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The Statue of Liberty's pedastal was built in the middle of 11-pointed star-shaped Fort Wood on Bedloe's Island. My ASCII art of the fort's shape: / \ / \ / _ / / / \ / / \ / / \ / \ / / That's definitely not to scale, but it shows how to make an (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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Hi Dave, that would be a challenge! But actually I think it's a 10-pointed star. Daan <SNIP> (...) brass to (...) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system ((URL) 6.0.712 / Virus Database: 468 - Release Date: (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: MOC: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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(...) Whoops...looks like it's nine-pointed. This makes it even harder, I'd imagine. not that seven-pointed is a walk in the park --Dave (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: MOC: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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(...) Awesome...looks really great. Makes me wonder now if anyone's got the brass to attempt the 7-pointed star dais the pedestal sits on. Eeep! Pucture here: (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Finding Nemo
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(...) very cool. If you get into an extreme pinch, you can make a passable orange 1x1 plate by taking a 1x1 plate with clip-lite and very carefully cutting off the clip with an xacto knife. orange 1x1's with clip-lite were in fair abundance thanks (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Finding Nemo
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(...) Hi, He's great! Your decision to build his face "studs forward" was an excellent idea. On the dorsal fin - try just a vertical line of 2x1 bricks until you get close to the top. Nature does have some straight lines after all. Mark (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Finding Nemo
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Bryan, I've admired your Nemo the couple times he's popped up on Brickshelf. Very nice. My kids would love to build him. Any chance of instructions? :) Corey www.brickitgood.com (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Finding Nemo
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Hi all, Here's something I built for a local event at a school with an undersea theme (click on picture for gallery): (URL) It's gotta be the most difficult thing I've EVER tried to build. I'm normally a castle builder (rectangular stuff), so (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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Hi Mark, I'm 'collecting' tan also for catle structures. I think it's an adequate choice for the red-sand like bricks they used in many (European?) castles anyway. About my Seven Wonders Project: I tend to go for Artemis or the Mausoleum. For both I (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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Thanks Daan. With the color change of grey (and the fact that white fades quickly - my Union Station is already showing aging, although I think it improves the look), I think tan will probably take a higher place in my color choices for town (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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Hello Mark Chan, I like your model a lot! Given the restrictions you yourself already mentioned, it's an eyecatching pedestrial. I might borrow some of your solutions in my 'seven wonders' project! I finished my pyramid and will start on one of the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | MOC: Statue of Liberty Pedestal for set 3450
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I always wanted a Pedestal for the excellent 3450 Statue of Liberty model, and with the help of many BrickLink sellers, I was finally able to finish a version I had been planning for a while: (URL) were no CAD or other computer models used in the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc) !!
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| | Building project (but NOT LEGO!)
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All, This is not LEGO related, exactly, but being a recent project using a construction toy, I thought some here might be interested in reading about it: (URL) have directed follow-ups to .off-topic.fun cheers, eric harshbarger (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Seattle Public Library MOC
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Hello All, After much fanfare and a weeks long events of the grand opening of the new Seattle Central Library a few members of SEALUG showed off some stuff at a LEGO display on Sat. 29th for Kids & Family day. With over 10,000 people attending, (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.arch)
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| | RE: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
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(...) Bill, sorry about that. Please forgive a silly Mindstorms specialist for not knowing that there was actually a mosaic group. :-) I WILL post pictures once the final mosaic is assembled... Cheers, Ralph (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Ralph Hempel wrote: [...] (...) [...] Great work! I can't wait to see the result! However as the lugnet.build.sculpture curator I am compelled to point out that you probably should have put this into lugnet.build.mosaic (...) (20 years ago, 31-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
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(...) What great fun we had today! The kids were amazing. They tackled the daunting empty mosaic base-plates with enthusiasm, did an A-one job of staying on task and were a total pleasure to be around. I had a great time showing them a few of my (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
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(...) Wow, that would have been *huge*. Perhaps the biggest community-build by AFOLs so far, had it happened? -Tim (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build)
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| | Giant LEGO Mosaic In Owen Sound, Ontario
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I guess it's time to unveil what may be interesting news to the LUGNET community.... Up here in Owen Sound, Ontario, the local hospital approached me to get ideas for a kickoff event for the fundraiser we're having for an MRI machine. Their first (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, lugnet.build)
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| | Accepting sculptures for gallery
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If you visit the sculputure (URL) home page on the Lugnet Web interface> you will see a short list of models in the "Our Gallery" section. As curator of the newsgroup I can modify anything on that part of the screen, and I'm open to suggestions. In (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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