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| (...) Actually I tried something like that-- although I didn't use the 1/4 8-wide thinwall cylinders because the colors were wrong-- instead I tried using 1/4 8-wide 'pie piece' bricks, stacked on top of one another (Though I can't remember if I had (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Brikfest 2001
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| Some of the initial information about Brikfest 2001 is now available at www.brickfest.com - basically, it's July 12-15 in Arlington, VA. Is anybody from NELUG thinking of/planning on going? I'll reckon we could put together a great dispaly of some (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) If you're comfortable with having it be 8 wide, is there any way you can incorporate the new SW 1/4 round eight wide cylinders? The center section can use two of these, one on each side. Both ends of the car can attach to the center section (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| The airport shuttle set has a nice one. Here are the instructions: (URL) Sullivan <shaun_sullivan@irco.com> wrote in message news:3AA7BA4C.901C79...rco.com... (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: New street scene
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| (...) 1.- Oh yes... Guiness will be there... and Corona, and Bud, and... Ok, you get the point, no objection. 2.- Talk LEGO by default. :) :) :) :) :) 3.- Eat BBQ is kind of hard, but I believe there is a place that we can ask some BBQ stuff from, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) it is (...) I agree 4 wide is too wide. I do 3-wide ones using two 1x3 double inverted slopes as the base and a 1x2 medium slope telephone sitting between the thinwalls. Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| (...) Well, heck, the ANWB Roadside assistance set has one, too... (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| (URL) is also a small police set with to motorcycles and a booth. Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote in message news:G9w28J.651@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| That looks great, Eric! I'll probably do something along those lines ... thanks! -s (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I thought about this a while, but didn't discover any nice way to do it, unfortunately :( Anyone have any ideas? (...) Yeah, I tried for quite a while to get something rotational done, but try as I might I either wound up with objectionable (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) nose? :-) I see you went 8 wide. I have struggled and struggled to do these in 6 wide but the center articulation has always got the best of me (I was trying to do something rotational, you took a sliding approach, which, while not (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| (...) This is what I was thinking. (Occasionally its nice to work at home so you can try an idea before it slips away...) (URL) didn't pay real close attention to color but I think it is more in scale to what I think a wall mounted payphone should (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Wait a sec... they offer those in the soccer trucks, don't they... darn it! Now I have to go out and buy 2 of the 3408's and 3 3405's (or 6 3401's) Someday I'll be cold and hungry and on the street thanks to my modelling addiction... but at (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| "Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G9vy95.JCC@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) or (...) waiting (...) And you don't get glass which is really hard to find for 1x2x3 windows. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Yeah, that'd be great looks-wise, although it would unfortunately make the doors a little too wide for the current model size... Actually, what I really wanted to use were the 1x4x3 train windows in white for the regular windows, and use the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Model of Old North Church at FAO
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| I visited FAO a few weeks ago to look for this model. (we had been discussing Boston landmarks a while back) Sure enough, the model I remembered was still there by the escalator and is of The Old North Church. The model only represents a front (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| (...) It is a starting point but I think 4 wide is just a bit to wide. I think it is possible to do something similar 3 wide using a 1x2 tile with center stud between the 2 thin walls. I think that might be a more resonable scale. I think I might (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Phone Booths
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| (...) There's a set (heavily juniorised car) that has a phone much like this... (URL) not great, but it's a starting point. eric (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Phone Booths
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| Does anybody know of any LEGO phone booth designs? I recall there being at least one in the big LEGO book, but I was goingto solicit some other ideas as well. Specifically, I'm thinking of the non-enclosed versions found at gas stations - the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Actually, it was my original intent to make that part nice and rounded as well, but I couldn't find a good way of doing it-- and because of the width and 'tilt-in-edness' of the windshield it made it rather difficult... But I admit I didn't (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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