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(FUT .castle) Hey guys! This was a real spontaneous thing, I think it came out nicely! LMKWYT. (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.general) !!
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(...) I've been messing around with some similar stuff, but nothing much past figuring out a good scale. James (URL) getting paid for this --> alladvantage.com Sign up via me, the reference $$ go to fund Lugnet. (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Pretty nice, darlin'! I like the way you did the Inn roof; I'd never thought of something like that. Now, you need to expand and make a HUGE town. Maybe for part of it you could use that baseplate I sent you... -Chris (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks! It took me a while to figure out. At first I just used an apex piece and a peak, but it didn't look right and anyway that's not what I'm gonna do to the bigger inn's roof. (...) Well, the BP you sent me will join the others I'm about (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It worked out really well,especially the Inn's roof. I haven't seen microfig scale used for a townscape (I must get out more, :) ). Maybe Australians should work in that scale exclusively (Lego prices in Oz). Could you whip up a bigger town, I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Hmm... when I started, the only things I decided for sure were: a. my inn had to be part of it b. the whole town had to fit on an island baseplate I had no idea how many buildings will be there whatsoever - just that there will (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) microfigger but the town stuff and spaceships got me more into it. Nice work! Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Ouch... I'm replying to every reply in this thread... :-) (...) Thanks! I haven't seen any microfig towns either... (...) And in Israel ;-) (...) Yeah, I thought of doing my capital city/main castle in microfig since I don't have enough bricks (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hee, hee. Here's another one for you to reply to. One comment, and I'll quit buggin' you. ;) You should do a NANOfig scale city (1x1x3 skyscapers, small buildings as 1x1 plates, etc. Just an idea, I don't know how it'd look. -Chris (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Out of principle, I WON'T reply! "Um, Shiri...? You just did." "Oh. Ooops." ;-) (...) That'd be cool, but it would be really hard to convey what it is, I guess... -Shiri (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) For baseplates that are completely flat (i.e. no vertical geographical features like hills) all you have to do is flip it over and bend it a few times in different directions. Then, of course, you have to spend a few minutes looking for some (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Could you make thumbnails that link to bigger images on your pages, since they take so long to load? Alan (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'll try tomorrow but I can't now. Sorry! (BTW, the pics are already smaller than original size of 480x640 :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I like it! Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fs5tKC.67s@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Shiri - I think you've really come on to something. You could use it as a base map, like in the CastleWorld map, and then have each building as a link - like to the Bloodstone Inn. I'm thinking that that's what I'm gonna do when I get a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I'd give up SOME of my brick separators... I've got one in the kitchen, one beside my dining room table, one beside the computer (and primary LEGO sorting [and every once in a blue moon building] station), one in the bathroom (you never (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) microfig stuff nice inspiration! (bring it to the fest this summer! :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug guy ((URL) #160 (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate (it had the harbor and lake printed on (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Shiri, Super job, I really like your little-big town :-). Great job documenting the roof and doing a corner peek. I do think you have seen them before though but just not as close up and obvious, my Inn does have 2 corners like this one is in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Shiri: (...) There is no doubt about what it is, although the church could use a "slightly" smaller cross. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No, don't say it: you are (searching for subtle euphemism) "passing" bricks? Oooooo, and you have to use a brick separator? Ouch. You are taking this Lego stuff too far! :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, I only have three, but I usually find that one of them is lost in the pile of junk mail on the desk. I try to keep them all together so I don't have to build any contraptions to get the 1x2 plate stack apart. John (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) well, shiri~ congrats on a truly successful and well-received build! i got a charge out of the sproats' microfig castle too! your nano-fig creation has absolutely inspired me! this is a great way to realize what i envision for hillendale! (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks! I'm glad this worked out well, as I said it was rather spontaneous - thought of it in Phys Ed and started constructing when In got home, half an hour later ;-) I think I'll definitely use this for references, both in CW and in my (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "I might end up doing <this and that>... depending on what I REALLY end up doing." Wow, that's vague. Man, I need some sleep. -Shiri (FUT o-t.fun) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey Shiri! (...) baseplate is a very nice touch, too. Looks kinda Zelda-ish (that's a compliment :-). Seeing your town has made me want to buy a red roof parts pack. I especially like what you've done for windows, and building texture in (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wha---! *sputter* I DEMAND a royalty! (King enters.) Oh, hello your majesty! *bowing* ...Not the royalty I meant... ;-) (...) Yah, my vision of nanofig scale would be somewhere around 1/1000 or even smaller. Your town looks something like (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've used three scales in setting up my CW realm and environs (progressively larger scales): - minifig scale - (Shiri's Helfire scale) - terrain scale one stud=one 32x32 minifig baseplate useful for modelling rivers, mountains, etc., and large (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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(...) Er, 1024x1024 minifig studs, sorry. (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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(...) Uh... huh? (...) Thanks! I got one when I moved here (couldn't resist it, I was so happy to have something like S@H) and two more about a month ago in the LIC in FL.(1) This was the first time I actually *needed* more! (Till now it was just (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, it sounds like a great thing! I might try it soon, the 6766 I got will help a lot... lots of brown and green. My terrain is very hard to show normally, since I'm planning on having many islands and a small part of a mainland. (I sorta (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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(...) Wow, that's cool! Sounds like a great thing... how long ago was this? (...) <grin> "What's that? A skyscraper, hmm... looks just like those three bricks I saw in that school project!" </grin> -Shiri (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Shiri Dori wrote in message ... (...) 1976 or 1977 Frank (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep, that'd be my vision too. Mainly because the only nanofig creations I've ever seen were yours. ;-) (...) Oh yah! Bring 'em on, buster! -Shiri (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Frank, I don't remember ever having seen a 48x48 (or 50x50) baseplate in anything other than all gray. The only exception to this (AFAIK) was a 50x50 1970 Samsonite only LEGO green plate with a curvy "T" shaped roadway on it. Since this (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, there is another exception of course, but it's rather current... The Soccer baseplate, 48x48 green... This was a flat baseplate, with printing, I don't think it had any unstudded area (i.e. not a custom mold). It could easily have been a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oops, dunno if you read .cad.dat.models , but my reply is at: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think this soccer base plate did have printed lines on it - white lines for the soccer pitch markings? (...) 50x50 (...) other (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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