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Re: It's not easy building in green...
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Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:55:41 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Joe Meno wrote:
   Hi all,

After Brickfest, I was in the recovery mode and took care of the August NCLUG meeting.

During the meeting Cary Clark gave out his monthly Useless Part, which was:

a shuttle wing

Now, to me, this is not a useless part, but a Limited Use part..the Useless Part he gave that was really useless was this part he gave three months ago:

this electric light thingie

Well, the Useless Part Challenge was on, and well, while I wasn’t successful with the light thingie, I wanted to use the wings (I got three - Thanks Cary!) And I had a seed of an idea, which gave me another parameter to use. I wanted to use green, since I have a large amount that is rather unused by me.

The end result of this is:



  
the Knight Enterprises Rear Mounted Interstellar Transport!

why is it rear mounted?


More pictures (when moderated) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=55413

PLMKWYT! (and thanks Cary for the parts!)

Joe Meno .space paparazzi!

Joe, I think you are one of the premier colour builders here. Between your seamonkey stuff and your space dabblings, you bring together such wow forms out of often limited part selection due to colour.

This is a prime example. Just gorgeous, man. Many things I could comment on directly...but why bother? The whole package is just, plain good.

Great stuff.

Cheers, -Gil



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(...) Thanks! I think one of my niches is building with unusual means and parts. The color use is a happy accident:) I really enjoy playing with the parts and seeing what happens, like the warpsled. That was literally me slapping on the light (...) (21 years ago, 5-Sep-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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  It's not easy building in green...
 
Hi all, After Brickfest, I was in the recovery mode and took care of the August NCLUG meeting. During the meeting Cary Clark gave out his monthly Useless Part, which was: (URL) a shuttle wing> Now, to me, this is not a useless part, but a Limited (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, FTX) !! 

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