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(...) Oh man that was cool! The pictures showing a blurred-Verneer in action were just awesome! Now let me calm down... I think the setup is reasonable. Although on my 800x600 screen I get a horizontal scroll bar, which people may find annoying. But (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) pawel~ WOW!! this is awesome! later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Omigosh, that was so great!!! I can't wait for more! Now some constructive comments: Setup is good on my computer but it's an exact fit on my 1000x800 screen, and most people don't use such big screens. I LOVE your forest and the "movement" (...) (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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(...) Shiri, Ma Shlomech, I would've gotten it. ;) By the way, in reference to your reply to my last message, yes, my Hebrew is a little rusty, but also I wasn't sure if you male or female so I figured it would be better to use the masculine form. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm fine, thanks, how're you? (...) ;-) I was talking to my sister and she suggested I call her (she's a her now) Peggy... (...) Sure, no prob - people get mixed up all the time. Maybe I should call myself Sherry or Cherry or something ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow - keep up the good work. I can't wait for chapter 2. You'll have to tell us all how you made the blurs. They're great! Was Kate's torso custom made? I think it was. Do tell how it was done. Eagerly waiting - <<KM>> (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow - keep up the good work. I can't wait for chapter 2. You'll have to tell us all how you made the blurs. They're great! Was Kate's torso custom made? I think it was. Do tell how it was done. Eagerly waiting - <<KM>> (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks ... I got a hold my Cyberstudio and touched the page up a lil bit (spell check, background, one column - the good stuff;) The forest took some bricks from Naboo Swamps as well as arches from ... I dunno;) The movements was kind of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I hope the links from the member's page are the way they should be. I took Frank's advice and use the "Target = "_top" on them. If you want to link to Castle World and want to use our banner, you can find a section I made specifically about that on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Really? Out of curiosity, I checked the NameDB(1), and this is what it lists: Name Origin Sex Meaning Variations Shiri Hebrew Female My song Shira, Shirah, Shirit I never even considered it could be a male name. Can it be? It doesn't list that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello Everyone! I added a couple items to my website, so please check them out. :) The Link is at the end of the message. New Stuff: ~The History of Dragonia This page is a quick rundown on what has happend over the last 1000 years in the lands that (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) scans of good film photography work well and can even be used to create texture and atmosphere. (...) lol! i thought they were vain too, till i put one on my page! i hit 6000 a couple days after my birthday, then got listed in the webtv (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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hi y'all ~ what happens when belville falls into the wrong hands? go here and see for yourself: (URL) later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Strong female characters portraying pivotal roles in the history/mythology of your realm (a fresh perspective) I liked the format of your storyboard ....lots of action and emotion conveyed in a minumum of words and images...The tombstone scene (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) O my.......Mephisto's Red Ninjas "pulling a Gulliver" Welcome y'all to the undiscovered country...... (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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(...) 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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(...) hey, johnny! nahh... "pulling a guliver" is when mini-figs aproach, attack, bind, or otherwise communicate with us humans. (just ask jeff s.; it happened to him!) this is more "Snow White" gone horribly, horribly wrong... i've had this pic (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks. The torso was ALL craigo-lego. I now have one of the figs. I rule! ;) Fits well with Verneer, no? A little shy country girl to slow the boy down. He would need it anyhow;) -- pn (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) it really is great. i've read it twice, and like the bigger pics better! (looks _fab_ on webtv!) ok.. time to act like kids on the playground: AAWWOOOO!! verneer has a girlfriend! verneer and kathrine, sittin in a tree...;-) he carved their (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Me Too!! Those Rabbits are way cool! Now I can fully reenact Monty Python's "The Holy Grail" :). Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) My Creations at: (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.castle)
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(...) ;) (...) He (...) Craig - did you just paint the design on to the beige torso? Or are you doing something different, cause that looked just like real TLC stuff. <<KM>> (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The "i" on the end makes it possessive - as in "ani" which is I, or "sheli" which is mine. Many names end in "i" and are masculine, such as Eli (which is pronounced like Ellie in English)- Eli means "my God" and is a masculine name. I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Pretty cool story and great pic's. I can't say I am much of a story teller myself but who knows maybe once I try it things will flow together. I still need my female protagonist though so it might be a while before I come up with any sort of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Heh... In yet another lousy shot from my website, we have giants! (URL) is the standing army of one of my local friends who doesn't Lugnet. 