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Joe, Great job on Cathedral II!!! I really like it. I can't wait until Cathedral III. You did something that I try to avoid, namely the Chevet (curved east end of French cathedrals). There are a lot of logistic problems in building one, as I am sure (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Large, strong building (Re: Update on Virtual Plans)
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(...) Has anyone used the large arch pieces to reinforce large structures? Especially the 1x12x3 full-arch. It seems like placing a few of those elements across two 'walls' of the beam-girders Terry has described above would be a decent start on a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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(...) What really bites is if the majority of your Lego collection is black, as mine is... I just rationalize it by saying that it adds to the "mystique" of the model. (...) That's a photo? Nah, it's a rendering, right? That's *really* a photo? Nice (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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(...) I have two of these also (in red) from an Expert Builder (?) helicopter which I bought form a friend along with the rest of his LEGO. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) This is true. My two copies of 8846 Tow Truck has these. They tended to break pretty easily, so it's a nice thing they were substituted. (URL) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) This looked (sounded?) interesting to me so I just spent a few minutes digging up a few of these plate hinges and some 2x2 plates, and a few various other things and found a couple things that may interest you. Take your original base (3 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I can sympathize with Patrick. Taking pictures of black models sucks. Getting sufficient light to capture detail, without being too harsh is frustrating. And it seems no amount of gamma tweaking or contrast/brightness adjustments does any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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(...) Isn't it, though? Those are like brilliance in small doses. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Try 4275 and 4276. I believe this is what your ascii art is. Also look at 4531. Larry is probably talking about 2429 and 2430 - closed, these form a 2x2, open they form a 1x4. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Bingo! I'm not going nuts.[1] Thanks for the follow-up. I'll let you & Todd battle out the subtlies of "hinge" vs. "plate w/hinge fingers" :-) 1 - at least, not as far as Lego naming goes :-) -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <369C11DD.CA28C5D8@v...er.net>... (...) "2x2 - 1x4"? Hmmmm. Either we're talking about slightly different things or I'm not understanding the naming convention.[1] Each part of what I've got is one dot deep, two (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) When I was little, I almost always made things to that scale. I liked to build huge ships, and didn't have enough lego. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) How about this? /\ 1/\ \ \/ / /\ \/\/ /\ \ \ / / \/_ _\/ 2 | || | 3 |_||_| Each number is next to a hinge. Is this correct? -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Check out these, you should get the idea. These are classics of the art: (URL) Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) It looks good. The rear view is very interesting. I also enjoyed the 1200YF design. One thing, though. Please change the link colors on the new fighter page. The dark green on gray background is virtually impossible to read. The other pages, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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(...) I thought they were called 1x2 Plate w/ 2 Hinge Fingers 1x2 Plate w/ 3 Hinge Fingers there... If something is a 3-finger hinge, wouldn't it mean that it's a [full] hinge that has 3 fingers [total]? Say, speaking of which, Joshua once told me (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Please do that. I can't seem to visualize it with just text and ascii descriptions. With an actual picture, or maybe an ldraw rendering, someone may be able to suggest something useful. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If a minifig is about yea tall, a microfig is about one-something-ith of that height. Basically, anything significantly smaller than a minifig. I generally don't count creatures made from just minifig legs to be microfig-scale; but rather (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Is there a way to gamma correct your pix to pick up some of the subtleties? -Tom McD. (hoping it ain't my monitor...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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