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  Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
 
(...) If you use 1 inch = 1 meter, a minifig is about 4 1/2 feet tall, a good size to relate to kids, I think. Then use four studs = one "inch", or one meter. It's not really accurate, but it sure is easy! Tim (Smith) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  New MOC: Merchant Ship
 
(2 URLs) Please let me know what you think! (21 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.pirates, FTX) !! 
 
  Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
 
(...) Heh, I've done some checking... (URL) the answer is "whatever you think is right". Minifigs are just built very un-humanly. Very thick front-to-back, very wide, or very short. Or all three. In general, people usually derive scale by minifig (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military)
 
  Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
 
(...) Is 1:40 minifig scale? I'd like to ellicit a wide number of opnions because I'm just about to start building a (much smaller) minifig scale model. I assumed a minifig to be 6ft tall, giving me a ratio of 1 to 46 (rounded). The japanese are a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
Thank you, Samarth, for a terrific (and much needed) belly laugh!! Genius, simple genius. Dave "Samarth Moray @gmail.com>" <legoswami<nospam> wrote in message news:IAu2u7.1J8r@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) message>, and after (URL) Lar encouraged> (...) (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build)
 
  Project YAMATO
 
(...) Thank you for your introduction of my project, Bruce. This is my biggest challenge and still under construction. 1/40 Battleship YAMATO It's minifig scale, and it will come to 6.5m (21ft). (URL) It has passed 2 years since I began to build, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !! 
 
  Re: New invention instructions
 
(...) Seven: Here are two documents which show exactly how to build working components which I think go beyond what comes with the kit. They are free to download .pdf files. This one is written by Fred Martin, who designed the original RCX brick: (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.people, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, FTX)
 
  Juggernaut
 
(3 URLs) Click this for more pics...> Unfortunately, I have to do some reshoots of the whole tank due to glare so this is just the first part showing most of the exterior details. The link to my MOCs will be redone when time permits but every new (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !! 
 
  Re: A little somethin' for everyone
 
Hello! (...) Yeah, I wonder what they were thinking when they disarticulated the elbows of the figs. That clearly is not an improvement. I was glad, though, they didn't continue the Fairy Tale line with these new figures, so I wasn't forced to (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: New invention instructions
 
(...) Six: Check at your local library/bookstore for one of tha many books now in print. For example, (URL) here is a list of titles at amazon.com -Rob A> (21 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.people, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
(...) Thanks Todd, Consider it a birthday gift :-) *Now* will we get a .build.vignette? ;-P Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
SNIPPIFICATION (...) LOL thanks Tim :-) (BTW also thanks for satisfying my curiousity :-) Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
(...) woo, go swami! Tim (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good...
 
SNIPPIFICATION (...) I wish I could say that I've seen those pictures before, but I haven't. I guess it's good in a way; Knowing someone had already done it wouldve been a MAJOR turn-off. (...) I was also thinking of something similar. Nowadays road (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
(...) I had it narrowed down to 'awww crap' 'that can't be good' and 'uh-oh' D'Oh wouldve been to cliched IMO,and only Homer says it well :-) Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
OMG, that is the funniest thing I've seen in months! --Todd (21 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good...
 
(...) And all this time I thought that no one had ever gotten any inspiration from the online pictures of my MOC's from the January 14, 2002 LUGCO meeting. (2 URLs) We need to make a whole city street of those. It will be like the Running of the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.org.us.lugco, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
(...) Should the caption be "D'HO!" hahaha Mark (21 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
 
  Re: That can't be good.....
 
(...) WAY too funny. Spotlighted! Thanks for sharing. (21 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
 
  That can't be good.....
 
Well, I had this idea while typing a (URL), and after (URL) Lar encouraged> me to do it, I threw it together in half an hour, ran a render, and uploaded it! (URL) Post-mod gallery for the .mpd: (URL) Have a Laugh, Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, FTX) !! 


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