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(...) I'm returning from my self-imposed exile just to say how awesome this moc is. If it was on the shelf at a store, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It's better than 90% of the dreck I was looking at in TLG's Winter catalog last night. Great job! - (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build)
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In lugnet.boats, Mike Crowley wrote: (URL) Weird, I'm suprised you're not getting an overwhelming response for this. The attention to detail is amazing. The whole thing really comes together nicely, which isn't so easy at mini-fig scale. Felix (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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Hey Marc, This is great! I'm flattered to have any role in inspiring this. I like the computer soluton you used. It's so readily recognizable even without using printed tiles for the keys or screens. Why the stubbies? Does this reflect an actual (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) The (URL) Tribunal> has 3 different types of airlocks. There's the sealing door airlock that uses martian arms as a double-hinge mechanism to allow the door to seat into the frame: (URL) There's the standard plate hinge door that is used all (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) This one? (URL) --Dan (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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Hi Peter, Here's an airlock I came up with. The pics are in sequence as the minifig enters the airlock, steps on the rotating plateform, and exits the airlock into the ship: (3 URLs) Basically, the airlock is a half-cylinder piece on a turntable. (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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Hey Mike, This is great! I love the chrome gold highlights on the furniture and the lobster design, especially. Good to see the vignette craze spreading. :) Bruce (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jocke, I really like the whole concept. I had to look twice at the angled walls beside the windows. The third time I discovered it were really slopes. I've never seen hat before and think it's very nice! My favorite: (URL) of the nie colour (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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"Daan Bargerbos" <daan62@xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:I5M95F.3H2@lugnet.com... snip (...) Thanx! The pictures were taken last year, and I rebuilt the house last winter: (URL) not finished though, because I could not find a solution for making (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, there's always this: (URL) been able to modify it to use a 6 x 6 radar dish instead of the 4 x 4. I don't have instructions, but and MPD can be found here: (URL) alternative that I have done can be found here: (URL) The pictures leave a (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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(...) As cool as the 8x8 radar dish hatches look, placing them so they swing outwards is a major engineering mistake, since you'd have higher pressure pushing it open instead of closed. Of course, that's just a hatch, not a full airlock. I think the (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(URL) An archway is secured at dawn by a Clone trooper unit> without any incident in preparation for an assault at the Separatist forces. A squad of ARC troopers appear to have a special mission to undertake well ahead of the advancing Republic (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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"Erik Varszegi" <erik.varszegi@ameri....lego.com> wrote in message news:I5LoyH.1DJD@lugnet.com... (...) have (...) months (...) construction, it (...) all (...) that (...) we (...) <snipped press release> (...) mine. Fantastic news Erik, Minilands (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hello Joakim Olsson, thanks for your compliments, and I've got to say: you made quit a nice building using lattice fences and headlight bricks. But I agree with you on the windows becoming too bulky. If you could get rid of the bulky bricks, (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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Great stuff! I'm planning on visiting the show this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. It will be my first Lego-related event, as small as it may be :-) DJ "deborah higdon" <higdon-leblond@rogers.com> wrote in message (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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this saturday & sunday, oct 16, 17, parlugment participates in its second local train show. (URL) building all summer & into the fall, i've completed some mocs for the show. among them are an 18-hole mini-putt golf course, inspired by my 12-yr-old (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, FTX)
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Frank, I was looking through your Brickshelf Gallery again, and I gotta say that the (URL) "Jugde"> really is one of my favs, of yours. (URL) It really is interesting and the construction is off the hook! e (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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The Admiral has been locked inside his swanky cabin so long, I think the poor old fellow is going a little crazy. But, at least he's got a nice room to go nuts in. (Heck, insanity is a great way to pass the time!) ;-) (URL) -Mike "Count Blockula" (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.pirates, FTX) !!