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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You could also make a dark pegasus with black horse and black wings for an evil creature, monster for the CW. Timbo (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Haha! This is great. I love it. Bruce (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "Good" being the operative word. ;) The problems with regular photagraphy include using up the roll of film, getting developed, and indoor photos of Lego models don't look terribly great. (...) Hehe! I just like knowing how many people visit (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It's all in the angle. The low angle on the Verneer pic obscures the basic geometric shape of the red tiles. The high angle on the Scar pics emphasizes the geometric shape. Steve (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(URL) from menu: Buildings:Estuary Stronghold These are preliminary pictures of Estuary Stronghold, a medieval fortified village. These pictures were taken about two weeks before the model was finished. I knew the flash light wouldn't give us (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Eric, I love it. I really like all the curved lines. I also liked your use for the Rock Raiders Canopy. A piece which until now I though was almost useless. I also really like how you blended in the "tidal infuences" into the model and story. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No, only in the variation of Shir, in which it can be both a male and female. People get mixed up just because they don't recognize the name. BTW, that name DB is really good! I've already bookmarked it, and Philantha (the new name for my (...) (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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(...) Thanks, I'll take that in mind while filming Scar's next-- Oh, never mind -- Thanks again! ;-) -Shiri Future-princess Siffera has something to find about her past... will she realize it before she makes the mistake of her life? Coming soon, (...) (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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(...) I like that also. How did you do the roof of the curved keep? (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Whoa Nelly! That is awesome!! You really know how to make a builder feel inadequit... ;) Jeff (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Cool! I like how you showed the events leading to the current situation! I'm gonna try a brief outline of the past, maybe, 300 years - my kingdom emerged from some seafarers who decided to settle down in the new country they found. (...) Good (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks! I learned everything I know about historical outlines from AD&D Forgotten Realms supplements. ;) (...) Cool, I can't wait! :) (...) As a rule of thumb, I try to stick to a sentence or two. That way, I don't have space to spoil (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) as (...) It sure worked! (...) I'll post here when I get there... (...) plan (...) I just added this section to my index page - I only put on titles so hopefully that doesn't spoil too much. (...) I just checked and it reads 781! Is that even (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thank you! I'm getting very positive reactions and I'm very happy - it's nice to know I'm working on something good! (...) Thanks, I'll soon start a continious story line once I get all the characters established and my buildings done. I saw a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hey, Jeff and Eric, I've got those two rabbits open to trade if you want. LMK. -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.belville, lugnet.castle)
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FYI, Lugnet.castle is currently the #1 newsgroup in the weekly traffic - even surpassing (by one post ;) lugnet.general! Go, Castle! :-) -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow. That was one piece of work. All those creative uses for pieces, especially the round towers and the rock raiders canopy, really gave it a realistic look. I'm gonna round the towers on my castle now. And is that a Trebuchet in two of the pics or (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think craig (from what I understand) likes to make his designs as TLC-ish as possible, and this torso design is the same as one of the forest/pirate wenches or something - only different colors. It makes it seem VERY realistic and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like the title of your upcoming wants page. :) I really can't make one because it go something like this: Stuff More Stuff Oh, Did I mention stuff? And finally: One of every piece in every color. :) (...) Seems right on this end. I guess a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I used it in my Necromancer scene. :) I got the idea from some pictures posted last year of a Wild West scene TLC made for a German (maybe Dutch?) Toy store. I can't remember who posted them, though. Jeff (URL) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Very cool Keep, defenatly one of the better castles on the net. Hey how many round bricks did you use in the keep anyway? Good job later Ian (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hopefully (...) LOL! I want some very specific stuff for my projects, such as blue arches, blue slopes, blue pieces... you get the point ;-) I also want as many unique baseplates as possible - any raised ones or any containing water. And much (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Right! Now I remember! That's where I saw it too - it was on Eric Brok's site. -Shiri Check out a new feature - Quick Catch. I'll try to put at least one pic every day. And on today's agenda: Lumina "hires" a new staff...: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I messed around a bit today with some of the pictures from Chapter 1. I figured that most can be touched up a bit and decided to focus on two of them. Check them out and let me know what else could and should be done to convey better emotion (?) and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Me too - I was inspired previously from your curved wall design, as were many, many others, and now I'm even more impressed - I didn't even have enough pieces to manage a quarter circle of four studs high ;-) <snip> I hope you have a chance to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) <snippage> (...) WOW Eric, nice castle, another wonderful creation, Kudos! I really like the curved wall and towers. I notice that you mention that these are preliminary photos, does that we're going to get close-ups? <drool> :^) another (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like the effect of the "glow" on fury's wings, as the forest instead of table. OTOH, I don't think you should've edited the baseplate out - after all, it is Lego. The second picture is good, but a bit too blurry. That's OK though, the red (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) figured (...) Truly awesome