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Re: Paul's claim to fame! (Was Re: Favourite LUGNET thread ever)
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Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:39:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Baulch writes:
> >
> > Fingers crossed!
> >
> > > Paul Baulch, ~100 sets, ~40,000 pieces
> >
> > 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!
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> *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
I would reccomend Geocities (or Yahoo!Geocities or whatever the heck it's
called now). When I registered with them, I got a page up and running in the
same day. Also, I would be more than happy to host the pictures for you because
I have a spare 10,000,000 bytes lying around, though I know you probably
wouldn't want to put them there.
Greg "That person over there looks exactly like a pterodactyl!" Majewski
citrusx__@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/
- or is there somewhere on LUGNET I can
> upload them to? I don't recall seeing a lugnet.binaries.pictures or anything
> like that.
>
> >
> > > [1] And I live in Australia and I NEVER FOUND OUT that I could have been
> > > ordering bulk Lego!!!! AAAAARGHHHH!!!!!!!!! *sob*
> >
> > 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
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> 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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| Greg Majewski wrote in message ... (...) web (...) the (...) because (...) register an account at Geocities and construct a rudimentary Web page. Right now there's only the Shiva-1 and a couple of non-Lego CG spaceships, but there are more to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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