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| I saw your pics on brickshelf was amazed! Do you have anymore detail pics of the airport? For our last display at a local mall I was responsible for an airport for a static display. Are the planes and terminal minifig scale? While my next one might (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| Hello Tim, We will have more pictures and lots of explanation on our web site(www.scltc.org) in a few days, but to answer your question, yes, the airport is in minifig scale and it is incredible. Stay tuned... Robert Powell SCLTC (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| Tim - I built the airport terminal and my dad built the airplanes and jetways. My brother added a motor to the small prop plane to spin the propellers. They are all minifig scale. I decided while building my terminal that the LEGO standard 4-wide (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hi Thomas, I'm working on a minifig scale airport (grey + white with exterior glass) now that'll occupy a large grey base plate and more. The scheduled completion is when the sucessor to the 3033 comes out in April with the XTreme Team and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| Tim - Right now, I don't have any better pictures of the tower than what you can see on our website (www.scltc.org/pages.../air.htm). When I designed the tower, my goal was to make the vertical section as tall and as visually interesting as (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| (...) Thomas, funny that Military Airbase thing is what *I* was thinking when building my previous models. Canada built a bunch of Airfields for the BCATP durring WWII. Two years ago I spent 6 weeks on one of these decommisioned bases, and after (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| Tim - Sounds cool. I like the idea of two rows of the giant blue windshields. That probably means though that you should make the vertical section at least 14-6 in diameter and a lot taller, or else something will look out of proportion. After I (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| (...) I've been up in the tower here in Vancouver a few years back. I'd guess right now that they probably wouldn't let any members of the public up there with the new security mesaures. The elevator ride up is bland (no windows), in fact it was to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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