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    Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
   (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
   
        Re: New WTC design prototype —Amy Hughes
     (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
    
         Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
      (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
    
         Re: New WTC design prototype —Sean Kenney
     (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
   
        Re: New WTC design prototype —John Spencer Rezkalla
   (...) 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! (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
 

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