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The (URL) dynamic duo> aboard the consular starship are bickering again. The astromech droid R2-D2 insists on going on board one of the escape pods against the prodding of the protocol droid C-3PO. Eventually they embark on a mission that will take (...) (18 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Hinge wall alignment
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I have one other technique that I haven't documented yet. I saw William Howard doing some slanted walls for shop fronts, and had to work out the maths behind it. The technique is for fitting in a wall that slants in or out by two studs. The slanted (...) (18 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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Soren, Thanks for the tip, I'll have another go at it when I can, although I'm about to move so it may not be for a little while. I'm thinking maybe some kind of large raiseable antenna or something. On a side note I'm a big fan of your tanks and (...) (18 years ago, 17-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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Jude Thanks for the comments! I just moved the Rhino to a display where it will be for a month, so I can't take pix of the suspension system, but it is basically a variant of what I've done in the past - I groups wheels in pairs - a little like (...) (18 years ago, 17-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Riva space car
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Here is a space car I made recently: (URL) Click on the pic = BS folder post-mod. This MOC was strongly inspired by (URL) Jerac's Auriga> Enjoy! JP. (18 years ago, 17-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) It is true that UBT does not update anymore, but one of its contributor is now involved in (URL) The Brothers Brick>. The content from UBT will also be ported to that blog (if it hasn't already). TBB mainly highlights good mocs, but we also do (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Didier, this is a fantastic piece of work - even better since the last time I saw it. I'm terribly sorry in case you tried to reach me again; way back when I slipped of the 'net, my e-mail also went haywire and I completely forgot about this. (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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Great resource Didier! It's wonderful to have so many techniques compiled into one document. This would be perfect for handing out hard-copies of at LUG meetings, among many uses. A couple of things that occurred to me while reading it... 1. Minor (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) (URL) Here's another vote for more stuff, with some useful bits thrown in. Soren (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Why do you think I need to read more about it??! :-D Oh, I can transport them just fine... so long as you'd like them to arrive in many, many pieces... - Kelly (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Magnus, I really like these, I think you have continued to progress since BF. Do you have more detailed photos of the suspension? Thanks, Jude (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) I have a few plans to expand but not in the ways you quote. I'd like to read about these themes from you. Eventhough since I've seen the setup of the"window into the community" in Portland, I'm not sure you're the one to speak about (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) I've read your document, there are some very good techniques described, some of which I've used in a MOC I'm currently working on. I notice it seems to focus quite a bit on SNOT, are there plans to expand beyond that (like determining (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: 6-foot-tall freestanding Chase logo
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(...) Sometimes the more fun ones are the boxy ones.. except for the blisters. Nice job! :) -Anne -- There may be 50 ways to leave your (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. leave your lover, but there are >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. only 4 ways out of this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: 1 metre tall xmas tree
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They're both very impressive! Makes me feel left out ; ) but I would miss the real tree too much... God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: 1 metre tall xmas tree
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(...) Very cool Pete. I too had a LEGO tree this past Christmas. Mine stood just over 9'. Here is my father in-law standing next to it: (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) of a brick, and three plates on the other. Here are my 4-stud-vertical fonts, including all the alternatives that were cut from the (URL) Brick Issue> (URL) #3> article. I've added numbers too: (URL) I've provided the thin type, with some (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) The brickwiki (or the trains bit anyway) is linked from the .trains sidebar and for its first year or so had a bigger mention higher up the page too. Tim (meaning you need to check out .trains :-) ) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Four New 6208 B-Wing Alternate Models
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(...) Thanks! You're right, those guns can be kind of conspicuous. I tried to mount them like cannons are mounted on real fighters: internally, with only the end of the barrel, if anything, protruding from the body. (...) Thanks again. Here is yet (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Galaxy Explorer the Way it Should Have Been ;o)
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Ever since I got my first Mobile Lab (6901) and Galaxy Explorer (497/928) as a child, I always wanted to build the Explorer in the Lab's colors. Finally, after--what?--more than a quarter-century, I've achieved that long-held dream. :o) This Galaxy (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Didier already includes links to Brickwiki in his PDF document, that's good. But as much as it needs promotion, Brickwiki needs contributors too. Unfortunately most people would rather use the information than add to it (human nature), but I (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Oh yes, I didn't mean they look better, just that they're simpler. It just means I can do the British train mark 'L.M.S.' using only vertical plates, so I can fit it on a smaller engine than this one! (URL) It can look better if you make the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | ULUG attends the Great Train Expo in Salt Lake City
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To all, Over the weekend (February 9th and 10th) ULUG participated at the Great Train Expo in Salt Lake City. This is our second show together. Our last (URL) show> was a success but we still needed to work out a few minor issues. We were warmly (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Still depressed about MB Zaku?
