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Bryce - what is the creation you are wearing as a hat - is it the rack? Interesting use of Lego anyway... I like the site - however I noted some links are target blank, and others arent. I would generally say to make sure external links out to (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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An entry for the Siege Scene category; (URL) AC (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Plasmic Bricks dot com
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plasmicbricks.com OR (URL) Links are now fixed. (...) Thanks Mladen. Although I'd be flattered if anyone said the same thing it means so much more coming from you, one of the "OG" mecha guys. (...) Thanks again. I was kinda debating whether to write (...) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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(...) It's spelled 'counsel', and no, your apparent (and deeply wrong) belief to the contrary, I am fully capable of disliking you for my own personal set of reasons. For myself, I was just curious to see if you'd fly into one of your little (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Half-timbered houses
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(...) After searching exhaustively on Google (well, as exhaustively as 1.5 minutes allows), the "half-timber" was a contrast to using complete logs -- the timbers were split, or (more often, I think) squared-off. Steve (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) created around 1850 that wooden buildings were not allowed to be more than two stories high (because of the risk of fire). To get around this limitation a unique (for Sweden) house style emerged: the lower story made of stone (or sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message news:IqF0FD.pII@lugnet.com... (...) I can't speak for American-English, but in British-English, half-timbered refers to houses which are entirely made of timber-frame-with-infill. I think the "half" (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I add some pictures from 2004, of "full timbered"* houses. They do have a fundament, thourg small. (URL) links: (URL) Does "half timered" means, that the 1st floor is stones only? (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I'm not a medievalist - I'm more of an aesthetic castler (going for the look, not accuracy) - but I did take a trip to England. Most houses were either all stone, or all timber, but there were a few that were half and half. This one for (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sonnich, I know I've seen pictures of half-timbered houses in older German and French villages, they may be more common there than in Denmark. The medieval city with narrow streets and half-timbered houses overhanging the street at higher (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) it's not unheard of. (...) I think you ask an interesting question... I don't know why I do it that way, mostly because everyone else does? Most of the early CCC buildings are done that way, Dan Siskind's Blacksmith Shop set is done that way, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Hi all! People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages) for some time now. Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this: (URL) houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Tall tower
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Nice job, Jason! I particularly like the use of random and all-inclusive color, the technique I prefer to work with. Don (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | The Cub's head in Lego Digital Designer format 1.3
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(URL) The Cub's head in Lego Digital Designer format 1.3> See the full rotation in the Gallery---> click (3 URLs) Minus a few parts that are not in the 1.3 Pallet, here is the Cub's head: (URL) I'm going to convert it in to LDD 1.4 and see what I (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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(...) -snip- (...) You gotsit. If the sacle of the Mecha was a little bigger, I would have made all the fingers like that. (...) e (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Ahh - you mean these: (URL) Ahhhhh! I get it. I wonder if I have some of those parts. Whew- I was working up a sweat trying to explain it there... danny (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Thanks, I know you were asking Bryce, I was able to grab the link at the time. Those white "brushes" are Mini-fig epaulettes. You know the thingies that go on the mini-fig's shoulders. (...) Awesome. (...) Yes! That one is classic and very (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well you are breaking the mould I suppose. Not that I didnt appretiate your mecha in the first place. Dont want to give you a big head or anything, but it was basically Jama that turned me on to .mecha.. (...) It would be nice to have (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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(...) There is this pic of the face taken by Brian Heins: (URL) me trying to figure it out hilariously: (URL) Eric - I think the Cubs face puts me very much in mind of the (...) Thank you! Nice to hear from you. Ya, you know me and those heads. :) (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Looks like you're running out of house! Good luck on the record attempt. Your posting was just fine, BTW. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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"danny staple" <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote (...) I got a lot of my parts (starting from scratch!) from Bricklink with the following recipe: (1) choose a random largish store in the UK; (2) buy some interesting pieces (3) hope they're useful. One (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Alco-like Cuban Sugar Train
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(...) I forgot to mention in the post (and to X-post to .schleim) that I've added the grille work separately to BS to make it easier to see the technique. You can find it in this (URL). Tim (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Tall tower
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This is my first time posting so please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. I'm trying to build a tall tower using only Lego. I know that the record is over 90 feet but using just the bricks on hand I made a tower 17 feet 11 inches tall. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch) !
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| | Re: Snowman
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(...) He needs a top hat ;) Spotlighted. Nice job Tim :) -Anne (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) All I can say is WOWOWOWOWO :) and nice job :) -Anne (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: My first mecha: Proto-1
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Hi Mo, Nice mecha. The bubble head thing is very retro sci-fi, yet the body style is quite modern mecha. Its an odd mix. It puts me in mind of robbie spliced with an angular anime mecha body. I really like the body style, very posable, and well (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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I'm impressed with the calculations you did there. Maybe someone will build physical model based on these instructions and then one day we can get my globe together with that one and see how close I was to reality [grin]. eric (...) ... (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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Bryce - could you add a picture of a closeup of agiels head for us? I really like it, but I want moore... Eric - I think the Cubs face puts me very much in mind of the Transformers autobot look, it is different from your other mecha's faces - which (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Had a request from work to build a snowman... He's big, heavy and white: (3 URLs) I don't know how many parts this took, but it was a lot. Suggestions or improvements welcome- a hat is next, I think. Enjoy, and PLMKWYT! Tim (Smith) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: New MOC: Nemo II
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(...) I Did! Fantastic work like always. Just downloaded all the pics to try a reverse engineering and rebuild. Keep building Marco (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) The mapping from these images to a sphere is a conversion to Ldraw coordinates, then a rotation based on which panel we are rendering, then a conversion from these to polar coordinates, then interpreting phi to be latitude, and theta to be (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I can't say with 100% certainty, but I believe it's traditional yellow. -Dave (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: New MOC: Nemo II
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This mech is hawt. I love the shape of the chest, and the position of the shoulder mounts. Lessee, you've got green, black, yellow, gray, white and dark blue, and you make it all work. That hip armor, with the white plate stripes matching the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mecha: The Cub
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(...) Oh yes, and the lone light in the room, dimly lit, made it all the more fearsome. (...) Ever since I built this; (URL) Robot>. I tried to make the heads look cool from any angle you viewed it. Because, with the black robot, when you look at (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Would you mind sharing what software or code you used to map the image to the sphere? I'm wondering how the globe would look with (URL) one of these images> mapped to the Lego palette. --Bram (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I am always glad to see a new Mecha build member. Welcome! I would like to see some more MOCS to see what you are going for before I make any coments. Regardless, I do like the poseability and the color scheme. Regards, David Rabadan (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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It rolls quite well [grin]. I considered doing each continent a different color, but then thought that might be too distracting. eric (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Fierce! I can say no more than that. -Dave (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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I just had to log in and post since NOT posting would have been a crime. :) Excellent first model, Mo! I see LOTS of mobility there, and quite a few modern and not so modern influences in the design. I'll agree that the colorscheme is a bit iffy, (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual version with (URL). (URL) Plate Lowell Globe>> I followed Mr. Harshbarger's lead and based it on a 48 stud diameter Lowell Sphere. The land masses come from the (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, FTX)
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