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Re: Brickfest
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lugnet.build.microscale
Date: 
Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:34:25 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:

Also, could someone explain this MOC?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=885691
Is it a slice of a lost world inside a planet, a spacestation, from some
specific sci-fi reference that I'm missing, or just out of the builder's head?

Anyway, it looks like it was a blast.  Wish I could have come.   . . . sigh . . . maybe next year.

Bruce

That is a ring world created by Lenny Hoffman.  Its a huge ring around a planet
or star, that rotates, with gravity produced by centrifugal force (centripedal?)

Its a common concept seen in Sci-fi novels, although Lenny's is ridicolously out
of scale...

~Kevin



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  Brickfest
 
Hi all, I've been poring over pictures by "scrope" in this folder: (URL) great stuff! I really need to build more at this scale. To me, the best of show is this train station: (URL) built that? Was it a COLTC group creation, or was it an individual? (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)

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