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(...) Ooh, cool! When I first thought of Pulp Fiction, I figured Misirlou, as it's the song your really think of from that, but didn't know what it meant. So I went with the one that had "girl" in the soundtrack. I have to admit that I had no idea (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: "Name That Vig" noprize Contest - Surfin' USA
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(...) What is this, a joint effort? ;) Between the two of you, I think you've solved 7 or 8 or them... but I'm not saying anything until I have your final answers. Keep trying! :) "Big Daddy" Nelson (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Just a reminder, NWBrickCon Pre-Registration ENDS soon!!!
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I needed to tell someone about when to Pre-register for NWBrickCon. And then I saw that it was Sept 7th! So no more waiting, register today (URL) NWBrickCon Site> (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: "Name That Vig" noprize Contest - Surfin' USA
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(...) You were close, saying pulp fiction (which I didn't even think of) would suggest it is Misirlou, which means Egyption girl. (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: On creating life-sized sculpture
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(...) I know it would be difficult, but I really wish TLC would make available for sale the plans to some of the park and Miniland sculptures, especially the smaller sail/powerboats and the Combine Harvester... Paul Sinasohn (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, This is (or at least was, in 2004) called Brick Builder. I asked about it in the CAD newsgroup here: (URL) But I got no replies.. There's a presentation board showing how the software works on display at the Model Shop in LLCA. I have (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: "Name That Vig" noprize Contest - Surfin' USA
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(...) Good catch, but I think that might be (URL) 05> (which isn't moderated yet for some reason). I'm guessing that 04 would be something else by the Trashmen, given the worker fig. Bruce (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) The Lego software does in fact only give the outline on a lego grid rather than where each brick goes. It works pretty good most of the time. When building large scale models, it is a bit of a different way of building than the Staue of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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It depends on what the sculpture is going to be used for. If it will be on display where random people will touch it you'll probably want to have a metal skeleton within. For the 5'6" (URL) angel sculpture> I got away with it being exactly 2 bricks (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I presented a talk at Brickfest2005 about the theory of automated brick layout. Slides from the talk are at: (URL) I made a 5'6" sculpture of the Stanford Angel this way. (Shipping it across the country to Brickfest was painful.) The plans for (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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