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Re: building problems
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:14:30 GMT
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Tom McDonald wrote:
> David Zorn writes:
> > Gary Istok wrote in message <36E3E5C1.CEE2E344@umich.edu>...
> > :Right now I have partially completed: 2 sides of a
> > :notched arch Art Deco movie palace, 3 sides of an English university
> > medieval
> > :college quadrangle, one side of a 19th century Parisian townhouse
> > with Mansard
> > :roof, 2 sides of a 12th century Gothic Guild Hall, a 6 story 19th
> > Century
> > :Victorian office building with cornice, and 2 sides of an 8 story
> > 1930's Moderne
> > :(streamlined Art Deco) department store.
> > :
> > :Gary Istok
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> > Gary! you're killing us with the suspence. Disconnect your modem and
> > get to work.
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> Ha! :D
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> Here's a "mee too" but well worth it:
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> Gary, I'm starting to go through cathedral withdrawals. NO pressure though...
> none at all...... nope.....................
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> Also, when (and if you still do) you post your brief installations on the
> history of Lego on RTL, could ya/would ya do it here on lugnet.general too? I
> know you're not instructing the ignorant, but we're getting more new users
> here (as you can plainly see), and, well dang it, I just like reading it. :)
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> -Tom McD.
> PS To all applicable: Thanks for the kind words regarding the tips.
Thanks for encouragement folks, I wish there were more hours in the day for
work, family, friends AND Lego.
Tom, I haven't done too much on the history of LEGO since the Classic Windows and
Doors (except for a brief forray into Fence pieces a few weeks ago). But I will
get back to doing some soon. And I will post in both LUGNET and RTL. Some
topics I would like to include are: the early LEGO Garage kits: early LEGO
Service Stations - ESSO & early SHELL; the first LEGO Model Builder sets
(1961-65); the differences between early TLG and Samsonite; the rarest LEGO
parts, and LEGO Parts Packs 1958-68. Hopefully there will be something there for
everyone.
As for my Cathedral, well I've undergone some revisions on it. My fascade has
gone thru 3 changes. I am most pleased with the current look (a cross between
Notre Dame and Westminster Abbey). A few weeks ago I saw a post about creating
Gothic Tracery (rotating the pieces 45 degrees and using plates (including the
ever elusive clear plates). Well I have to say that my "Great East Window"
(using British terminology) looks absolutely awesome with this "tracery" design.
Now I am going to do the west window, as well as the 2 transept windows. I
wanted to do a Rose Window with tracery, but I just can't get it to look as good
as a clerestory or lancet window. Anyway I need to spend a weekend and finish
the Cathedral, then use my new zoom lens camera (all my old pictures used just a
regular camera, hence the lack of clear detail) to take a bunch of photo's and
get them posted.
Then after I finish the cathedral, I probably am going to change it to a
"Cathedral Close" or an Abbey. This would involve adding cloisters, a chapter
house, bishops/abbots palace, smaller chapels, lay buildings, etc.
Besides the Cathedral, I want to finish my 2 Movie Palaces.
So much to do, so little time,
Gary Istok
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