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| Well, I'm back again and with a new mecha, the ogre. It started as a study to try and make a mecha that could hold rifles like a human would. I began by building an arm.I tried to give good shoulder mobility, as well as tons of elbow twist range. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: lotsa new (microscale) MOCs
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| In lugnet.build.mecha, Leonard Hoffman wrote: SNIP (...) thanks, I've also been thinking about the thumbnail idea lately after viewing the 'preview' screens b4 final posting on my last couple 'MOC en masse' posts, but havn't tried it yet. i'll try (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Warrior Bots
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| (URL) These Bots kick @$$ - your @$$ in fact. And they date your wife because you are such a wimp. Yeah, Keith Goldman, I'm talking about you! Ha! What are you gonna do about it? Huh? Huh? Nothing. Thats what I thought. -Lenny (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: lotsa new (microscale) MOCs
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| (...) (5 URLs) Jeff, these all are very creative. The tanker truck and the dump truck look very realistic - very faithful microscale reproductions. The Coupe is also very nice. The Star Trek ship and the Frieghter are my favorites tho. The Frieghter (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) I think that's where it went wrong. ALL the pictures I have looked at were wider than high, so all the thumbs are compressed sideways. Once you've noticed it, it's almost impossible to ignore... (...) noticeable? As I noticed it at once, yes, (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Well sure... the distortion mostly isn't noticeable. If you can't tell what the pictures are showing, then what does it matter that they're horizontally squeezed? Many of your thumbs are not very helpful at actually determining what they take (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Most images are centered enough that cropping an eighth off either side won't clip a significant part of the picture. You could also do more abstract thumbs that use only a small portion of the image, but then you would need some descriptions (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | lotsa new (microscale) MOCs
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| I did these over the past few days: I made 5 MOCs simultaneously using all the pieces in set 4096 Micro Wheels: 1st, a tanker truck: (6 URLs) I was going to stop there, but wanted to make another MOC & this sport coupe is the result: (5 URLs) after (...) (20 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Site looks great - nice job by Kyle and yourself. Good to finally have a solid face for an seemingly ever-changing site. :-) Side note: Looking thru all the contest entries was tre cool. Too bad I wasn't in a building mood for the past couple (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Well, that's because that is exactly what we did. Jon wanted small, square thumbs. Since they were so small we figured the distortion wouldn't be that bad, compared to simply clipping the image. (This is all automatic of course. So cropping on (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) I know man, plus its like everytime someone says something, the side bar gets magically updated. But, hey forget all that, I'm tired of this and I don't want it affecting our friendship. That's why I hold back, and just have faith you'll do (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) -snip- (...) -snip- (...) Whoa was me, I say Whoa was me. Thank you everyone, -e (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.curators)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) Eric, if you wish to perform daily updates, please be my guest. I messed up quite a few pages of .build.mecha history before I gave that up. I do need to point out that if I update the sidebar, people complain and if I don't update the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) Eric hasn't been co-curator for the past month? Hmmm...I wasn't aware of that.So he's had the 'how to' in his hands and been unable to use it...sorry Eric, had I known I would have shot off an email on your behalf. Now .build.mecha has it's (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.curators)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) LOL, actually for you to respond to my comment is a complement by it self.. Thanks a lot Jon.. Joseph (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| Eric (and Dave), I'm not sure exactly where things went awry. I remember having the discussion with you and sending mail to Dave to make sure he was cool with it all, and I even think I remember getting mail back from Dave that he was indeed cool (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.curators)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) I asked for Co-curatorship. Last I know Lar was gonna ask Dave about it. Dave said I could help. I have not been made co-curator yet. I need to remind Lar, or Frank, to enable my curator status since no action has been taken in regard to Lar's (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.curators)
| | | | | Lego Art Show - The Country House Arts Center - by Eric Sophie
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| Contact: Roanne Patterson 845-733-4309 For immediate release. April 12, 2004. For the first time in Orange County, The Country House Arts Center presents Eric Sophie's Biomechanical Bricks - Original Lego Creations by Eric Sophie. Among other (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ny, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| "Joseph Kazmo" <darkkazmo@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hw1GBu.CAI@lugnet.com... (...) You guys (...) Thanks dude. (...) Your site would have to be scary and sharp and pointy and stuff. That's supposed to be a complement but kind of came out (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| A bit of follow-up on this: Initially when I started adding postings to the sidebar, I was faced with a dilemma-do I update everytime a post is made or do I hold off and update a few at a time. I started out with the former method. Within a few (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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