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| (...) Enjoyable, albeit rather cozy and maybe a tad austere... Nice details and colour, though. It's good to see that he was able to save the chandelier. I like the windows and the balcony. I wonder if an outside staircase to the balcony would be in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Bruce. This castle keeps reminding me that we can do so much, no matter what our limitations. I'm really proud of that window detail. I'm sure it was partly inspired by the back cover of Hot Rocks by the Rolling Stones. I too, am amazed (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) (URL) Like this perhaps? ;) Nathan Wells Lord Of The LEGO (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| a few days ago, I got an idea for a phoenix, then i saw these great dragons by Leonard Hoffman: (URL) & noticed the red one looked like what i had in mind for my phoenix & wanted to hurry up & post mine before someone beat me to it-thanks to Lenny (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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| (...) I, too, lament the loss of legs. Nary a moldy old skeleton for us. :( (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Medinets wrote: Greetings again. (...) Certainly. I've been pretty much 'dead' here due to college stuff : getting up to snuff with my drawing skills and nailing gestures for figure drawing. Naturally, thinking about those (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Whoa...dude! It's been too long (4 months, I think) nice to see you posting something again. What do you think of the side-bar in your absence fellow curator? ps... I was lucky this time and ended up not having to go overseas... (wheew! (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Greetings. Whoa, that's a really trippy design. Your model really caught my attention so I felt I'd give you some props on your aesthetics here. The whole thing is consistent, nice and uniform, but not at all flat like some sililar nuances (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) What? Someone counted them all? Who? Certainly not me. Well, I counted 37 of them, but that's it. After that it was just a matter of doing some simple multiplication and adjusting quantities a bit here and there for stuff like the chimney and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| (...) The fact I didn't do both roofs like this was three-fold: I wanted to finish the buidling over easter weekend, and had "only" 1000 tiles, which would have not been enough to cover all. Second, I wanted some variation, as many of such buildings (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| (...) i have read the books and from the pictures its pretty much 50/50 book and movie. since i dont remember there being a clock tower in the book but from the screenshots of the movie there is a humungous clock. (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Wow, I can't believe someone actually counted, I didn't!! Thanks, that number sounds about right (I bet it is), I had 1000 of them available, and am left with about 1/4. Paul (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| Amazing work Paul, like everybody else, I'm blown away by the roof. The entrance is also a great piece of building. The color scheme is perfect, espicially with those bits of red and blue on the corners. Well done. -Keith (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| (...) By my count, it's 727. 323 on the entrance side of the main roof, 326 on the other side, 20 laid flat at the peak, and 58 on the little section over the balcony. (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| (...) Ooops. Are you serious? BTW, did i got to tell you that i'm colour-blind?:-) (...) Sometimes different people in different times have the same idea. It happens. For instance, several mathematicians, in the past, reached to the same results and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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| (...) I think the biggest complaint that people will have about these is that there are no sand-green skeleton legs. You get the skeleton torso and arms, and a sand-green head (or you can use Frankie's, if you want eyes), but no sand-green skeleton (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| Hi, See below. "Bruce Hietbrink" <bnh@chem.ucla.edu> wrote in message news:HwA6JJ.1rwD@lugnet.com... (...) Do (...) them (...) Yes, but the parts of the original hogwarts have long been recycled into the buildings in my LEGO city, BrickTopia. I have (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| Hey Lenny, Nice creation. One detail I like is that the windows don't all line up, giving a less symmetric, more realistic feeling than many buildings (incl. my own) have. Bruce (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Hey Brad, thanks for the review. I'm looking forward to getting this set. Do you have the origninal Hogwarts? I'm wondering how they look if you put them together. (...) That sounds good. My main concern with the new grays is the difficulty of (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| My impression is that the 2004 sets have improved architecture: between Harry Potter and Spider-man there are much better looking, less juniorized buildings this year. At least, there is more ornament. There's the laid-on plate roof of the castle, (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2004)
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