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(...) Welcome to the obsessio....er, hobby. Lego building as an adult can be very rewarding. (...) I enjoy building the sets too. I think you can learn a lot by building the sets. Something I'm just starting to try is building the sets just by (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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I fully understand what John is saying!!!! I can easily visualize a complex architectural wonder on a piece of paper, but have a very hard time getting perspective down in a sketched scene. I used to be an Mechanical Engineer, and always had (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks! As a matter of fact, I'm looking into making an updated version of the white classical racer right now. The new version will be a little bit bigger and have an inline 6 piston engine rather than 4. Otherwise it will basically have the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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how big is the base of the cauldren (in studs)? (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:02:40 GMT, jonathan wilson uttered the following profundities... (...) The big castle does. 'Tis an old Fabuland piece. (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New creations on my website
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On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 04:29:02 GMT, Terry K uttered the following profundities... (...) Something about black buildings in general. There was a documentary on recently about the Taj Mahal and what it was alleged to truly symbolise. Not a mausoleum, but (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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Good tips. I can't emphasise enough the power of doing design studies. Bits and pieces that you can work from after you're happy. In fact, building, then copying and improving with the other one in front of you, if you have enough pieces, is a GREAT (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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Hi Anne, I have a few suggestions for you. 1. Start small. Leave the 2 foot long masterpiece till later and build smaller simpler things for now. They can be small versions of the whatever-it-is you want to build 2 feet long <g>. 2. Know what you're (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) have a "moving" counter weight, having been designed for the weight of the cam and nothing more. The idea of the mobile Counterweight is to be able to move it so you can use the torque(?) provided by the weight in different ways, further out (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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