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(...) I've started this resource page (URL), using links from this thread. Please let me know if you'd like to contribute or remove anything. Thanks! Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (18 years ago, 22-Jan-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX) !
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(...) ooo, great! In that case, maybe I will. I am already half-way through my current submissions. I am awaiting bricks to complete them as of right now. Hopefully I'll have them within a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I won't be able to (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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(...) why not do it for the current contest? there's nothing stoping you or anyone else for that matter. i've only gotten 3 entrees so far so it would be a welcome idea. besides you have untill march or longer if i decide to extend the deadline. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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(...) Sounds like a good fun contest idea. Maybe when the current town contest ends, and there are more "cities" (as discussed earlier) in photos online. We could do a new contest like this. I am thinking an added twist though: We choose from a list (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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(...) Agreed! I take pics of architecture and buildings when I travel, and have pics of: Las Vegas, NV; Pittsburgh, PA; Boston, MA; and Omaha, NE. I'll post them as I get the chance. (...) Maybe one of us could create a page here on LUGNET (I don't (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) well ya actuly. i did like most people do when there bored i googled myself. I found out that not only was there a HARTIGAN'S Ice cream parlor but it was in northern illinois. about 3 weeks later i happened upon it on my way to a date so i (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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(...) (I could have sworn that I posted this reply yesterday but I can't find it so I'm posting it again. Maybe I just forgot to hit submit or something. Weird.) Very nice work. Great idea. But you forgot one newsgroup: lugnet.build.arch. I added it (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: Implecations of 6 LEGO Units Thick Fence
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(...) (snip) (...) Oooh, thanks, Mat! later, James Mathis (19 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) If you center the fence on a jumper plates, you can acheive 1-LU or 5-LU inset. I do something similar with technic bricks centered on jumper plates to acheive 2-LU insets. Mat (...) (19 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi James, I shifted my response to .build.schleim so you may have missed it ((URL) here>). If you use technic rods you can obtain infinite resolution with firmness by using part 4265 to hold it in place. That will work with my solution using (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Here two odd-valued off-stud-alignment, or odd-stud-alignment (OSA?), of (URL) and 7 LEGO Units shown as potential train door insets>. Other ways to achieve this 3 and 7-lu OSA? Of course, there are always the clever ways of using clips (...) (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) This construction is incredible! Erik, brilliant. Thanks for recalling that to my attention. later, James Mathis (19 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi James, It's not quite SNOT but there are two ideas (URL) here>. Also check out (URL) this thread> which is where I got the idea of using that part from. I think it is a great part and I thank Erik for bringing it to my attention for SNOT (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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What constructions can follow from (URL) this 6 LEGO Unit fence part>? I haven't fussed with ideas, yet, but I wonder if there are some new stud-offsets to be found with this 6LU thick fence. Train doors and engine vents always come to mind, but (...) (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Half-timbered houses
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You do see half timbered houses in the UK a fair bit usually in terraced streets most frequently above shops. I've certainly seen more half timber than full timber but I guess they last better. As Lenny says extra floors were frequently added onto a (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)
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(...) After searching exhaustively on Google (well, as exhaustively as 1.5 minutes allows), the "half-timber" was a contrast to using complete logs -- the timbers were split, or (more often, I think) squared-off. Steve (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) created around 1850 that wooden buildings were not allowed to be more than two stories high (because of the risk of fire). To get around this limitation a unique (for Sweden) house style emerged: the lower story made of stone (or sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message news:IqF0FD.pII@lugnet.com... (...) I can't speak for American-English, but in British-English, half-timbered refers to houses which are entirely made of timber-frame-with-infill. I think the "half" (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I add some pictures from 2004, of "full timbered"* houses. They do have a fundament, thourg small. (URL) links: (URL) Does "half timered" means, that the 1st floor is stones only? (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I'm not a medievalist - I'm more of an aesthetic castler (going for the look, not accuracy) - but I did take a trip to England. Most houses were either all stone, or all timber, but there were a few that were half and half. This one for (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sonnich, I know I've seen pictures of half-timbered houses in older German and French villages, they may be more common there than in Denmark. The medieval city with narrow streets and half-timbered houses overhanging the street at higher (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) it's not unheard of. (...) I think you ask an interesting question... I don't know why I do it that way, mostly because everyone else does? Most of the early CCC buildings are done that way, Dan Siskind's Blacksmith Shop set is done that way, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Hi all! People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages) for some time now. Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this: (URL) houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Nice job, Jason! I particularly like the use of random and all-inclusive color, the technique I prefer to work with. Don (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Looks like you're running out of house! Good luck on the record attempt. Your posting was just fine, BTW. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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This is my first time posting so please let me know if I am doing anything wrong. I'm trying to build a tall tower using only Lego. I know that the record is over 90 feet but using just the bricks on hand I made a tower 17 feet 11 inches tall. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch) !
