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I have completed another building to include in the MichLTC portion of the ILTCO layout planned for the NMRA 2007 National Train Show to be held in Detroit on July 28 - 30th. This MOC is a model of the Griswold Building, a midrise structure designed (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) WOW! The building itself is a great MOC, but what surprised me even more was the quality of your photo work... the thumbnail on the LUGNET front page made me think it was a picture of the real building. VERY nice! Jan-Albert van Ree (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever. I think I speak for everyone when I ask: But can you build anything smaller? Besides the car, that is (which, to be fair, is actually building bigger as far as our club goes). Anyways, does this mean it wasn't fully (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for your comments. Besides trying to emulate the proportions of real buildings with my MOCs, I try to photograph them in natural light from typical street level vantage points in an attempt to add realism. One unfortunate problem is (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Dave: Was that first one a rhetorical question? If not, do you not remember my Brush Park victorian and my 8x8 stud vignette: Harry Potter and the run-away mine car? The building was 99% complete when I brought it to the last MichLUG meeting. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) From the thumbnail on the Lugnet front page, I thought this was a photo of a real building that the MOC was based on. I'm pretty much a space guy, but this MOC amazes me. Great work! -Dan Rubin (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Mostly good-natured ribbing. I mean, consider the fact that while you may not be able to claim having the tallest building in a town display (I have no idea who might hold that record at present), you've quite possibly got a claim on having (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Just stunning. Great details and excellent use of colors, both old and new. Another thing I really like about this is that it is not a huge skyscraper. It is the type of building, in my view, that will be on a layout but not necessarily be the (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) A 2 word review: "Hubba, Hubba!" (...) Ditto. JOHN (17 years ago, 11-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the comments! I would probably be a spacer if I wasn't so interested in architecture. I read a lot of SF and have some old dusty plastic spaceship models hanging up in my house. Have you seen my only Lego space effort (Bab5 Hyperion (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! While this building is not exactly small at three feet high, I did think that the Lego Detroit skyline would look a bit funny with no medium sized buildings to transition between the skycrapers and the two and three story buildings. (...) (17 years ago, 12-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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"Jim Garrett" <jsgarrett@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message news:JJEot4.5Ay@lugnet.com... (...) Jim: Another wonderful depiction of a great building. One question - when looking at the building from the front, at the top, you have what appears to be two (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jun-07, to lugnet.town)
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Most people don't realize that before the depression Detroit was percentage wise the fastest growing city in the world, and surprisingly has the 3rd largest collection of pre-depression skyscrapers in the country (after New York and Chicago)!! It (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jun-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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