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(URL) Hi all, just in time for the anual 1000steine.de-meeting after X-Mas ((URL)) I finished my minifig-scale model of Venice in Italy. The whole scenery is 4.5 x 7 baseplates (32x32 studs) large and includes some well known historic sights of the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
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(...) There's one I'm still looking for, that someone posted on .space a while ago. It's the coolest thing I've seen. (...) Depends on the builder :P For me, that's true. I have a hard time building small, which is why I build both big and small, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) As others have said, Welcome! Lots of great ideas in this thread, as a 'old-timer' I thought I could toss out a couple more. Don't feel you need to build HUGE things. Yes, some of us love to build massive things like 8-wide trains and 4+ foot (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Welcome aboard, Dave! I don't have much to add to the wisdom already dispensed on this thread, but here are a few other suggestions to help you in your building (some of these may be repeats). 1. Start with a cool first name. (You seem already (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Many great suggestions by others..... I do a lot of mutations. Start out with something, get and an idea on how to change it, change it. Try something else throw it out, try again. Don't expect that it will come out just the way you want the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Basically just throwing in a 'right on' to all that's been said. Only thing to add is that you've already taken the most important step, and that is joining this community. I lurked for over a year before starting to build. Then, I tried to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Experiment. Build. It sounds simple, and that's all the really is to it. What I find helps me is I keep a project list of some projects I'd like to work on. Some of them have came to be, others have just sat around in pieces. For example, I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) How? Start building. You'll get better. That's not a flippant answer, it's the truth. Do as many of the following things as you can: - Build stuff "in the style of" official sets, perhaps working from their instructions to learn various idioms (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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Dave Lander wrote in message ... (...) money (...) Lego. (...) for (...) My own first answer is: just keep practicing :-) For your amusement, take a look at the pics of my first two towns several years ago, which show some progression, compared with (...) (21 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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Ya know, I've been into Lego for a while myself. I haven't had the time or money I'd have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still love Lego. I've been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one question for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament: The Full Extent of The Law
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(...) Chris, The pink and blue birds are in this Belville set: (URL) keep meaning to order that set. It's got a lot of great elements. Bruce (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Dunno if this is the case in English, but in Swedish we have two different words for Camel and that one humped one. "Kamel" and "Dromedar". Oh, and here's a hint: (URL) :9 I can hear the White Stripes music :) (...) :) (...) Do they count? (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Oh man ---- This batch has to be the funniest yet. I'm still pissing my pants... Best one: when the parents teach the Law to their kids! Reverend, great work! Keep em coming :) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Awesome stuff Brendan. I'm almost sad to see The Law end - by far the most fun I've had reading your stuff yet. I'm guessing all the modern faculties are part of that... Anyways: What Not To Eat - Love the two horns together on animals - that (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) The two-humped camel was found mostly in Iran and beyond which is why Greeks called it Bactrian. The one-humped camel was domesticated, separately, in the Arabian desert and had a much more widespread territory. Ancient artwork outside Persian (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) That had to hurt. (...) Yikes. I'll make do with my gray and red birds, though one of these days I'll get that newer Belville set that has lots of food and dish elements (___'s Bazaar, I think), and that has the pastel birds. (...) Do you know (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Thanks, Bruce. (...) Yeah, I don't know if a Brick Testament book based on The Law could work at all without them... (...) I was thinking it was a buck deer, but since the antlers don't branch at all, a gazelle may be a better interpretation. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Weeee! (...) Some have one, others have two. My LEGO camels have one, because two would be very hard to fit on there and keep it in scale with minifigs. (...) Clean? You'd prefer I use my old dirty LEGO? Just kidding. I assume you meant that (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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Hey Brendan, Great work as always. Congratulations on finishing the Law. What not to eat: A lot of humor though this section made it very fun. This is a definite argument for the inclusion of dialog bubbles if you did a book on this section. I like (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) Although this final installment of The Law was pretty brief, with only two or three images per section, it was still very good. I especially liked your rendition of God punishing the man who decided to follow his own moral compass. The picture (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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