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I seem to recall a post on Lugnet that had bricks which went in offset increments of 1/16th sized steps, but I can't find the link on lugnet. Does anyone have information and pictures of such offset step building sizes? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If you have lots of spare 2x4 bricks, then you can use the same technique we used at the 2002 GETS show: (URL) does use *lots* of 2x4 brick, and a few others, and you have to be quite careful to not leave large fractures in the structure, but (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Joe- At SCLTC, we build tunnels and subterranean structures by stacking tables on top of each other using short legs and knobs bolted to the tops of the underlying tables. We haved stacked as tables as high as 5 levels in one place when (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Consider GMLTC lattice. Strong, light, made of common elements and modular in that it conforms to various heights well. XFUT lugnet.trains... a search with this string "GMLTC lattice" should find you a pic of it... (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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For my town I took the arches from the SAH site. Imagine looking at the baseplate. I placed two going north, one going east and west on the front and then depending on where they are in the tunnel I may have a total of 8 arches two in each (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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We're thinking about raising up half of our town, so that we can have the train run into a tunnel and be a subway train on the elevated half and a surface train on the other half (with the two halves joined by a hill). This will also allow us to (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) I'll let Laz know (I don't know if he reads Lugnet) - he'll be pleased. (...) All in one night? - that's a lot of putting together! I don't know how long Laz took to do his bridge, but I imagine it was a lot more than one session. There were 4 (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) show at Fullerton. I love this NALUG bridge. If immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider that design in the queue to have its double deck construction copied! Meanwhile, back to the "my dog's better than yours": Last time we (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) I'm assuming those large scale vehicles are yours too? (crown vic, old impala, car transporter, heavy wrecker etc) (URL) (cars) (URL) (trucks) (URL) (buses) (URL) (civic) Nice work. VERY nice work indeed. Xposted to lugnet.town and (...) (21 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you for your kinds words, gentelmen! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed my first AFOL event and look forward to many more! (21 years ago, 9-May-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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