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Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town
Date: 
Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:30:12 GMT
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In lugnet.build.arch, John Neal writes:
When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love--
bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and
more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened.  It, however, became this large
labor of love that I didn't know what to do with, much less where to put it.

Well, I couldn't bring myself to completely dismantle it, so I downsized it!
:-)  I turned it into a "backdrop" building for the TCLTC layout, and now it
can live out a useful life.

Here is a link to the original:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2519

And here it is today:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6920

Very impressive John. I especially liked the use on the tree's on the
origional version, they seemed to add a sense of grand scale. Its a shame
that you could not fit those at the front of the new version.

Richard



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  Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
 
(...) Thank you, Richard. Actually, I could have, but I have forsaken cyprus trees because I prefer to build my own trees instead. I do have four trees that I plan to "plant" in front of the chateau; I just didn't include them in the pics. Pics of (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)

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  Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
 
When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love-- bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened. It, however, became this large labor of love (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)  

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