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Or you can use the metal wire used in battery boxes like (URL) here>, or simply say that you did. I mean, cutting up lego pieces seems worse to me than using an invisible paperclip. But hey, it's your party :) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) I think it is Padme: (URL) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) True, but everything in front of the camera is LEGO (except the background sky). Has LEGO ever made paperclips? Maybe if somebody from Billund or Enfield sent me some paperclips from LEGO headquarters, that could be some sort of loophole. But (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I don't know what it says about me as a person, but I'm more upset at the sight of mutilated Lego than I am at the idea of someone getting killed violently in his sleep. By the way, I love the backward-helmet look here...I don't think it (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Have you tried reinforcing it with a bent paperclip? I know you've used some non-lego solutions in the past (hey, you're not photographing it with a Vision Command camera) and it wouldn't even be visible. Also, I think (URL) is the best shot (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) I've had a couple of these white hair pieces for a little while now, but indeed was waiting for an appropriate time to use them. I didn't spring for them though, they were a gift to The Brick Testament. No, not from the LEGO company. :) I (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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Hey Brendan, Another good chapter. Comments: 4:4-5 - Did you spring for the hair for this, or did you already have it? Good use of a rare part to set off a distinctive figure (though it might have been better for Sarah if you had had it back in (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(URL) The Brick Testament> continues its illustration of the Biblical book of (URL) with the story of Israel's only female judge, Deborah: (2 URLs) of the Canaanites> (NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take (...) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !
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Hey Brendan, Great stuff as always. You should do some vigs along with your chapters, btw. :) Moabites-- 3:12 Awesome idol, esp the onion dome. King Eglon--Great fig idea. I saw the post above about the difficulty with the arms, which is too bad. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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Hi, Daan. Thanks for the typo report. The text has once again been made infallible. -Brendan (20 years ago, 20-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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For anyone who couldn't make it to Border's tonight, here's what you missed! (URL) Good times. -Brendan (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Wow, good eye, Samarth. (...) The hands are just pushed into the arms. :) It was attaching the arms that was a real pain in the butt. I used a few different methods in the different photos of King Eglon, depending on his pose. In this photo, (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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LMAO Brendan! Jg 3:12 Love the offset handle for the mouth :-) Jg 3:12,17 How'd you attach fat kings hands? And the use of tyres is excellent! I can see a Buckingham Palace guard there somewhere..... ;-) Jg 3:16 Burning embers are really nice. Jg (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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hello Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, enjoying your bricktestament I came upon this mistypo '' upstaits " in (URL) going on with the joy! Regards Daan Bargerbos ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith" (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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(URL) The Brick Testament> website has been updated today with two new stories providing an illustrated account of the second and third of Israel's (URL) judges>, Ehud and Shamgar: (2 URLs) Moabites Killed> (2 URLs) Philistines Killed> (NOTE: For (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.oak, FTX) !
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(...) :) Even beheading scenes are becoming so commonplace in The Brick Testament that I have to keep thinking of new visually interesting ways of showing them. If I had to pick a favorite, I might go with (URL) this one> just for the action it (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Wow! This (URL) shot> just made my eyes pop out. Best beheading ever. Keep up the good work - not only am I buying all your books, I'm getting them for my (URL) library>! Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Aha! I hadn't noticed that. I just assumed that those were the insides of some CRAPP that I'm unfamiliar with, but hadn't looked close enough to notice the undersides of the studs. Nice. Bruce (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Bruce. (...) Definitely. It's a lot more time consuming to build with a ground level and then go below that, but it is a nice change of pace. Within this same set of stories, I also used upside down raised basplates to accomplish the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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Hey Brendan, Great as always. Bethel: In 1:25 I really like the steps going down. Your MOCs usually start on a baseplate and go up, so it's nice to have one with depth. In the last pic, it's nice that the baby also follows the Bethel color scheme. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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