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Set number: 4806 Set name: Axe Cart Price paid: 2.5 USD (Actually $3, but with kmart's "buy one, get other 50% off", I bought three $3 sets so each was 2.50) Piece count: 27 Likes: -The minifig - Brown armor with bull pictures printed on torso + (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Informal Review of 4806
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Shiri wrote in message ... (...) (?). (...) effect (...) three (...) This piece is used on the newer pirate ships to attach the spars to the masts, there the advantage is that the spars are now studs up, which means pirates can stand on them (for (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.castle)
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| | A village challenge and questions ...
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Most of us here have explored many castle basic structures: 1) Castles 2) Taverns 3) Churches 4) etc... For my next little project, I'm going to be working on a village - a very small village which might have three houses and a square. So my (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) First I have a question for you. Are the buildings in your village going to be not-quite-complete buildings like the Blacksmith Shop, Armor Shop, Guarded Inn, etc? (All facades, basically.) Or are you going to build complete, realistic, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) Has anyone emailed the winner and asked them to enlighten us when they receive the set? After all the controversy, it would seem like a good idea! I'm curious if the winner thinks they bought a true lego set or not. I still don't believe the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Rick Kurtzuba wrote in message ... (...) A poor medieval farming village will have very limited buisinesses. People don't have money so they will do all their own work. It will need a mill (though that being down by the stream, might not be in the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Frank Filz (<Fo38JK.C3H@lugnet.com>) wrote at 21:46:58 (...) Are these plates the 'standard' LEGO brown? Do they come from the second release of Ninja sets? We haven't had them in the UK yet; they sound quite useful. (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) ... and the winner is ... amf70! In the past 4 years I haven't seen anyone outbid this guy. If it's rare and it's something he wants, he will get it. No matter what the price. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes and yes. Ninja's Fire Fortress comes with a 16x16 brown baseplate, and Emperor's Stronghold comes with a 16x32 baseplate. Very useful. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) That's Abner all right. Even *I* don't go up against him (much). He has some amazing stuff(1), some of which I have been privileged enough to see. Thanks, Abner... Note the timings, he's got sniping down to a science. That other sniper, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) cover for the brown 16x16 baseplate;) -- pn (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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(...) But, the question is.... Does he read/post on Lugnet? RTL? (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | (Update)Re: Anyone using motors, etc. in Castle creations?
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In lugnet.castle, Daniel Siskind writes: <snipped discussion about why LEGO lights are dim> (...) Well, James Powell was kind enough to send me a transformer out of his spares(1), and I hooked it up this weekend as a test. Long and short of it: the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Verry few had barns or stable houses at this time. Though most has typical farm animals since most in small villages were tenent farmers. They would keep the animals on the first floor and live on the second. The animals were kept in the house for (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | MOC: Dragoons, digitally photographed
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(Please note the crosspost - trim your groups when replying! Comments about the 'figs should got to .castle, comments about the photography or the camera to .publish) Well, I went out and got a digital camera today...finally. It came down to the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.publish)
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beautiful job on the painting, jeff! those are some great looking 'figs and the gold trim details are especially nice! later ~ craig~ (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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These are some interesting questions I've been asking myself as well, so I'll chip in with my own thoughts... (...) small (...) comes - what (...) Towns tended to be built around a well or something, from which all the people could gather the water (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I am actually working on a whole castle village's worth of custom models at the moment... and here are the ideas I'm developing: Town Well: As mentioned in other posts - the focal point of the town. Wind Mill: Another essential focal point of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | MOC Rock castle almost finished
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My Rock Castle is getting close to completion. The main structure covers 3 x 3.5 32-stud baseplates, and the hardest part actually was to fit everything in that confined space ;-) If time and table room would allow, I could go on doing the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I really can't wait -- I think you've made some of the nicest models ever built from Lego bricks. :) I loved the Frost Castle, it's a major source of inspiration I have for my Alpine Kingdom, which is somewhere in its planning stages. -- Paul (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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