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Re: Pics from the weekend!
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Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:11:07 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > > I'm sorry to have missed the gathering. Your pictures look fantastic!
> >
> > That is quite all right I am trying to attend to most meetings I can and
> > build as much as I can because in another 6 to 7 months my LEGO time is going
> > to diminish greatly (another cleverly disguised hint).
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> Wow, Really?! Congrats.
> :-)
Thanks!!!
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> (Eric's LEGO time goes down, but his PRIMO time goes up)
> ;-)
Yes I will be experiancing the entire TLC product range.
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> yes, maybe something like you suggest would work. If you have no table saw, or
> other way to cut plywood, I have used 1" thick corragated cardboard. It's nice
> and light, yet strong as plywood and very flat.
Wow 1" thick cardboard. Sounds kind of neat and it sounds like it might to the
trick to keep things level.
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> Do we know, when is the projected date for our setup at TCS?
Not yet we need to talk to Crispin again.
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> > Our other concern was that we don't want to go to high because we want to
> > make sure kids can see it.
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> yup. :-)
> I think the pictured army scene could be up front and center, while models
> like mine may get spread around in background on slightly different levels.
> But we'll see when the time comes. Any models of mine you don't need, I still
> enjoyed making.
Dave and I both are thinking like you. We are going to bring all our stuff but
if it does not all fit thats OK too. We should look to keep everyone that
wants to participate involved so If that means I only get to display one or two
of my things then thats OK (Plus that means we have a ton of stuff which is
cool too).
As for the army that is kind of what we were thinking. We had in mind having a
mountain (out of BURPS probably) in the background and the troops approaching
from in front of the mountains.
We could modify this a bit and using the Cubes have a plateau -sp? on top of
the mountain for more stuff. Basically we just build up the mountain to the
hieght of the cubes which is 16" I think.
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> Hmm.. I wonder how it would look for the store window's back wall to carry a
> few poster-size close-up pictures from minifig perspective. that'd be fun if
> TCS would spring for the printing. hmmm (thinking)
That is a great idea if we can get some pictures printed that big.
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> > One thing we were thinking was that we wanted to use at least a few of the
> > current sets so that they would have something to point to and say "you can
> > buy that". Our thought was that most of the sets (especially the castle)
> > were out of scale with everything we had done.
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> good point.
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> > So we thought we would use the Bull's
> > Attack stuff in the setup. Some of your stuff sounds like it might be more
> > stuff for outside the city walls like the "32x32 hill with druidess making
> > her dinner".
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> yes, she'd be an "outside the walls" kinda character. like Merlin or
> something.
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> I still have an embarrassingly huge number of BURPs and gray bricks here,
> unused. Tree parts too. So if you need more boundary walls or a cliff or
> something, we have those materials available.
I actually have all mine available and with all the Rapic River Villages I have
been buying on discount my supply has been growing (5 Rectangle and 3 Triangle
BURPS in each set I think). Other than the Fig's, horses, and Tee Pee's this
is a great set for parts but I guess people just don't realize it or the Fig's
just scare them off.
Anyway we definitely need some mountain/cliff type stuff. The only problem is
getting everyones stuff to line-up. We had though that we would each build a
section and as we did we would post a map of its profile so someone could make
a matching part. The other option would be to have a mountain building party
and just do it together which might be fun if we can do it.
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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