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(...) Thanks Joe! I always try to put something in that isn't that obvious. Hey maybe you can build your Apache with LDD and send it in for the contest... Of what I can remember most parts are available! Nate (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Is lego *truly* unlimited? (some thoughts)
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I was just wondering today about how much lego is trumpeted as having an 'unlimited' number of possibilites. Now I'm no math whiz, but it seemed logically impossible to me. So here's some food for thought for the gurus out there to digest and make (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: microscale creations (castle, hospital, and more)
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Mark-- Very impressive! My favorites are the marketplace, the urban scene, and the waterfall. I especially like the way you have rendered your vehicles, particularly the trains! --Muze (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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(...) Hey, I hadn't thought of that. Its kinda hard to do complex stained glass in this scale. :) Anyway, maybe Bill Gates is starting his own religion? Everyone is welcome to come in, and stay there forever! Mwahahahaha! -Alfred (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Brick Testament: Story of Christmas in Entertainment Weekly
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This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (10 December 2004, with the cast of Ocean's Twelve on the cover) features a small piece about (URL) The Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas> on page 101. A photo from the book is reprinted, with the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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(...) That's really cute, Alfred. I like it a lot. But what's with all the Microsoft "Windows" on the church? Heh. Just kidding. :) -Brendan (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: microscale creations (castle, hospital, and more)
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Oops, wrong deep links, try these until the folders are public: Castle: (5 URLs) Hospital: (8 URLs) Marketplace: (6 URLs) Street corner: (7 URLs) Urban scene: (11 URLs) Waterfall: (9 URLs) Mark (...) <snip snip> (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | microscale creations (castle, hospital, and more)
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Hi all, I'm usually more of a lurker but the Legofactory contest has really gotten me intrigued with building in microscale. I've posted some of my creations so far on Brickshelf (deep links): Castle: (URL) The first MOC I created using LDD (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Incredible Ohio Stadium Model!
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(...) The whole text ran, with pictures, but no author, in this week's Den Danske Pioneer (Danish Pioneer), which has a soft spot for Lego articles. It was sandwiched between recipes like Røget Sild (excuse to eat pumpernickel and kippers) and a (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid wheel explorations
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In lugnet.build, Ray Sanders wrote: Version 2: now I have hard points on one side to attach it to something... and I have complete clearance on the edge on the wheel... (URL) The two halves are held together with eight p/n 32207 ( apparently a ZNAP (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap, FTX)
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| | Re: Tank-killer..
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(...) Okay, I fixed it and added... (URL) with revised rotor and exhausts! Thank you and Steve D. for giving advice...the Apache is much better for it :-)! Joe (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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Hello everyone, This is both my first micro-scale MOC and my first Lego Factory entry. Here is my little description: This is an old New England Church. Several trees and a gazeebo make this a picturesque place to have a wedding. Several parishoners (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !
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| | Re: VIP treatment
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(...) Hey Nathanael, Looks great! Lots of details. Good looking building. Love the limo. Nice tree. Regards, Paul (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid wheel explorations
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(...) Several people have already done it, here's just one example: (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid wheel explorations
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I've been thinking, there's gotta be some way one could adapt one or two of those hailfire droid wheels for a turntable assembly, like for a crane project or to build a rotating restaurant on top of. Anyone got any ideas or photos that might help? (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Hailfire Droid wheel explorations
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Ray Sanders wrote: ... (...) That's what a power drill is for. :) Excuse me for a moment while I prepare for the inevitable onslaught. :) >> Mark (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Micro Salvage Sub
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(...) Well done - the micro sub looks really cool and I like that you made an environment for it, and an natural one at that...decaying ship, single cannon... you doing more? Just curious! Joe Meno .space paparazzi! (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Hailfire Droid wheel explorations
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The other night, I started exploring what uses can be made of the big gear wheel from the Hailfire Droid. Having plenty of ZNAP beams handy, I used a few of them as a gear box to hold the wheel. (URL) The first attempt was to use four 8-tooth gears, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap, FTX)
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| | Re: VIP treatment
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(...) Well, you made an impression! I took a look at this earlier toady and am simply amazed by the details you placed...the limo is a new permutation of the micr car, and it looks slick! I also like the tree (trees and organic shapes in micro are a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Micro Salvage Sub
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(URL) Click picture for description. (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX) !
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| | VIP treatment
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My first microscale creation for the LEGO factory contest, week 4. (URL) For more pics (URL) Imagine you could be a VIP for a day. Big black limousine, fancy hotel, everything is taken care of... I tried to put a lot of detail in it like street (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX) !
