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(...) Excellent, that means there is hope for us that live in the middle of nowhere, like Brisbane..... imagine combining my two favourite things, lego and biscuits.... Anita (19 years ago, 19-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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I got two of the trucks as well :) I got mine from a different Big W store, just in case cheers SAB (19 years ago, 19-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Spotlighted. Looking forward to seeing it... the promo at the end of last week's show for the Lego segment looked good. Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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My Lego collection will feature on TV this Thursday. After a day's filming at home, and another afternoon spent in the Bond's Store at the Tasmanian Museum, my Lego will now be shown on TV, this Thursday, 20th October, 6.30 p.m, ABC TV - (...) (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au) !
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(...) W00t, Thanks a lot Al! It looks excellent! (Parts of quoted text have been modified for effect) Legoswami (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Very nice, but (URL) is the way it should've been rendered ;) Allister (19 years ago, 18-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Samarth Appologies for any misunderstanding Tim Emailed me about it :)) That is the best photo of the Ghan I have seen and I have seen them all that one as well a good shot of NR74 and NR75 in trail. There are only 3 locomotives that pull that (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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Those links you refer to aren't yet public, could you please post the deeplinks? (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) How wuuuude! :-P I was actually taking a break from real world building. In fact, this is my first displayed CAD model in over a year. It would've been impossible for me to pull this thing off in 24 hours if I was making it in the brick! (...) (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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For those interested, BigW at Broadmeadows had small pale blue tins of Bikkies (Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies) with pictures of a range of "CITY" sets from this year's range. Inside you will find 200gms of Bikkies, plus 1 of: A small "City" Police jet (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ^^ What he said. (...) It's quite ok to think that 8 wide looks awful; that's just an opinion, but I must correct the second part of your statement. There are loads of ways you can make long bogies work: Sliding wheelsets, rubberband-bound (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Scaling is sooo complicated. It's hard stuff for me to understand. So I skip all the fancy measurements (or rather use them only as guidelines) and use my eyes to judge how big a model should be or where so-and-so grille should be placed in (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Gee, I'm sorry you found it offensive. As Tim has already explained, this is a bit of an inside joke, and I can see how the heading can come off as offensive to anyone not in the know. Apologies. Legoswami (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) No offense on my behalf. If you didn't know the history it's an easy mistake to make. Tim (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Sorry to you both I didn't know what was happening and I thought it sounded rather "course" obviously stuck my foot in it please delete last posting Cheers To All Peter (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hi Peter, Thanks for the defense but don't worry about the heading. It was a joke between Samarth and myself. I was actually the other end of the 24hr build challenge and we've been having a mini scale war off Lugnet for a while. Of course the (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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--SNIP-- (...) To be fair to Swami, that was more my fault than his. I was rushing his renders and didn't have time to learn Lsynth to add the flextube. Thanks too for the compliments but my version took a lot longer than 24hrs to design and was (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hi me Peter again I forgot to add in my last post also that I find the "Post Heading" very offensive "NR-75 The Ghan (The way it should have been done)" Now I know you smiled at the end of it but I feel that Tim Gould posted the original Ghan (...) (19 years ago, 17-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Hi All I have to put my 20 cents worth in here as I have built the 6 wide NR 75 with many thanks to Tim for his help with prototyping issues and use of his instructions. 8 wide looks awfull but that is only my opinion far too out of scale no (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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This is a great model. I may build it if I can find the parts: I have a suggestion. Put your name in the file as the author. If I build this I would want to be able to tell someone who designed the engine. I would probably forget whose model it is (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)
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