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(...) Thanks, Bruce. I can't take credit for the antenna/stickshift joint thing - it's been around in various mecha for a while now. I wish I could remember who started it, because it's one useful little deal. A word of warning, though, if you plan (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Those pixies are just too cool. I love the angles of the arm joints that make them look all beefed up. The 'civie' ones are just great...the firefighter is such a blast. Hooverbike is nicely done as well...good stuff! Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Tony, Most of the stuff is from my collection but yes "My name is Bill and I'm a BrickLink-aholic" "Hi Bill" The part I now have the least of are the 1x1 round plates. -- Bill (TooMuchDew) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Allister is right, I have 21 different Classic Space sets and nary a one of them has a grey minifig... one can dream though. -- Bill (TooMuchDew) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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Jeremiah, That's outstanding! I especially like the little trick you did with the stickshift element. I'm going to have to use that sometime. Bruce (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) But one thing: "...enough fleebnork muscle to overtake just about anyone on the circuit..." I'm guessing Public Works in the future will have better funding than now? Still.. these look cool! (...) space themes.. look tre tre cool. -Lenny (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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"Soren Roberts" <bricklovinfreakboy@attbi.com> wrote in news:HB60By.CJt@lugnet.com: (...) Depends on what you're after. If you're a general manga/anime buff and you don't mind the fact that Newtype is completely in Japanese, it's a great source of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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"Tony Knaak" <tknaaker@hotmail.com> wrote in news:HB5L7G.3KI@lugnet.com: (...) Well, I'm lucky enough to own a registered (but old) copy of Photoshop. After I modeled the robot in MLCad and rendered it in POV- Ray, I used Photoshop to mirror the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Thank you! I won't get pissed if you feel like critiquing, always nice to have some input on a design. Take care, Soren (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Hey, that's cool by me. I about $#!t myself the first time I saw LEGO mecha, I can relate. (...) Wish I had a picture of your face. Shell-shock is always amusing. I don't read Newtype, but I've heard good things about it. Would you recommend (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Very nifty. You got the old-school look down, my man, nice. Take care, Soren (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Heh, before I found lugnet, I thought along the same line. Actually, I believe the light grey helmet came from a classic castle jousting set, you know, the earlier ones where horses were built from bricks and minifigures had odd hair styles. (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) The feature retention is nice now, but believe me I originally struggled to hide most of it. I finally realized at this scale I'd have to make her look pretty industral, and she came together nicely. As for her role, yeah, she'd make a great (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) What program did you use? Where the heck did you get that background pic? This is great BTW! It's good to see people getting in spirt of community building! I the mech looks great and I hope you produce a few more for use to oogle over! t (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) you buy off of bricklink? t (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Dang! You have got skill to make these. I can't make transforming stuff, I can't mentally visualize that stuff, so I am always impress to see transformers, especially ones that look good in both forms! t (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) I thought my eyes were deceiving me too, but a quick check of peeron reveals that the grey helmets were only found in castle theme sets. So no, I don't believe there was a grey classic space fig. but kudos to Bill for making a pixie in the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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My next creation after the Pygmy was going to be something else, but I really liked Tony's suggestion for a theme for March. Besides, this thing practically assembled itself! Re-building it in LDraw was another story, though... I really need a (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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were there classic space figures in Gray? I can't believe that I'm missing a color of space minifig from that era. -tk "TooMuchDew" <wtoenjes@attbi.com> wrote in message news:HB5A1y.18A@lugnet.com... (...) HoverBike (...) Interceptor (...) Gord-On (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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"Jeremiah VanderMark" <Doggybot_37@yahoo.NOSPAM.com> wrote in news:HB56An.EE3@lugnet.com: (...) She's cute ;) I think I like Trixie better than Rushlight. Rushlight looks a little too sleek for a Transformer, but Trixie retains the features of her (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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