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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> To: <lugnet.space@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.build.arch@lugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:12 PM Subject: Re: lattice windows (...) Hello Sonnich Jensen, you make me curious: (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: lattice windows
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snip Very interesting. I am working on somthing like this myself, and got an amazing result using something like that - fences, and head light holders. For me that seems to be the best solution. I have 2 versions of my windows, one is ready, while (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: LEGO Millyard model to cover 2,000 square feet, Sponsored by NELUG
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"Erik Varszegi" <erik.varszegi@ameri....lego.com> wrote in message news:I5LoyH.1DJD@lugnet.com... (...) have (...) months (...) construction, it (...) all (...) that (...) we (...) <snipped press release> (...) mine. Fantastic news Erik, Minilands (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: sneak previews of ottawa train show
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Great stuff! I'm planning on visiting the show this weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. It will be my first Lego-related event, as small as it may be :-) DJ "deborah higdon" <higdon-leblond@rogers.com> wrote in message (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | sneak previews of ottawa train show
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this saturday & sunday, oct 16, 17, parlugment participates in its second local train show. (URL) building all summer & into the fall, i've completed some mocs for the show. among them are an 18-hole mini-putt golf course, inspired by my 12-yr-old (...) (20 years ago, 15-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, FTX)
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| | Re: Ice Cream Shop
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I didn't spell Graeters correctly. Their main web site is here: (URL) article about the location I'm talking about is here: (URL) believe this is a picture of the location I'm thinking about: (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Ice Cream Shop
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(...) Very nice. It reminds me of a local ice cream shop that's also in an older building. It's a Graters here in Cincinnati, OH. Everyone who's lived in the Cincinnati area knows about Graters. They still make their ice cream by hand. They were (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | lattice windows
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Using the lattice windows for church buildings often gave me the feeling of coming up with too small or too low windows. Looking for solutins I came up with three variations. I. With this picture in mind: (URL) can help me out where this one came (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: New Resource
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(...) Thanks Clark, it did help and thanks for adding it - I will think about volunteering, although I have so many different classes of building that I have interest in it might be hard to focus on just architecture... Cheers, .Steve "Attack life, (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Ice Cream Shop
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Amy & All, (...) This is a really nice building, and I just love that color. Lynn, my wife, is calling that color Fench vanilla, which is just too apropriate for the ice cream shop. : ) I was looking at the pictures yesterday, when she came in the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Ice Cream Shop
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(...) Great! Thanks for sharing, Amy. Ed (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX)
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This one's a year old. I'm just getting around to taking decent pictures of it before I tear it down. This is the ice cream shop I've shown with MichLUG and Michiana-LUG as part of the block that contains the sand red hotel and tan museum. (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: How do you do this? Doors and roofs?
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I send this to lugnet.build.arch too, hope to get some input. The most important right now, is to get to know more about odd roofs, where e.g. walls are not straigh. Sonnich (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Building viaducts with curves and bank angle.
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(...) Perhaps you could have a SNOT Technique on the sides. You could maybe use hinges for the curves or layered plates and tiles. (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: Building viaducts with curves and bank angle.
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(...) Thanks, Ross! I much appreciate the links. Those are some beautiful bridges.. They've given me a few ideas, but my main problems are still related to achieving a realistic look at such a small scale. I've thought of building in curves with the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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Sean, That look great! Excellent work as always. Too bad I missed you by a day, as i was in Philly on Tuesday. Of course, it was raining so hard i couldn't even SEE the bridge when i was driving across it... Tony (20 years ago, 5-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Building viaducts with curves and bank angle.