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| | Re: something 4 everyone: swooshable, rollable--lotsa new MOCs
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jeff Szklennik wrote: SNIP should be: (...) (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | something 4 everyone: swooshable, rollable--lotsa new MOCs
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Click on pics to get their respective galleries Planes & Spaceships: (4 URLs) Cars & Buggies: (4 URLs) 2 Boats, a house, a micro (MLcad, L3P & POV-ray rendered) Windmill, & a sea turtle: (5 URLs) AND a micro hover dumper, micro freighter & a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.boats, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Happy Holidays!!
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Happy Holidays... I teased on this a week or two back, and finally finished the my Christmas Tree. It's plate extensive, and has six "branch" levels and five "tiers", resting on a stump, and secured by only 4 studs. With the overall weight keeps it (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !!
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| | Pucca! Funny Love
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Hey all! Well, been busy with the holidays but have time to mess around with a few things... built upon a challenge from a friend, who wanted to see the Character "Pucca" in LEGO... (URL) about 10" tall and takes full advantage of Bruce Lowell's 6.8 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !
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| | Couple Bryce Rollins models built up and uploaded.
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Hey there folks, wanted to put up a note about some photos that I've uploaded concerning a couple models that I've recently built by that madman who builds without bricks, Bryce Rollins. I've had a ball putting his models together and the topper has (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Level 42 mosaic
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Hi all, The unglued "studs-up" one-stud-wide mosaic is finished: Level 42 - my favourite band from the eighties. (URL) Read the story on my (URL). Greetings, Maarten (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.loc.be, FTX)
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| | New Co-curator!
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Update: </build/mecha/curator (URL) A new co-curator for this newsgroup has been add: (URL) Daddy' Mark Neumann !!!>> (URL) List of Current Curators> Congrats! e (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Naboo AirSpeeder
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(3 URLs) It's fast, compact and deadly!> AC PS. Will be entered in the (URL) Military Hover-Vehicle Contest>. (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | LEGO Factory - Week 3: three models
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Hello all, I know it's almost the end of the week, but I thought I'd go ahead and post my three entries for Week 3. Greenhouse/Nursery (URL) I am disappointed that the LDD software does not allow certain combinations that are possible in real life. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Cornered roofs
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(...) Wasn't a railway water tower, but I've done a couple of roofs like this. First one was a seven sided building (based on an actual seven sided bank in Halifax). (URL) Uses 8x4 wings. Next was an octagonal barn (place to hide the code pilot (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Space Wheels Entry: Nezumi attack vehicle
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(URL) I hope I didn't miss the deadline for the Space Wheels contest (I sent the e-mail a little over 20 minutes ago). Anyways, I don't remember where I saw it, but the wheel design was actually inspired by an image showing how the 8x8 radar dishes (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Seeing a tree instead of the forest...
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(...) i would find an ldraw file usefull as well. i have a nice larger pine tree design made from 2 christmas kits that i made insturctions for but not all trees are pine's. a few oaks and other trees would be a welcome addition to my layout. (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: Seeing a tree instead of the forest...
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(...) you're most welcome, I do apologize for not posting who the tree came from. I guess the second part of my post that I just realized was this - I'd like to populate my town with those trees, and if someone had already done the legwork and put (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Space Wheels Contest - Closed
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The Space Wheels Contest is now closed. Thanks to all that entered - it was good to see so many new .spacers entering [1]. There have been some fantastic entries, not to mention some innovative approaches to the subject. Well done to you all. The (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Seeing a tree instead of the forest...
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(...) Wow, I'm honored. I still have the tree you referenced built, and if you'd like I can create it in LDraw and post it, so you can look at it closer. I've also got a better camera now that I can take larger and clearer pictures with. The key, I (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Seeing a tree instead of the forest...
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(...) Hey Timothy, Trees are tough, but key is to get the trunk can branches done and then add the foliage. That said, it would be great to see sets on this. Usually 6X6 studs is a good trunk size, but don't worry it takes alot of building and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Seeing a tree instead of the forest...
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First, I must apologize if this question is answered someplace that I overlooked. Okay, now here is my question - does anyone out there sell kits for large trees? (URL) to that effect? I've tried several times to build my own version of those types (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Tatsumaki
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(...) Wow, Marcus. You beat me to it. (I seem to write that on Lugnet a lot.) And it looks really good! I am not a mecha person -- I'm a bit too old, I guess. But my son loves giant robots, so I've been trying to build a few. I have a half-completed (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory entry: 3-Wide!
