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| (URL) made in brown? Not available to general public? Bricklink has 55 lots available for sale mate. ;-) I have no idea what people are talking about, really! :-D Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde "Bill Vollbrecht" <mwv1970@juno.com> wrote in message (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture)
| | | | | Re: Taz
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| (...) Thanks for the comments! In the prototype I used 2 black 2x2 turntable plates. But since that part isn't made in brown (for the general public anyway), I used a well placed jumper with 1x2 tiles next to it for extra support. Then I was able to (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Taz
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| (...) That's a great rendition of Taz in brick! Just curious; did you use this part: (URL) at the ankles to get the feet at the right rotation? (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Santa Claus Bust
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| (...) Thanks! (...) I actually started with the shoulders. I knew I wanted somewhat rounded shoulders and the beard full and curved out. I laid down some 2x4s to judge the width of the shoulders, I kept moving them out until it felt right. I built (...) (20 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Santa Claus Bust
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| (...) Very creative and original! I like the way you've added a lot of your own personal touch instead of modeling a generic Santa. It's very cute, and cute is hard to pull off in LEGO. Great job! As another perspective, I made a Santa bust last (...) (20 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Santa Claus Bust
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| (...) Thanks! Actually the hat was one of the areas I thought still needed some work. I was thinking it needed to be a little more full. What I probably should have done was actually put a hat like this on someone and seen how it lays and curves, (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Santa Claus Bust
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| (...) I think this is great. I really love the way the hat came out. Faces are hard thoa, and this one looks good, but he kinda looks like a gnome. I don't know if you were going for that or not. :) Anyway, keep up the great work! -Alfred (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Santa Claus Bust
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| Here is my first foray into sculpture. He's not master builder quality or anything, but I'm pleased with it and he will definitely join the holiday decorations around the house for the rest of the season. (2 URLs) or (URL) Comments, critiques, etc (...) (20 years ago, 10-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !!
| | | | | Spider Man at LEGO HQ
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| Hey, I just want to say, our fav web slinger looks pretty cool in this pic... (2 URLs) See full size> (URL) See original> (URL) e> (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Happy Holidays!!
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| Happy Holidays... I teased on this a week or two back, and finally finished the my Christmas Tree. It's plate extensive, and has six "branch" levels and five "tiers", resting on a stump, and secured by only 4 studs. With the overall weight keeps it (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !!
| | | | | Pucca! Funny Love
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| Hey all! Well, been busy with the holidays but have time to mess around with a few things... built upon a challenge from a friend, who wanted to see the Character "Pucca" in LEGO... (URL) about 10" tall and takes full advantage of Bruce Lowell's 6.8 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !
| | | | | Re: My first MOC to go public: Butters from South Park
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| Great sculpture! I love that you included the throwing star in his eye. That episode is one of my favorites. Any chance you'll ever modify it into a Professor Chaos? (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
| | | | | Gobble, Gobble >Gulp<... Lots of Leftovers...
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| Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Took a little time away, so didn't post this until recently... But Once we caught up to the Biod... Ooooo, look what a nice even brown...Well done! (URL) who want's dark meat? Now THAT's what I call a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug) !
| | | | | More Butters Fun
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| The following is my original post announcing Butters: (...) Butters was meant for Hobby Show 2003, but due to a miscommunication I missed that event... But we made it to Hobby Show 2004 (Good show guys!), which means it has done what it was built (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
| | | | | Teddy Bear
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| Well, now LEGO factory has been launched I've really been bitten by the building bug. I'm working on a fairly sizeable display for my office, Basically a Christmas tree with gifts and stuff underneath it all including some stuffed animals and toy (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.sealug)
| | | | | The Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows 2004 Lego Display
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| Greetings, After a successful show last year, COLTC was again invited to display at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville, IL, near St. Louis, MO. This year an entire building was dedicated to the Lego display, which again was featured (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
| | | | | Gobble, Gobble!
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| So What do you do on the night handing out all the candy? Build of course! So once all the candy leftovers are gone, there will be the turkey. (URL) up next! LMKWYT Regards! T. Kubo (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.sealug, lugnet.announce.moc) !
| | | | | Re: MOC: 1000 piece big colored mess...
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| Art! Bravissimo! (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
| | | | | MOC: 1000 piece big colored mess...
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| Hello All, I recently bought two of the 4679 tubs with bonus 500 piece boxes. I didn't do any of the carefull cataloging that has been going on, but did notice that of the "loose" non bagged pieces, one set had 4 baseplates and a 2x16? grey plate, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture) !
| | | | | Sir Bugge's lego page finally gone public! - Space, parts, sculpture and techniques!