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(...) Jordan, You might want to check out Adrian Egli's bridge studies at (URL) they are much larger than the scale you're looking at, you may get some ideas. There are several nice bridge examples there, including a couple of curved ones: (URL) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch)
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I've been experimenting with building elevated highways, and have several questions pertaining to such. I wanted to build on a scale of about 3 meters/stud, but I don't think that's an adequate resolution if I want to put in realistic curves, anyone (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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(...) That's what Xacto(r) knives are for! ... Er, did I just say that? (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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(...) Thanks, yeah, I guess I meant stanchion. :) Gosh, I always called them "sanctions". Gasp, a faux pas on the .arch group. :) That's OK, I think I called them "pylons" on the TV show, so it's all good. :) Sean (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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Bruce: (...) Yeah, the bridge is a little too wide; I would have liked to used narrower base plates, but I didn't have any other sizes in gray. The real Ben Franklin Bridge has 4 lanes of traffic each way, plus two sets of train tracks, one on each (...) (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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(...) I think he meant stanchion ;) Nice build, Sean! ROSCO (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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Sean, You're one of the folks I look up to... but what is a "sanction"? I think you meant tower... otherwise, Othmar Amman would be proud! Sid (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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Hey Sean, This is awesome! Cool MOC and great exposure. One critique - are those 2-wide cars to scale? It may just be because of the light traffic, but they seem a bit lost in among the gray. Bruce (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I still have to stop by there with Mr. Krinkle. I parked my Car for the summer, so I have been staying local. (...) Man, you moved to Texas!?!? Darn, I wanted to hook up in NYC and shoot the Bricks. Give me a heads up next time your (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) LOL :) Thanks, Eric. :) By the way, a new LEGO store just opened up in your neck of the woods -- at Bridgewater Commons. I had to make a few stops there in the days preceding the event to stock up on blue pieces (which, I was very lucky, they (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | Re: 12-foot bridge built in 2 hours on live TV
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That is FANTASTIC! You are my hero! e (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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In July 2004, I was contacted by Nicole Fox, one of the hosts of "Your Morning on CN8", a live morning show based out of Philadelphia. We decided it would be fun to build a model of Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Bridge on the Delaware River (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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| | Re: New Resource
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(...) Answer: email the curator of that board, or post a specific request to the group. I'm a curator of the .build groups, and can change the the entry page for any .build area. I have updated the .build.arch list with the link you suggested. We (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(URL) - Modern architecture through images and essays. Question: how does something like this get added to a newsgroup's resource list?? Play well! .Steve "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway!" (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| | OK, I'm torn
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Today I had a first - -Student brings in a set of BI to show what he wants to make for his first project in my 3D AutoCAD class. -It's a Megabloks kit. :( Cool model, though. :) Darrell (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: down at the farm
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Hey, This looks great. I especially love the porch swing. I'll add your little duck-pond to my links page of animal MOCs: (URL) when I get a chance. Bruce (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: wishin' on a BIG star
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Stuff I want to see: Better variety of Transparent Fluro Orange and especially Transparent Dark Blue elements. More parts similar to the 1 x 1 with studs on all sides. (great for SNOT) More/Better windscreens (with angled edges instead of those (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: wishin' on a BIG star
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(...) YES!!!! I am in love with my new MAGENTA flowers :D Good to see a new flower colour (the standard flowers that go on the green stems). How about violet and purples and orange flowers??? (...) Orange and Yellow bottles, cartons and jars etc!!! (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | down at the farm
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a tiny sneak preview of some scenes for parlugment's participation in ottawa railfair (oct 16-17). the orchard house moc is near completion. gardens and grounds are being tended very diligently by the farmhand who couldn't resist temptation and the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX) !
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| | 4.5 Foot Tall Clock Tower
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This is my latest LEGO architectural piece. It is a fictitious clock tower that is less than minifig scale. It is roughly 33 stories tall (four and a half feet) my tallest LEGO skyscraper yet. The clock is purely aesthetic, it does not function. It (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Motivating CAD students to model LEGO (was prototyping)
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(...) I am amazed that the architecture students would need any motivation to design with legos. Being an architect myself I cannot even fathom the thought! One suggestion would be to ask the students to try and model their previous projects using (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Motivating CAD students to model LEGO (was prototyping)
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(...) Well, my Semester starts in two weeks, so if you have any tips I'm all for hearing them! My biggest problem is motivating the Architecture students in my group. The Engineers don't really care what they draw (a widget is a widget is a widget). (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: wishin' on a BIG star
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(...) -snip- (...) thanks! yes the flower thingys open a whole can of (earth)worms. (...) also when you want to centre it on a 1x2 with 1 stud. (...) and 1x2x1, because sometimes things don't always work out in even numbers! (...) i thought about (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | Re: wishin' on a BIG star
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(...) Some cool parts!!! Glad someone agrees with the flower thingys ;) I'd also like: 1x3 tiles... such a pain to have to use a 1x2 and a 1x1 when there is no stud to attach the 1x1 to (for example tops of certain fences (spindled) etc). 1x2x2 (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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