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Re: Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
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Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:41:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Richard Marchetti writes:
Hey Y'all:

Submitted for your disapproval in Category VIII - "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing
in Space" (defending my status as the current holder of the honor from the
first annual contest, natch), I give you Blacktron "Orca" Class Space
Freighters!

http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon4/lego/btorca.html

Aw, come on... fantasy pieces!  I spotted at least 2 parts that clearly
never came in those colors.  I realize that the Scrutinizer did allow this,
but you aren't getting *my* votes.

Am I serious here?  Or am I saying this only because I'm still jealous
because I had a good contender for the "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing in Space"
last year?  Or is it a bit of both?  I'm not saying for sure...

Bring it on, you duffers!

All right.  That does it.  I'm sending my Blacktron engineers back to the
drawing board, and not sparing the hallucinogens! *

Nice model & presentation, though you don't get a "very" on that, mr. Frog.
I'm watching you...

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com

* I would never condone the use of illicit drugs in the real world.  Never
used them myself, and I'm NOT kidding.



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  Re: Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
 
(...) Not true -- just one element is in dispute, the front cab windshield. What other element did you have in mind though? The proof is that I have the thing built and sitting on the living room television. The CAD work was after the fact and (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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  Throwing Down the Gauntlet (was Re: 2nd Annual Space Building Contest?)
 
Hey Y'all: Submitted for your disapproval in Category VIII - "Ugliest, Wackiest Thing in Space" (defending my status as the current holder of the honor from the first annual contest, natch), I give you Blacktron "Orca" Class Space Freighters! (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)

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