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(...) This is a wonderful thing to see! The ZXRX1 Frame is an upgraded version of the frame that I had been working on for over a year now. The first attempt failed badly and I wanted to correct. So after some thought I made the MC7 frame that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | A few new Vignettes!
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Here are some new vignettes... (4 URLs) 1) Star Wars meets Star Trek in (URL) Intruder Alert> 2) From the movie (URL) Cast Away> (starring Tom Hanks)... (wonder what's in that package) 3) Based on an idea by Anthony Sava, (URL) "I know what you (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | Re: More microstuff
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(...) Thanks. I think the bley works, if you don't need too much of it. Later, Chris (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks! I like tinkering with this scale, because I think there is a lot of potential for Lego to come up better mini-mecha sets that are much better than what they have now. Later, Chris (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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(...) <snip> (...) Ouch! Actually, I've designed most of my recent frames and mecha to use only readily available lego parts, with no stiffening or gluing required. (...) I understand some of what you're talking about - when you restrict a ball (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Palace Stairwell
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The palace stairwell used in the (URL) Theed Palace Chamber> has been deconstructed to show details that were obscured by the palace walls. (URL) Front view (URL) Top view (URL) More pics on (URL) gallery> when moderated. AC (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | ISD Build competition
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First, let me fall on my sword about this, I am very very late in posting this info and I sincerely apologise. As I said in this post: (URL) and down thread... LEGO is going to do an ISD build contest at Celebration III and is soliciting teams of (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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!!LMAO!! Oh man, glue your balls, and or don't, it could save your Techs. !!LMAO!! e (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Good night... and may your god go with you
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(...) Thanks Jason. (...) Yes, I think it was bottomless :) In fact he used to joke that he lost his finger when he let the end of it rest too long in his whiskey. But I think his poison of choice may have been Irish whiskey ;) (...) They seem to be (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Very nice tribute. I especially like the glass of scotch on the table. I didn't know he'd died though. Mind you, the great Fred Dibnah popped his steam-powered clogs last year and I never knew... :-( Jason R (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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(...) Click "Next" to see the show, the ZRX1 Classified Development File: (URL) I felt inspired to experiment with this new technology. I made a new hand hybrid with reverse minifig legs and lever fingers and changed the forearm a bit to accomodate (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Octagonal building technique: help!
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I used the parts linked above to make some octagonal towers in a large castle MOC I built recently. At the bottom, I attached two opposite sides (parallel) to the supporting pieces below the tower, and then let the other 6 sides "float", just (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: A small car
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(...) It's a solid first attempt. I'd recommend using tiles on some of the studded surfaces if possible. Spoilers are tough. I haven't come up with a satisfactory solution beyond the big racing type spoiler found on my Mustang. For detail, I think (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.build)
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| | Grand Central Station and 2 wide trains
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I finally unpacked (and had to partially rebuild :( ), the micro-scale station I displayed on Brickfest. I made some pictures, including many of the back or the station, because that part was hard to see because of its position against the wall. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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(...) Thank you, that was part of my goal for this excersize. Leads one to appreciate like when your in art class and your drawing a nude subject. I'd really like to pursue emulating poses I see in real life with the ZRX1. I know some dancers, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: THX1138 Vignette
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(...) Thanks Bruce, That featureless white expanse was a striking image from the movie. Few directors could go there and pull it off. It seemed the perfect thing to take an 8x8 chunk out of to depict as a vignette. The (URL) pic of just the base> (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Removing dots from baseplates
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"Mike Kollross" <kollross@nospamcomp...art.ab.ca> wrote in message news:ID9o14.1ztJ@lugnet.com... (...) Haven't done the soccer filed baseplates, but I've used Nevr-dull ((URL) with success on all other projects of this nature... -Rob (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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(...) Hits some cool poses. I'd like to see some close up pics of the specific joints. Does it hold much weight? I don't see any doubles or stiffening a la Snead. So are you planning on selling them like the bots? You sort of said you were. Plus (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Removing dots from baseplates
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I know this is a bizarre request but has anyone had any luck with removing the white dots from certain baseplates? I have a quantity of the 48x48 green baseplates with soccer field dots and I want remove the dots. I was thinking laquer thinner but (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Octagonal building technique: help!
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(...) On that note, there's a few particular sizes of 45 degrees that work well enough within Lego tolerances. Like, a 45 degree wall of length 7, 17, 24, 33, or 41 will all join up with the hinges Ondrew mentioned, and be pretty darn close to (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-05, to lugnet.build)
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