (2 URLs) Jacob Sparre Andersen (inspired by Roger Leloup) Comment: In Roger Leloup's comic Yoko Tsuno, a nice little jet appears in the story "Le canon de Kra". For several years I have made attempts (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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(...) for "Sal Colibri" at: (URL) engine module and wings detatch for transport. LMKWYT Play well, Jacob -- The .sig hunter. (23 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)
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