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(...) That's true about the puzzle size. However, I'm not so sure about the building size in a lego set. Look at the difference between Karim and others' tiny SW models and Lego's minifig scale SW models. The microfig models still capture the (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes- and as far as larger buildings, selective compression goes a long, long way. Sure, the doors to Notre Dame are REALLY BIG, but if we use the regular "Large Arched Wooden Castle Doors", it's still a realy big door. And yeah, the towers are (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote (...) I guess so. I haven't really thought too much about that, because I look at it more as a supply of hard-to-find parts :) Imagine being able to make bus/tour coach models with a heap of 5 high (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Like Kevin wrote, (...) I made an office building for the official opening and made it at a minifig scale, just using foto's and drawings to make the scale right. The minifigs were posted at and looking outside the windows and in the hall. Some (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ya know, if I had any way to refill my spare parts (especially the rare stuff), I would seriously think about undertaking some architectural sets (on a 5,000 - 20,000 piece scale). Some of the things I would like to make for an architectural (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) distinct advantage over Lego in the "famous building" catagory >- size & detail. A puzzle can print it's detailing, and be >more-or-less whatever size markets best. A lego building needs to be >a certain size to get any kind of decent (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Gary Istok wrote in message <37406F1E.468BEB89@u...ch.edu>... (...) be: (...) I'm looking to create a "Sears Tower" type office building in minifig scale for the town I'm constructing. Rather than using the usual window frames I'm endeavouring to (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Why on Earth would you want to re-create the Sears tower? Yeah, the real building is tall, but that is about the only thing it has going for it... John Matthews Sanjay D'Souza <sds87@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FBwGCx.70t@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I don't have the creative horsepower to do anything else that's why ;-) I may be able to get hold of the pieces I need so I thought, what the heck. It shouldn't be too hard to do. The main focus of the Town project I'm working on is fine tuning the (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yes, the Chateau Frontenac, my favorite Canadian building, I'd love to build that one.Also these other North American hotels .... Waldorf Astoria (New York), Grand Hotel (with an 880 ft. (275m.) long colonnaded front porch on Mackinac Island, (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) size (...) of (...) (on a (...) be: (...) that (...) Grand (...) Lots of good buildings (never eard about some of them before) that I'd love to build. BTW it is in Chateau Frontenac that Churchill and Roosevelt meet twice in WWII. Some good (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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