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Re: Some more original designs for Lego trees
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:12:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Joel Jacobsen writes:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > Hi all,
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3844
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> Ben,
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> Every time I see the picture of your fir tree holding the two boat weights,
> I'm amazed. It's an impressive example of how solid your design is.
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> Having borrowed and copied bits of those trees for my own use (less the
> string through the middle) I can appreciate just how fragile they can be.
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> Thanks again for the refresher on forest ideas.
It's not just a refresher, but lots of the trees are brand new some are
quite new (first time used at the Legoworld 2001 meeting in
Zwolle/Netherlands). Just these days I made up the - at least in my eyes -
somewhat improved palm tree version of firs with palm trunk parts as shown in
this picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=103588
But my favorites among all trees are these:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=103589
I love the hard plastic tubes from the 7171 Mos Espa Pod Race sets (which have
been really cheap on sale over here). I used them for most of my newer trees
and you can bend them (just press as many as possible in a transport box) but
they are even more stable than the ones with the center string and since they
can bend, you can get more into a specific volume.
For a home layout this might be not too important, but if you drive to a train
show a few hundred kilometers away and you have limited space in your car, that
becomes really a point of importance. The whole forest + lots of the smaller
plant parts of Lego fit into just one Curver storage box.
Kind Regards,
Ben
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| (...) They look a lot like some trees I posted several months ago: (URL) are a bit taller, and I use 2x2 round brown bricks as the base, but the idea is the same. Flex tubing, lots of green 'leaf' pieces, nearly instant tree! JohnG, GMLTC (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Ben, Every time I see the picture of your fir tree holding the two boat weights, I'm amazed. It's an impressive example of how solid your design is. Having borrowed and copied bits of those trees for my own use (less the string through the (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.build)
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