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This evening, some of the Cleveland area BLOC members met at Troy's house with
"special" guest Larry P. In attendance were Adrian Drake, Troy and Ken
Cefaratti, Gino Melone (for a little while), and myself.
Inspired by the Harry Potter train and fueled by pizza, we set out to add
more cars to the train. Someone suggested I build a car to carry Fluffy, the
three-headed dog. I had to build it 8 wide to accomodate the large heads (not
that I would have built it at anything less if I was only carrying horses :)
Adrian had a hard time figuring out what to build until he started rooting
through the Creator set lying on the table. A flower-power spacecraft came
into being soon after. Then of course, it needed a launching car...which
started as a simple 6 wide, standard train baseplate car and evolved into a
4-bogie 8 wide monstrosity.
Larry built and rebuilt a crane car...which, since it was two cars long
almost came close to the monstrous cars Adrian and I built. The locomotive
struggled quite a bit to stay on the track as Adrian's car leaned through the
turns. Meanwhile, Troy built a stealth car with an amazing cloaking system
through shear will power.
Oh, right, the pictures... Here are Troy's, including short movies of Adrian's
Viking longship and the train struggling around the small oval of track:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7328
Here are my slightly longer exposure pics which may show the detail on the
black models a bit better:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7349
Please let us know what you think!
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://bldesign.org/
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| We don't think small, do we? When confronted with the relative inexperience in building train cars, what do Bram and I do? Build ridiculously huge 8 wide monstrosities! What fun. I'm surprisingly happy with the way the creator ship came about, (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| (...) This was the most fun I've had at a minifest in quite a while. Thanks guys!!!! Here are the pics I took, finally... (URL) the pics from the BrikWars battle held on Thursday are on brickshelf as well, see details here. (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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