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| Hi Adrian (...) It is an extraordinaryily useful substance, isn't it? :) If you haven't seem my discussion on making custom elements, have a look here for lots more techniques and suchlike: (URL) When painting that small, do you use stencils or (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town)
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| Excellent work! I've never thought of using epoxy putty to build up a custom lego element, but it seems perfectly suited to the job - I do use it for all sorts of other household repairs. Love that stuff. When painting that small, do you use (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town)
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| (...) Thanks for saying. :) I've had a lot of inspiration and education from various online sources over the years, and this sort of thing is my way of trying to put a little bit of value back in circulation. It's also an attempt to provide a bit of (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| (...) Well, if you want to show the lone pair of electrons you could. (URL) is a link to a pdf. I didn't think that sending you a 385 kB e-mail message was sucha great idea:) I thought the model was a neat idea. Unfortunately, one of the reviewers (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| (...) Excellent Chris, what did you use for the bonds and what did you use for the atoms. And were you also able to show double covalent bonds. (which is something that would be hard to show) I would love to read the article if you want. I get so (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| (...) [snip] (...) Actually, you can model Lewis Structures* with LEGO too. I sent an article describing the LEGO-Lewis Model to the Journal of Chemical Education, but they rejected it :( A reviewer suggested that I re-write the "article" as an (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| (...) [snip] (...) Nah, you don't have to use a new piece (URL) [1] Chris 1. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) And we would call them what..... Yes! Diastereomers :) (...) not to the pedantic (...) Chris (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| Hi Norbert, Thanks for posting this! Although I've only been modeling digitally lately, I really enjoy your tutorials. Question re: hat production Have you ever thought of just making a silicone mold out of the finished prototype? Then you could (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| Hey, Awesome post! Larry has a point with the text on the studs, but when I teach symmetry and chirality and talk about everyday objects I always put in the caveat "this baseball has such-and-such symmetry properties, igoring all imperfections and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| (...) LOL! I'm a chemist in my day job, so I made (URL) this>, but I didn't tackle tetrahedral shapes. (URL) Professor Dean Campbell of Bradley University teaches (URL) chemistry with LEGO> and has some tetrahedral shapes, though they are pretty (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| (...) I find that animals and plants make some of the most interesting MOCs. There are families of plants whose leaves are chiral. There's one particular house plant that I can think of, but I can't remember its name. I think some types have leaves (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) I will never look at my bricks the same.... what a great idea for a lesson plan, I have written it down to tell my sister (a secondary science teacher), I am a training early childhood so chirality isn't on the curriculum :(. Is there nothing (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) snip (...) Your post reminds me of my painful memories of organic chemistry from university... Never thought it could be applicable to things other than molecules! :) -Bryan (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) Good stuff. Seems BrickWiki fodder! I would footnote that many paired parts are not TRULY enantiomers since the logos on the studs are not reversed. But that is a very unimportant footnote since they are functionally mirrored. (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| LEGO and chirality Chirality is the property of an object that can not be superimposed on its mirror image. Examples includes both natural (biological) object such hands and cultural (technical) object such screws. A non-chiral (achiral) object can (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts) !
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| (...) *blush* Thank you for your kind words. (...) You're looking at the one and only. :) (...) Thanks. I think it came out pretty well. A fair amount of work to do, but not especially _hard_ work once you've cracked the trick of how to do the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town)
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| (...) This IS a fine art work! I love it! How many hundreds did you make so far??? ;~D I really like the hat. Congrats, JM (lugnet#98) (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town)
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| A familiar uniform on a minifig MOC ===...=== Hi everyone. I thought that some of you might be interested in a recently completed custom minifig of mine - a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in dismounted full dress scarlet. Thanks to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town) !!
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| (...) For the 8t gears, try putting the pin into a beam, hold it in place with the back of [LDrawPart 3959], and pull on the gear. --Bram (20 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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