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(...) I have really been enjoying the Micro Mocs that have been created, but by far, the train theme ones are my favourite. I really like the detail you have added to the station, and the tracks. But I especially love the engine, looks nice and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory entry: 3-Wide!
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(...) Cool! I hadn't seen those. I really like the technique used for the 2-wide engine. Kelly (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: My first MOC to go public: Butters from South Park
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Great sculpture! I love that you included the throwing star in his eye. That episode is one of my favorites. Any chance you'll ever modify it into a Professor Chaos? (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Tatsumaki
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MC7 put new construction pictures of the Tatsumaki on Brickshelf: (URL) e (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Right on Jass' master. You feel the funkiness. (...) The Insectoids Tech is on loan. The only clause included in the treaty was NO BRASSO. But it sounds a lot more menacing in Insectoids speak: "Errrrshooooklamorer...razooooka. Vig." (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Hey thanks, I know what you mean. I too think a nice 1/4 stick of dynamite would make a nice blithering of parts in all directions. A nice pull back pan shot, then, Bam! But taking the tour before hand is important.I guess that would be the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Gobble, Gobble >Gulp<... Lots of Leftovers...
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Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Took a little time away, so didn't post this until recently... But Once we caught up to the Biod... Ooooo, look what a nice even brown...Well done! (URL) who want's dark meat? Now THAT's what I call a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !
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| | ESB Scene: Rescue Mission
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The protocol droid C3-PO seeks out Han to inform him that Luke has not returned to the base. To find his friend, Han sets out on a Tauntaun in the Hoth's snowy wastes, heedless of the dropping temperatures, which is likely to kill him. (3 URLs) (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I was hoping there was some new plate I hadn't found that had hollow studs. (...) I hadn't - what a clever roof! Seriously, that's the best thing I've seen in months. (...) You mean the click hinges? After you (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory entry: 3-Wide!
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(...) Maybe not so "new": (URL) Wow, that was a while ago! :-/ JOHN (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | More Butters Fun
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The following is my original post announcing Butters: (...) Butters was meant for Hobby Show 2003, but due to a miscommunication I missed that event... But we made it to Hobby Show 2004 (Good show guys!), which means it has done what it was built (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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Wow! Very impressive work, Eric! Dig those support vehicles too. My only gripe is you didn't Brasso off the UFO decals on those quarter saucer panels. Other than that, every detail in the facility looks just right. Word up. --Dan (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) Thanks Marc! (cool name, btw). The grey windowsill 1x2 center-stud plates (my favorite piece) are sitting on top of another red 1x2 center stud plate to get the 1/2 stud offset. One other useful trick is to put them on top of technic bricks. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Massive! I've greatly enjoyed your Mech Bays. This one ices the cake. This is exactly the sort of thing that we sit through the movie just to watch it get blown up in the end. I mean that in the most positive way. Oh, and way to use those (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | LEGO Factory entry: 3-Wide!
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LEGO Factory Entry for Week Three: BZPBinkmeister's 3-Wide! (2 URLs) More pictures and info> This train and station design is comprised of 641 pieces and weighs almost a pound. Micro indeed. Settled on four competition-regulation 8x8 green micro (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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(...) Very nice! And I hope that's dark red in the building - I'd love to be able to get that much dark red in one set. Looks like you're in the lead at the moment! A question: what are the 1x2 center-stud plates (the windowsills) sitting on? Marc (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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Cross posting my (URL) Town Hall> from lugnet.town to the Micro-Scale newsgroup. I didn't even know we had such a newsgroup - I just discovered it and there are some very nice models here.... Now I really want to build my model with actual bricks - (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) I'll see your skadoo and raise you 42. (...) Seemed like the natural thing to do. Skiddo. (...) Yes. Space Pidgeons. The X-pods got a home and contributed nicely. At some point they could be filled with lights or trans pieces or other (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) I'm busted! (...) Dragon flying super fist claw mech bay tech covert infiltrate style style! 'o doom......attack (...) e (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | 3vil Zathrak Anti-Personnel Light Mecha Assault Ship
