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Well I did a proof of concept layout tonight for the trailer for 5571 Monster Big Rig. Though I initially was looking to use 1x6 and 1x8 black bricks, 1x4's actually work very well and are much more common. If you have any black 1x4's for sale or (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Space Ship added to site, check it out!
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Also sprach Terry K: : Someone mentioned that they were available in a Roboforce set, but I am not : sure which one. I don't think so ... I am complete in these, and I don't remember one ... although the 2154 Robomaster has a ton of 1x1 w/ one side (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Locomotive
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Here's the train I had running around our Christmas tree: (URL) let me know what you think! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@JUNO.com ---...---oooo----(_)...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(warning: topic drift, note followups) (...) Halfway within the realm of possibility: this would be a pretty good TLG sponsored contest/prize. Design the best new piece and they'll make it for you. Contest submissions could include a written (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Terry's Apache and black pieces (was Re: New Space Ship..)
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(...) I keep saying to myself that I need to invest in some fill lights and spectrum corrective filters for the camera.(1) Which would be useful for digital photography as well. Controlled lighting is the key to getting consistently good pictures. (...) (26 years ago, 16-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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(...) "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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| | Re: Update on Virtual Plans
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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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| | hinges and bevel gears, was Re: 60 degree problem
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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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| | Re: Update on Virtual Plans
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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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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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(...) Ya, Ya, Ya... I was typing fast and working from memory. You're right. I was close enough, though. ++Lar (in Walnut IA!) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: gender changers?
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(...) them (...) name) a (...) and also (...) found (...) Tyco made the 2x2 flat with studs on both sides. I have a few, they are cool pieces. Tyco also made some 2x2 hinges that are 1 brick high (I think, don't have them here with me). They can (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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(...) Well, I buy my macaroni at the grocery store. If you meant the quarter- cirlce bricks, try just about any Model Team set, especially 5571 Monster Big Rig (which had about 40 of them, 30 in black). Rob +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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(...) Other than AucZILLA, the January 1999 s&h catalog shows only 2 sets (as far as I can discern): 7110 Landspeeder, 2 pcs gray (not available yet) 4565 Freight and Crane Railway, 8 pcs white, 8 pcs blue I would love to be wrong, and there were (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 60 degree problem
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From whence can one obtain the pasta, umm I mean spaghetti, oh bother - macaroni (yea that's the ticket)? -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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