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Re: NELUG at First annual Sleigh Bell Festival / Festival of Trees in Boston MA
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:54:16 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, James Trobaugh writes:
> Looks good Eric, glad the show worked out for y'all. And I'm happy to see
> the NGLTC ornament made it in time, I was a bit slow in getting it mailed off.
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> I see you got to experence the "joy" of drilling holes in LEGO bricks:
> http://www.nelug.org/FestivalofTrees02/sbf0003.JPG
Yeah LEGO viscera is quite interesting. I can't tell you how many times I had
to untangle this stuff from my Dremel. Speaking of a Dremel they are a
necessary evil for this project and the drill press accessory is almost as
important.
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> now try it on 800 2x2 and see what a mess of little plastic strands you end
> up with, I'm afraid I'll never get them out of the garage :)
Actually we would have liked to have done that but we got into this event so
late we had no time. Next year, if we do this event again, we will have much
more time to plan.
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> Great job,
Thanks, although I would have to say we stole a lot of ideas from the NGLTC
event ;-)
Eric
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> jt
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> In lugnet.announce, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > Followups to org.us.nelug
> >
> > NELUG participated in the first annual Sleigh Bell Festival in Boston
> > Massachusetts from 12/06/02 - 12/08/02. This event included a Festival of
> > Trees to benefit The National Kidney Foundation and in particular children
> > with Kidney Disease In the New England region.
> >
> > NELUG was originally asked just to display our layout at the event but as we
> > learned more about the event we decided to sponsor a tree of our own. This
> > included a contribution to the National Kidney Foundation as well as
> > decorating a tree with LEGO which was auctioned off to the highest bidder
> > all inclusive. The ornaments themselves were donated by NELUG through both
> > purchases and using the NELUG LEGO collection (Except for the NGLTC and
> > MichLTC ornaments, Thanks guys!). The train under the tree was donated with
> > contributions from 10 members of the group.
> >
> > The event was somewhat lightly traveled but being a first annual event that
> > wasn't a huge surprise to the organizers of the event. The organizers loved
> > us however and have made initial offers to have us do the event next year as
> > the center piece attraction (sorry Frosty). Of course we still have to make
> > the group decision on committing to this event or not. Our main issue is
> > their is a Greenberg train show in close proximity to this show which may
> > cause a conflict. In that case we will have to decide which event we will
> > attend.
> >
> > This layout is nearly identical to the recent Greenberg show with the
> > exception of some added Holiday cheer. As you can see we were right next to
> > our tree. We were also right next to Santa as well which was fun to watch.
> >
> > Enjoy...(1)
> >
> > http://www.nelug.org/FestivalofTrees02/index.htm
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> >
> > Eric Kingsley
> >
> > (1) Photography for this event was difficult because of the Tatooine effect(2)
> >
> > (2) Because of the "mood lighting" for the show we pretty much only had 2
> > spot lights lighting the layout. This caused lots of shaddows which made
> > photography difficult. Many of these photos were taken by Todd Lehman who
> > took as many as 800 photos durring the show. Needless to say I paired it
> > down a bit.
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