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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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