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Re: Yet more pics of the ever growing city
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:30:36 GMT
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Coming along very nicely!  I like it!

--


Paul Davidson, aka Tinman
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David Eaton <deaton@intdata.com> wrote in message
news:Fq58K1.703@lugnet.com...
> Well, my most recent collection of new pics is available at:
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/walledtown.html
> Check it out! There's now 9 houses, a grey stone building with red trim, 3
> little market tents, and part of a city wall!
> 
> It's really hard to tell, but there's a portcullis about 6 studs in front • of
> the two x-large brown doors on the gatehouse, that works on a chain • mechanism
> with a knob on the back to raise and lower the portcullis.  I would've • liked to
> steal the ship's steering wheel idea for the knob (compliments to Pawel, I
> think?), and put it on the roof (or somewhere accessable, yet plausible), • but
> unfortunately, with no pirate ships, I didn't have the steering wheel • piece,
> and nothing else looked quite to my liking...
> 
> It's also got two hidden levels inside, making it have 4 stories • (including the
> roof and ground floor). There's a stairway going from the 2nd to 3rd • floor, and
> from the 3rd floor to the roof, but none going from ground to 2nd floor.
> (That'll be along the outer wall, when those get completed)
> 
> Anyway, it continues to be a work in progress... There's also some • pictures of
> the "completed" water powered mill... but while the BUILDING is complete, • the
> landscape isn't... that was the one problem I was facing with it-- in • order to
> make the waterwheel sink down into the stream, I had to build up the land
> surrounding it to allow for the sunken stream... which of course means • building
> up ALL the land-- so I kinda cheated and put it on a little 'rise' in the • land,
> which still needs to be completed, thanks to my lack of time and green
> bricks... but now I'm still wondering how to put it into the scene. Not as • easy
> to put it into a walled city as just out behind a village :)
> 
> At any rate, LMKWYT and if you've got any further suggestions-- :)
> 
> DaveE



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  Yet more pics of the ever growing city
 
Well, my most recent collection of new pics is available at: (URL) it out! There's now 9 houses, a grey stone building with red trim, 3 little market tents, and part of a city wall! It's really hard to tell, but there's a portcullis about 6 studs in (...) (27 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)

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