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| <snippage> (...) Sorry to reply to my own posting, but... I have decided to highlight it as the current project of the moment, as it was too good to pass up. Thanks, Ben Medinets (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Jasper the troll
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| Hello there, Firstly I must say that although this is not one of the most hi-tech looking creations out there (which I love), it is certainly one of the most characterful that I've ever seen! I simply love the head/face on this guy, truly Troll like (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Jasper the troll
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| Dude, this is great work! It looks a little clunkier than i'd really like to see it, but I'm no mech or jumbo-fig modeling expert myself, so I offer that as truly constructive criticism (pun not necessarily intended, but certainly amusing as I (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Jasper the troll
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| Sorry about replying to my own post, but I thought people might like to know that Jasper's (URL) MOCPage> is up. Also, thanks to the very nice people who spotlighted Jasper! -Matt W. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Jasper the troll
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| G'day, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. This is Jasper, the troll. (URL) Jasper is my first castle MOC, based loosely upon the trolls from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. (The Discworld trolls were what I originally had in mind, but Jasper (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | From one Scale to the next (was Re: Belville Battle Bridge, Witches with NUNCHUCKS)
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| Hey y'all, while discussing the idea of playsets/dioramas that transcend scales, i.e. are appropriate as "different" settings from m-fig, thru b-fig, and potentially up to galidor/knights kingdom II figs ("g-fig"?, "k-fig"?, what about "j-fig" for (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: Lego Painting
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| (...) I love it. Chris, this is fantastic. Whoever said LEGO was not art. ;-) You captured the essence of that night and wizard so well. It would really something to see a series of scenes like this. I'd buy em (er, one since that's all i could (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| (...) Thanks! Yeah, I came up with that cross design a few months ago as part of a yet-unfinished Adventurers MOC. But, when I was working on these vigs, I decided to put it in - it was too good to be just lying around. The floating ghost idea came (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| Nelson, I really enjoyed these. I was particularly impressed by the construction of the cross in (URL) photo>. Is that an original design idea? Kudos. Also love the phantom's "floating in air" effect by planting the stud on his head into the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Lego Painting
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| Hey all, As part of my Painting II class last term, I did "Of Magic and Metal", a 24"x24" lego themed painting, complete with lego frame. (7 URLs) Folder: (URL) All comments, criticisms, etc are most welcomed. I personally don't much care for (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Classic castle layout a big party hit
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| My daughter's 8th birthday party was this weekend, so we put in some extra hours to get our collection of classic castle sets laid out nicely. It turned out to be a big hit with all six 7-9 yr old girls: (URL) More playing action: (URL) brickshelf> (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| (...) Wow, I really liked the boxing one. Great use of colors and posing there. And the town one made me laugh. Great job, now go forth and make ye more! -mark (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| Hello! (...) Add "great" to it. You've got a cool sense of humour! Bye Jojo (URL) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| Hello! That's a cool idea! And well executed as well. The set has a ...well... set-like look on it, and I like that. The single vignettes are very funny, too. Bye Jojo (URL) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| Hey Nelson, More great vignettes! The boxing ring is my favorite, with the clever take on the ropes and the way the faces and poses perfectly match the action. My other favorite is the crossing man (looks like that Podbrix guy). How many times did (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| (...) WOW!!!! How cool, I like the idea a lot. It looks great the way it all connected and the final model of the castle itself look great as is. Yaron "EyE RoD" Dori (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: A spiral staircase
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| "Daan Bargerbos" <daan62@xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:001001c51bce$09...erkamer... (...) (URL) > (URL) (...) (URL) > (URL) (...) (URL) > (URL) (...) Ah! Staircase, plates, wingplates! That gave me an idea! At last I can find a use for all my (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| Am I the only one who sees the amazing potential this idea has? Like builders with limited parts will be able to take part in moonbase-type setups...... I just love this concept :-). I think this model just screams 'Vignettes are here to stay'. I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| (...) That's awesome. I've been playing around with a few ideas like this too.. This made me laugh. Great job!! -mark (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Château de Vignette
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| (...) Nice work Nelson. I love how modular the castle is. I love how the detail is spread out between the different vignettes but also combined to make a really smart looking castle as well, that must have taken a fair bit of planning. Ben Medinets (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | A Weekend of Vignettes
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| Hey all, Spent most of the weekend building vignettes. Here are the results: COPS: (URL) Seven Deadly Sins (only three thus far: pride, gluttony, lust): (URL) sculptor: (URL) at my computer (don't ask why I have a sonar display on it :P) (URL) older (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Château de Vignette