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What? More 3vil so soon? Oh yes... it *is* the holidays after all, and seeing you cry like a muddy, friendless schoolgirl makes me almost jolly. To that end, I figured that instead of stuffing your stockings, I'd freem them off with the latest 3vil (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Aha! Now I know for certain that's Sophie on the left in this picture of my old lunar mech bay. He posed as one of my workers to acquire gear track technology. ;-) (URL) K (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Yes, (5 URLs) via.. (URL) I'd like to see other Mecha Builders create bays for their creations and use this standard. A small one plate module to house or provide a back drop for a mech is a cool thing. Makes a nice display. (...) Yay! Thank (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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Ahem, WOW This would be officially Skadoo-afific. The crane, two axis movement on geared tracks using gears for movement, nice! Big industrial looking thing, like a oil platform almost all business with god knows what embedded inside. It's the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) How about we calll it the Red Roof Carbon Fiber Inn. (...) Ahh yes, those. Technic thingie #305. Trebek, we meet again. Cool part. I used them on the support/offload cranes too. I'm glad I had even multiples of them. (...) lol, I figured that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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<Snip> Cool! Is this base something that can be connected to your other moonbase mecha modules? One big, pic with the three of your mecha bays would be so cool... Definitely like the vehicles you created...nice diorama feel to it all... But what's (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Brick Testament book signings in Sunnyvale, CA, and San Francisco
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Just wanted to let you guys know, I will be doing a couple of in-store book signing events for (URL) The Brick Testament: The Story of Christmas>. Come on by if you can make it. :) The first is this Saturday, December 4, at 2pm at the (URL) Books> (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.books, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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I like it. It somehow has an early 20th century industrial look to it (red brick and iron girders), rather than being futuristic. Really it's hard to describe the architectural style. Retro Lunar Industrial? You're using some weird technic bits in (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) I cobbled it together, ya know. Oh! btw, with many contributions from several sources. THANK YOU! (...) That's what I was going for! USE THE IRON HOOK THINGIE! (...) Yes, and wow to be compared to HIM! the almighty forge daddy himself! I did I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) Yay! Fun. Plus a home for the parts that combine to make the Moonbase. I like when parts in a collection finally become useful. Many parts waiting for long periods of time until they are used in a purposeful way. (...) Cool. I like all the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) -big snip- Wow! I hope I haven't used up all my superlatives on your excellent previous Mech Bays, because this one is now my favorite! I love the red/dk gray/gray/trans blue color scheme, fully articulated upper and lower maintanence arms, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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(...) <good stuff snipped> Eric: MOST Excellent. Emphasis on MOST. I particularly like the dark grey rendition of your 'little bot', and against all the red and dark grey back ground, it looks particularly good. My favs: The robotic repair arms that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Flinstones micro car by my Brother Paul
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(...) Hello, I saw it on brickshelf. It is cool. Goodbye, Joshua (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07
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Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07 - 1x3 Base Plate - Little Dark Grey Bot Repair Facility - The light transport Hover Fish and SV3 wheeled vehicle supply the Little Bot Bay with new parts and electronics. (2 URLs) Moonbase Module - Mech Bay 07 Hey gang, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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(...) Oooooo-tay. (...) Strange is good as it is beautiful. (...) Heck ya! That rocks! I asked Peter Jennings and he said it was the biggity bomb bad too! (...) drool. (...) Sweet, That pair of hands helps add to the synergy of the Mech. You could (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: GAT-X105 Aile Strike Gundam
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(...) Oh wow, I checked out the construction great job! (...) Fine choice I'd say. (...) Excellent. (...) I agree. It big, That's why I like it too! (...) Efforts for the next round? Incorporate in to future attempts? (...) LMAO, I get that too. hee (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Baltimore Battle Monument
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Snip. Very nice work, Mark. I have in general been impressed with the number and quality of AFOL entries in this, they're all very incredible! I'd consider giving it a try myself but I cannot get LDD to run on any of the computers in my house. (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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My entry for Week 3 of the (URL) LEGO Factory> contest, and the latest in a series of (URL) Micro Baltimore> creations: (URL) page>> It was quite a trial to get this one built in LDD - the program doesn't like non-standard placement of pieces. One (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Cleaning Bricks
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(...) Thanks Geoff!!!! (20 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.build)
