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(...) Still Tony, you did a great job. Forgive me for not saying so earlier, I was trying to remain impartial just incase of 12, 12 hour entries. Really, you not only made a cool set of Mocs, they have real functionality to boot. Realistic. Well (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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'Cause bots don't just pop out of the ground: (URL) BOT FORGE 01: Final Assembly (URL) BOT FORGE 02: Diagnostic Center Enjoy. Soren (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide - Completed
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(...) How can thee lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide when you left out two very important people from the builders list 1) Yutaka Minowa "Mino" who is a genuis just click on the link and his work speaksfor itself (URL) and B) This guy (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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You are a crazy mo-fo...all those jar-jar heads and snowshoes...I don't know how you do it. Seriously E, the train/head rocks...you continue to amaze. Another great addition to your mechasylum. -Keith (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) WAHH! (...) I can't argue with that. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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The lugnet.build.mecha News Group Reader User Guide has been completed. lugnet.build.mecha (URL) News Group User Guide The goal of the User Guide is to familiarize new and current readers with the norms found in this newsgroup. Tips on posting, tips (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: A newly discovered part that may be useful to trainheads, et al
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In lugnet.build, Ray Sanders wrote: Images are now located at ... (URL) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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(...) Hello, regretably I did not promote the contest and respose was low because it was not executed properly. Thusly I must cancel the contest. Many thanks to those who did participate as well as offered to donate the prize. Please undertand with (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) The (URL) "What-is-Mecha?"> section of the lugnet.build.mecha User Guide is 90% completed and I am writing the remaining sections now. Parts Library images and other revisions are fourth comming. Eric Sophie co-curator lugnet.build.mecha (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) This thread has stuck in my mind for a while. First, a better link to the picture I meant to show in my original reply. (Bad form, I know... replying to my own post, but I'm fixing a poor FTX posting and adding new info... and using a new (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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(...) It's been awhile since i posted on here but I just had to comment on your bot. Very Cool! You have become an expert. And I also have to ask what was the inspiration for using the dino bodies as shoulders and legs? :) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) but how many Clickits will there be? (...) Esoteric, hardly It's from the Simpsons. the episode where the B-Sharps feature. Barney decides to take Babershop to "Strange new places". In Moe's Tavern his Japanese conceptual artist girlfriend (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) It's good to see that I'm still known. (...) You are definitely right, I think I'm gonna lurk around a bit more... although I've moved on to an art form that isn't limited by Gravity. Oz (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Nice Mech man. Have you done this before? (...) I'm glad to see you're getting back into pneumatics. I'm hoping to buy a Star Destroyer at BrickFest for cheap. I hear it's got 435,231 T's, 237,465 switches, 4 pistons and 2 2" hoses. Awesome! (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) You got it all right. Except for the 29,003 right side wedge plates. Ok the hips are a simple worm gear set up using technic triangle plates and worm gears paired to 24 tooth gears. 2x4 plates with technic holes secure them. See here: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Hey wow, Oz, good to hear from you! (...) Thank you, thank you. (...) I do! Don't go away! This group needs all the support it can get, we make this place what it is. Nobody ever forget that! (...) e (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thank you! I always enjoy hearing from you TM. Mecha on the brain. Really, I enjoy looking towards the future. So that is why I build Mech. I believe in a time when we learn to master this kind of technology. Lego, puts the raw essentials in (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You got me, I fluffed it a little. But really its seven feet tall! Really it is. Ya-huh. (...) The Mech is straight forward. I think there is a bit of elegance involved in making it functional yet estetic. Using 790,000 left monkey arms is no (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) If they were the same size as the real thing, I'd label them as 'lifesize' scale. Based on your comments I'd call them 1/2 lifesize or 1/4 lifesize. (...) I wouldn't. I have always thought of macro as lifesize or more often even larger. Based (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: I'm gonna drive there and get them - Biff and Sandy Retrieval Ship
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(...) Well... *if* this contest is still on, here's my entry. Name: Tony Hafner Web Page, Brickshelf Gallery, MOCpages, etc.. Where entry can be seen: BrickShelf: - (URL) MOC Name, James Bond Mission Story: The ship is Friendship 2004, and the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.contests)
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Check out this really neat folder on Brickshelf: (URL) creator calls it "microscale" but I think most would agree it's not really microscale (smaller than minifig scale). Instead these animals are sculpted at a scale much closer to real than minifig (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) snip (...) You did a great job with the (URL) photo> e. It was like a clinic in big-mech joint-tech. I could make out what looked like a worm gear-large gear pairing for the "jumping-jack" movement of the shoulders, throwbot gear boxes for the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Hey All, I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I noticed this when I grabbed a few white 2x2 round plates for a project I'm working on: (URL) (the left being the older version) I think this has been brought up about some Technic (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, FTX)
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Great Job Sir Eric. It's always great to see what you do with the good brick. (I wonder if anyone remembers who I am... well, time to disappear again). Oz (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Dude, you've got the fever. the Mecha Fever. And frankly, I don't think you should be cured, for if you were, we would never see creations such as this. I really liked the World City train head, and the light-up eyes. Not that Mecha design was (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Dude, stop lying. I counted no more than 750,000 monkey arms. And you're still about 200,000 fig parts short of 1 million. I counted. You're just showing off, liar. Seriously though, coooooool I like that head piece. Fits your style nicely. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | The 4511 Mechsperiment
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C'mon!, You know I had too! (URL) The 4511 Mechsperiment> (URL) Some time ago, I just knew what I had to do. So finally did it. (URL) I used 1 million Mini-figs in this seven foot tall Mecha. It features 780,002 left monkey arms and 425 left white (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: B.I. Joe...relaunched!
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(...) So! Much! Fun! I love it! Jake --- Jake McKee Webmaster - (URL) BIP> (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Greetings! B.I. Joe now has a new home all to it's own.... (URL) All the content has been migrated over, as well as a couple new sections. Take a gander, let us know what you think. New updates to be rolling out soon. Cheers, Gil & Jamie (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Hmmm, let's see. Small four stringed instrument. That's not a guitar. That's a ukelele! A very nicely modelled ukelele though, although perhaps the 'waist' is a little narrow. Gettin' soulfull with that ukelele! (URL) Allister (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Very Cool Lynyrd, well done, now do the dog too! Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(URL) Guitar is a MOC, but the Dog is not> DUH -Lord Lenyusama (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(URL) I can't wait until October when I get to display this with a string of missiles coming out of its butt... (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX) !
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(...) Wow, thanks Aaron. You know, there are a few of those models I would gladly claim as my own (of course, the kids would never let me get away with that). As for the stained glass, I'm actually working on a series of them, I have another one to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: MOCs and comic-- Two Princes in ABS.
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(...) The full state dinner implied by the drinks after set would be a fun project all on its own. Amber's main hall should have one of every thing by definition. ;-) (...) I played with that a bit by building right from the text. but it got too (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build)
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(...) talking with rooms as the backdrops, etc.). Some of the sequences elsewhere in the books might be quite hard (like in the first book when Corwin is driving a car toward Amber and everything changes, and changes, and changes) to capture well. I (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Ha! You can't trick me into buying one of those sets. Allister (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The best use that i could think of when i first saw them was magazines/clips for weapons on mechs. I still havent experimented with that. (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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<snip> (...) Bugger me that is some nice work. My fav is definantly the first one (green house) so simple but so perfect. Now I just wish I had more of the cockpit windows. Every one of the models is easily reconisable and perfectly done, a credit (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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