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I've settled on the colours after fiddlin with the CAD format of the spit, it's either going to be brown and green mixed together, or tan and green mixed. Neither of them look half bad IMO. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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Glad to have been of help. My other passion is the study military aviation. Mike out (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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Copy of August 1, 2001 notice from rebelscum.com: Build Your Own LEGO Yoda Dustin: Corey Sanders reports that he has finally completed and posted for everyone to see his MLCAD instructions for building your own LEGO Yoda. This is identical to the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks! Great pages with lots of pics! I've gotten about a three foot pile of books on WWII aircraft and spits over the past two weeks so I'm up to my knees in resources ( literally!) Thanks for the idea! I'm toying now with using lots of 1x1 plates (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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Great I'm looking forward to seeing pics! Doh! I forgot your site when I made up the list of links for the hopefully soon to be created build.military, your blackhawk is way cool! -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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Geordan, I found some info on a modelling page. Check this page out (URL) are some color photos of some spitfires under the aircraft reference section, and some profiles a bit lower down under the heading "Camouflage and Markings of No. 74 Sqn RAF (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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Cool! Ever since the minifig sculpture set came out, I've been thinking about how to build a gigantic scale version of one of the standard LEGO elements. Those pics are exactly what I had in mind. Rather than make a modified version of 3723, this (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Back at long last
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Cool, Its nice to have you back and active. Dave Johann <hardcoredj@techie.com> wrote in message news:GHFruF.D3D@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) for 7 (...) The site (...) give (...) items (...) touch, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.people)
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(...) Yeah I thought of making the spitfire two tone of tan and green or something like that, but the results aren't very apealing, it is impossible to get smooth camo lines with lego, that's why I figured that I may do decals instead, I'm still (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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I hope I'm not stealing any thunder... but in my usual nosing around in the BrickShelf recent gallery I ran across this (URL) nifty! I think what I like best is that the stuff appears to actually lock together at this large scale!!! (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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I've come across maybe two or three Navy MOC's. A few submarines, and even a couple of modern navy aircraft carriers but practically zero Frigates or Destroyers. After searching long and hard on Lugnet and Brickshelf I determined it was time to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: What colour should a Supermarine Spitfire be?
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Geordan, Most Wartime Spitfires were of a brown, and 2 shade green color, while Photo recon spits were a pale blue shade. Some USAAF and RAF spitfires as well as RN seafires were in a pale grey color that the light grey lego shade approximates very (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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Good, I am glad it's not my service acting up. I will have to keep an eye on it for when it comes back up. Sarah (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Very nice site design, I think that the blood asp is the best one yet! along with the Grizzly too. Good work! -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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Right now it is green overall with the underside of the wings and fuselage in light grey. It also has D-day invasion markings on the bottom as well ( black and white stripes on the bottom rear part of the fuselage) At this point lego doesn't make a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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(...) ...Excellent site! Mind if I link it from Jain's? (www.wildbrick.com) (...) --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com jains.has.it <-- Jain's Guide www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the wildlinks Start planning for BrickFest (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) ...A UCS Valkyrie or UCS Macross would be to die for... Now I'm going to be stuck thinking about that all day... --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com jains.has.it <-- Jain's Guide www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Hi Dave, welcome back! I expect to see a *lot* from you! BTW the site looks great. Very clean design. The bio looks good too, very long and interesting. - Mladen Pejic (...) 7 (...) site (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.people)
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(...) I wasn't thinking about the scale constraints. I was thinking about the practical constraints. For example, if you actually want the train to be useful in a layout, it must be able to negotiate the tight curves. It must also have some kind of (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If I were to get into trains, I would probably follow John Neal's example and ignore all the constraints... (...) Thanks! (...) They haven't come after me yet! I just realized that I don't think I have any disclaimers on my pages either! :) (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.build)
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