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(URL) Since MB decided to release a Zaku alongside their Gundam it seemed grossly unfair that Lego purists shouldn't have the same opportunity to wage mecha wars. So, to complement the (URL) Gundam> you can use these instructions for Soren's (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Micro Scale Taj Mahal
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(...) Wow Arthur... stunning! Amazing really. Janey "Red Brick" (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) SNIP (...) Thank you Jason, (...) It seem LL Designers are really into making letterings those days - I've seen a lot on BS pictures from LLCA. (...) The construction of these characters is really difficult and your regular method is now of (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Thank you Luca. (...) Yes I agree. Let me be clear. You know that eventhough some part of the guide content is directly from me, it is in fact a collection of stuffs which are not from me. All the content comes from (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Hi Didier, I think you have done a very good work! It's surprising how it is interesting to read even if you already know the techniques. Some years ago, I read something similar (but really don't know where on internet!) but it wasn't so (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) Is there a need to prefer one over the other? There are so many camos in the real world and the more represented the better. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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(...) Thank you Holger. Your website is the one where I discovered SNOT for the first time and it made me enjoy fine building techniques. SNIP (...) Yes, and we have to learn about the rules if we want to break them the best way :-) (...) Awesome (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) The newish Mythical Creatures Creator set has been great for accumulating green and dark green parts. Thanks for your kind words on the camo, I still can't quite decide if I prefer the green/dark green/old dark grey camo or the green/dark (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) Well, they are clearly map tiles, so that would have been the logical conclusion for me to make. However, big dynamic displays like that are useful or at least conceptually popular in that sort of application. The idea is to integrate data (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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Jim, (...) My bad - those are meant to be maps hanging on the wall, but if they look like "digital maps so to speak" that's cool too! (...) Something like that, yes! (...) I just took these: (URL) a very simple system, think of it as a tracked (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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(...) -snip- (...) I'm not sure why your folder isn't public yet. The deep links link directly to the file name. Here's how I got to the deep links: 1) I went to one of your public folders, (URL) Rhino Brawler> for example. 2) I clicked on one of (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT controlled Red Quad - revised Art
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(...) It'd take more than Photoshop to make that thing look better. (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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Mladen, (...) Hehe... (...) It uses the long curved slopes, which I think gives it a smoother look. (...) Thanks! (...) Cool, maybe I'll tinker with it. (...) Thanks! I was thinking maybe adding some kind of equipment bundled up onthe back like some (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) their own terminal but their functions are united by the overhead display that fuses the intelligence they're processing. And naturally, there is a commanding officer to look over their shoulders as they work. The modular concept is neat. Any (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) You had me at "vicious-looking eyes". ;-) (...) Yeah, modular military vehicles really lend themselves to LEGO rendition. (...) This IFV has a sleeker front-end compared to your earlier ones. Or maybe it's those wider tracks, which give it (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Yeah maybe some snoke chargers, communications arrays and that sort of thing. The outside just looks a little barren to me (and I'm not exactly a lover of excessive greebling). (...) First tries of things are allowed to be a little weaker :) (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Rhino Armored Vehicles
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Ted, Thanks for posting those, I know I've seen them before, but while I almost wish I could say that naming my MOC the Rhino was a subtle nod to Warhammer, the Warhammer Rhino had slipped my mind. I'd like to do something more spacey some time, and (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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