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No, because dishwashers heat the water to way past 40 degrees C. Which will inevitably melt your LEGO bricks and probably stuff up your dishwasher. Washing machines that have a cold water cycle and a pillowcase half-full of LEGO are probably your (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Okay, I know I'm late getting in on this, but I had to say I'm a fan of all your B.I. Joe stuff, and the Killer Whale is no exception. When we were kids, my brother had the Cobra hydrofoil that was the counterpart to this hovercraft (which (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Ha! Ok, that is kind of scarier knowing the orgin of that. Ouch. I managed to find in a Ukrainian dictionary that Horod is a kind of battlement on a hill. But nothing on Ris. Probably means light. Therefore the staff'd be a stoplight and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) Worm gear count is eight. three in each leg, and one in each shoulder. The rest are mostly the new rotational click hinge. (...) I may be taking some more pics here, for my b-day I got a photography screen! No more taping the white sheets of (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Ah-ha! Hear that Sophie! You're going down, buddy! I got that supply of left monkey arms coming in from BL, you best be sweating bullets now. Thanks for the commentary on the arms. I was looking at that and the shoulder had to go through a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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(...) That goat critter was Pan. The hand did go through about five rebuilds for this mech and was the origional inspiration for this mech. (repositioned fingers, shortened overall hand, wrist redesign) I started by fooling with hand designs and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Cleaning Bricks
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Sure this subject has been broached before, but how is the best way to clean your bricks. I've heard the warm soapy water and a toothbrush, but is the dishwasher ok? Matt (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Hey Mark, I did a Google search and I found that Te Horo is the name of a beach on New Zealand and DRIs is the Dietary Recommended Intake. Sooo...this beast was obviously created to search the beaches of Te Horo to take the DRIs of unsupecting (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) I like that gear-ratio reduction assembly to reduce the stress on the worm gear--tricky! Out of curiosity, what's the total worm-gear count? (...) Unequal length fingers, rotating thumb, the hand flattens out, sweet! (...) The black shoulder (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Flinstones micro car by my Brother Paul
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I thought this was so simple & accurately recreated Fred's car, I HAD to post this; my brother Paul made it with the blue Xpod set: (URL) cool, Huh? Jeff (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: Horodris the mech
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I really like the leg design and gearing. Gears are like muscles for mecha. The more gears, the more powerful the machine (appears to be). The spindly arms could use a gear infusion to beef them up... But I know you haven't made a lot of armed (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! They are mines of a sort...depth charges. Pomme de terre / Pomme de tErrE. :) And no...they don't really hurt whales. They 'kill' them metaphorically with witty satire and zippy dialogue. :) Cheers, -G (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) You should! The mo' the bettah! (...) I was thinking of that when I was building it. In the end (like with quite a bit of the Joe stuff I make), I decided that play factor wins over accuracy as I wanted the missles to fit all the way into the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! The free motion of it works fairly well....got the idea from the new WC hovercraft hideout set. Cheers, -Gil (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Mosaic: Nativity Scene
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I don't use exclusively 1x1s... I use other size bricks as well, and at the seams of the baseplates beneath I make sure that I have larger bricks that spans the seams to hold the baseplates together. eric (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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(...) Eric, Very nice, just like all your other work. I am a newbie at mosaics so I have what it possibly a dumb question. If you build a mosaic out of 1x1s, do you use a layer underneath the 1x1s to hold the baseplates together? If so, what is the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | Re: Captain Cool-Guy: The Expanded Universe
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Hi Felix Wow, your creation of Captain Cool Guy et al is fantastic! I hope you manage to flesh out a comic strip. Captain Cool Guy is just ripe for a cult following! Regarding the size/scale you are building, could it be called "macro"? Who cares (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: You know you love it.
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(...) Hey, I wouldn't have posted if it wasn't worth it. It's not often that you get to see nubile minifigs with good busts posing for you. Stop looking at me like that. Samarth (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) you're collecting a bunch of the "Spring Cleaning" buckets so that you can do a 15- or 20-color mosaic someday soon. And congrats on the Games Magazine article; I'll be amazed if you're not deluged with requests for those snowmen. I myself (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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Awesome! I love the rats and all the details that go into MOCs. -- Pawel (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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Samarth Moray @hotmail.com> wrote in message ... (...) Hmmm. Talk about grabbing an idea and running with it! Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) It's a good mech (if it weren't for the legs, I would be forced to call this one "mecha"). I like how clean it looks - very nice indeed. I like the hands; many have used those joints before, but it looks like you put a lot of time in to the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Need Help: Rotating Sections of a Spaceship
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(...) Hey Lenny, I just wanted to pipe in with my two cents. I've been working on a ship with a rotating mid-section, though it's probably not as large as yours is looking, it's a medium minifig scale ship, and it only has one rotating section, in (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, FTX)
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