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| (...) What an enjoyable experience this exhibit was: (URL) Lot's of people building and great weather. Good food and lots of questions. Good show for the Bio Bricks family. e (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| Hey Kyle, I like your take on a mecha dropship, I think its an area that hasn't been explored enough, and it combines .mecha and .space nicely...like peanutbutter and chocolate. While I agree with whoever said that its a bit unrefined (ie. might (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | IP2002 quad cannon flyer
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| I have emerged from deep hibernation from LEGO and whipped out a few new MOCs... IP2002 Quad cannon flyer (URL) Think of it as a sort of helicopter, but without the rotor. Built for hovering around and blasting stuff to pieces. (3 URLs) The last (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) Glad you liked it! It is big, about 115 studs long by 40 wide by 42 high. I plan on a re-design someday with some styling improvements, but I thought I should document the original in case the redesign doesn't turn out. (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) Praise from the "Master of Mecha"? Awesome! (...) You're not kidding when you say "years worth". I still remember the "Galaxy Explorer" (497) I got in 1979 as my best Christmas present ever. (...) I'm planning a re-design (someday) with some (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) Nice ship, way bigger than I thought at first glace. Impressive. I really like the engine area. The mecha are also very nice. I don't like the sides as much: I like using plates as walls myself, and I also actually like some bare surfaces, but (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) WOW! Kyle you rock! I can definitely see years worth of LEGO spaceship and mecha design theory in this masterpiece. The ship is just plain awesome. Although it is a *bit* unrefined, I see great potential for future designs based on it. The (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) Thanks for the warm welcome, Frank. I love the "Judge" (URL), and you set the standard for hand-held mech weapons. I'll post some individual Mech photos before long. Glad you liked it! I can't remember seeing anyone else use the technic (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| (...) I've always wanted to build a mechwarrior-style dropship, the were always the coolest :D VERY nice engines, the xpod tops and even the lt grey barrels are very nice touches! I also like the blue missle packs on the front of the ship, very evil (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | First MOC post--minifig scale dropship
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| I've been seeing great mecha MOCs on the internet for years (starting with Marsbase and Pallas Spaceworks) and I've finally got some pics of my own to post. This is my big dropship: (URL) I took inspiration from the Talon dropship of the Mechwarrior (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | New mecha: The Ogre
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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)
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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)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| I try to update the sidebar on Sunday nights after I see weekend mecha postings. Obviously, that hasn't happened in the past month, so I started updating using the last update as a starting point and I move forward from there. Generally, I leave the (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: side bar
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| (...) Yeah, the sidebar is really never updated all the time, just usually alot is added occasionally. But if you look under new mecha, you can see your stuff there. I looked back in the archives and noticed several mecha of mine that i NEVER saw on (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Looking good! I really like the clean layout of the site and the nice graphics. Definently a winner web site. Appears to work well, too. The messed-up thumbs are kinda weird, though. The dimensions are fine on my site and I run a modified (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) I know :-) I was just speaking hypothetically... -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Momaw Nadon (Hammerhead) Star Wars Mini-Land Figure
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| With all the extra chocolate I've been eating recently (the Easter Bunny is always very good to me!), I was in a "brown" kind of mood. So, I thought I'd finally take a crack at Hammerhead. Since he didn't do very much in the Cantina scene, I wasn't (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Anders, You want to see it, whichever one you click. Click on them all. You won't be disappointed. _lenny (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | side bar
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| i know there have been a lot of complaints about the sidebar being updated...and here's one more: there have been many mecha that did not make the sidebar this last time (mine being one of them). i understand that you can fit only a few at a time, (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha)
| | | | | Re: Bow before Brayn!
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| (...) This is genious...a 'hat within a hat'. At first I didn't see the cap on top of the vehicle...when it clicked, I actually laughed out loud at my desk. Pure proof that concept is 50% or more of the successful MOC. Cheers, -Gil (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Building Robots is Fun...
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| (...) Hello Eric, I'm well behind in cataloguing my new stuff. I can lead you to some pictures from the fest in Scotland we just had. Thanks to Steven Locke for these... Agatha and her baby sister: (URL) is it about building the same thing in (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
| | | | | Re: zemi.net
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| (...) Nice layout. Great models. Just a few buts (IMO): The thumbs are distorted, looks like the height/width ratio got lost when the thumbs were created? They are also rather small, it's not easy to see if I really want to look closer on a model or (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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