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| a new moc is almost finished so i thought i'd post some of the foliage and structures while i'm waiting for pieces needed to complete details. a formal garden with reflecting pool, raised flowerbeds and stone pathways. (...) (20 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Ahboo Roo design ideas
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| Greetings, Earth-Mortals! I was just doodling a bit tonight in MLCAD, and found myself more focused on entry detailing than structure (which is where I started). These pics are really only quick design ideas for a country cottage trying to get out (...) (20 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| Love it, special mentions go to the pantiles and the oval flowerbed. The whole model is brilliantly executed and works together as a whole. Tim (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| (...) before i break my creations, i bring them into work to show my students (i'm a teacher) so at least i get a chance to share the beauty of this hobby. they (aged 4-12) are in awe of the brick and i hope i incite them to build something, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| (...) <snip> (...) Some more beautiful MOC's again. The Cliffhouse is beautiful. Makes me want to build something just to include a waterfall. That waterfall is awesome. I can see why you'd have to tear it down. That's a lot of window packs. And (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| In lugnet.announce.moc, Deborah Higdon wrote some cool stuff, then signed it: (...) Beautiful interplays between positive and negative space, the indoors and the outdoors, nature and construct, human being and site. The simplicity seems to give your (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| Hi Deborah,It was nice to see your MOC creation of the Cliff House it brought me back some nice memories of my last visit to San Francisco where I had a very romantic breakfast with my wife. Good job and congratulations ! Best regards. Gustavo (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| (...) Hello Deborah, Great design, I love the landscape, curved wall, roof etc. But what I prefer the most is your patio table! A great way to recycle broken trees or after a dog or a kid shewed on the tree! The effect is great for outside furniture (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| (...) Deborah, I really like your work. There's a nice organic component to it that you rarely see in MOCs. You also have a great way of making interesting terrain for the building to be built on. Thanks, George (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| (...) too late! it's long gone, but i'm using a partially curved staircase in my present moc and have improved on it to make it stronger. the staircase in the cliff house was extremely fragile and more often than not fell over when i removed the 3rd (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| (...) Very nice house. I rather like the way you've made the waterfall using both solid blue pieces & trans-blue pieces. One other thing that's interesting to is how you made the spiral staircase. I've created spiral stairs too, but never thought of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | more mocs - cliffhouse, museum
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| well, my first posting went really well. i must admit, i really appreciated hearing from people whose names were familiar since i've been lurking around for years, and to be welcomed so positively into what i know is a really fine community. and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| deborah higdon wrote in message ... (...) a (...) the (...) Very nice job altogether, but the almond tree is a standout. Lovely! cross-posted to lugnet.town for visibility there too. Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| I really like this one too. I especially like the curved wall and the way you did the roof (I'm going to borrow that design idea sometime). The two-level effect is very cool, too. Bruce (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| (...) Well, in that case, it's quite acceptable. :-) I was going to ask if it had already been broken, but was trying to keep my posting short. (...) Well, we have no shows in the near future. We were invited to a show in Prescott for April, but (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| This is my favorite shot of your villa: (URL) I love the vertical orientation of roof pieces to simulate a tile roof. This technique is worthy of a constructopedia entry!!! -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| (...) that tree broke and i just can't throw away lego. so i felt justified in using it for a patio table! (...) ironicallly, i believe you're a member of parlugment and i'm also a citizen of this fair city. i've been lurking on lugnet for a while (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| (...) i agree! awsome use of clickit parts. ondrew p.s. like the roof too. (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| I love the curved wall with the windows. Usually when you see a curved wall, it curves outward instead of inward. Besides the inward curvature, your wall has 2 sizes of windows in it. Nice work! (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| (...) I was admiring this on Brickshelf a while ago. It looks wonderful. The elevated landscape looks great, the curved window wall, the flowering tree, the fountain, the roof, it all looks great. Except maybe the patio table (shudder). That's an (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: first posting, italian hillside villa
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| (...) Very nice mental picture there. I liked the way you treated the front door, it somehow seems inviting... I like the curved window wall by the steps going around to the back, and the grade change between the front and back adds a lot of (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| I love the fountain! I may have to try working something like that into one of my buildings. Nice job! -Elroy (21 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | first posting, italian hillside villa
