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(...) Ah. This wasn't just because I once said I don't care if the canoe ever gets done in LDraw, is it? Just sticking it in my face and saying "See! Canoes -can- be used in space" :-) (...) I think the trunks would look better. They have that nice (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Once? I thought we had a running gag on that one. (...) Maybe I could just stuff the canoes full of trans-orange flames, ala Time Cruisers. Wow, that would be hideous. (...) That was my general hope. (...) I don't want to push too hard against (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Has anyone used the large arch pieces to reinforce large structures? Especially the 1x12x3 full-arch. It seems like placing a few of those elements across two 'walls' of the beam-girders Terry has described above would be a decent start on a (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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(...) Must be a running gag. It sure as hell isn't floating. (...) Hideous? I thought it was hilarious. But please don't do it. (...) That is interesting. I will have to try to remember that factoid. (...) You look like Star Trek? What an enigmatic (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ouch. (...) Hideous, hilarious. Is there a difference? Oh, yeah. Hilarious: "I was sitting around last night, playing with some different ideas, and I threw this thing together. It's a fast little space ship. I especially like the racing (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) True, this is because it makes a phytagorean trinagle, right, with 6-8-10 sides. (A multiple of 3-4-5.) I've also used this fact to make a modular tower suitable for a creeping crane (that's the correct term, right?). So far, only the tower is (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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(...) I don't remember for sure, but I started working on the canoe part because I wanted to use the canoe on this model. I *do* remember that I started playing around with the idea of canoe-as-drive-port as an exercise in using SPUDs in unusual (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You defined those terms pretty well. (...) Good one, I had to read that twice before I got it. :-) (...) See "Hideous" above. (...) That's OK. I just received two _large_ loads of parts files. No need to add more. Please. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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