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I like the fact that you kept it simple. It would be easy to aquire parts and build 4-5 of them quickly for a town scene. (21 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
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"Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:IGHM6x.G1I@lugnet.com... (...) (snippage) (...) I do apologize for having to redirect back to lugnet.build but I tried emailing you and your old ISPs mailserver bounced the message (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Sorry, a typo. I was too busy building! I was thinking of building something with moonbase ports fitted on the side (my 'podule' idea of 16-stud square units, with swappable caps and 16-stud corridors), so 14 studs seemed about right. It was (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) (URL) And here's a render of one the size of the Death Star II kit (60 studs diameter) (without jumpers). Now that would be a plates part pack! (URL) --Bram (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !
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(...) That's a really great application you developed. I bet we'll see a lot more spheres incorporated into MOC's now... Great job! Chris (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Bram's script. Bruce made the 'original' small plate sphere. Anyway, it's great that you were inspired to build one right away! Did you play around much with different diameters to get one that looked best, or did you just go with what came (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) I can think of a way you could do it, but as you showed in your next post, you really don't need to. I'm pretty sure that any gaps left by the jumpers will be covered up in all designs. I think the bit of code that decides whether or not to us (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Okay, here's a quickly assembled 14-stud diameter sphere in tan: (URL) Sphere>> Ably supported by my assistant Atlas: (URL) And badly photographed by me... This was built from the following rendering of one facet, direct from Bruce's script - (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) WOW! That. is. amazing. Many thanks. Jason Railton P.S. One quick point - on a single face of a sphere of diameter 14, I notice the lower straight edge is an odd number of studs long, offset half a stud from the layer above. You can't actually (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Geoffrey - sorry, I was forced to change hosts when I moved out of an NTL cable area. Well, actually I moved into another one but was glad for the excuse to be shot of them. My website curently hangs around under (URL), or (URL) if you'd (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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The Heart of Gold is no longer too round to build! (URL) If anyone wants to render some of the results for the LDraw-deprived, go right ahead. (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space) !!
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What interests me most is what became of the website Jason J. Railton had - unfortunately, that link is broken or has been removed. It's mentioned on this link here: (URL) was on this link here: (URL) wayback machine can take me to the index page (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Any chance you made instructions before you took it apart? I'd love to have a squad of those running around my personal LEGOland. David Gregory (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Try here for 1/10 offset (URL) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I’m working on some multi level displays with members of COLTC. Here is some ideas that I have come up with. The main thing was cost then sturdiness. I use 8x16 soccer bricks that were real cheap. Then place our Base plates on them. I have (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
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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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