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(...) I started counting my army the other day, but posts like these make me want to give up! Your force completely dwarfs mine, especially when it comes to the newer lines (1991-on). Any chance you could set them all up on a giant stretch of floor, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) my guess is buying mass quantities of castle sets, probably (hopefully) on clearance, and mostly smaller stuff with a lot of figures.... ninja knights, knight minifig packs...etc black knight, etc. then again, I can't really say too much (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What was mine at the start of this thread, 750? Plus maybe 50 more still in pieces from my son's last major campaign, and another 100 in boxes at least. Closing in on a thousand, and that in the space of two years (quick search on Lugnet for (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Where/how on earth did you get so many figs?! All of my minifigs added together would probably be less than 300... (I've got around 80,000 pieces in my collection) -Bryan (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My brain positively boggles at these quantities. I have 50 of those, and I thought that was a lot, and you have 10 times as many? Jeez!! Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Eric, Awesome! There seems to be a wave of new castles being posted recently, which is very cool. I love the way you have done semicircular curve on the big keep. I really like how you have added so many original things like the cargo crane and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Nice window on the church! (...) I understand what you mena (I think). The only problem is that the horisontal part of the slit would still be one brick wide. I've been thinking about how to do cross arrow slits that would be around half a brick (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah those ends are real sweet. (...) I'll keep that in mind, but I'm away from my lego now, and still digicam illiterate, so I won't be able to get anything up anytime soon. cheers Magnus (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I tried this last night, and came up with something that looks OK. I posted some LDraw images to Brickshelf: (URL) second and third images are color-coded; the dark grey parts are 1x2 plates with 1 stud and the blue is a 1x1 tile. The third and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Andy, *Very* nice, sir! :-) Thanks, Franklin (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I knew I could find someone more insane than me (but waiting to collect Castle until Fright Knights was on clearance kinda slowed me down, I'll admit). "See, dear, my collection isn't that big!" :-) (...) I thought the Crusaders encompassed the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Doesn't want to load in Netscape 4.7x :( Tamy (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I get a few hours to do it justice, I'll take the extended tour, but the pics I did see were great. A very nice medevial walled city. George (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hullo Denix, and welcome to.castle Your model is really great, as others have said the rocky island is very effective.I like the way the rooves have been done to, the whole castle has a very scottish feel to it :) Lwyrin certainly dosn't appear in (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi all. Just a collective answer rather than an individual one for all of you. I'm lazy. ;-) Thanks all for your congratulations and encouragements. I'm proud of having such answers from eminents and known builders like you. I'm working on an other (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Estuary Stronghold is a large Castle MOC I built about two years ago. Pictures of it were on my site for a short period, but due to technical difficulties (and my attention directed elsewhere), they have not been accesible since. Now 'Lego on my (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hey everybody.........this is a cool idea....here's my pic (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Jimmy Park writes: Oops! That should read 480 and not 270. (...) Jimmy (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Lemme see what I got: Classic: 61 Crossed Axes: 60 Crusader: 132 Black Falcon: 110 Black Monarch: 202 Black Knight: 155 Wolfpack: 189 Forestmen: 106 (10 of which are wenches) Dragon Master: 238 Royal Knights: 216 Fright Knights: 230 Knight's (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Denix, The castle looks great! The way you've built the model it looks like the island was there first and the castle was built onto the rocks at a later date. The simple color screen really makes the castle look sturdy and unassailable. It would be (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) hmmm....that is annoying, especially when you want to affix a certain accessory on said minifig.... very annoying. yes...very irksome!!! :< Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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<snip> (...) I tried it, and it works great!!! here is my member page, it is URL 3, labelled, "What I look like" I don't know if that's what some had in mind, of course those that have 3 URL's already linked, they are out of luck!! :( Benjamin (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I am pretty sure that minifig heads are placed onto minifig torsos by machine during production. You will see on all minifig 'necks' a distinct black marking indicating the front of the minifig that the machine sensors can 'read.' That way, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Ok. For anyone who wanted to see construction pictures, they are now avalilable on BrickShelf: (URL) actually, they are destruction pictures. Pics 3 through 7 were taken while disassembling one of my second revision of the arrow slit. It now is 6 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Elin, Wow. I am speechless. The details, the architecture, the modularity, are all amazing. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elin Övernäs" <b8eliove@ulmo.stud.slu.se> (...) the king's (...) together I (...) like to (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I was putting together a 4811 defense archer, and the thought hit me... why, if the archer has a quiver, is his head affixed to his body??? to me it would be easier to have his head seperate so you could "assemble" him quicker... (maybe the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Josh, I love this kind of layout. Really nice. Love the fact that the dungeons are actually beneath the town. Lots of great details throughout. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Must" <jmust28698@aol.com> (...) isn't (...) is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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How about "Leather Leggings" or "Studded Leather Legs" "Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Gr319r.KBA@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.castle)
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(...) that would probably have to be up to Todd to come up with... it probably wouldn't be that hard to do, but a minor update to the overall design layout of the membership page... Benjamin Medinets ...yes that would be very neat....two (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You write very good english. ...and ton creation est tres magnifique!! Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Ross Crawford wrote in message ... (...) That would be *very* neat, especially if the pics came up on the member page rather than just linked (like on the BrickLink member page). Even better if there was 2 pics... one your minifig self and one for a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rosco, there is... go to the URL section of the member page ... in edit mode ... and hot-link it directly to the brickshelf photo.... or if you decide to add some color commentary :) you can use a ftx file (on lugnet, with your paid (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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Jon, I can't believe I never commented on this... I have gotten a little behind on posting comments. This is a great MOC. I love the stepped hill, the little stone walkway, the tree on top, the flower planters. A whole bunch of people mentioned how (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Lauglo" <thunder_road@hotmail.com> (...) Thanks Magnus. :-) (...) slits (...) shoot (...) plates (...) using (...) Thin ones would be great, but as soon as I saw the rounded ends, I was hooked. :-) If you (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) whoa, freaky. you look a lot like my dad andy, lol anyway i'll try to get aic up before saturday (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mookie" <Mookie1@telocity.com> (...) amazing (...) 'borrow' this (...) way to do (...) I mean. :-) I'll try to post pictures of construction soon. I found a way to make it fit perfectly into the structure. I also (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pawel Nazarewicz" <verneer@utk.edu> (...) them? (...) Thanks Pawel. :-) I'll try to post some pictures of construction soon. -Andy Lynch (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Good idea Daniel, Here's a picture of me holding my son Alex. (URL) loves to look at the Lego I keep on display. My wife had a hard time getting him to look at the camera long enough to snap the picture. :-) Alex was born on September 9th, 2001 so (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) :-) (...) What if there was a way to add a link to a photo of yourself on your Lugnet member page? That'd be neat! ROSCO (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Lurk... Lurk... Lurk... Huh? Oh, okay. Here you go... :) (URL) (Me with what's left of the Chollester Keep after it was scrapped for other models, and a few brick-weeds started to grow...) -Hendo (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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