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Actually, Larry, it can be viewed as most appropriate of John Neal to post to .train. I kindly direct you to model rr mags which routinely feature articles on buildings related to train layouts. As John is a regular trainbuilder, surely this (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, Brad, and of course, you are absolutely correct. I do plan on one day finishing the interior, but I was just too excited about building more buildings at the time and so just I forged on to newer things. Thing is, when you start a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Building (light gray)
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Looks nice. The see-through nature of the thin-walls make it seem a little too "empty" though. I know how you feel about exteriors coming before interiors, but you might want to try doing a little something, perhaps in the lobby, just to make it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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(...) You might have a point, this time, but you got lucky. I'll stand behind my comments, you were way off topic and ought to know better. ++Lar (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) To Jason and Cary: It's actually pretty sturdy. The only real potential weak spot is where I have stacked the thin walls with the 1x2 dark gray plate in between them. If you will notice the row of plates onto which the grill tiles are (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I'm assuming floors would add a lot of strength... as well as adding to the realism (even if undetailed... a big hollow shell doesn't look right unless it's supposed to be a big hollow atrium) (...) So do you have a custom carved shell you use (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Building (light gray)
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In lugnet.build, Jason Spears writes: ... (...) My question as well. I have built a number of large buildings for train shows that have traveled with varying success. How do you plan to transport it -- or is it stronger than it looks? So far I've (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: New Building (light gray)
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(...) Neat. All those thinwalls are pretty impressive. How sturdy is this? It looks extremely fragile. <snip> -Jason PS Maybe you could have a little train car (2 wide or something) next to each of your buildings so the "FUT Police" wouldn't harass (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: New Building (light gray)
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In lugnet.trains.org, John Neal writes: <snip> Awesome building but once again the FUT has been set incorrectly. I ask everyone else, please make up for John's stubbornness and set them correctly. You all know this isn't a trains.org topic even if (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | New Building (light gray)
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Although this building is new to the net, I actually began building it last year after a huge sale of 4561s from Walmart. The building took all of the 1x2x3 trans light blue thin wall elements from over 40 sets (I've forgotten how many came in each (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general) !
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| | New Dream House For My Lego Town :)
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Hi every one I have learned the modleing program of LDRAW/MLCAD VERY good program indeed ......... My question are . 1. How big will this house be at Studs width = 30 studs depth = 14.40 studs height= 5.8 ---...--- And if you guys want to see the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Hospital Using Availible Bricks And Ldraw
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Hi all I am building a hospital in Ldraw witch will be built in real life . My question is after I have built it is thier any way I can see how many bricks and windows it will take ???...??? thease are the bricks I am Using ( 1x6 black brick ) ( 1x4 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | New House Moc Beach House Moc ( First House Ever )
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Hi all Here is a few pictures of my very first ever house moc its a beach house on stilts becuse of the floods my DNR county gets every winter LOL (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Grand Opening of LLD - My 1:400 scale Lego Airport
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Well, after about 3 weeks of working on this for a few hours a night, I am done with the model. (URL) wanted to create an entire airport (including Ground Service Equipment, runway, terminal, hotel, parking garage, tank farm, radar installation, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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(...) It will happen again, but not until a year has passed from the last one, so look for it at the beginning of 2002. Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths: (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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Brad, Great job. The storyline about the cafe was great! Building looks amazing. Thanks for sharing it. - Steve (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Great job. I really like the way the trans-green and the white go together. Those windows are great too. I had been think about mounting some windows that way, but hadn't gotten a chance to fiddle with the attachment yet. As always a treat to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: New building (Tan)
