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Anne: (...) The hairs on the top of his head are two black technic hose pieces... they look sort of like this, but longer: (URL) The hairs on the side of his head are just 1x6 plates joined end-to-end and bent into an M-shaped zig-zag. There's an (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Nice work. eric (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) Very very cool. That's one of those things that I've always wanted to build, but never got around to it. Building large sculptures is a difficult art, and it's great to see others doing it. Adrian (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Very nice! But I have to agree to te reviewer at MOCPages that the eyes are a tad large. However, having seen the intro sequence frame by frame I know they can be even bigger in the show - so. Nice hair! (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Woo hoo! Nice job. What did you use for the hair? Doh! I would have never been able to make something this big, my husband already has issues with my 2 foot tall projects :) Where's my duff? Mmmm.. duff... -Anne (...) -- For SCO to attack IBM using (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Hi, everybody. I'd like to present my first LEGO sculpture, a 4 foot tall Homer Simpson. (2 URLs) Details, pictures, and the story are all here: (URL) Sean (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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(...) That is the coolest spaceship design I have ever seen! So swooshable! The picture of you zooming it around is entertaining. It doesn’t really fit into any of the current popular space MOC themes, but grey is the best Space color there is. But (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.space, FTX)
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"Lenny Hoffman" <lahoffma@*NOSPAM*ma...r.fsu.edu> wrote in message news:HLy8vJ.12Fr@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) requests (...) time. now (...) up" (...) there is also this one... (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) You've seen this one (URL) too, right? I'm pretty sure this other one is also grey even though it looks tan. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(URL) because everyone was so good to go through the motions with my silly requests concerning criticism last time, i allow any format for criticism this time. now don't abuse this priviledge. people who are "horsing around" and "cutting up" will be (...) (21 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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Hi all, My latest MOC is a mini-LEGO wedding cake. Eric Harshbarger's wedding cake is great, but for a small wedding, it was a bit more than I was willing to cart to Lake Tahoe :) So, my palm-size version of a LEGO wedding cake: (URL) turned out (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Ok, now I understand what you're going for. Interesting idea! And I can imagine why you refered to it as a "pinwheel"... :-) I was stuck on using the equalateral triangles due to me having a large collection of (URL) Polydron> (gasp! A different (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hoo, boy. How to explain without pictures? Hmmm... okay here goes... Suppose the following represented two black triangles set side by side, touching at one vertices... _ _ \/ \/ The sides represented by "_" are 1x4's connecting to white 1x4's (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) Or you can go simpler: if you suppress the triangles inside the pentagon, the problem disappear! But the structure may look somewhat hollow... Philo (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I changed it, because I was thinking you meant that each of the black triangles would have one side of length 4 (that connects to the white hexagon), and two sides of length 3 (that connect to the two ajoining black triangles within the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Well, that's weird. My original message said: (...) But you're copy of it said: (...) I wonder how that got mixed up? < shrug > Anyway, back to my original idea. The reason I had suggested 4/3/4 was based on Phillippe's formula of 4/3.5/3.5 -- (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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John, I really enjoy seeing the creations you come up with. Thank you. Eric Sophie (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) I tried 4/3/3 - but it didn't work. The triangles couldn't connect to form the pentagon. The other problem is since I'm using the 1x4 hinge plates, if you go shorter than four studs on a side of the triangle you have to come up with a (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: Christmas Contest Revision & Lifesize LEGO Nativity Scene
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Question about entry into this contest: (also e-mailed to info@shrinecontest.com <info@shrinecontest.com> ) Do both your electronic registration and photo/entry form/description registration need to be received by the 15th to be considered for the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't have the parts to try this out, so my suggestion may be highly disposable. How about making each black triangle a 4/3/4? By this I mean: each black/white join would be 4/4, and each black/black join would be 4/3. The pentagon wouldn't (...) (21 years ago, 16-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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