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(...) I prefer the term "Visiting Trainiac" ... However if you want to call me a Castler, it's OK by me, but check with the REAL castle guys like Lenny, Steve Fisher and Tony H. first... I just dabble, those guys are SERIOUS! (...) I prefer the term (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) Wow- caDetermination! cool-i also archive my favorite stuff in MLcad; I can always generate more different angled picsor piece lists later. good work. Jeff (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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I've finally gone and Ldrawn my Green Dragon, Vildegraas. This is the last of the four dragons to be digitally built. Click on the image for a larger picture. (URL) And I did it in under 36 hours (that's from start to finish, not total work hours). (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) The castlers had a Brothel at their display??!! I bet some touring parents with their kids were sweating as much as the poor Prof.! (URL) Nathan Wells (URL) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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Professor Whateverly, in the interest of promoting peace between .space and .castle, made a brief trip to the Castle table. He did some research there, at ++Lar's Inn of the Fallen Angels (did I get that name right?) (URL) After checking out the (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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Your first try at castle looks great! Obviously this isn't your first MOC. You display too much style and skill. :) -Aaron "Mark Rideout" <madmax_hm@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message news:Ht8tAt.5I9@lugnet.com... (...) idea (...) come (...) create (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow! That is huge! You should try rendering it with LPub/pov-ray, it would look even more spectacular. James (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Mark, Very nice work! I really like the bridge part and that you have made it winterized. If this is your first creation, I can't wait to see your next! Welcome to castle. James Brink (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I think most people would agree that you can have no better teacher. (...) It looks great. I especially like the way you used slopes and arches around the first floor windows. I'm looking forward to more detailed pics. Welcome to the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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All - Before too many images go around of my castle creation that I showed at Brickfest PDX, I wanted to give acknowledgement to Takeshi Itou. Both the idea of a snow scene (including the tracks) and the design of the stone bridge come from his (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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i have started my dream lego creation: a Cathedral! unfortunately, due to cost of parts, i cannot afford to build it out of real bricks, but have to do it with LDRAW. i used MLCAD. anyway, here is a deep link: (URL) sorry it is so big, the details (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Very cool. :) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm a professional Software Engineer with 3 years of PHP and mysql experience, were I to log in and discover poorly commented, badly structured, inefficent code I don't think I'd laugh, I think I'd fix it. As a community, I think you are (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Icky. What about when amatures come in and write code that is... laughable... at best. Then you have a website made of mangled, chaotic code that definetly does not help the community at all. Poor commenting, bad structure, inefficent (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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[added .castle] (...) And in minifig scale too. Ugh, those swords and armor are dorky-lookin'. I was looking forward to buying a copy or two of 8777 and 8778 based on the Classic-Castle preview pictures. But now, um, no thanks. The shields are kinda (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Sending this to .dear-lego. And adding in the polite request that this theoretical bin be made in *classic* light grey, please. (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I would never pay that much, but also I would never do that to a fig, or want one like that. It all depends on what you think they're worth. Like I always said growing up collecting baseball cards and stuff, the priceguide is there, but the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi John, I think that many castle fans agree that this is a major departure from previous castle lines. I do like the parts selection and many of the figures look useful. Perhaps a degree of realism will be included in future caslte product lines. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Simply my humble opinion, but it strikes me that the new castle sets are making something of a departure stylistically from previous sets. The figures, armor and weapons seem more like a cross between the MegaBloks line and the "classic" Lego (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Here's a Lugnet exclusive from me. It's nothing exciting, but hey, I thought it'd be a change of pace to post it to Lugnet and not C-C. The blueprints of my next castle MOC: (URL) --Anthony (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I am really amused by all the trouble this guy goes to to change all the names from copyrighted names (superguy, etc.) but he uses all the trademarked symbols on the figs. I wonder if most people even find this stuff on ebay. -Dan (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Woah-woah! Look here (URL) are Jeff's (Blasterman, Little Armory) weapon's he's got there. He doesn't even mention Little Armory anywhere. (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space)
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(...) I've seen his stuff over the years - it's up to the buyer, but my personal assessment is he overcharges so ridiculously that I won't come near him. Take a look at his weapons, for example - he's taken Jeff's Little Armory Weapons and Red (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(URL) I say no. I love the castle and super hero minifigs alsoi a few star wars ones are good buy at 115 bucksa pop come on. I wrote the guy an email and said he should have a sale or lowere his prices but i said it nicely. so what do you think. (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
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I made these MOCs ages ago and then forgot about them. :roll: Roxo's Dwelling: (URL) Roxo's Cart: (URL) PLMKWYT! (URL) Nathan Wells (URL) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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It's nice to see such fruitfull and inspiring feedback. (...) My LDraw mockup has been modeled with headlight bricks, based on their common availability, and because I prefered to point the smooth top surface of the tiles 1x2 all upwards in the same (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) That's true, but your version shouldn't require headlight bricks, should it? (...) I did a quicky test using a 1x1 with four studs just to see if a tile will fit between the two bricks, and it does work. Since you'd be using 1x1 bricks to hold (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Also you would keep the ability to atach bottles to the studs, something not possible when using the headlight bricks. I think I will try to build the two solutions for real (maybe even a combination of both), to see how practicly feasable (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Ooh! I think I got it! There's a (URL) new piece> that's coming out this year. It's a 1x1 brick with studs on two sides. If you take a plate and a bunch of these new bricks and place them with alternating orientation, you can attach tiles to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> What exactly does it mean to be "community owned"? Is the site going to be like a WIKI and anyone can change the content? Is there going to be a controlling body (say, for example, of 9 people) who are going to make all the decisions (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) It has been a while since I last read anything of yours, so I just caught up on the whole Chaos Skies story. Very nice! (Oh- and the nod to the GA was cute.) (2 URLs) AndroDan>> Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I realy like yor idea, and the challenge you lay before us. It got me thinking and my first (futile) attempt was this: (URL) But that looked more like a buisness fair display stand from the 60's than a midieval wine rack. ¹) Then, it dawned to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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[ -> .org ] (...) So what would be available to not-logged-in users? Greatest common factor? From a pragmatic standpoint, that seems like that'll dramatically chop the usefulness of the site -- imagine if Google only showed Kid-Safe-Verified sites (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) My understanding is that LEGO would like to have a site that they can feel comfortable sending traffic (kids and adults), but which they don't control and aren't responsible for. This site (LEGOFan) could include content (such as offsite (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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[follow-to to .org, since that's where other people seem to be redirecting] (...) It has a really funny "Moderated for safety; Cool!" logo. I printed it out really big for our security team here. :) (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Perhaps it is time to have another revolution. After all, LUGNET was at least partly founded as a response to user's dissatisfaction with some problems inherent in r.t.l (one of them , ironically, being that r.t.l was too open a system which (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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I really don't have a problem with the community trying to set up a web-site and trying to get the community to come together. I agree (with Terry) that saying that a certain site will be the one-stop shop is insulting. The one point I'd like to (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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