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Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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Thu, 16 Jun 2005 04:36:03 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Bill Vollbrecht wrote:

   So what do you all think about doing steel and gluing first hand? Makes for interesting building sometimes.... Just hope you all used plenty of ventilation (assuming you used MEK).

All the steel was designed and fabricated by the amazing Steve Ringe - and it worked perfectly the first time we installed it in the statues.

For glue, we used Oatey All Purpose. We glued outdoors and in an open garage with fans running. At the end of the first day I had a little headache. The following day I was fine - either since there was more breeze present outside (or I had already killed off all my protesting brain cells the day before.)

We gained a variety of experiences with this - including Lego sculpting itself. Prior to this project, none of us had any Lego sculpture or mosaic experience!

Spencer



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  Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
 
(...) Spencer is selling himself (and other team members) a bit short here... (1) he's proved his chops multiple times at multiple scales, and other team members have incorporated mosaics into town buildings in the past as well. But he is right, we (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)
  Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
 
(...) Cool.... you guys did a great job. Really high quality stuff for a first time! Can't wait to see more stuff like this. I burned out all my brain cells long ago with MEK, so I stopped being able to smell the stuff long ago. But at least peanut (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)

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(...) Great job guys! Therrrre GREAT! (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Excellent job everybody. My favorite being Tony the Tigers head. Really captured the essence and look perfectly. Cool to see such high caliber work coming from others out there! So what (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.events, FTX)

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