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(...) Look carefully at the edge of some of the coats - very thin. Probably paper or some kind of material. Others possibly could be plastic "clay" (Sculpey and the like). I'd guess a variety of techniques, but the picture quality and size is not (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Oh that's just great. Some innocent minifig tries to check his mailbox and... BOOM! A missile straight into his little hollow head. -- dataAndrew (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) Toothpaste seems to work also. Supposedly Tarter Control Toothpaste has more abrasive in it so it works better, I still have some work to finish one the one soccer fig I am removing the '1' from the back of. You can only see where the '1' was (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Thanks for pointing those out Bruce. Some of the hats and vests had the same "shine" as the ABS. Do you think the creator did some plastic molding type of work? Those are some pretty incredible designs. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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To All, (...) as (...) Interesting, this makes LEGO elements truly unique, as many different people can use these parts for different things. I use these parts, or have used them, like this: Equipment lockers, mailboxes, hazardous storage (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) Missile bays/launchers (i.e. like on the cyclones in Robotech) John (making the trip from castle.ninja) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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Request fulfilled. That will be $15, please. Travis Dickinson (URL) Link to updated Golem page provided on the home page. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) To clarify: I mean that the photo doesn't show his curves very well. He is actually a lot more curved than that, but the photo was not from the best angle. --Bill. (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I'm sorry to hear that. Don't let me stop you though. I picked a fairly easy posture for him - try making a sculpture of Pikachu in a more difficult pose, or something. (...) Thanks! --Bill. (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Of course they're blocky - they're made entirely of LEGO bricks. Bulbasaur isn't quite as square in the flesh, as it were. I don't agree about the red spot - where have you seen that? See my comment below about the colors. (...) The stripes (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Maybe the boxes in the ship were actually mailboxes. -- dataAndrew (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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for those of you who are innarested in design as well as lego i found out recently that Robert McCall (NASA, EPCOT) and Ralph McQuarrie (Star Wars, etc) and Syd Mead (2010, Aliens, etc) all came out of the same design school which explains why their (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) heh heh, I just picked up 6416 Poolside Paradise and it uses an equipment locker as a mailbox ROFL go figger ;-) -paul (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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To be honest, I don't know. I used a bunch of bricks from my already-sorted collection. I did the math and figured out that if you use 1xn bricks doubled up (I used all 2xn bricks except for 1x2's) you could accomplish a similar sculpture using, I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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Very cool! I have a (non-Lego) friend here at work who will go nuts over this. How many tubs did it take? -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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No, Pikachu's stripes (as well as the base of his tail) are brown. I should know, as I had been researching pictures of Pikachu for the last couple of days to do my own version of the sculpture that I would've started this weekend, had I not seen (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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(...) before gawking at the pics. :-, I'd love to get my hands on the MPD for this -- there's lots of grooviness happening in the torso and back area that looks way cool. Ooh ooh hey -- is there any chance you could re-image my A91 with your color (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I think it needs a really big cannon to point at things. :^) ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Is this where I plead the fifth amendment? No, seriously, though, I keep trying to do silly stuff like build lockers using car doors. I just never think of "open downward" as opposed to "open sideways". -JDF (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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Can you say "I'll Be Back" ? very Terminatorish! and very very cool! cg-88@home.com Eric Sophie <Legomaster@gobi.com> wrote in message news:GB96J6.Dzq@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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