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Re: First block of Main Street for Brikwars, Train, or Modern town display
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lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.us.nelug
Date: 
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:42:25 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Eric Brouwer writes:
> Very cool!  I for one am impressed!

Thanks!

> 
> I really like the look of the corner building.  Reminds me of a lot of
> suburban downtowns with retail on the bottom, and trendy apartments up top.
> 
> Only suggestions I'd make are:
> 
> Some kind of exterior covered staircase leading to the upstaris apartments.
> Don't want the tenants entering through the store!

Oops!  I knew I forgot something.  I had meant to add a back door like in other
buildings.  The assumption being that the stairs were accessed there and it was
not a secondary entrance to the store.

> 
> A fire-escape type exterior ladder leading to the top of the three story
> building.

I have been thinking about that.  I think the ladder idea is probably the best
way to go.  Doing and appropriate looking fire-escape with LEGO is quite
difficult.

> 
> While adding a realistic look, I think they could add great playability
> possibilities to your game!

Definitly!


Eric K.


> 
> Eric
> 
> In lugnet.town, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > Well I won't go into to much detail here because most of it is on the web • page.
> > 
> > The origional inspiration for this was buildings others brought to NELUG's
> > Brikwars games although I had stopped work on it for the last month or two as • I
> > got distracted with other projects.  I resently was reinspired with the
> > possibility of NELUG doing a train display.
> > 
> > Here is the first Block of Main Street.
> > 
> > http://www.lugnet.com/town/~15/mainstreet/
> > 
> > 
> > LMKWYT,
> > 
> > 
> > Eric Kingsley
> > 
> > The New England LEGO Users Group
> > http://www.nelug.org/
> > 
> > View My Creations at:
> > http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/



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  Re: First block of Main Street for Brikwars, Train, or Modern town display
 
Very cool! I for one am impressed! I really like the look of the corner building. Reminds me of a lot of suburban downtowns with retail on the bottom, and trendy apartments up top. Only suggestions I'd make are: Some kind of exterior covered (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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