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In lugnet.castle, Jim Foulds writes:
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> Thanks to both Bruce and Lindsay for their compliments. I too enjoyed
> Stephen's message, especially the very last award :)
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> I must admit that I am surprised at the number of people who have commented
> on the fiber optics usage as streams of water, asking me what piece it was
> and from what sets it came from.
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> I consider myself a generalist when it comes to Lego, meaning I buy sets
> from all categories so I have a vast array of parts and I build whatever
> strikes me at the moment. So as I was building the temple, I just matched
> up the pieces that best represented what I wanted to build. So if I have
> provided another idea for what some may consider a useless part, then I am
> very happy, because I think all Lego has a use, it's up to the user to
> figure it how!
While not exactly the same, in a similar usage, Tony Hedglen had a fountain
in his area in the MichLUG display at GATS in January. He actually raised
the area it was on, so they could light up. Most of the kids and a number
of the adults got a kick out of it.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=106054
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=103141
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> So if anyone else has any ideas as to how to display streaming water with
> Lego, I would love to hear about it. One idea that I have seen was done by
> Greg Perry on his Belville house (if you haven't seen it, go look, it is
> absolutely gorgeous) where he used trans-blue 1x1 round plates to make a
> stream from a statue.
>
> Keep Building,
> Jim F.
Fabulous creation by the way. It must be a pain trying to transport it
though. I really like the front gate with the grey lightsaber hilts in the
arches.
-Jason
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| (...) Thank you for bringing this one to my attention. Tony's fountain is really cool. I had thought about lighting mine, but since I didn't want to have it on a raised paltform, that idea got canned. Maybe next time... (...) It wasn't too much of a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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