 | | Re: NELUG displays at 11/03 Greenberg Train Show in Wilmington MA.
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(...) See people this is why homeowner's associations exist, so you don't get homes painted in these colors :) (URL) like the fall leaves on the trees, nice job. jt (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | NELUG displays at 11/03 Greenberg Train Show in Wilmington MA.
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NELUG showed one of its most changed layouts at the 11/03 Greenberg train Show in Wilmington MA. About 80% of all the buildings were new to the layout. Pictures can be found at. (URL) Kingsley (21 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: OurCon Invite: BrickWars, Moonbases, Pirates
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(...) To coin a phrase from another cartoon dad: DOH! Actually I never thought of your tower with that description until you pointed out the similarity yourself to me... Can one fire oneself? ;) -H. (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: OurCon Invite: BrickWars, Moonbases, Pirates
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(...) Spacely Towers is safe and sound under a shroud in my office, not collecting dust. It will be happy to be there. Hendo, I refer you to my initial post (URL) in which I wrote: (...) Hendo, YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!! -Cosmo (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | OurCon Invite: BrickWars, Moonbases, Pirates
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Hi NELUG! Hendo here, finally with an update from my friend who is running OurCon ((URL) He has emailed to say that registration for Game Mastering and/or display organizing is now open for this event. OurCon will run April 16 - 18, 2004 at UMass, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) Thanks! Good suggestion. I usually do have the sensors further upstream than I did for this show. As I mentioned earlier, I had started out with a new gate design on the layout that operates more quickly, therefore more lead time was not (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) they work nicely, tho I think you should move the 'upwind' sensor further away so the barrier is down before the train gets there tim (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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(...) Not only do I not mind, but I made the plans available on BrickShelf: (URL) gate works better with only six Technic Pin Connector cylinders on the gate instead of the eight that are shown on the plans. I never drew up plans for the signal (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Phillips wrote: <snip> (...) The crossing gates are great! Mind if I try making one for my layout? Looking forward to the other pics. Dave K (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | NELUG Layout at the Greenberg Train Show
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NELUG participated in the Greenberg Toy and Train Show this past weekend with a 10'x20' layout. As usual, a great time was had by all. I am still sorting through the hundreds of pictures that I took of the display, so many of these should appear on (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO > SYSTEM > Town > The Times
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(...) Speaking of Meccas....since Eric Sophie lives in Pennsylvania, that makes it the Mecha Mecca!! :) Ben M. (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO > SYSTEM > Town > The Times
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(...) Yeah, we just had our first lunch meeting in Westfield MA. I think that's straight up Rt 10/202 from you. Get on the NELUG mailing list. (URL) folks from Boston talk way too much, but every once in a while an opportunity pops up for us. I'm (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: LEGO > SYSTEM > Town > The Times
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Lots of snippage, some commentary interspersed but first... this post got my spotlight, it's an awesome post taken in total. But my comments might read like criticism, sorry about that! It's because I snipped a lot away. (...) Nonsense. Not trying (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: DIE... no just jealous
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(...) Sumo sounds like as good a place to start as any. After all, 10-line NQC programs are my specialty. I'll even have about nine lines left over for comments! In addition to coming up with rules for the specific challenge, you might also want to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: DIE... no just jealous
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(...) I may not have been vocal enough about it in the past, but let me say it again... I'm dying to get some friendly competition going. I'm glad to hear that you're up to it... Including Jorge, that makes 3 of us. If you'd like, I have a very (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: DIE... no just jealous
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(...) Travis, I hadn't heard that you were looking for some robotic competition, but we've talked in the past about getting a robotics special-interest group going in NELUG. Joe Comeau and I are pretty heavily into MindStorms, even though the bulk (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Tom's Fire Trucks
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(...) That's a very nice render Travis. Could you post the light and camera settings, or even the pov file? They'd be perfect for instruction images. Cheers, Allister (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Tom's Fire Trucks
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(...) Sweet trucks Tom, sweet render Travis. I think the baseplate might need tweaking somewhere in translating it to POV to kill the reflection though. I seem to recall some discussion of that somewhere but can't find it offhand at the mo... but (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Tom's Fire Trucks
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They look great, individually and together! Ray SPLTC (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Tom's Fire Trucks
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Tom Duggan recently sent me some .ldr files of his awsome firetrucks. I thought I'd check out what they looked like rendered together. (URL) and LMKWYT! -tk (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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