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| my first posting, not a big deal in the great scheme of things, but for me a giant step deeper into this hobby. enough said, the moc: an italian villa set into the valley's hillside with a large deck to enjoy the panoramic view. a vespa waits to (...) (21 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Who's using electrostatic foil "stickers"
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| M. Moolhuysen wrote in message ... (...) for (...) discovered (...) I use what I think is the same stuff for the "leaded glass" stickers on the Half Timbered Shops kit. The exact brand is Xerox Inkjet Window Decals and there's what looks like a (...) (21 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
| | | | | Who's using electrostatic foil "stickers"
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| Hello all, I've read somewere that a buider used some kind of "electrostatic foil" to apply a stained glass print on his church windows. This foil was adhesive by glue, but had the special propperty to cling itself on smooth sufaces, and could just (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
| | | | | Re: Escher in LEGO
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| (...) Hey thanks! This is so cool. I once saw that site, or other images from it, but never saw the Relativity pictures. I have uploaded some impossible figures I once made to Brickshelf: (URL) moderation (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
| | | | | Re: Escher in LEGO
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| answer: Andrew Lipson his LEGO homepage is: (URL) Maarten (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Escher in LEGO
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| Hi all, I do not know who made this, but it is magnificent IMHO. I have to share it with you. A friend, who found this by coincidence, pointed this out to me: (URL) inspired by Escher's Relativity art: (URL) someone knows who made this in LEGO, (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build)
| | | | | MOC: Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna, Austria
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| Hello everybody! This fall I went with my family to Vienna and we went by the amazing Hundertwasser Haus. I imediately realized that the building would make a great subject for a LEGO model and over christmas I found the time to carry out the (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.at, lugnet.loc.at.wi.wie, lugnet.loc.de) !!
| | | | | BrickTopia - Greed Square Train Station (MOC)
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| This is a new, Baroque-Styled train station for the "Greed Square" area of BrickTopia: (URL) is traditional, there is much corrupt behavior going on inside: (URL) BrickTopia Page: (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Jan-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
| | | | | BrickTopia Liquid Cathedral (New MOC)
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| This is another cathedral of mine based on an LDRAW model from some years back. I hope you like it: (URL) BrickTopia Page: (URL) are Appreciated, Brad (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch) !
| | | | | Old style danish country house in Miniland scale
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| Hi, Please have a look at my latest creation (URL) roof took a while to build (especially the vault over the door) and it is completely "randomized", so is the wall where all my sand red bricks are in use. Also notice the base of the house made of (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch) !!
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| Thanks, all, for your comments. Some more info... The museum is fashioned loosely after the University of Michigan art museum in Ann Arbor, MI. It has the approximate shape, the portico, the double round columns, the square columns and even the (...) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch)
| | | | | Re: Michiana-LUG @ GATS Fort Wayne
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| (...) Thank you, Brendan. (...) Yes, and thanks. The sand red hotel and light yellow soda shop are mine. I'll post pictures and descriptions when I find some time. Yes, the door on the hotel is identical to the one on the art museum, except in (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.michiana-lug, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| (...) If you'd like an article that you authored cancelled and you are unable to do it yourself because it was web or mail posted, or for whatever other reason, send a note requesting the cancel to the LUGNET admins, or to Frank Filz, or to myself (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| Ugh. The Lugnet news server doesn't seem to be accepting cancels. The correct URLs are... (6 URLs) Amy (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| Thanks for your comments. Not too surprisingly show visitors didn't know it was supposed to be an art museum. I didn't have time to hang banners from the portico, but I'll do that before Novi GATS. There were probably 20 people who asked if it was (...) (21 years ago, 27-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| (...) Amy, outstanding work as usual. Your attention to detail is outstanding, the architecture is great...and tan to boot. All you need is a cool setting for it. I alway look forward to your mocs. -Keith (21 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Art Museum
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| (...) Amy, one word. OUTSTANDING. As usual. Steven Weiser (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Art Museum
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| This is an art museum I'm taking to GATS Fort Worth tomorrow. Landscaping still to be done but the building is complete... (2 URLs) Amy (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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