and inspiring work! Don't go too heavy on computer effects though, I think the charm of Lego is it's simplicity - it makes you use your imagination! Hey, has anyone thought of taking duplicate heads and painting (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I agree! Lego is just about all we need ;-) of course, *some* modification never hurt anyone... (...) That's a great idea! I was thinking of doing that to Scar but $99 for another storm face is too much ;-) I might just use normal faces or (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Eric, Godzilla sized kudos!! I like how you combined the different colored BURPS and all the different colored buildings - much better than all grey and black. How 'bout a close up of the circular design over the doorway of the grey building (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) grey (...) it (...) Why don't you have a way? Many companies offer free sites to anyone, and the one I use (geocities) comes with a WYSIWYG, user-friendly editor. No HTML knowledge required. If scanning is the prob, send them to me (via (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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...this guys castles are fantastic. Good thing he's a doctor, otherwise he could never afford all those bricks! www.end.com/~jynx/castle Frederick. (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, the "prob" is that I don't have a scanner or digital camera! How prehistoric!!! I feel like Fred Flintstone! Thanks for the offer, if I can get some good photos maybe I'll take you up on that, toda giveret. (...) So, what's up, you do (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wowee! That is one heck of a site - too bad he doesn't have more pictures... -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) it! (...) I wouldn't go as far as to see you're pre-historic... maybe the bronze period? ;-) (...) Nah, I do all this year here and visit during the summer. In 92 (I was in second grade ;-) there was even snow! But it might've been 92/3. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Why actually paint on the LEGO? Open up your scanned/digital pics in a paint program and have at them! This has numerous advantages, not the least of which is the fact that if you screw up, you can always change it back with Undo or Revert to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) could (...) as (...) You're right! That's would be excellent. The only problem is that my paint program is the pits... I'm trying to get Adobe but meanwhile I'll stick to good-old pictures... Thanks for the idea, though! -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hey bill! i'm a _huge_ fan of tim burton! (this much is obvious from my craigo-lego site.) his great model animation film,"the nightmare before christmas" has inspired me to do this very thing for a series of expression heads for my mephisto (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Some more testing along the lines suggested: (URL) might have potential in the future, no? (of course the arrow has to go, but other than that I'm pleased). I do see the use of such techinques though (winking, eyes closed, etc... ) -- pn (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It most certainly does! Thanks, Bill, for the fabulous idea! (...) LOL! That arrow isn't the most realistic one I've ever seen ;-) but otherwise it looks really good. (...) We can finally have some unchronic-happy guys! Yay! -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup. I have Dr. Carney's stuff bookmarked, and I go browse over there whenever my keyboard is getting low on drool. :) Seriously amazing stuff. If you haven't seen them, stop reading RIGHT NOW and go check them out. They're that good. James (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I only had classic space (pre-Blacktron) and freestyle when I was a kid, so I never really knew what the castle series used to be like. I've come out of my dark ages tuned into castle in a big way (1). I've been collecting a lot of clearance Ninja, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I am playing with the idea of trying to make a map using POVRay which would allow not only a top view of the map, but a rendered 3D view of the map with trees and mountains, etc. Does anyone think this is a good idea, or is it too much work. Timbo (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I've posted a ".DAT" file containing minifig-scale models of a frog, a toad, and a newt [1,2] over in ".cad.dat.ideas" ("(URL) all the recent interest in ".castle", I thought that all the new wizards that have appeared/will appear may need some more (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 5824 - the inside story
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(...) <snip> (...) Back to this discussion again... I've created my "Big Five" - more about them later - and posted a preliminary pic on my site. It's on the front page, you can't miss it! -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) figured (...) It'd be cool if you made an arrow sticking out of Verneer. Alan (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) hey, timbo! yes, it's a great idea, and it will work on the CW map i'm currently designing. ...and, yes, it's too much work, but it'll be fun and well worth it! try to hang loose for a couple more weeks when pawel and i will have a LOT to show (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If people are interested I will try to get POVRay to output the sample version I was playing with as an example. We would need to work out a key for the Lego map: Like: 1 stud = 1 mile (5 miles, etc.) 1 plate thickness = 1000 feet of elevation (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) He actually did. See: (URL) a followup to Bill and Jeff's ideas in this thread. -Shiri (URL) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Holy cow! -- Paul Davidson Frederick Paepke <paepkef@net-link.net> wrote in message news:fpfc9s0lvq9odil...4ax.com... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi, Could somebody give me examples of sets that contained black weapons? Currently, I have ONE black spear (tons of brown ones), ONE black lance (lots of brown & gray ones), and ONE black quiver without a bow to match (quite a few brown ones). I'm (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Timbo! you're psychic! well sort of. amazingly close to what i've been working on! the color code i'm using (thus far, always room to change later) is a bit more simplified, and used to denote basic textures : blue ~ water lt. blue ~ as a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Black Weapons? Where?
