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| | | (...) I'll take a full set. And another for my father. And possibly some loose sets for my high school Latin teachers. And I think I can think of a lot of other places I could give that. Presuming they're done rtight, of course. The Colosseum. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Brian Lanning
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| | | | (...) (snip) (...) The trojan war? How about a big lego horse with minifigs hiding in it? A menotar. The cyclops. Medusa minifig hair. :) Greek warships with oarsmen. What would greek fire look like? Just imagine white 2x2x11 column pieces in vast (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | (...) ITYM 11 times 2*2*1 column pieces in vast quantities ;) Trojan horse in lego.. Nifty. Jsper (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Richard Dee
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| | | | On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:37:30 GMT, Brian Lanning uttered the following profundities... (...) Prefer 2x2x1 column pieces. Use Technic axles for stability, if that is why you prefer 2x2x11's. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | (...) oarsmen. (...) Technic axles do allow very stable columns. I can imagine appreciating the 11-tall column elements for their smoothness (rather than having their clean lines interrupted every brick-height) .... but having a bunch of 2x2x1 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Richard Parsons
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| | | | | Nephilim wrote (...) The technical term is fluted (?) And I agree. If they have to do it, go at it with style. Richard Still baldly going... Check out Port Block at (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) I agree. And make them thicker in the middle than at the ends, for authentic scale models. (the problem being of course that that's used for perspective views looking up from the bottom of the temple, so not quite appropriate for scale models) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Suggestions for Lego: My two cents —Richard Dee
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| | | | On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 04:33:01 GMT, Nephilim uttered the following profundities... (...) The clean lines are indeed interrupted, but some Greek and Egyptian ruins' columns are in bad shape, and have that similar look to them, so....a slight degree of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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