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(...) I liked this so much, I voted for it at Brickvention 06. The undersides of slopes don't get enough decorative duty ! Lots of details around the back as well. -pete.w (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Thank You,Tim. This is a very friendly welcome :-) Hmh...feel slightly pressure for my next projects... ;-) Andreas (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Welcome to Lugnet, Andreas. Once again you have a perfect cuteness and style to your models and your renders are, as always, superb. You capture the motion brilliantly. Tim PS. I recommend to everyone to poke around Andreas' gallery. He's got (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Recently I recieved my posting privileges and would like to say Hello to LUGNET with a small project: some sea turtles and a school of fish. (URL) The turtles have limited capabilities: they are able to turn their head, move their flippers and wag (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Damsel: "I'm in distress? What distress?"
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(...) LOL, Manfred, I love it! It's wonderful! Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Gallery: (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette)
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| | Re: Private Porkrind
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(2 URLs) Outstanding! You continue to move this scale forward. Very inspiring. Felix (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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I've been tinkering with the "ldraw.xml" file in LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), and have come up with the following list of fixes for good LDD/LDRAW conversion. In case you hadn't already discovered, if you append ".ldr" to the end of the file name (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build) !!
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| | Re: Marvel Madness: 16 Vignettes featuring ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ !!
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I love the Chameleon cameo in the Kraven one. So not only are they awesome creations, but also story accurate! Great work. (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: MegaBloks announces Mobile Suit Gundam License
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(...) Oh I don't know about that... Here is my messy toy shelf: (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | 2nd Joe Vig Contest Entry--When the fish go fishing...
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... Joe goes swimming. This is my final entry for the 2nd Annual Joe Vig Contest. Enjoy! (URL) Cunningham--The Great Sly Pig (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Come build at LEGOLAND on the Fourth of July
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To celebrate the Fourth of July: Red, White, and Boom! event at (URL) LEGOLAND California>, all park guests are invited to help (URL) SCLTC> build the world's largest US Flag made entirely from LEGO bricks. Construction gets underway at 10:00. (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.legoland.california, FTX) !
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Hello all, I've build a vignette which I'm able to wear as a badge during events. It combines two of the three themes that kind of signify me within the LEGO community: trains and the Clikits trademark girls. (URL) Attached at the back is a black (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.clikits, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Private Porkrind
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(...) (URL) (...) Very nice. I first looked at (URL) this picture>, and thought that the face was out of proportion, because I thought that his nostrils were supposed to be his eyes. (In that first pic the right eye is hidden behind the nose, and a (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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There were two excellent entries for the contest. Check them out here: (2 URLs) Congratulations to both entries who were both awarded first prize. They were both excellent examples of LEGO construction and innovative use of bricks. Although there (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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I love this. The face in particular is great. Well done Allister! (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Private Porkrind
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(...) Snip (...) Nice build! It's always challenging to build a MOC in this scale, but I think you've captured the look of the Pig (or Gamorrean) quite well. Indeed, he looks quite "Boar-ed"... Good use of the Dinosaur parts in this MOC - but, why (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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Greetings. You may or may not remember (URL) Sergeant Destroy> from last year. Well, I figured he needed a sidekick, so here it is - (3 URLs) folder when moderated> It's Private Porkrind. Not the brightest fellow on the block, but then he is only (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) Yuck, from what I've seen, those are very lame joints. I wonder how hard it would be to shove a bionicle joint in MB's design. (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Marvel Madness: 16 Vignettes featuring ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ !!
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In lugnet.build.vignette, David Simmons wrote: Snip... (...) The idea for the SNOT in Madame Web's robe came from a MOC made by Brickshelf member JIMD, who used it in the (URL) stained glass windows> of his (URL) Stone Church>. As for the yellow and (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Norbert! I saw your customized minifigs as I was researching ideas for these vignettes... Great job! "Big Daddy" Nelson (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Aw, shucks. I'll make a list... Of course, now that you've chimed in, that means that every Dave in the universe participated in the thread. Dave! (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Here's some scaffolding I made at the weekend. I'm mainly a spacey kind of guy, but I guess you could use this in a townie/train scenario. (2 URLs) Pete (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Marvel Madness: 16 Vignettes featuring ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ !!
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(...) Way to go! Those are all awesome. I especially like the backdrop of the "Man-wolf" vig. Excellent work, churning out 16 vigs in that short a time! Jeffery MacEachern (4 URLs) (links) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Whatever we can do for you, Dave! :) Dave K (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) By the way, let me just mention how it warms my heart to see a discussion of Mega Bloks both Highlighted and on the LUGNET spotlight for close to 48 hours straight. Dave! (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Go for it, I say! Mega Bloks often posts their instructions online, even for current sets, so you won't even have to steal any intellectual property to do it. Heck, if LEGO put out any designs that I found interesting enough to borrow, I would (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) As the owner and builder of about 3000 LEGO sets and 200 MB sets, I have done a lot of comparing the two brands over the years. MB from last millenium is definately of poor quality, just like you describe. MB from the Dragon sets does earn (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I love the idea of boycotting the Mega blok sets but making the models from Lego. Steve (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Port Block Yards PT boats
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(...) Very nice work! I might need to rethink my decision not to pick up a police boat. Any chance of squeezing a depth charge rack or two aboard? Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Richie Dulin FUT lugnet.build.militar...gnet.boats (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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Hey ho! Finally starting to get my act together again after moving to Queensland - even got web access to my site again. And after Richie's handy post on Myers (1 x boat + 1 x crane - very cool, thanks dude! :-), Port Block Yards has pictures of one (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.boats, FTX) !
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(...) Yes sadly the Dragons and Pyrates Mega Bloks lines are some of the worst quality they have done. Its not because of the juniorizedness of the sets either. For some reason the part quality is no where near as good as Mega Bloks' more brick (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) The Lego Exo-force sets (also some of the creator sets like the T-rex) use joints that are sort of quite obviously very similar/copied from the the Blok Bots sets which the Gundam sets appear to use. -Mike Petrucelli (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | 2nd Joe Vig contest entry: Joerassic Park
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Joe's visit to a certain theme park is about to take a turn for the worse... (2 URLs) Brickshelf> - (URL) Mocpages> I'm eternally grateful to John Neal who very generously donated me the proper head. Thanks a lot John! You are a very kind! Linus (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) Gonna have to disagree with you whole heartedly on the quality of Mega Bloks. When the MB Dragons line first came out, I bought several sets, being a dragon fan. I put the sets together and they look good, even if they are built out of (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) First, courtesy suggests that the least you could do is learn the brand name. I mean, you don't see Mega Bloks fans complaining about Leggos. 8^) Second, the bricks aren't as low quality as you probably think, and many of Mega Bloks' designs (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Thats what I'm thinking. From the darkened picture they have on the megablocks japan website, I can't see any real special parts... but I'm wondering how they do the joints. Like, Bionicle was a god send for mecha modelers, due the wide range (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I'd debate you on that point. :) Jeff (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Build your own in Lego :-) Tim (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | LEGOLAND Bust Sculpture Sets
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Hi All, I would like to make a suggestion to LEGO, and all LEGO members for discussion, regarding an idea for future LEGO sets. This idea was the result of visiting LEGOLAND Windsor this year, and seeing the LEGO Bust sculptures of famous people in (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) Sigh. That puts me in a very tough position. 1) I hate Megablocks, and refuse to buy their low quality bricks and poor designs. 2) I'm possibly the biggest Gundam fan here. What do I do now? :/ (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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