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(...) There's one I'm still looking for, that someone posted on .space a while ago. It's the coolest thing I've seen. (...) Depends on the builder :P For me, that's true. I have a hard time building small, which is why I build both big and small, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)
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(...) As others have said, Welcome! Lots of great ideas in this thread, as a 'old-timer' I thought I could toss out a couple more. Don't feel you need to build HUGE things. Yes, some of us love to build massive things like 8-wide trains and 4+ foot (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) -Major Snippage- (...) To further what Larry P. mentioned in a previos post, as well as Kevin Salm's above... I've had the experience of placing my own 32 foot long cable-stayed suspension bridge of 33,000 LEGO pieces in the front window of a (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Welcome aboard, Dave! I don't have much to add to the wisdom already dispensed on this thread, but here are a few other suggestions to help you in your building (some of these may be repeats). 1. Start with a cool first name. (You seem already (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Many great suggestions by others..... I do a lot of mutations. Start out with something, get and an idea on how to change it, change it. Try something else throw it out, try again. Don't expect that it will come out just the way you want the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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In lugnet.build.military, Kevin Salm wrote: Some excellent followup thoughts and money saving tips! ... But one or two I gotta riff on... :-) (...) Am I misremembering or didn't you formerly have something to do with vending machines??? :-) If so (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build)
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(...) Many excellent suggestions have been given to you so far. They are all good ideas. As for getting more Lego to build with, you don't have to consider buying more Lego to be a major purchase. If your cash flow is small, just buy Lego in small (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military)
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Well...perhaps not a new face entirely, but a spruce up splash graphic. For those old skool fans, an attempt at recreating a 'brickified' version of the classic 'Slient Interlude' #21 Marvel comic. (URL) Cheers, -Gil (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Basically just throwing in a 'right on' to all that's been said. Only thing to add is that you've already taken the most important step, and that is joining this community. I lurked for over a year before starting to build. Then, I tried to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Experiment. Build. It sounds simple, and that's all the really is to it. What I find helps me is I keep a project list of some projects I'd like to work on. Some of them have came to be, others have just sat around in pieces. For example, I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)
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Thanks to some (URL) feedback>, I decided to rebuild one of my planes. The Coronado has been re-born as C Bar One (URL) A new, larger powerplant, additional and upgraded armament, incresed wingspan and shortened overall profile should make the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) How? Start building. You'll get better. That's not a flippant answer, it's the truth. Do as many of the following things as you can: - Build stuff "in the style of" official sets, perhaps working from their instructions to learn various idioms (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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(...) And to thik I almost put the cokpit on the front of the Kestrel. Toyed around with the idea for a few minutes then went back to my original idea. Actually the nose was about the last thing I built up, realised it needed more guns. Have toyed (...) (21 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) Hey thanks for the in depth response! Would probably help if I actually knew more about military aircraft before trying to figure out what my two do :) Funny you mention the P-38, that was my favorite warbird back in high-school... as for the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Ya know, I've been into Lego for a while myself. I haven't had the time or money I'd have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still love Lego. I've been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one question for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)
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Your Kestrel puts me in the mind of a godawfully effective psuedo-fighter more than anything (Psuedo-fighter, a plane about the size of a small bomber, or overly large fighter, more heavily armed, normally somewhat faster and usually only slightly (...) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Things have been fairly quiet in Port Brique lately, but the British are reinforcing their contingent in the French colony with field artillery. So far, only one artilleryman, with a light field gun has arrived. (URL) He sports a custom torso, and a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Dec-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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Pretty wicked birds you got there. I like how you took the swept back cockpit approach. Fradel (21 years ago, 24-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Been quite a while since I've posted to lugnet and actually months since I've built anything. However I was recently inspired by the Crimson Skies aricraft I've seen popping up and finally got around to building my own. While I don't have background (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(URL) Click on Image Well, so this it. My fifth Mobile Platform. Sigh, I wish I was more excited, but after almost four years of building them I feel like moving on to something different. Aha! But that's what the year 2004 is for; a new objective (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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