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James, that's looking really ace. I don't suppose that hill is modular is it? Is there any chance we'll get to see it in the ABS? If it's not movable then you owe us a minifest - I want to see it for real when it's done! Psi (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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After a few months of sitting on my hard drive I've uploaded the pictures of my latest project to my site. The project is to build a castle modularly, each time building on the previous so at the end of each stage I havew a full castle. Stages 1-3 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: set383: 1x1 round studs hollow or not ?
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(...) (URL) from a gallery ((URL) by "jojo" Rick. (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle)
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Hmmm... I wonder of something you might know about: - the early castle set 383 is from 1979 - in the building instructions it seemed that they used 3062a "Yellow Brick, Round 1 x 1 Solid Stud" instead of 3062b "Yellow Brick, Round 1 x 1 Open Stud" (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks Bruce! So you're right, i'm posting in english and at .castle and .town. (URL) the folder: (URL) This is a characteristic house of the northern portugal at the end of the XIX century. In those times the industry and commerce were almost (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Where did you get purple pieces? I have honestly never seen them. Oh wait . . . the new Harry Potter bus. (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Enjoyable, albeit rather cozy and maybe a tad austere... Nice details and colour, though. It's good to see that he was able to save the chandelier. I like the windows and the balcony. I wonder if an outside staircase to the balcony would be in (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Bruce. This castle keeps reminding me that we can do so much, no matter what our limitations. I'm really proud of that window detail. I'm sure it was partly inspired by the back cover of Hot Rocks by the Rolling Stones. I too, am amazed (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) (URL) Like this perhaps? ;) Nathan Wells Lord Of The LEGO (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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a few days ago, I got an idea for a phoenix, then i saw these great dragons by Leonard Hoffman: (URL) & noticed the red one looked like what i had in mind for my phoenix & wanted to hurry up & post mine before someone beat me to it-thanks to Lenny (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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(...) I, too, lament the loss of legs. Nary a moldy old skeleton for us. :( (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Medinets wrote: Greetings again. (...) Certainly. I've been pretty much 'dead' here due to college stuff : getting up to snuff with my drawing skills and nailing gestures for figure drawing. Naturally, thinking about those (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Whoa...dude! It's been too long (4 months, I think) nice to see you posting something again. What do you think of the side-bar in your absence fellow curator? ps... I was lucky this time and ended up not having to go overseas... (wheew! (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Greetings. Whoa, that's a really trippy design. Your model really caught my attention so I felt I'd give you some props on your aesthetics here. The whole thing is consistent, nice and uniform, but not at all flat like some sililar nuances (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) What? Someone counted them all? Who? Certainly not me. Well, I counted 37 of them, but that's it. After that it was just a matter of doing some simple multiplication and adjusting quantities a bit here and there for stuff like the chimney and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) The fact I didn't do both roofs like this was three-fold: I wanted to finish the buidling over easter weekend, and had "only" 1000 tiles, which would have not been enough to cover all. Second, I wanted some variation, as many of such buildings (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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(...) i have read the books and from the pictures its pretty much 50/50 book and movie. since i dont remember there being a clock tower in the book but from the screenshots of the movie there is a humungous clock. (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow, I can't believe someone actually counted, I didn't!! Thanks, that number sounds about right (I bet it is), I had 1000 of them available, and am left with about 1/4. Paul (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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Amazing work Paul, like everybody else, I'm blown away by the roof. The entrance is also a great piece of building. The color scheme is perfect, espicially with those bits of red and blue on the corners. Well done. -Keith (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) By my count, it's 727. 323 on the entrance side of the main roof, 326 on the other side, 20 laid flat at the peak, and 58 on the little section over the balcony. (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Ooops. Are you serious? BTW, did i got to tell you that i'm colour-blind?:-) (...) Sometimes different people in different times have the same idea. It happens. For instance, several mathematicians, in the past, reached to the same results and (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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(...) I think the biggest complaint that people will have about these is that there are no sand-green skeleton legs. You get the skeleton torso and arms, and a sand-green head (or you can use Frankie's, if you want eyes), but no sand-green skeleton (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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Hi, See below. "Bruce Hietbrink" <bnh@chem.ucla.edu> wrote in message news:HwA6JJ.1rwD@lugnet.com... (...) Do (...) them (...) Yes, but the parts of the original hogwarts have long been recycled into the buildings in my LEGO city, BrickTopia. I have (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Home of Lord Marshal Leonhart
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Hey Lenny, Nice creation. One detail I like is that the windows don't all line up, giving a less symmetric, more realistic feeling than many buildings (incl. my own) have. Bruce (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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(...) Hey Brad, thanks for the review. I'm looking forward to getting this set. Do you have the origninal Hogwarts? I'm wondering how they look if you put them together. (...) That sounds good. My main concern with the new grays is the difficulty of (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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My impression is that the 2004 sets have improved architecture: between Harry Potter and Spider-man there are much better looking, less juniorized buildings this year. At least, there is more ornament. There's the laid-on plate roof of the castle, (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2004)
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(...) Not that it matters(it may to her) I saw this style of roof on Suzanne Green (Rich) web site at least a year ago.... (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Paul this rocks! I can't wait to see it in person.Great use of my fav. colors(all dark :-) ).Chris (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) I'm not keen on all of my buildings opening up on the fireplace either, I just haven't found a solution I am happy with. Although, wouldn't most buildings have a fireplace in those days anyway? Hmm.. Actually an idea that just hit me now is (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Well when the entertainers get off work at the (URL) Inn of the Fallen Angels>, maybe they go over to the Lord Marshal's and they needed something to hang from? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) That is remarkable, and that roof is beautiful! I wish I could afford to buy enough of those 2x2 round tiles in order to do a roof like that. Just great. Now I'm really disappointed that I'm not going to be able to make the Homedays show. I'd (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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| | Re: New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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(...) STOP IT! You are making me want this set even more and the fact that I have run out of lego money (money set aside just for buying lego) for now is making me sad :-( (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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| | New Harry Potter Castle Review - 4757
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Item#: 4757 Hogwart's Castle Ages: 8+ Pieces: 927 I picked up 2 copies of the newest HP castle set a few days ago and I'm quite impressed by it. MAIN MODEL The main model is a rather large 3-wing castle with an extra tower building, and gate. The (...) (20 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle) !
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| | Re: The Home of Lord Marshal Leonhart
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(...) The Hanging Lamp is a design I used for Castle Julian - and thought it was a really cool concept. It may be a bit much for some guy's upstairs bachelor pad, but you know, he is the Lord Marshal after all. -Lenny (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) I really hate that there must be a fireplace in order for a building to open up and the "Low-High" hinge technique is an elegant way to deal with it. And I'm comfortable if everyone doesn't like it, because there are many element's in others' (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey Lenny, Cool creation! I really like the hanging lamp upstairs! The balcony is cool too. James (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Paul, this is an awesome model. I'm sure the picture doesn't do its size justice! I really like how the circular 'tiled' roof looks. Why didn't you use this for all of the roofing? Can't wait to see the interior! James (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Paul, This is great, I love to roof (how many circle tiles did that take). The use of 1x1 cylinders for the posts looks great, and the colors really make it come alive! Thanks, George (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, FTX)
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(...) Things I like: The lamp upstairs has a neat design, the way all the tables & bookcases in the place have the bits of blue, it looks good and ties it all together. I also dig the balcony. I will have to remember to put one of those in my next (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Paul, That is quite beautiful. It so enormous too. As others have mentioned, the bits of red and blue over it really add something. The grand staircase in the front in great and that roof! Wow. MichLUG & COLTC are gonna have to do another show (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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