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| | Re: MOC: Notre Dame, Paris
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(...) I'm looking at doing this for the arches that support something (i.e., have bricks above). It would be hard to make it look right for a stand-alone arch, though. Right now I'm working on the groin vault for the interior ceiling. I'm using a (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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It would be nice when you where able to use SNOT for the underside of the arches, buiding these curves from normal slopes placed upside down. The more versatile range of slope gradients that normal slopes show, would allow one to build a much (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) I'm going to design everything in MLCAD, then build as I can afford it. The one flying buttress has about 700 parts. IIRC, there are about 18 buttresses in the actual building. Those will be a small portion of the actual size of the final (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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(...) Looks like it will turn out quite nice. Is the cathedral going to be all CAD, or are you using the CAD program to plan what you're going to build in real life? The crossposting you used for the message was exactly the way it should be. : ) (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
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Hello All: This is my first post to the newsgroups. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to cross-post to other groups; let me know if that is discouraged. I've started working on a minifig-scale model of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. I've got a (...) (19 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Late night in the Moscow Metro
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Hi all, Recently I've become quite interested (a little addicted might even be more accurate) to Russian trains and Soviet architecture. Both have their own unique traits and styles which appear pretty much nowhere outside the former Soviet Bloc. (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Historic Evansville in Brick Competition
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(URL) Questions about the competition can be sent via e-mail to: scombs@ivytech.edu (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.us.in.eva, lugnet.events, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.announce.bimp, FTX)
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| | Sears Tower: Supersize Me
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After building a (URL) microscale Sears Tower>, I decided to do a larger compressed version for use in our train layouts. The resulting (URL) model> debuted at MichLUG's GATS 2005 display in March. However, I still wasn't satisfied with the size and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: new moc: dark tan beach house
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(...) glad you enjoyed it. i must admit that even star wars pieces have their uses! -§ deborah §- (19 years ago, 2-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: new moc: sand green beach house - fixed link
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Deborah Higdon wrote: snip (...) thanks to jason allemann who pointed out the error in my link. (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | beach layout at parlugment's railfair
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as you may have seen in previous posts, parlugment, ottawa's lug, participated in railfair on october 15-16. as part of the group, my contribution to the layout was mostly restricted to a beach area opposite the port. it's all right, i didn't mind (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX) !
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I like the interiors a lot in this MOC! The table is excellent, the plants everywhere give a great feel. The chairs were a clever use of the SW flag. I also liked the centrepiece with the dk red base. The doors as skylights are also great! Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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another beach house created for parlugment's layout at railfair in ottawa this past october. (2 URLs) modeled after a house in wells beach, maine, this large traditional new england beach house features a wrap around porch with a large front (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| | new moc: dark tan beach house
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as part of parlugment's participation in railfair, i was given real estate at the end of town because i had already created one beach house which i wanted to incorporate into the layout. as a result i was able to build a full beach display with 4 (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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