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| | | (...) myself how in the h$%^ did he get the facade to replicate the horizontal segmented appearance of the real building's aluminum cladding! Then I saw the above shot ;-) (...) Now that I think of it, I had a similar design concept when I was (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
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| | | | (...) LOL! :) Glad it made an impression. :) (...) Thanks! Yeah, leave it to me to try some crazy design that no one else would dare. :) The genesis for this idea was to cram more vertical beams into the model than my previous design (which only had (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: New WTC design prototype —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | (...) Okay, I'm a bigger loon, so I thought it might be do-able, but unless you can get tiles a lot cheaper than I can, or I've done the calculation incorrectly, it'd be $2500 *per side*, and that's just the tiles. Not as bad as my minifig-scale (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | | (...) Actually, my math was only off a little, but I didn't include the black plates. Here's the whole thing, with tiles and plates: The facade is built in chunks that are 24 studs tall (sideways). A chunk uses twelve 2x2 tiles, three 2x8 plates and (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
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| | | | | | (...) Oh, yeah... I remember reading once a long time ago that you'd designed a minifig scale World Trade Center. Did you ever make a CAD model of it or anything? I'd love to see it! Sean --- Sean M. Kenney The Brick Apple - New York City in Lego (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: New WTC design prototype —John Spencer Rezkalla
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| | | | (...) Yea, almost as crazy as me settling on a design that used 2500 light gray tile grilles - when Bricklink was only showing about 1500 total available for sale! (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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