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(...) Acutally, I've heard that some of today's special forces do the same thing. The reason being that if there is a failure in their night vision equipment, they will still have one eye that can adjust to the dark quickly. It's second hand (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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(...) I realy knew what you ment, the early wooden "castles" where build on motte's - until they were to big/heavy... as you described before. I just wrote my favorite kind of making the surrounding of a castle - a moat. :) (...) yes - there are (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I feel that even though I never met many of the people on Lugnet, I still know them pretty well. If I was to meet them, we would already have a lot of history between us and could pick right up. (...) Thanks! (...) You are right - it's a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks :) -- Pawel (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I heard that pirates (or in this case - Gilbert the Bad) wore eye patches so that if they ever had to fight in the dark, one eye would already be adjusted. So some wore patches even with two healthy eyes :) -- Pawel (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Here's a shot for y'all: (URL) The definitive size reference pic for the Kingdom of Ikros Actually I needed to clean up my LEGO room and so I was told that if I wanted to display my stuff it had to be out of the way, so there they sit along side my (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) the neck accessory... -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, FTX)
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Hi all, My 7 yr old nephew sent me this message, with a further explanation from my sister-in-law. Uncle Alan, Why does Gilbert the Bad have his eye patched out? Jonathan (a patch on his eye) We found Gilbert the Bad in a Lego book from the library, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey Nathan, Nice MOC. I really like some of the details like the columns at an angle in the front, the spiral staircase on the right, the boar's head, and the way the walls and floors come out to access the interior. Bruce (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Pawel is BACK! Yay! Great to have you again, altho we never really met before. Blut'Ader is something I heard alot about when I was young at Lugnet but could never find more than a black gate. And all I wanna say is WOWZIE! What strikes me is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Well, we started playing, but there were too many distractions--we didn't have enough MichLUG members to watch the rest of the display and interact with the crowd. We got about 1/3 of the way through my scenario and had to call it (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming)
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Hey Peter, I see that your keep was in use at MichLUG's latest outing. How did it go? Did someone take pictures to document the gaming? Bruce (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey Jason, I look forward to seeing the final version. What else is in store for this? I would guess some sort of dock or bridge? Also, are you going to add more interior? Regardless, this is a beautiful castle, with an interesting shape. Is it (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) As Scott mentioned, I did build that. I haven't taken full detailed pictures yet, but I will eventually. Actually the version that made it to the comic-con isn't the final version. I ran out of bricks and time. So I will be making a number of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Bruce & All, (...) Jason Spears built this castle, it is very nice. There are a few pictures up from this weekend, we are working on the show report as I type. Peter Guenther: (URL) Spears: (URL) am sure Jason will have more on this later. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Kai, (...) I'm not sure if you understood, the "motte" (as opposed to "moat") was the steep, often man made made, hill that early castles were often built on top of. I know that sometimes when a wooden motte and bailey castle (wooden fort with a big (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, I was just looking through pictures by Scott Sanburn of your display this past weekend and was wondering about this castle: (URL) built this, and are there more detailed pictures on the web? There are a lot of great creations in that folder. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.castle)
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"Pawel Nazarewicz" <reganok@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Hn45zq.1zoF@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) Brickshelf: (...) from (...) so you have been busy then :) looks fantastic - and bigger than ever. Lots of fantastic details in there (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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My sister took some early pictures of the unfinished Blut'Ader: (URL) The castle includes a main keep, barracks, town houses inside the walls, a village with farms on the outside of the city walls, and a lighthouse overlooking everything. Complete (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) I like the moat as a natural "defenceline" the most ! :) (...) Expand the castle : what about a nice siege scene with lots of evil knight in front of the castle :) Kai (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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