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(...) If this is going to be held inside one of the ballrooms, can you tell us the height of the ceiling? (16 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | AMCP at Brickworld 2008 Reminder
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To make things less parts intensive and more universal, we will go with tiled road plates, similar to the style found in Market Street and Cafe Corner sets. If any returning attendees recall from last year,we ended up combining that style with the (...) (16 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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| | Brickworld Castle contest - Fling Things!
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I'd like to announce the Castle contest for Brickworld this year. Fling Things! There are two basic machines of war that can be used to fling the brick missiles: catapults and trebuchets. (Catapults use torsion skeins for power and trebuchets use a (...) (16 years ago, 30-May-08, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Re: Muscle car: 4896 alternate
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(...) I'm in Eskilstuna (~1 hour from Stockholm). You're welcome to ping me if you want to visit! You're also welcome to lugnet.loc.se - it's not very active for the moment, but there is talk about a Lego meet sometime after the summer. You would (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.build)
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| | Reagan Peninsula #12
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Ley Ward visits a bomb-shelter community on an artificial peninsula. A BBQ ensues. Enjoy! (2 URLs) Thanks for looking, -Keith (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Muscle car: 4896 alternate
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(...) Thanks Anders. Even though it's not up to LEGO standards, in my opinion the model is holding together fairly well. Of course there are some weaker spots here and there, but that's in almost every model. Because the model is slightly bigger (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Muscle car: 4896 alternate
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(...) Thanks Anders. Even though it's not up to LEGO standards, in my opinion the model is holding together fairly well. Of course there are some weaker spots here and there, but that's in almost every model. Because the model is slightly bigger (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) VB is as good as any other language as long as it does the job! Why spend time recoding something that works? (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) how is it holding together when playing?). No room for a motor inside, I suppose? (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Mike, No problem with VB. I just didn't know if it was still commonly used. (Microsoft now has VB.Net etc. ). I've been programming from when Fortran was the language of choice and everything was done on punchcards. I still use QBasic to write (...) (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) This looks very useful. Do you have a problem with VB? I think it is a wonderful and powerful language. I am coding with VB since version 1.0 and it is getting better and better. For most application VB is a very good language. For me the (...) (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Muscle car: 4896 alternate
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(...) Thanks Paul! No surprise to see a reaction from you. Nice to hear you like it, although I'm not completely satisfied with it myself. I think that after the almost 3 years that I worked for the LEGO company, my quality standards went up... Oh (...) (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) Hey Nathanael!!! Holy cow, another awesome alternate! I'm blown away... yet again. I guess I'm going to need to start pestering you for building instructions and/or "exploded-view" pictures again so I can build it myself ;-) -Paul (16 years ago, 28-May-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Valley Forge
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Nicely done tree. Thanks for sharing! God Bless, Nathan (16 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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(...) Erik The program is written in Visual Basic. I currently have clean up some of the bugs (usually division by zero errors and others) and then I'll turn it into an .exe file. I hope to have a working copy for Brickworld in Chicago (June 19th) (...) (16 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Dome Creator
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(...) Hi Arthur, It seems very interressant and promising. Is there a place where to download your software and try it? Erik (16 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Dome Creator
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I’ve seen a number of sphere generators but many of the domes I need to build are not spherical. After working, reworking, and re-reworking a few domes I decided it was time to computerize the process so I wrote a program called Dome Creator. So (...) (16 years ago, 27-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: "Mighty Lizbet" Railway Cannon.
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A bit of tinkering, and I now have full 180 degree movement on each gun. Have also made a few other minor aesthetic changes so it's wholly in keeping with the rest of the train. (4 URLs) It has proper train doors now, as do the troop carriages: (2 (...) (16 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Muscle car: 4896 alternate
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Hi. Another alternate. This time it's from 4896 Roaring Roadsters: (2 URLs) Folder> (when moderated) Nathanael (16 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Re: Skid steer: 8271 alternate
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(...) Thank you for your kind words. I didn't know that these models had such an impact that many people are recreating them. I'm amazed. Thanks for sharing these pictures! It reminds me that I probably should start to build some models again... (...) (16 years ago, 25-May-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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