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(...) Thanks John, for sharing these great pictures with us. I love your building and for some elements I wasn't aware that they exist at all and you have used hundreds of each of them... Regards, Ben (I myself was not too busy at work last week: (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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Thanks for sharing the pics and for the great presentation (as always!). My favorite part of the tour was meeting the CEO's son and learning about how the nerd he shares an office with sends out bad vibes that destroy his psychic predictions. I also (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the stories. Mark Sandlin <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:sandlin-8036EE....net.com... (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Excellent as always, Brad. I think I enjoy your descriptions almost as much as the MOCs :^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Those are both really great. The use of color is nice and they both have a good level of detail. They don't look "flat" like many 2nd rate LEGO buildings. Christopher Tracey <ctracey@enviroweb.org> wrote in message news:GJrz07.2JH@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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Josh Baakko <shi_web@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GJs1r7.7v7@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you enjoyed reading the story. In truth, I rarely read the stories on other people's sites. I guess I like to write stories (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Octan World Headquarters Building
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(...) wow! i like the little TV anttena on the top, great story behind it. i loove to look at your buildings, they have a sertain charm to them. Josh (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Since I haven't posted any creations in quite a while I thought I would share a few buildings I have been working on. The first is my movie theater. This is a rebuild of what I submitted to the Town Building Contest(1) last year. Some of you saw (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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This is my latest sky-scraper for BrickTopia: (URL) was finally able to put together a large number of special parts I had sitting around and make use of much of my big Life On Mars set. Here is the entire city skyline: (URL) I added a few more (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New Building (brown)
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(...) That's all well and good but the *post* is primarily about buildings. Review the trains.org charter. Review the building and building.arch charters. If everything that was tangentially related to train organisations was posted there it would (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New Building (brown)
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(...) hometown of Hancock, MI. I'm also drawing many new ideas from you, like the hinge brick idea at the top! It looks like i'll have to use some of these ideas for my bank. Josh (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Those are two very nice buildings. The extra details, the cornices for example, really make the buildings interesting to look at. Keep up the good work, Chris (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New building (Tan)
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(...) John it looks great!Love the details. I myself have a brown/tan building in the works.Like my airport (and using LD bricks/clear 3x4 windows)it is based on a building that i am working on in my real construction job.(It's called Griswold (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New building (Tan)
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(...) What did you use to cut the pieces? ;-) J-2 knows cutting LEGO pieces is a pet peeve of mine. Although, I have to admit I <gasp!> cut a few pieces in one of the buildings I've posted recently... :-O JohnG, GMLTC aka 'J-1' (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks. I use that technique in 3 other buildings I have yet to post. (...) As I think I mentioned, these are buildings that will appear on the Twin Cities LEGO Train Club layout. They were built for the purpose of displaying on a train (...) (23 years ago, 16-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Large Baroque Palace
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Thanks for the compliments. Yeah - Although this doesn't use any exceptionally rare parts, it uses a lot of semi-rare parts in large quantities. Manfred Moolhuysen <moom@nospamchello.nl> wrote in message news:GJq5Mx.5F4@lugnet.com... (...) as (...) (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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In lugnet.trains.org, John Neal writes: <snip> Both the brown AND the tan buildings are VERY nice. I especially like the sloped window sills in the brown one. But why is the post to trains.org? Worse, why aren't at least the FUT pointing away? I set (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | RE: New Building (brown)
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(...) realism. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Large Baroque Palace
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(...) Ghasp! This is screaming to be build in real bricks, on the same grounds as such buildings where erected in the real world, namely being Insanely Expensive. Greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Below is a pic of a plain old brown stone building. I started this one right after the brown bulk bricks became available, but it took a long time to collect enough of the brown arches to complete. I must say that I have really becoming a fan of (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks. That's high praise coming from a couple of guys whom I consider to be truly amazing builders! You make me laugh with the 5 finger hinge question-- I am only aware of it in one set. It took at least a half a year of searching to (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Large Baroque Palace
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(...) Agghh... I am on sensory overload this morning. First I see John Neal's Tan Building and now this. Very cool Brad. Once again you have made a building that will inspire future Town builders (myself) and amaze them at the same time. I love the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Wow. As the picture loaded, I keep seeing each new detail and saying to myself, "That's cool, oh, that's cool, that's cool." Very Impressive. I don't know what a cornice is but, I love the way you detailed the roof, and the window line, and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch)
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