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(...) The Native American Western sets had massive quantities of Black Spears, Bows (and quivers), and Hand Axes/Hatchets. The only Black Sword appeared in 6041 Armor Shop. Black Battle Axes and Lances have been in numerous Castle sets over the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I recently came across a real shelf worn timecruisers set in TRU. (Pretty weird - the TRU is only like 2 years old or so, and their stock is pretty small+I've looked through it a lot.. Maybe it was sitting in a back room somewhere) Anyways... One of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I just watched the Siege Weapons edition of the Nova "Secrets of Lost Empires" miniseries on PBS. Basically, the hour-long show focused on the efforts of two groups of people to build two slightly different trebuchets using medieval methods, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Thankd for the enthousiastic responses. I will try to answer your questions when better pictures (showing more detail) are up. Eric (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) IMHO these are some of the best kept secrets for good parts around. I have been picking up 6766's on Clearance at my local TRU now for months. (URL) the figs suck although the female head is good and the male heads are OK barbarians plus you (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If you're interested in Divers and don't mind buying an entire set, the 6441 Deep Reef Refuge has a Pirate ship wheel in it. (URL) were pretty cheap (around $30) at kbkids.com. I got an email from them the other day advertising a 20% off sale (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Well this is a simple idea really but it came out pretty cool IMHO. I will get pictures up in my next round of pictures but that might not be for a week or two and I wanted to share this. I used the Gungan Soldier torso from 7115 - Gungan patrol (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Great Idea Eric. I also think that 4811 is a great set for armies. Very interesting ideas! (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hehehehe. That's pretty good Craig. There is a lot of potential here. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Wow! Eric, that's awesome, the size os very belittling. Very nicely done. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Cool! When does this take place in relationship to The Downfall of Strombrachter and the eventual attack on the gryphon's nest? (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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My name is Alex Farlie I DO NOT WORK FOR TLG I am however devloping some ideas for a Haunted House and wondered waht the communities ideas were. I don't want this to be just to me thinking. Come on lets hear your ideas!! Alex (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Black Weapons? Where?
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There's a little $2 ninja set with two black spears that I've been buying just for that. -- Paul Davidson Bryan Wong <green_paper@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FpACzC.HsC@lugnet.com... (...) (lots (...) a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Just read an article (I think it was in Smithsonian magazine) about this "experiment". I can look it up if anyone missed the special. (...) Have you observed the range difference with a rolling and non-rolling LEGO model? The article mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) We've got *plenty* of unchronic-happy guys. A few girls, too. I think the yellow-happy-smiley-faces are a great thing about mini-figures. Grumble, grumble, curmudgeonly whinge. Steve (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Jason Catena writes: SNIP (...) over (...) hole (...) Personal recommendation, don't even try for the sling approach. It will require a stout crossbar to stop the throwing arm, but put one of the catapult buckets at the end and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) You're right, I just found a large supply of Wild West sets, and they've got lots of great parts! I currently have my eye set on 6748 Boulder Cliff Canyon. (URL) also contains many of the pieces you mentioned earlier, such as lt. gray BURPS, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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