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| | | Well, as some of you know, we had a "dry-run" for NELUG's upcoming castle display at The Construction Site ( (URL) )... Here's my set of pictures (Eric and Dan may be likely to post more later): (URL) the dry run, though, I decided I liked a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | | (...) chickens? I can't tell... more pictures! :) I love the buildings, and i envy your tan plates :) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Here's (...) Yep, chickens they are! They're kinda tough to see... I don't think we took pictures of the chickens up close-- we mostly focused on the town's streets :( I can't wait to see what we've got when this display goes up-- it has (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | (...) yet. I am hoping tonight works out. After looking at this again I like it even better. This is just incredibly cool in that it takes on the feel of a real medieval village just like I am shooting for with my stuff. We need to add some more (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) Here's (...) :) I know you guys got a bunch more "eye level" shots than I did-- can't wait to see some of these... (...) Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I like it-- I have a feeling I'm going to love the final result! (...) I like the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Pawel Nazarewicz
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| | | | | (...) city out of BURPS? (ha ha - more work;) What other additions will be made to this before it's ready to be displayed? Your landscape for Mindfest was very nice, but I doubt it's as necessary for this. Once again - this is only serving as a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | (...) Actually yes :-). That was one of the things we talked about. The hardest thing about this will be making sections that match up between two people that may or may not get together to work on their sections. Unlike the Wall which is easy to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | | (...) I'm sorry to have missed the gathering. Your pictures look fantastic! Don't forget, Crispin said we can drape cloth over glass cubes to achieve levels of various heights. I might have some ratty burlap around here -- looks a bit like earth. I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | (...) I agree, they look great. LMK when the real thing is put up, I don't want to miss it! Although I can't officially attend NELUG, I hope you won't mind if I just happen to drop by TCS while you're there and check it out... :-) (...) That would (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | (...) That is quite all right I am trying to attend to most meetings I can and build as much as I can because in another 6 to 7 months my LEGO time is going to diminish greatly (another cleverly disguised hint). I will have more pictures up tonight (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Jason Catena
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| | | | | | | (...) Woo! Congrats! I hope everything goes perfectly for all of you. (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | | (...) Wow, Really?! Congrats. :-) (Eric's LEGO time goes down, but his PRIMO time goes up) ;-) (...) yes, maybe something like you suggest would work. If you have no table saw, or other way to cut plywood, I have used 1" thick corragated cardboard. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks!!! (...) Yes I will be experiancing the entire TLC product range. (...) Wow 1" thick cardboard. Sounds kind of neat and it sounds like it might to the trick to keep things level. (...) Not yet we need to talk to Crispin again. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —David Eaton
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| | | | | | (...) That might work-- I wonder how many cubes they have to support it.... (...) That's actually something I was thinking of last night-- perhaps something like: This area is kinda "outside" the city, but away from battle ___...___ | | | Raised bit (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | Well now the ideas seem to be flowing... :-) (...) I think they have a ton of them. I doubt we have to worry about running out of them. (...) I like this a lot. With your layout we don't waste a lot of space with the Battle/Army. The only concern I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | | (...) What great pictures! When I saw these, I was inspired to do a little building myself. I didn't have enough grey to do anything big, so I started working in white brick. Before I knew it, I had an Ivory Tower (two of them, actually) which made (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Chris, This sounds great. I don't think we will have any problem fitting your creation into the setup. Dave Eaton and I have created a lot of just Filler type buildings and those will be the first to go. The goal is to get as many people (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | | (...) building (...) Oops! I realized last night that the reason my ceilings seem so high is that the rooms are a full seven bricks high, not six! I'm just curious what the "standard" height of a minifig-scale building is supposed to be. I had (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Chris Phillips writes: <snip> (...) Well I don't think there are any real standards for room hieght just like in the real world although it seems that TLC leans towards 6 bricks high. I guess that is what I use more often (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | | | (...) That was one of my concerns was how to do this without overwhelming the town. I don't think the TCS window area would be large enough for it to be very far off in the distance, unfortunately. The Dragon's Lair should definitely be a sideshow, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | <snip> (...) Your right I think she did. I knew I would miss something. Thanks for the catch. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —John Rudy
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| | | | | | In lugnet.org.us.nelug, David Eaton writes: Clipity-clip! (...) those (...) SNIPPPP! (...) I know i'm not nelug, but i've been reading your thread. How about putting the boxes of the sets you use and some you don't up on the wall, thus it is more (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | Re: Pics from the weekend! —James Brown
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| | | | (...) built, (...) way you've got it, with the walled town idea will work better than trying to capture the feel of a castle (and still having enough room for other things!). James (URL) I'm going to shamelessly steal that portcullis mechanism. :) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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