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I recreated the Yellow Castle in Grey and Black, and took some pics with my digital camera (not very good quality). The I redid the first version, by replacing many of the standard bricks out of the wall with current grey castle wall pieces. I think (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It certainly looks much better in gray. I happen to have the yellow castle, and am planning to do exactly the same. My problem is I lack black extreme slope corners -for now. By the way, the second iteration looks fine (even better than the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I saw no problems with the camera - great shots. Can you make any of the pictures any bigger though? I would like to look at some of the pictures being twice as big;) Regardless - well done! Now with the new blue corner slopes and the blue (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I ws pondering this (having just scored some Oasis Ambush sets at Wally World clearance), but I really couldn't think of any good reason for the entire castle to be blue. (I'd have to look into my supply of blue arches as well.) J (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) being (...) task (...) Uh-oh! That's MY project! It's not totally blue, but I'm trying! I don't have the 2x2x3 slopes from 5938. Somebody up for a trade? -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) task (...) bricks). (...) Well, trade them with me! Mine has a darn good reason to be blue, and I want those slopes! (...) Are you kidding?! I didn't know there were any! (I hope you're not just joking!) I was pondering this just two days ago, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) grays) Oh yeah, lots. I've got yellow, red, brown, blue... nothing else I recall off-hand, and darn few of them, but they exist. One thing you might try (it works very well with the 1x2x2 arched windows) is "framing" the window in a different (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, looking in my "Arch Bin", I see Lots of gray, some red, black, white, yellow, cream, blue, brown, magenta, and beige. If you really want, I can inventory it. Jeff (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Just had a look, and I do not seem to have any blue arches. They ought to exist, though - I could swear I used to have some, maybe in an old Classic Space set or something. As for other colors, there are definitely red and yellow arches, as (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) arches. (...) ones). (...) grays) (...) There are blue arches. At least 1x6, and I think 2x8 ones, not sure beond that size however. (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) arches. (...) I just realized that I've got a few myself - I just got four lt. yellow ones (not tan) from 5824. (...) Thanks! That sounds like a great idea! (...) LOL! I'll hope he answers! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) arches. (...) I don't need an inventory, but if you happen to know from which sets they came, LMK. TIA, Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I've got yellow, red, brown, blue... nothing else I recall (...) Samples here Blue 1x6 Dk Gray White Red Black White Yellow Brown Tan (all I have are 2+ BLue 1x6 arches, I don't _think_ I have any longer ones in blue) James P (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) that (...) I don't have them in my parts bin yet, but I have a ton of blue 1x6x2 arches (from the Castle/Spyrius value pack 1843). Other blue arches I have in my parts bin: 1x3x1 1x6x2 rounded top 2x8x3 Hmm, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Would you consider a trade? LMK. (...) <snip> (...) Is that like the 5824 arches color? -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) My selection of blue is limited - a single 1x6x2 rounded arch, and a pair of 1x4's. :/ James (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You can see an example of what I'm talking about at: (URL) is a lousy shot, but does have several of the windows from my mess hall in it, using that style of window. James (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <sound of hand hitting forhead> Duh! I knew I was forgetting something. ;) It's because under my unique and stunningly efficient sorting system, brown half arches don't count as arches, they count as "tree bits" ;) James (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I inventoried it anyway. ;) You can see it here: (URL) have to think about where I got everything, as it ranges from Belville to Freestyle, and Castle to Adventurers. If you want to know about a specific arch, I can check. I did get a large (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I would, what might you have to offer? (...) Yup, since that's where they came from... (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Oops. I'll plead that I was looking at the bags of parts in not very good light (my tub [yes a whole tub] of arches is under the desk, the brown half arches are in with the rest of the half arches). (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Don't forget that yellow arches did appear in castle. (...) What about the half arches in the dark forest sets? (...) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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