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I was fooling around with two <set:7106 Droid Escape> pods the other day and thought I'd show off what I came up with. An oval tower, or the front at least: (URL) large round door that swings open: (URL) approximate DAT file for the tower, using six (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) like? With longer walls .... (...) Hobbit Hole). Good stuff. -- Pawel (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Seriously, the door just screams Hobbit-hole!!! Mladen Pejic, who's might be planning on building something... medieval! (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) What do you do with the white halfs??????? (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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Wow Heather, These are great! The tower and the door are both fantastic. I wouldn't have expected tan to look so good in a castle setting, but it really gives a good effect. Nice job, thanks for posting these. I may just have to go out and buy a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Tan? I thought all of the pieces were gray. Did I miss something? -- Pawel (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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Hmmm. Waitaminute. That's right, that set comes with light gray and white 1/4 cylinders. This picture: (URL) tan to me. I guess they are light gray. Well, it looks like tan would look just as good. Oh well. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) this is a good question. I've bought a few of these I have a 3/4 two high tower on a corner of my castle and a 1/4 two high tower on another corner. leaving me with 8 of the white ones. I think I'm goinig to use` them in my space base or (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Hehehe, well, if you have the right pieces, you could do the exact same thing with white bricks. The Paradisa Poolside Paradise even has those quarter-circle plates in white, I think... -Shiri (23 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) 1/4 (...) The pictures make it look tan... but that's just a color-balance issue... It seems pretty common. My camera often gets the color balance wrong with indoor lighting too, but it's easily corrected in a decent graphics program. -- (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Yup, they're grey. Using no flash with my camera results in this effect, I've noticed, but the flash pics were hopelessly overexposed. The blue background probably didn't help. If I ever get a proper website up with stories and stuff, I'll see (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) The Poolside Paradise has the 6-radius white plates like the grey ones I used at the top level, but not the 4-radius - I think they're new, and not yet appearing in white. (Please correct me if you've seen them!) I'll take Brasso to my white (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Nope, no corrections, I meant the 6-radius ones. Well, the circle part is 4-stud radius, but the plate itself is 6x6... same one as you used. (...) <nod> Speaking of great creations BTW, I'm not sure if I've ever told you how much I like your (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Oh, right you are, they're not actually quarter-circles. (...) Well gee, much appreciated! Go ahead and borrow, that's what they're there for. I just wish the pieces existed to make the china cabinet, lamp, and glassware shelf. By the way, I (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) this out, that would make a perfect large hatch in a space ship. Too bad the only choices for wall (that I'm aware of) are red and black, though using SNOT techniques you could do white, yellow, brown, and grey (have I missed any?). Frank (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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I bought 8 copies of that set JUST for the white curved panels. I BRASSO'd them and used them for curved walls in a town building. (URL) ) I didn't think I'd use the gray ones, but I ended up slapping them on another wall. To me (more a town person (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) There are inverse arches in brown in <set:6442> and in grey in <set:6560>. Divers are useful for something after all. There are tan inverse arches in <set:5958>, but no upright ones as far as I know. There is a brown 1x2 beam in <set:7111>, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) Yea, that probably partially explains why I didn't score any during K-Mart's BOGO 50% sale this week (though judging by what other sets weren't on the shelves either, I suspect some non FOL collectors or folks looking for a quick buck from (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Oops, that's what I get for not actually looking in my bag of inverse half arches... I am right in that there are red half arches right? (I don't have any in my bags but I feel like I've seen them). (...) Yea, I rejected these, but should have (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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"Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> wrote in message news:G7wpM2.9Hz@lugnet.com... (...) BRASSO'd (...) "BRASSO'd"? As in you get some brass polish and scrubbed off the decals? Or is BRASSO something completely different on the other side of the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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BRASSO is brass polish. That is the brand name. My bottle says it's made in Canada. This product is ideal for removing decals without damaging the bricks. You just have to scrub quite hard and for about 5 minutes for each piece. Nicholas Allan (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Yeah, my camera does that too.. If you look at my pictures here: (URL) see the results of one of my techniques.. Basically I use the flash plus a pair of 500-watt halogens (one aiming up at the cieling for ambient light, the other aiming at (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Yep, <set:6097> has 6 IIRC. -Shiri (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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(...) you're (...) I may look into that, it would certainly help. (...) $16, (...) (e.g. (...) reflective (...) take (...) on a (...) a (...) Ahh, You use film-based cameras. :) Many of us that are having this particular color-balance issue are (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) Here is what you can do with the white sections. This is an old Lugnet post ;-) (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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(...) post ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What type of cloth would you use? Does that work for non-white and non-opaque pieces? Felix (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) made (...) the (...) each (...) I tried it on a blue opaque surface using paper-towels. Worked quite well... but they're right, you have to kep rubbing for about 5 minutes. It's a gradual removal. I'm sure it would work just as well on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) It works just as well on transparent pieces. It will also remove scratches and other minor blemishes, which is handy for those ebay lots! :) Jeff "I'm begining to wonder if a lot of them aren't so much resilient as incredibly dense." (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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(...) Works great on the trans-blue Insectoid wings. J (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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