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Tonight on BBC2 at 8pm, my girlfriend (Yvonne Doyle) and I will be on James May's Top Toys, talking about our mutual love for the brick. Hope you enjoy it! Pete (19 years ago, 21-Dec-05, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Yateley Fest 2006 (UK) - 29/01/06
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Hi all, I'm holding another fest, this time it will be on Sunday the 29th of January. The venue is the WI hall, off the B3272 in Yateley, Hampshire. Please contact me or reply to this if you are interested in attending and I will send out further (...) (19 years ago, 16-Dec-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Technic-fig scale narrow-gauge trains
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Looking good, although I have seen them before. The Hunslet is deceptive, at frst it looks a little simple but when you look at a (URL) pic> of the prototype you realise that it is simple. However on closer inspection you realise that the bonnet is (...) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Technic-fig scale narrow-gauge trains
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Hi All, This is my narrow gauge loco and guards van based on former Ministry of Defence examples from RNAD Dean Hill. Hunslet flameproof diesel locomotive. (2 URLs) Guard's van. (2 URLs) Hope you like them, David (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Fame at last! (In the Romford Recorder)
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(...) That's really cool!! Any chance it will turn up on BBC America? Cheers! Mike (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Fame at last! (In the Romford Recorder)
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(...) That's great! Good story, congrats! (Highlighted, and added to Mech Expo) e (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Fame at last! (In the Romford Recorder)
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(URL) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Photo of Train MOCs in local newspaper
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Following the recent Birkenhead (UK) model railway show, at which we exhibited our small layout (12'x6'), the exhibition manager sent me the photo that appeared in the local free newspaper, the Wirral Globe: (URL) layout is top right and the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | London Underground Battery Locomotive
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Hi all, I've finished the last of my LU trio. (URL) Full details here: (URL) David (19 years ago, 6-Nov-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Technic Fun Models - Hats and Musical Instruments!
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A couple of Technic fun models from a couple of years ago: A crown, using some technic body parts from C3P0. Technic parts make it fit well on my head: (URL) A working tambourine, with overlapping Technic beams, for quite a strong structure, and (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build, lugnet.fun, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | 1:20 scale Apache Helicopter
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Here's my MOC of an Apache helicopter, built to 1:20 scale, compatible with Technic figures. (URL) features the first ever fully working Lego helicopter rotor with collective and differential rotor blade pitch control. (URL) The rotor blades are (...) (19 years ago, 22-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Reliable Switch Point Control with Pneumatics
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Here's a reliable scheme for controlling unmodified switch points with pneumatics. This scheme is for use on track that is raised up off the baseplate in modules. I have reduced the depth required below the track to a minimum of 9 plates in the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Re: Truckfest/Scotfest
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A reminder that Trucksest/Scotfest takes place on Saturday 29th October. Everybody is invited, you don't have to be a member of Brickish. David (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Pictures of Trial of TCLTC Sleeper Scheme with Wider Track Bed
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(...) A couple of pictures of my evaluation of a wider TCLTC-style scheme, prior to my experiments with sleeper colours and mosaic shading: (URL) used this piece to test stuff like clearances for BBB wheeled locos, feasibility of a wider track bed, (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build)
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| | Pictures of New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote: (SNIP) (...) Here are the pictures (at last!) They show the control stage, cascade stage and steering stage of Trinary Mid-Stop pneumatic logic. Start in the centre position: (URL) to the left: (URL) back to the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | New technique: Cascaded Trinary Pneumatics (aka mid-stop)
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(...) I have succeeded in directly cascading trinary pneumatic stages (where cylinders stop in the middle). This is a direct development of my mid-stop pneumatic JCB steering mechanism, which I first described here two years ago: (URL) (second (...) (19 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | London Underground D78 Subsurface Stock
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Mind the Gap! (URL) This is my D78ss train. It is the second of my three LU creations and the second one to be functionally complete (the first still isn't). (URL) The D78 stock (or just 'D stock') runs solely on the District line and numbers 75 (...) (19 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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(...) Thanks so much for showing this. I was actually on that train on the Northern Line on Sunday musing about how to build it in Lego and was very pleasantly surprised to see it appear yesterday. It is such a faithful reproduction in six wide that (...) (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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Having travelled in that stock for a good few years (on the Northern Line), that is most certainly a well recognisable rendering. I wander if someone has built a suitable Lego tunnel for it. Of all the northern Line stations, the one that has be (...) (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: London Underground 1995 Tube Stock
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(...) No-one is in there yet. It is really too small to have interior detail (with much of the interior taken up with the structuring). David (19 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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