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I was fooling around on Cinco De Mayo (after My tusken Raiders came in the mail) and I got this crazy Idea about zorro, so I threw together some buildings and dummied up these shots of "the Fox" keeping the peace in old California! All of the parts (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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Es magnifico! Me gusta mucho! (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Nice work! (...) Which set did the saddlebags come from (eg in (URL) )? (...) Sure do! Cheers Richie Dulin (23 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Richie, The Saddlebags are Fabuland pieces. The little motorcycles came with them, and so did a few animals, you can still find them on bricklink these days. (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Great work! I really think those adobe buildings come out good (where you use either white or tan and then have brown 1x1s sticking vertically to headlight bricks. That's a great idea. Question. In this picture: (URL) guy on the left is a (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Bruce, Good eye! The Torso is a Tusken raider torso, and here is the trick: Like a lot of the star wars torsos, it happens to be double sided! So in that pic you are actually seeing the front and the back of a tusken raider torso. I was really (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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!!! (URL) !!! >Jon Furman writes: >Thanks again sorry for rambling. Ramblin’ my gawd no man!!! Those were words of true enlightenment! >The Torso is a Tusken raider torso… >it happens to be double sided! This gives me even more incentive to get the (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Great work, Jon. I really like the architecture. Also I like how whenever you takes pictures of your creations, they are always in the thick of it. Action packed, so to speak. I like these two (1) in particular. (...) -Jason (1) (URL) Spears (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Man, did I ever. The adobe buildings with the log ends really drove home "old southwest" for me. Awesome work. LOTS of eye candy. This would have been a great Western entry for ISCC! (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Jon, That's great, you are the master of busy, exciting scenes. George (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Cool. I've been meaning to get that set. I did pick up the Jedi Duel set in part because both torsos are really appropriate for castle themes (and Yoda = more hobbit legs). Plus it's just cool to have a minifig Yoda. :) I want the Bounty (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) yellow, but it actually works great in this case! Looks like it's shot through a filter to give everything a hot, dusty, desert lighting. Very effective! Wonderful constructions, too, for such a short assembly time! --Dave (jot and jab) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) "Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Zorro. This bold renegade carves a Z with his blade, A Z that stands for Zorro!" Haha! This is great stuff. Takes me back to being a very young boy and my plastic sword (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Jon WOW-O-WOW!! Is that ever cool! (awsome, spectacular)I really liked how you used the Tusken Raider bodies and how those buildings where built. i like the intergration of that HP door frame! The whole town breathes south western style! wtb (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Great work, Jon, especially on the period architecture. Who would have guessed that Tusken Raider torsos would be ideal for banditos? As I looked through all the photos, I was trying to piece together a story - is there one? And I kept wiating for (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Originally there was a story, (that's how the "capitan" gets from the ground to the roof, as does zorro) But not all of the pictures turned out, and the story was admitedly "derivative of much other, much better, source material", so I axed it in (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Thanks Bruce, don't you wish you still had that sword! Oh and the mask would be nice too! Jon (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Dave, Thanks for the compliments, I was really trying to get a late afternoon feel, as a result, some of the shots turned out horrible, that's why there is no coherent storyline, just snapshots of the sets. Thanks again. Jon (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Thanks George, I was hoping that TLG would give us another Idea book sometime, those books were little inspirational leaflets for my first Lego adventures as a kid! Jon (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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I never have any good ideas at the right time, the inspiration but hit's me way after everyone else I guess! Thanks again Larry! Jon (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Thanks Jason, I appreciate your feedback! It's encouraging. Jon (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Are my in-print stylings not enough? (URL) most of that old European stuff from my early years is embarassing. Too much accordian and too little bagpipes, if you know what I mean. -Rev. Smith @8^) (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) * * * * * * * Great job! Looks like someone else stays up late at night watching Zorro Reruns on the Disney Channel. Excellent recreation!!! Ray (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Oh hey, can't speak for Jon, but that's what *I* was refering to: the reruns. Not the original run. No, no, no. Bruce (vowing not to recite TV songs that date him again) Happy trails to you, until we meet again.... Put another candle on my (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Sorry for being foolish but it that there is really some kind of device as a "brick separator" or it's just a joke? Jackie (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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Oh yes, there is a brick separator. it gets plates unstuck from bricks and other plates, it's available from shop at home, it looks dorky but it saves your nails teeth and bricks! (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Now there's something you don't hear often enough! :) Bruce (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Thanks for telling me Jon. It should be useful and I should buy one when I order from Lego.com next time. Sometimes it's really difficult to separate e.g. 2 1x1 or 1x2 plates. Jackie (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.western)
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(...) It annoyed the hell out of me for about 10 seconds when looking at the first picture, but then it was just like I was watching a film from cirka 1960 with technicolor all over it. I'm sure if you did a motion picture on this set you'd shoot it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.western)
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(...) There is something called a Brick Sepearator nd it does just that. Since I stopped playing regularly with Lego bricks as a kid I've used a hobby knife to separate bricks without leaving a mark on the outside surface. Found a couple of those (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.western)
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