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(...) look (...) I'm (...) Oh yeah! I'm with you there. I can usually tell when I'm done when I tinker with the desing and make changes but then end up back where I started! Dave (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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Hey Daniel, Thanks for the reply. I actually have that set. The piece (or pieces) I'm referring to are referred to as coming from set #7236. Some type of new 2x4 bracket. I checked the Peeron inventory for the set but didn't see any piece listed (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thank you. Yeah I have often had design issues by forcing a non-Lego shape with results that were far less then satisfactory. With this I felt that the chunkiness of the blocks would work as the basis for the design. Glad it worked! Thank you (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thank you. I agree about the canopy, it was not until the thing was finished that I notice the discrepancy -- but then again, it is a beefcaked-up version of the x-wing so I figured (hoped) that could justify the scaling issues. Thank you for (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thank you. Though the intake on the nose is actually a mistake, I was going to put some little greeblies there but in the excitement of actually finishing the darn thing I forgot. (...) I would do anything to get some more technic figures, (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) You know Kotaro, I am French, and I leave in Taiwan, in a Chinese environment (and something of Japanese culture still remains here ;-)). English is not my mother tongue, like many of the posters on Lugnet. And I understand, I know that (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) wonderful. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ouch- you're killing me! Hmm, though it would be interesting to see how you make the translation. I see this model as defined by certain parts- the lattice wings and big curvy nose pieces in particular, and those would have to be done totally (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) The parts over the cargo space are a plate taller, so there would be a larger flat surface exposed above the radar dish. That could possibly be solved by mounting the dish differently and moving it up a bit, but the engineering gets (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Gads, that's a horrible image. I was raised on Smokey and the Bandit, too. I was picturing more of a smuggler's broken-down freighter like in the Wild West episode of the original Battlestar Galactica, but I kind of like the Burt Reynolds (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hi, JP. (...) I wanna print your word "clean design ----- JP" on a picture of my work. X-) Words of praise from YOU has special meaning for me. Thank you. (...) Ya, this year I will visit LUGNET.space more than usual. But as you see, our English are (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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Thank you for your compliments. I also do not like the color choices on the UCS x-wing. For the life of me I cannot figure out why they chose to do that. The person who got rich off my obsessive tile purchase is Lego themselves. Tiles are one of my (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yes, the big curves do dominate the nose of the ship visually. But you gotta have plenty of room for coolant and the big magnetic whatchamadoos. Those are the only guns on the ship, and the idea is that the ship is built around them. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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"Johannes 'Jojo' Koehler" <chutspe@gmx.net> wrote in message news:ICyJG7.11t9@lugnet.com... (...) What you need to do is imagine what you want to connect the two modules with. Does it want to be a wall? Does it want to be shops? Guard Towers? Or (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Hello Dave, The really cool circular piece comes from the 7256 Jedi Starfighter™ and Vulture Droid™ ((URL)) set. (2 URLs) I hope that that helps some. ;) Daniel Jackson biochron@geekbrick.com (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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and how did I miss it?! Dyin' ta know Dave "EARL-0" <welcome@rr.iij4u.or.jp> wrote in message news:ICvCLB.1xny@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) That's when I place my first BrickLink order... (...) Second order... (...) Third order. (...) By now, the first package has arrived, and I have plenty of parts. (...) Then the second box arrives... (...) Next thing I know, I'm swimming in (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Well there are many things I like here. First off I love the rear of the ship, nice taper job there, the front/cockpit area are excellent and compliment the shape of the whole thing, and finally the color choices are superb. All around a great (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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For me, it is when you get about two thirds the way through, and start to have this feeling that you may not have enough brick to finish it the way you want. So then you get about three quarters the way through, and you start to realize that you are (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hi Kotaro! Your POD is already famous, everyone in .space and CS forum seem to dribble looking at it! Very clever use of parts, very neat and clean design. You and your fellows from the ilsand of the rising sun have to come and post more often here! (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.space)
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