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Re: Cleveland BLOC gathering - New MOCs!
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Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:25:17 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.bloc, Adrian Drake writes:
> We don't think small, do we? When confronted with the relative inexperience
> in building train cars, what do Bram and I do? Build ridiculously huge 8
> wide monstrosities! What fun. I'm surprisingly happy with the way the
> creator ship came about, considering Troy had already taken all the good
> parts out of the set to sell on his brickbay shop.
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> We'll be meeting again on Thursday, if that is available to all, but this
> time at my house. I should be home by 5, so we can start gathering then.
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> Adrian
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> In lugnet.org.us.bloc, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> > This evening, some of the Cleveland area BLOC members met at Troy's house with
> > "special" guest Larry P. In attendance were Adrian Drake, Troy and Ken
> > Cefaratti, Gino Melone (for a little while), and myself.
> > Inspired by the Harry Potter train and fueled by pizza, we set out to add
> > more cars to the train. Someone suggested I build a car to carry Fluffy, the
> > three-headed dog. I had to build it 8 wide to accomodate the large heads (not
> > that I would have built it at anything less if I was only carrying horses :)
> > Adrian had a hard time figuring out what to build until he started rooting
> > through the Creator set lying on the table. A flower-power spacecraft came
> > into being soon after. Then of course, it needed a launching car...which
> > started as a simple 6 wide, standard train baseplate car and evolved into a
> > 4-bogie 8 wide monstrosity.
> > Larry built and rebuilt a crane car...which, since it was two cars long
> > almost came close to the monstrous cars Adrian and I built. The locomotive
> > struggled quite a bit to stay on the track as Adrian's car leaned through the
> > turns. Meanwhile, Troy built a stealth car with an amazing cloaking system
> > through shear will power.
> >
> > Oh, right, the pictures... Here are Troy's, including short movies of Adrian's
> > Viking longship and the train struggling around the small oval of track:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7328
> > Here are my slightly longer exposure pics which may show the detail on the
> > black models a bit better:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7349
> > Please let us know what you think!
> > --Bram
Ok guys you have now built trains.....the next question is when's the first
train(GATS etc.) show?:-)
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| (...) None of us are trainheads. We just play along when people like Larry come to visit. We're pretty much space heads here in Cleveland, so I guess the answer would be "whenever a trainhead joins BLOC so that he can organize it" :) Adrian (25 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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| We don't think small, do we? When confronted with the relative inexperience in building train cars, what do Bram and I do? Build ridiculously huge 8 wide monstrosities! What fun. I'm surprisingly happy with the way the creator ship came about, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.us.bloc)
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