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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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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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(...) Thanks, Craig! Craigo-lego was definitely the biggest inspiration that actually got me thinking about the possibilities of painted or otherwise decorated LEGO. I still think we need a lugnet.blasphemy group for painting, sawing, snipping, and (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, there were light-blue gems in some of the 1999 ninja sets... I know they were in 6093 (Flying Ninja's Fortress), and they MIGHT have been in the Emperor's boat set as well (Too lazy to look it up) 'Course that's just LIGHT blue... DaveE (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Dan wrote in message ... (...) the (...) for (...) their (...) OK, I got out the dictionary, and still don't know what some of the words you used are. What is ferrier? Hobbler? (...) fame (...) all (...) Is that similar to a modern day health (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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As a seller, I really like Abner ;-) As a competing buyer, its futile. My feeling about this set, is that its a knock-off, like Mega Blocks or Tyco. Although not many people are interested in old Mega Blocks Castles, they aren't exactly easy to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Those are some great 'figs. You did an excellent job on the painting. I also love Final Fantasy (I want beige ponytail hair so I can make Rosa), and these are great representations of Dragoons. Personally, I probably would've used the visored (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) (just guessing) Typos? ;) A farrier is someone who shoes horses. A cobbler is someone who shoes people. I think that's the two professions he was mentioning. James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) A ferrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry - fairly important work if your town is located near or on a river. Hobbler? No idea. A cobbler is a shoemaker, but that's the only similar sounding word I can think of. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) ?? I've never heard this before. I'm only familiar with 'ferryman' as a term. A farrier is someone who shoes horses, though. James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Neg, as the other James pointed out, a Ferrier is someone who shoes horses...like my wife's old boss in Victoria. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I know he used to post on RTL back in 1995 or so - I recognize the email address. He posted with the pseudonym "Ace Maze," I think. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No -- Mike is correct. A farrier shoes horses, a ferrier operates a ferry. Check out Websters -- or dictionary.com F (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I saw part of an Arctic set commercial this weekend. Timbo (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, a fErrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry. ferrier \Fer"ri*er\, n. A ferryman. --Calthrop A fArrier is someone who shoes horses. Both probably look the same, even going a ways back, but I would guess that ferrier is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Interesting... dictionary.com cites Websters (1996 ed) as it's source for 'ferrier', but m-w.com has no entry. There's also no source/etemolgy at dictionary.com... Neat. I wonder what the hardcopy of Webster's says... James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) A crossroads may also be the center of town, but that would probably make the town less of the "backwards village" Pawel seems to want. (...) This is highly terrain dependant. Watermills would probably be more likely, as a windmill would (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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