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| After a long delay while fighting my father’s webhost to get them to support statistics on subdomains (since January), here it is with crappy statistics from nedstat instead. At last! It’s a page about all the models, I’ve made since the early (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.loc.dk, FTX) !
| | | | | Calling all Sculpture, Micro and Mosaic builders for NWBrickCon
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| Calling all Sculpture, Art, Mosaic and Micro-fans! If you're heading to the NWBrickCon over the Halloween weekend, I would like to hear from you. I am serving as the light-duty-coordinator for these areas and if you plan to bring something please (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture) !
| | | | | Legosis Eatemupis
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| I'm actually not really sure where this would go, so I took my best guess. At the LEGO Roadshow in Dallas (and most likely at all the other Roadshow locations), there were displays of creations by LEGO employees. In particular, there was this one (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New MOC: 32,000 piece corporate logo
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| (...) Thanks! They're my favorite part of the whole model, and I'm glad the folks at LPL liked the idea of using clear. (Versus their original suggestion to use white.) If the model were completely opaque, it would just look like a boring big ol' (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New MOC: 32,000 piece corporate logo
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| (...) Impressive effort, let's hope they don't pick somewhere sunny to display it. Glad it was you and not me gluing the transparent bricks together. (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New MOC: 32,000 piece corporate logo
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| (...) Hey Sean, Great work! Very cool look with the clear bricks too. Is it illuminated from within at all? I know what you mean about the difficulty of gluing clear elements. Don't know if you remember me from one of your visits to Legoland. I was (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New MOC: 32,000 piece corporate logo
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| WoW! That is AMAZING! Great opportunity, awesome! WOWOWOWOWOWOW! Congrats! e (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | New MOC: 32,000 piece corporate logo
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| Hi, everyone. In July, a company called LPL Financial Services contracted me to build their logo out of LEGO for an event they were hosting in August. The final model is 32,000 pieces and 24 cubic feet. (2 URLs) Read all about it : (URL) Their logo (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| (...) Thanks for the kind words. I'll agree that the hands are not too aesthetically pleasing. But, I'll have to disagree with both you and Lenny about the scale. The last thing this thing is trying to achieve is realism, and with the head as large (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| (...) Hey, this thing is awesome! I agree with Lenny about the hands though. At four wide, they seem just a trifle too wide, not so much too big, as they should be oversized, but not proportioned right. Another option in tan might be to use minifig (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| (...) Large hands....... big gloves. (sorry) I love the caricatural style of this guy! JP. (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| (...) I don't know of any alternative in tan. I was working with what I had, damn you. As for the scale, oversize head, hands, and feet equal goofy to me, which was what I was going for. (...) I have no further plans for this guy (except your better (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| (...) But you know what they say about large hands, don't you? That's part of the reason he knows he's it! Wonderful job. Markus (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: ... and a cubicle...
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| (URL) (...) Sean, This is a true work of Art. It is powerful yet subtle. I can't imagine anyone flaming you for that. Somewhere, there is an art teacher who should be proud! -Lenyu (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| (...) The only thing I don't like is the hands. I've never been a fan of minifig legs as hands - and at your scale, his hand should probably be closer to three wide than four wide. but i should emphasize that it is the ONLY thing I dont like. As in (...) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Captain Cool Guy
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| Hehe. That rocks, especially the amazingly heroic chin. Will (first reply thanks to awesome power of international dateline) (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
| | | | | Captain Cool Guy
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| (URL) Click on the picture for the gallery, post-mod. Inspired by Brickfest 2004, Lawrence Northey, Starbucks, and cynical comments from my wife. (URL) Felix Greco> (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.space, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: 1:20 scale MOCs: an Audi TT, a Chevy Suburban, and a cubicle...
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| In lugnet.announce.moc, Sean Kenney wrote: <snip> (URL) (...) While the vehicles are very nice, I choose to comment on Success. Beautiful in a very melancholy way. Not only are you the man in the cubicle, I am also. My love for art and creativity is (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | 1:20 scale MOCs: an Audi TT, a Chevy Suburban, and a cubicle...
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| All: Hi everybody! I know it's been a really long time since I've posted something new. I moved from New York to Austin this past winter, and it took forever before my LEGO workshop was finally set up and sorted out. I've also just finished working (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.town, FTX) !
| | | | | What to call this scale?
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| Check out this really neat folder on Brickshelf: (URL) creator calls it "microscale" but I think most would agree it's not really microscale (smaller than minifig scale). Instead these animals are sculpted at a scale much closer to real than minifig (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.sculpture)
| | | | | Re: Dog and Guitar
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| (...) Hmmm, let's see. Small four stringed instrument. That's not a guitar. That's a ukelele! A very nicely modelled ukelele though, although perhaps the 'waist' is a little narrow. Gettin' soulfull with that ukelele! (URL) Allister (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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