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(...) "lugnet.display.photography") (...) oops! right you are, sorry about that. ..jg (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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(...) Quiet! You'll get Todd going (again). Newsgroups everywhere! Besides, there's already lugnet.publish. Its charter includes photography techniques. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Right. It was easier for my brain to set up a spreadsheet and try each combination of beam-length and stud-pitch than to work out which beams are the right length to make up the hypotenuse(sp?) of a pythagorean triangle. Note: actually, you (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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(...) --snipped-- (...) tom's hit the nail on the head here. just the right shutter speeds, aperatures, and additional well-placed lighting could probably bring out the best of a black model, though this can be a pain for someone that just wants to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) transmission[1]), in red. On the new kind, though, the round recess in the fingers get their edges bent out when the mating round raised is slid past when disassembling. The same thing happens, slightly less so, with the 4-wide hinged roof (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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(...) Yet another reason to get a digital camera. I take pics of black models with both the flash on and off, at slightly different angles, and take WAY too many pics, then look at them on my laptop to decide which to keep, throwing out over half of (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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(...) you know, it's funny how that works out. when i disassembled the majority of my sets a few years ago and sorted the pieces into colors, the black pieces were the most abundant. and of the smaller plates and bricks, the black pieces had the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) True, this is because it makes a phytagorean trinagle, right, with 6-8-10 sides. (A multiple of 3-4-5.) I've also used this fact to make a modular tower suitable for a creeping crane (that's the correct term, right?). So far, only the tower is (...) (26 years ago, 15-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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(...) Thanks, I got the idea of using a big mirror from those car shows where they put mirrors underneath to show off detail. The clouds were an unexpected bonus. :-) To bad most of the pictures turned out so bad. (...) Well yeah, when was the last (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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(...) Someone mentioned that they were available in a Roboforce set, but I am not sure which one. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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