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| Hey, Sam, welcome to the world of half-crazy Lego builders. We're all half-crazy; it comes with the territory: that of spending long hours staring at legos until finally, around 2 AM, a brilliant idea comes to you. ;-) (...) Hear, Hear. Every week I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| Maybe use the star wars low-sloped canopy for the front half, and the Slave I steep-sloped canopy piece for the back half? It might be a little blocky, though. Hmmm -s (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Thank you.... The open cargo bay area did pose some engineering problems. After using under wedged support pieces and the fact the roof over the cargo bay connects on over 32 1x1 points and that the floor is rather thick the model can be (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| (...) That would work, and it has been done, but not for an A-10 Warthog. The model it was done on is Thad Jantzi's F-16 Fighting Falcon. (It would also work on most other aircraft in the USAF inventory - The F-15, the F-14, the F-5's front piece..) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| Frank and Shiri, make a lot of good point. Definitely start small, check out what others are build and most of all have FUN! Personally, I got back into LEGO because of Res-Q Theme, and a lot of my first creations were all closely related to Res-Q, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) lego. (...) And some of us with huge collections never get around to building much because we're always at the store or sorting pieces.... I think a key thing is to decide on a theme of interest, and work for a while in that theme, buying sets (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Or you could take two of those canopies and put one facing forward and another backwards creating a bubble canopie. --kyle (URL)In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Marc Cook writes: (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) more (...) i an always willing to try anything. Thanks. --sam (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Ahhh.... not all of us have as big collections as it might be portrayed. Some people have massive collections, true, but many people (including lurkers, newbies AND oldtimers) are on limited budgets and/or just don't have much lego. I know my (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Hi Sam, One suggestion, you might want to try this in one of the theme groups or a more spacific group. Without knowing what you are into it is hard to give you hints. I probably couldn't help you with Mecha or Space but I could help with (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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