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(...) I have to disagree on this one point, at least for the set that I bought. I just purchased the Castle of Morcia (8781) a few days ago. It *looks* great (if you ignore the rainbow knights and rainbow weapons). There are also some pretty cool (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Okay, I know I'm not saying anything new here. But give me a moment before you pass this off as another rant: I realize there are things going on at the company we AFOLs don't know about. I realize there is probably a certain piece-to-play ratio (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jul-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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(...) Very nice, but can I chuck it in the fountain and get back a nice red one instead? Jason Railton (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I do plan on making a microfig city for shots of them approaching the city in the distance. Mostly, though, I'll focus in on a scene fairly close-up, so you just see the immediate surroundings. The biggest I've gone so far is a city street (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Bruce, thanks for your compliments and criticism as well. The HP door frame was a bit of helping meself out of trouble. I'm looking into rebuilding that part with another door/opening, and also perhaps in plain old brown. And I'd like to take it (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Jon, thanks very much for your compliments. I hope to improve the model a bit more, by making a larger creation. But that takes some time (and bricks ;-) Daan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Furman" <rambocalrissian@yahoo.com> To: (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Aaron, thanks for the compliments. I hope to improve the model a bit more in the coming days. Daan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Amatnieks" <akama1_lego@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.castle@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:50 AM (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I always go for pre fab stuff if I can get it, I think It helps the minifigs look more realistic in the setting. I mean if you've got an articulated Minifig next to a blocky blob of grey bricks, I think it kinda throws the whole look off (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Jon, Ozbricks has been really good to me. For a while they were having problems with their secondary ozbricks.net server, which was up and down, but after my site got moved over to the main ozbricks.com server there has been no problem. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Daan, I really like this, especially the pattern of 1x1 plates and clips around the outside. My only criticism is that I wish the HP door frame existed in rust brown so that the inner portion would all be one color. Bruce (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Super cool Anthony, I love the nautilus shell. the quality of these designs are very impressive as well. My fave it the standard. Jon (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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This is really awesome I think this is the best result yet. It would be cool to see this in a large setting, it would jump out of the creation. It draws your eyes to it. congrats. Daan. JOn (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello Bruce, It's reaaly good to hear from you. Thanks for the compliments. I've missed building, but I definately tried to keep current with the Lugnet happenings. I do have a question about your move to Ozbricks, has that been a good decision long (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Carl, sorry for the late reply, but it kinda slipped my mind. Quite a decent little model, doubt if it is something TLC would produce though (unfortunately). I downloaded the instructions and built the drawbridge as soon as I saw it, it's (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Very very nice, love the horizontal clips around the doorway (fringing). The size perfectly matches the design. Also love the pattern of snotted 1x1's. Aaron A (20 years ago, 1-Jul-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Who needs that dinky little round red shield when you can upgrade to this! (URL) <url=(URL) PSD> Just be sure to not let the pancake monster take it away from you this time. --Anthony (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I like what happens on this page- (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hi Bbruce, Thanks for sharing! Alas, my Japanese isn't that good as well, but there are some huge buildings! Very jealous e.g. for this giant pyramid. The Middle Age city is gigantic. Very lovely structures indeed. Daan Bargerbos (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.castle)
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Hi all, Surfing around, I found this site. I don't read Japanese at all, but this appears to be from some sort of TLC display. Lots of awesome MOCs in ancient and castles themes: (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.castle) !
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(...) Hi Bruce, thanks again for the 'pass' (I/m watching Holland - Portugal ;-). This is the arch I've come up woth. Deeplink: (URL) moderation: (URL) me know what you think! Best regards Daan (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Oops. I did it again. Here's another set of stickers. Probably not my best work, but I'll be the first to admit I created the rest of the faction to simply go along-side the shield design I came up with, which I think is really pretty nifty. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Hello all I'm very proud of what I'm bout to share with everyone, however I must strongly recommend if you are offended or are not mature enough to handle seeing a minifigs (exposed legs), DO NOT click on the following link.. Without further ado, I (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hi Bruce, thanks for sharing your L-Draw skills, they aren't that poor... Nicely done, no SNOT, just plain bricks. I surely will try it out one of these days. Daan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Hietbrink" <bnh@chem.ucla.edu> To: (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Dude, I about jumped out of my seat when I saw these. Not only is the concept cool, but the stickers are so well done. tear I'll be emailing you soon as I have no idea what PSD is. Felix (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) holy slapdoodle! these are absolutely fantastic! how did you make the nautilus so well? all these shields & torsos carry the theme to the extreme (in a very good way). excellent work. the characters are awesome. do you intend any translation? (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Ooh, that is really cool. I like the printed tiles back there. (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Daan Bargerbos wrote: "horseshoe arch" (...) I like your arch. I tried playing around with this a bit and came up with these two (please forgive my poor L-Draw skills): (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My first reaction was to head over to Peeron to see if I had any blue 2x2x2 slopes and if not, what sets I need to buy. Robobots. Your art work keeps amazing me. Doug (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.castle, Pedro Silva wrote: <SNIP> (...) Hi Pedro, having read your message I did some building. Please read (URL) tell me if this is something you had in mind. Thanks and best regards Daan Bargerbos (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Very nice! But boy - talk about the mind playing tricks on you! I thought your subject line said "SHREK's Oasis." lol I was expecting to see Donkey being annoying as usual. Bob (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think those are some of the coolest ones you have created yet. Of course being more of a space builder I think some parts of those designs (the Atlantean symbols) would look really cool on an alien torso. Of course then again I like to go (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) <SNIP> Hi Jon, there have been several posts now regarding your newest creation. Just wanted to add my appreciation to all the others. I like very much the Middle East mood you grabbed with this MOC. And there are a lot of nice details which I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) As Lenny Hoffman pointed out, it depends somewhat on the time period, modern societies being somewhat more interested and capable of policing such behavior than older societies. Still, when I was living in Algeria, fellow expats were offered (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Jon, Welcome back, and what a re-entrance. This is great, a wonderful use of tan and turbans and scimitars. Thanks, George (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Jon. Welcome back! It's been too long since we've got a new Obi-Juan MOC. I especially like the details above this gate: (URL) the way you used technic beams to get the patterns in this tower: (URL) your varied torsos--Adventurers' mummy, Ninja (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Jon, (...) Well the "race" issue rarely comes up for castle theme builders, but I suppose if you are dealing with Middle Eastern castles, theme of crusades, slavery and the like make for a far more ethnically diverse minifig demographic than a (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) BEAUTIFUL work as always. I've GOTTA get me a good color printer to do these justice, I guess. I think I like the elven ones a bit better but the use of the nautilus motif is very attractive. Your ability to crank these out at such a (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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I've created more stickers, real shocking news, huh? :) Here they are, the Atlanteans: (URL) me know what you think. --Anthony (20 years ago, 28-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Magnus, I'd put the time period as pre crusade, post Islamic conquest, pre Islamic Schism, although a lot of the architecture is most likely mid crusade (warfare has a nasty habit of pushing technology forward). There are two Gates and two (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, you are presenting an Islamic Outpost (a small one), probably in the middle of nowhere North Africa. Historically speaking, the use of marijuana was pioneered by the Muslims because of the Quranic rule against drinking alcohol (pot being (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.castle)
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