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This has probably turned up before, but I wanted to know how people recommend that closing airlocks should be created. I may not use any of your ideas, but I would like to know what techniques there are. I am interested particularly in airlocks that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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snip (...) I think it looks great! Here is a not finished house the used another solution: (URL) used the "headlight piece" to do it. The windows got to small and bulky so I abandoned the idea and rebuilt the whole house, because I wanted the house (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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I didn't spell Graeters correctly. Their main web site is here: (URL) article about the location I'm talking about is here: (URL) believe this is a picture of the location I'm thinking about: (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Very nice. It reminds me of a local ice cream shop that's also in an older building. It's a Graters here in Cincinnati, OH. Everyone who's lived in the Cincinnati area knows about Graters. They still make their ice cream by hand. They were (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Birch reworked
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Hello! While I was dedusting some old MOC (Boy, was that necessary!) the birch collapsed. It's a somewhat gracile structure. Looking at what it had looked like before I asked myself: Is that what a birch really lokks like? I answered it myself, (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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I've finally made pictures of my (almost ;-) finished pyramid. I've used slopes everywhere now, ecxept for the top. Also the tiles are now all in tan. Here are two deeplinks: (URL) me know what you think! thanks and best regards Daan Bargerbos (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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Using the lattice windows for church buildings often gave me the feeling of coming up with too small or too low windows. Looking for solutins I came up with three variations. I. With this picture in mind: (URL) can help me out where this one came (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Does Cap'n Ahab have a vertical, orange stripe?
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(...) Maybe other minifigs have been using his head as an orange juicer. It's enough to turn anyone to a life of crime. (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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After seeing the great library-themed creations from (URL) Hietbrink> and (URL) Hoffman>, I was motivated to take pictures of a couple of MOCs based on scenes from the library where I work: (2 URLs) I'd love to know what you think (especially any (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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(...) I bought two of these sets and my Capt figs also have the orange stripe. When I first saw it, immediately I thought, hmmmmmm must be a misprint. Even when I use my imagination to the best of its ability, I refuse to considered it a scar. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Looking for ideas on using blank "minifig heads"
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(...) Ooh, that brings up an even better idea. The black ones could be used as part of a Star Wars: The Magic of Myth tour, where various notable outfits were placed on near-black manaquins. The trickiest one to reproduce, of course, would be the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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Hello! (...) It's Captain Ahab after all. He is meant to have a scarface. I suppose the orange stripe is there on purpose. Bye Jojo (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Out of this set <set:7045 "Hovercraft Hideout">, this minifig head ("(URL) had a vertical, orange stripe running down its left (i.e., "dexter") side. So, I called LEGO Consumer Affairs and let them know what was wrong ("He's got an extremely (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . .
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(...) It's a wonderful tribute to a wonderful man. A tribute for Christopher Reeve that brought a tear to my eye was over at PVP.com Anyway, nicely done. Dave K (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dave, I don't think they're from any official sets. I got them from a Red Letter Days event at Legoland Windsor some time ago. The parts were in a selection of sweepings from the model shop floor. Pete (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Superman! (2 URLs) Christopher Reeve played a hero on screen but was even more heroic in his life. Here's my little tribute. I can't take any credit for the fig design, BTW. I've seen others use that exact same combination. Bruce (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX) !!
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| | Re: The Grim Reeper's got a new ride!
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(...) Mmmmmm, skulls. Your Lord and Master, 3GA (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX)
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(...) They're good for making minifigs from faceless corporations (especially the black). (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: The Grim Reeper's got a new ride!
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(...) Well, considering it's almost Death on wheels, I think it's pretty darn cool! It's good to see you building..been a while. Or I've been asleep. Joe Meno .space paparazzi! (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX)
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(...) Ooooo, cool! Where did you pick up those nifty pieces in dark grey? Hinge Bar 2 with 3 Fingers and Top Stud (2433): (URL) Minifig Signal Holder (3900): (URL) I see a couple of 'em on BrickLink I guess... were these released in an actual set? (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) What do I think? This little guy is just plain sarcopha-licious. Happy Halloween, Brian (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX)
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For the Halloween contest at the last BayLUG meeting, I built this little MOC in a couple hours. (4 URLs) Let me know what you think! --Bram (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.baylug, FTX) !
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