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(...) Ooops... You know what? You're right! I think I mixed up a couple different posts in my head. Yes, it was Kevin's suggestions I was thinking of. Thanks! (...) Ditto! Allan B. (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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(...) AND Kevin S.!!! he had more suggestions than I did. :-) (...) Three good ones! You forgot one more: 4. (at least this works in town and trains) scale the scale back.. Dial up the selective compression... make that model office building only 4 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think the subject of money has been covered elsewhere in the thread. But the subject of time can also be a tough nut to crack. Finding time can sometimes be hard but it can be done, as sure as you can find time to change the oil in your car, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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(...) -Major Snippage- (...) To further what Larry P. mentioned in a previos post, as well as Kevin Salm's above... I've had the experience of placing my own 32 foot long cable-stayed suspension bridge of 33,000 LEGO pieces in the front window of a (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Welcome aboard, Dave! I don't have much to add to the wisdom already dispensed on this thread, but here are a few other suggestions to help you in your building (some of these may be repeats). 1. Start with a cool first name. (You seem already (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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I got to see this in person at NWBC 2003. It rocked my pants then, and it rocks my pants now. The use of dirty clear and trans-orange parts for scales is too cool. I always look at sculptures like this with a certain awe, hopefully soon I'll have (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Nick (...) I have no idea what the size of my collection is, other than it's a bit bigger than comfortably fits in the room it's in (which currently also houses me and a laptop, which shall soon expand to a full-sized pc workstation). I bought some (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Dave, As someone who is slowly getting back into building, the biggest turning point in getting back on the horse was sorting my collection. It was less than 40k pieces at the time, and it took a while, but here are the benefits: - In "dustin' (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build)
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Well, just for look see. Thought i'd post a link to a sculpture I completed not too long ago. Japanese Kohaku Koi with the Sandan pattern (URL) is roughly 3 1/2 ft in length. It has probably the right body mass size for a real koi of mature age, of (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general) !
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(...) Many great suggestions by others..... I do a lot of mutations. Start out with something, get and an idea on how to change it, change it. Try something else throw it out, try again. Don't expect that it will come out just the way you want the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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