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Nice mosaic, Adrian. eric (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Sure, you're welcome to visit me if you're ever in the Cleveland area (the same goes for any other lugnetters.) (...) If it comes to brickswest, you can add one then. Otherwise, you'll just have to make the drive to DC in July. (...) Thanks (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I did it in 5 colors because, well, I wanted more color. Had I enough purple or teal, I'd have done 6. And no, the colors I chose for each state mean nothing :) Adrian (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) NEATO! Um, why 5 colors? Just for fun? The US map *can* be 4 colored you know... (I want to pick the BROWN states! :-) ) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Adrian! Wow! that is really fabulous! You are one serious Lego Builder, nay, Lego Artist! I just finished looking through your page and I just can't find the words! Well just one.....WOW! What a great addition to your Building room. Can I come see (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Well sure, but we're only 12 days into the year, so that's not saying much. (...) Yeah, me too. Too bad the internationals aren't recognized, but a world map would be, well, monstrous. (...) Reminds me, I forgot to dot Cleveland with the first (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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That is absolutely stunning. This is the coolest thing I've seen so far this year, lego or otherwise. Great idea for a subject matter too - cool and functional. It'll be interesting to see the map after everyone's stuck their dots on. Eagerly (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Thanks. I was thinking of using a different color of dot for each fest. Or not, I don't know, I hadn't really thought that much about it. I figure they're really cheap on bricklink so I might pick up a few hundred before the fest. The flag (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) One of the benefits of building big is the pixellation of the edges between the states is minimized. That, and I spent a great deal of time while I was making the images tweaking the borders so they looked good. (...) If I really felt the urge (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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On 22:14 01/12/2003 +0000, Adrian Drake wrote (...) use those trans antifreeze yellow dots everyone has so many millions of)... ooh! and another fun idea would be for every club to make a mini flag sticker for a 5 tall antenna and put it on the map (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) boundary lines between states look very smooth and fluid. It would be very neat to see at the various conventions. Since I won't be at them, I guess I would fit into (URL) this image. Very creative method of attaching the baseplates. The image (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Here's my latest project, which I've been working on for two months now. It's a large scale mosaic of a map of the United States of America. the reasoning behind building this was I wanted to bring it to the various fests, and allow people to place (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest) !!
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I just wanted to take a few minutes and do some raving about how much I like the new Lego NBA Basketball sets. Initially, I had very little interest in the announcement of this new theme since I’m completely apathetic about the world of professional (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Ditto - I have to plan other things in July and would like to know which weekend BrickFest 2003 will be. -Erik (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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I'm trying to plan out my vacations for the remainder of this year. Does anyone know when BF is going to be? I would assume based on last years dates, that it will be July 18-20. Will it be in the same building as last year? -Rob (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I thought I might expand on this a little. I used to participate in ancient miniatures tournaments at the local gaming convention. This was long before Games Workshop - which may have funky rules, but have raised the standard of painting (...) (22 years ago, 25-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Yes. If you aren't you probably shouldn't be displaying your work. If someone wanted to get in tight with a macro lens, it would be nice to ask permission first, however. (...) Yes. No (well, condition noted above, but that's because of close (...) (22 years ago, 25-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Hi Lindsay! Feel free to take any and all of the shots for your site! It's the least I can do for all your hard work on that masterpiece!!! As I have been working on my book, I have shown those pix of your Japanese cruiser to some of my (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I have a request: May I borrow a couple of the shots of my ship (the Japanese cruiser) for the upcoming website? (Yes, yes, one of these days...) all best LFB (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) James Green is the creator to those Tron MOCs. He won a prize for them, too...deservedly so! Joe Meno (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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