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(...) I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual version with (URL). (URL) Plate Lowell Globe>> I followed Mr. Harshbarger's lead and based it on a 48 stud diameter Lowell Sphere. The land masses come from the (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) was thinking about doing a small one myself, or a decent size virtual one, but I never got around to it. Did you consider doing more colors to create a 3-D mosaic? Perhaps a more realistic color scheme with forest, desert, and clouds...I (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, David Winkler wrote: A friend of mine was raving about how good (URL) Poser6> was. So I bought a copy. I have gotten a prototype to export from Poser6 to basic Lego outline. Most of this was just getting the model into a (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Derek is correct, the physical land mass of Antartica is actually almost the same as the USA (5.4 million sq miles vs 5.9 million sq miles). The ice shelves and ice mass are in addition to this area. Having said that, your creation is way cool (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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A friend of mine was raving about how good (URL) Poser6> was. So I bought a copy. I have gotten a prototype to export from Poser6 to basic Lego outline. Most of this was just getting the model into a format that could be used in the manner that I (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Antarctica is a negligible land mass...even though it's covered in snow and ice, I'm sure the land that is there is bigger than Madagascar. Derek (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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It's beautiful. Kudos to the three great minds behind this! -Brendan (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) Eric, your fanatstic work always gets my attention. I like to build big, and I've got a lot of parts, but that globe is a challenge I'm not ready to tackle... yet. ;-) Tim (Smith) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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There's no way I could have ever built my latest creation without the earlier work of the following two LEGO guys: - Bruce Lowell, creator of the first "Lowell Sphere" - Bram Lambrecht, author of the web-app that allows creation of any size Lowell (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture) !!
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| | Re: The Ogre
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I really like the details on the face. Judy M. (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Fool, its clearly a big broom. (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I dig it. You've done a great job with the definition in the chest and minor details that enhance the overall feel. Its very hard to work against the boxiness when making a human form, but you've done an outstanding job. Oh, and I love the (...) (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Pith helmets as eyeballs...I love it! David Gregory (19 years ago, 1-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Two Halloween MOCs - Vinnie the Vampire & The Great Big BOO!
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Happy Halloween All! Got a couple of MOCs for you this fine, chilly night! There's a halloween children's event that runs here in Vancouver (Canada), with lots of costumed characters, singing, dancing, trick-or-treating, etc. It's called "The Great (...) (19 years ago, 31-Oct-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX) !
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big daddy, you steal my dreams away. oh yeah, and you know it to, dontcha? (19 years ago, 31-Oct-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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He's big, he's mean, he's green, and he's just in time for Halloween!!... (and he's NOT "The Hulk"!) The OGRE ======== (URL) "Big Daddy" Nelson (19 years ago, 31-Oct-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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Ohhh, ....AAHHHH!!! Very impresssive. Needs a bigger mountain ; ) I like the naturalness of the pose and scenery-animal blend. The scenery itself is goo as well. God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. I was hoping it came out as such. Its funny how limiting myself to mainly dark blue forced me to build it in a way I probably wouldn't have otherwise. I think it worked out a lot better than I hoped as a result. (...) Yeah. That will (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Very nice. I can't wait to see the rest of it. I really like the way the dragon flows around the tip. -Anne -- Conformity: Proudly (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. serving painfully boring >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. people since time began. (v_," ; (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Really nice work - you managed to to make a fluid, organic dragon! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of this mountain! Joe Meno Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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A little something I cooked up. (URL) That's just the tip of the mountain. -Mike Petrucelli (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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(...) Hi Erik, I'm not too sure about that because I was too busy building =P, but I managed to get an answer from our designer who happens to be a trained architect =) "There were no special techniques required, but I first counted and measure the (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) That is nice! Were there any special techniques used to build the curves? It does look like regular square grid - and large enough to be smooth. -Erik (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | The LEGO Colosseum Project
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Hello LEGO fans, Last weekend, members from a Singapore Lego Fan Group, S0937FG, came together to recreate 2 quarants of the Roman Colosseum out of LEGO bricks. The installation was done on-site in the Asian Civilisation Museum(ACM),Singapore.The (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX) !!
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| | Re: On creating life-sized sculpture
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(...) I know it would be difficult, but I really wish TLC would make available for sale the plans to some of the park and Miniland sculptures, especially the smaller sail/powerboats and the Combine Harvester... Paul Sinasohn (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, This is (or at least was, in 2004) called Brick Builder. I asked about it in the CAD newsgroup here: (URL) But I got no replies.. There's a presentation board showing how the software works on display at the Model Shop in LLCA. I have (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) The Lego software does in fact only give the outline on a lego grid rather than where each brick goes. It works pretty good most of the time. When building large scale models, it is a bit of a different way of building than the Staue of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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It depends on what the sculpture is going to be used for. If it will be on display where random people will touch it you'll probably want to have a metal skeleton within. For the 5'6" (URL) angel sculpture> I got away with it being exactly 2 bricks (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I presented a talk at Brickfest2005 about the theory of automated brick layout. Slides from the talk are at: (URL) I made a 5'6" sculpture of the Stanford Angel this way. (Shipping it across the country to Brickfest was painful.) The plans for (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hey, I am not sure about MLCAD type stuff as I have never used it. But the Lego company uses a program called Legoizer (although I think it has changed names since I left the company). Essentially, you build a 3D version of what you want in 3D (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Hi Ryan, All my sculptures are small (2 feet or smaller) because my husband doesn't want me to build anything bigger than the dogs ;) Seriously, I don't know how you would do that with MLCad (I find LeoCAD very difficult to use IMHO), because most (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | On creating life-sized sculpture
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Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I wanted to come up with actual step-by-step plans for creating a life-sized Lego statue of some well-known caped superhero, let's say, Superman. What would be the best way to go about this using something (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: light the night
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Ondrew, I was somehow deeply moved when I first viewed your sculpture this afternoon. As Mark said, I immediately thought of the 9/11 tribute, specifically in my case it brought to mind some of the renderings of proposed WTC replacements. Your (...) (19 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hey ondrew that is cool--it reminds me of the tribute they had for the twin towers. mark IndyLUG (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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hey all, i was sitting around the house the other night looking to build something other than a train so i started playing with a pile of clear bricks and came up with this: (URL) additional photos after mod: (URL) thoughts? ondrew p.s. yes it's lit (...) (19 years ago, 30-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Introducing: Taki
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(...) Excellent idea. I don't think I will copy it but it does make sense. Great job finding a use for parts that have so few. (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Matt DeLanoy wrote: SNIP Soooooo they Jiggle eh? I need a GIF. Or an MPEG. Doesn't matter much... Legoswami (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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A while back, I happened across some real cheap basketball fig packs. I got to thinking about the springy legs, and what other possible uses they could have. Well, that night, I was playing the game Soul Calibur II. For those of you who have not (...) (19 years ago, 23-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.org.us.clb, lugnet.castle.ninja, FTX) !!
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| | Announcing NWBrickCon 2005 Theme Coordinators
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NWBrickCon 2005 is coming up on October 7--9 in Seattle. Registration is possible at (URL) September 9. If you plan to display MOCs or other displays, or have any related questions, please contact the appropriate coordinator (preferably by October (...) (19 years ago, 15-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.western) !!
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| | Re: Wall Decoration For Baby Room
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(...) Marc, Congratulations!! What a neat idea...I'm gonna have to do something like this for ours when she comes. So far, our theme has been amimals... I like the brightness this has, with the green and yellow - sure to catch Gloria's eye, and let (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.people.parents, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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