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| Presenting a crazy castle made up of nine individual vignettes: (URL) The vignettes connect together using technic pins, similar to Classic-Castle standards and Moonbase MOCs. I hope that you will get a laugh at some of the jokes here, and hopefully (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
| | | | | The Princess' Royal Coach
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| Some of you may have seen this from the Colossal Castle Contest II at www.classic-castle.com.... (URL) Well, several centuries later, it's been redesigned and updated. Presenting... (URL) My homage to Ed Roth's Druid Princess. Enjoy! "Big Daddy" (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
| | | | | Battle Contest on Classic-Castle.com
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| Hey All, Just a quick note to let you know that there is a battle scene contest currently running on CC.com. Here is a link (URL) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| (...) Boxing was very cute...loved the choice of the Racers minifig head...captures the punch perfectly! Calum (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| (...) Hey Nelson, I think all of these are interesting, but I think the Misc/Art one is my favorite. The boxing vignette made me thing of Raging Bull, I wonder if you could make a black and white version. Anyway, great job. -Keith (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Castle display @ Child & Parent Expo in Indy
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| Last weekend (Feb. 19-21) IndyLUG had a display at the Child & Parent Expo in Indianapolis at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. We had three sections to the layout: Town/train, Space and Castle. Most of our club's shows are train oriented, but this (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind, lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: 5 new vignettes
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| (...) Thanks for sharing and making me smile! Weapons-Testing is my favorite of the batch. (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports, FTX)
| | | | | Re: A spiral staircase
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| Anthony, great work! It's simple in it's design, not becoming bulky, and it's not too difficult to build (considering you have the right bricks :-). It makes you wonder why Lego it self never came up with this idea. It would be interesting to see (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
| | | | | A spiral staircase
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| While grading the contest entries in the CCC2, I cam across (URL) Lord Mikal's Sweetie Pie Bakery>. Mikal turned the stairs in the backery one turn using what I thought was a 3x3 facet brick, which gave me the idea to go full circle, so to speak. It (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Congrats to da Freak....
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| I just wanted to post that Pat Morgan AKA the LegoFreak has won the best overall in the Classic-castle building contest #2 as the "Master Builder" winning in one catagory and honorable mention is several others. Congrats, Freakie!!! :D (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: Vikings?
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| (...) Shouldn't we also just go straight ahead and remind everyone (including LEGO!) vikings DID not have horns as part of their helmets. But I guess the horns are to the recognition of the minifig as viking what the castle is to the playability of (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: Vikings?
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| In lugnet.castle, Douglas R. Clark wrote: -snip- (...) I spoke to an employee at the MOA Imagination Center store last night, and was told they *would* be getting the Vikings sets. I guess we'll just have to wait and see! JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Vikings?
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| snip (...) Well, I just read on <www.eurobricks.com> that vikings are only going to be sold in Europe. "Vikings for Europe and DINO for USA 2005-02-25 19:06:29 by Jipay After Jan’s speech, the rumour has spread all over the internet : the vikking (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New!
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| New stuff just in… Possibly the best set ever! (URL) now that the Vikings appear not to be as kewl as their original promos, (due to the lack of beards and simplification of the sets with tones of catapults that weren’t originally there) this set, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Fences 101 using #30056
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| The latest moc using (URL) 30056> to create a diagonal fence got me started on these designs. (URL) Here are some designs for a straight fence starting from the left with a basic configuration, followed by some variations. (URL) With a 32x32 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Supertrain pictures - SALUG
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| Greetings, I have posted pictures of SALUG participation at Supertrain: (URL) is a large model train show that takes place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in mid February. This year SALUG (Southern Alberta Lego Users Group) won first place for the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.ca.salug) !!
| | | | | Theed Capture
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| The Neimoidians capture the city of Theed including it's highest ranking officials who are led away by Battle Droid units for processing. The Sith apprentice stands guard monitoring the decisions made by the Neimoidians are in line with the orders (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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| (...) cost? The ideals of the past gave relevance to the notions that Military (guns) and Mortality (graves) were not the ethics the company was founded upon… What compromise is this? ...unfortunately, it’s a realistic one! But the new gun-heavy (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: New Viking minifig has vicious looking face
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| (...) So would I... :-) I personally think the beards were only for the prototype pictures. Actual mass-marketing of ABS beards in different styles was probably too expensive a proposition for Lego to make. Of course I could always be pleasantly (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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