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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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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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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(...) Wow. And may I say again: Wow. That is really impressive! In fact I have to admit I love all your structures-- the attention to detail is what really does it for me... the crane on the side, the bridge/walkway leading in, the mine shaft and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Alas, I was unable to get it to fire properly often enough to make that observation. The figure of "by a half" I got from the wooden model they used in the Nova special, which fired 30 feet when rolling, versus 20 feet when stationary. Another (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hm. The trebuchets in the Nova special did not have crossbars, but in any event I might be trying to do something a little too tricky for now. The catapult bucket is a really good idea, and I did try to use the bucket-and-arm from the Catapult (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) wiping drool from the keyboard, WOW Eric! That's a DANDY!!! I can't wait to see more pics! I love the curved tower! You're creations are always worth waiting to see! everything you've built has been very well done! (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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