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Re: Lego shanty-town
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:37:35 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Allan J. Smith writes:
> > Ever bought a bag of second-hand Lego ?
> 
> > I am planning a Lego shanty-town, made with damaged and broken pieces.
> > A place where the limbless, faded, off-their-face or down on their luck
> > minifigs can happily reside.
> > Broken windows, they will fit right in, broken motor-bikes can just go out
> > back.
> 
> I have had a similar idea after a local toy shop gave me a lot of glued display sets.
> After removing any not glued parts I am going to build a  wreckers yard. The glued
> yellow harbour crane can load scrap into the blue ship. The glued harbour police
> set will be the office. The Mtron spaceships will become scrapped movie props.
> All the vehicle sets with removed not glued parts ( wheels, tyres, doors etc) will
> fill up the yard.

Hi Allan, nice to see you visiting, it's a while since I have visited your
site. I have seen the military ambulance before, but the vintage truck models
are really superb. So backtrack and visit Allan's site, readers.

Are those Belville quarter-circle base plates in the multi-story building in
pale yellow ?
Any experiences/problems that you had with the variuous Taupo shows, that you
care to share, since we're planning a train show later in the year.

pete.w (West Island)



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