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Re: If you thought the army was big before.....
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Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:14:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.lucny, Nate Jacobs writes:
> Well, I just got back from a shopping trip up to Montreal, Quebec and I
> consider myself one of the luckiest Western Theme fans around. Following a
> tip from a kind soul I set out to search for 6706 Frontier
> Patrol(http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6706) Quite to my amazement I found the
> 6706's, all 25 or so of them sitting on a store shelf marked down to $2.99
> Canadian...that is about $1.89 US. Since the set retailed for around $6 US.
> I made out like a bandit. Needless to say I piled up the shopping cart with
> as many as I could afford. The Army of about 100 Union soldiers has just
> grown to about 170. You can be rest assured that come payday next week I
> will be heading up to Canada once again to see what else is lurking around
> the store!! Hopefully I can get my army up to around 200. That I think
> would be quite cool.
How many lf those 6706's did you get your hands on? I'm guessing around
twenty two? I bet you cleared their inventory on that!
> Also on a side note...I have been working on designing some buildings. I
> figure that a real important detail to work out for a possible layout is
> what type of city will we be depicting. A large metropolitan area or a
> small rural town or perhaps a medium sized city? The buildings I have
> designed are suited more for the small to medium sized city. You can see
> them at http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=14507
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> Suggestions, Comments, Additions all welcome!!
I'd like to see a futuristic setting city! That would be tight! Of course,
rural settings are great too, only downside, more brown and tan bricks. :)
(but, of course, if you're working with cad, it doesn't matter!)
Just my two brickz...
<<_Matt Hein_>>
Lugnet member No. 1112
Pyrokid17@hotmail.com
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