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Paul's claim to fame! (Was Re: Favourite LUGNET thread ever)
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Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:21:48 GMT
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> Fingers crossed!
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> > Paul Baulch, ~100 sets, ~40,000 pieces
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> Say, by chance are you the same Paul Baulch who put up pictures of a
> spaceship about 5 years ago? The ship was blue and had four large engines
> and lots of weaponry. The email address had the word "shnub" or something
> in it... If you are the same Paul, do you have photos of that up anywhere
> today? I'd love to have another look at it -- it was always one of my
> favorite MOC's!
*LOL*!!!! Are you kidding or what! That's me all right! Apparently you
missed my roll call, I mentioned this very thing.
One of your favourite MOCs! Woo hoo!!!! Hehe, hear that everyone! :) Todd,
you've made my day. :) *sigh*
The spaceship you mention is the mighty SHIVA-1 and it is by far the
coolest-looking thing I ever built, and has a most interesting design not
only because of some ingenuous uses of pieces, but also some good use of
"useless" pieces and a naughty welded "chimera" piece. When I made this
(ooh, a good eight/nine years ago) I took many photos and jotted down many
diagrams so that I would always be able to construct it again, or even
perhaps anyone else who would like to construct it, I guess.
The SHIVA-1's design shows us many things, including the wondeful
relationship between six 1x4 hinges and a 4-diam radar dish, and the fact
that every spaceship should have HUGE EXHAUST NOZZLES, conventional cone
pieces are just TOO SMALL!
I got the photos right in front of me - all I need to do is scan them again,
but then I don't have a web page of my own - can anyone recommend a free web
host that is quick to set up with - or is there somewhere on LUGNET I can
upload them to? I don't recall seeing a lugnet.binaries.pictures or anything
like that.
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> > [1] And I live in Australia and I NEVER FOUND OUT that I could have been
> > ordering bulk Lego!!!! AAAAARGHHHH!!!!!!!!! *sob*
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> Man, aaarrgghhh! I can empathise with that... I wonder, I'll bet 90% of
> everyone there never knew... :-(
And the crowning tragedy was that it would have been the ONLY thing which
could make up for the fact that Australian Lego prices SUCK :( *sob*
> --Todd
Another question to you, Todd - about 5 years ago on rec.toys.lego there was
a thread about the big ugly raised baseplates used in Aquazone and (at the
time) Spyrius bases. Someone complained about their lack of alternate uses,
to which someone replied, "Hey - that's my cereal bowl you're talking
about!". Do you rmember who it was? Deja-news doesn't, and you might not
either, but it couldn't hurt to ask.
Play well everyone,
Paul
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