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Re: Tuesday Morning report
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Wed, 30 May 2001 23:18:06 GMT
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I have extra curves as well! The straights are much easier to use.
Eric Bitton <kzin@toast.net> wrote in message news:GE553K.G5L@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Brad Hamilton writes:
> >
> > I could go for at least 2 more large monorail straights if you are
> > interested in selling some of them. I know that other folks would be • happy
> > to buy up other train and monorail stuff.
>
> Hi Brad!
>
> At this time, I am not really interested in selling any of my monorail
> or train stuff. And when I looked through my monorail, I did notice
> that I had an awful lot of curves, but not that many straights.
> So something tells me I should probably hang on to my straights. <Grin>
>
>
>
> All: I built a MOC! Yea me! <Snickers>
> Yes, just for the meeting!
>
> Sunday night, I grabbed my Lego storage/carpet bag and took over the
> dining room table. It was exactly 9pm. The bag contained my UFO sets,
> all mashed up and ready for reconfiguration.
> The sets were the big saucer, the smaller fighter with the semi-circular
> front and x-wings, the small saucer that came packed with a UFO mask,
> the small ground rover, and the teeny tiny Shell special scooter.
> The challenge was to make a ship using nothing but those parts.
> And to make the underside of the ship with upside down saucer hulls.
>
> Oh boy. That's when I realized my MOCing skills were rusty...
>
> The first couple of hours were spent trying to come up with the basic
> shape of the ship and trying to mate those damned upside down saucer
> parts to the rightside up part of the ship! Argh!
>
> I eventually figured it out, and all told, it took me 5.5 hours to
> build my UFO gunship MOC. The Space Police has nicknamed this ship
> "Damocles", because it just kinda hangs there in the air (in pretty
> much the same way that bricks don't) and then suddenly pounds the
> hell out of you with its twin downward turrets.
> There's also been reports of some ungodly electric beam of death coming
> out of the front of this thing. What could it be?
> Find out at the meeting. <Muahahaha>
>
> I know it took me 5.5 hours to build this thing because I had the TV on
> and I built through ABC's "Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Shame" (or whatever)
> program (2 hours), then the news (35 minutes), then Nash Bridges (1 hour),
> then Morning Edition (1 hour), then Beastmaster: The Series or whatever
> (55 minutes). When that one come on, I knew I had to wrap it up soon...
>
> I'm not completely happy with some elements of the ship, but it's mostly
> due to the limitation inherent to the source sets.
>
>
> Hope I ain't boring y'all!
> I'm just kinda excited about the meeting and stuff.
>
> Have a good one!
>
>
> Eric B. (o/~ Zrath, Zrath, he's a Lego psychopath... o/~)
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