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(...) Thanks! You're right, those guns can be kind of conspicuous. I tried to mount them like cannons are mounted on real fighters: internally, with only the end of the barrel, if anything, protruding from the body. (...) Thanks again. Here is yet (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Whoa, hey that's great! I had some of those sets as a kid, and wow, look at all those trans green 1x2 plates! Nice! (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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Ever since I got my first Mobile Lab (6901) and Galaxy Explorer (497/928) as a child, I always wanted to build the Explorer in the Lab's colors. Finally, after--what?--more than a quarter-century, I've achieved that long-held dream. :o) This Galaxy (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Hah. I liked these when I first saw them but when Wolf pointed out their growth I really liked them. I love the copper excuse for their green tinge too. Thanks for the xeno-biology. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Ley, These are really neat. I like the use of the trans-green frogs... Now I have something new to do with those things. And those goblets. Fun, fun. The sense of biology is enhanced by showing the critters in different stages of (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I like the changes. The extra axle, and the little changes around the wheels, looks better to me than V 1.0. (...) I think gray looks o.k., but next to all those classic space vehicles with black wheels, black might look better. (...) That (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Yes, the Classic Space Fly In is coming ot BrickFest this year! For the first time ever in the history of the world (as far as I know), we will display every single official classic Space set, from true Classic Space all the way up through UFO, in (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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(...) Wow, thanks a lot! :-D (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks a lot for your comment, Wolf :-) I dig your classic-space work a lot! Excellent stuff. (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I'm not to fond of the critters themselves, but in context they look stunning! Great work! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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The suxxorg is an organism, discovered in asteroid fields. Its diet consists of various substances gleaned from asteroids and space debris, foremost being copper. (2 URLs) view> Created for a (URL) contest somewhere...> As seen on (URL) CSF,> (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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In lugnet.space, Manne Granberg-Ohlsson wrote: So cool! Truely amazing how much you've packed into such a small model. Keep up the great work, and don't forget to take pictures ;). Darren (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks much! And to all those who spotlighted & highlighted. You are kind, indeed. :o) I do like the gray wheels--does add to an other-worldly feel. Also, I think it fits in with the spaceships that the vehicle carries: the 918 and 924 have (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) LOL! That's just wonderful! :oD -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(URL) Interior: (URL) After-workishly grumpy (landed) (2 URLs) shopping bag design - finally a way to use those castle armors! ;-)> (2 URLs) Gallery Post-mod> Deeplinks: (13 URLs) PLMKWYT! (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !!
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(...) Matt-- I am willing to help, except I may not be able to be there Sunday to pick anything up. (It's Palm Sunday, and I may be singing at my church that day.) I am a little leery of leaving my sets there and coming up Monday--any ideas? Drop me (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I like the revisions - Voolness abounds! The new spacing of the wheels for more evenly distribution of the load looks MUCH better IMHO. While I can see your point about black wheels, since they aren't rubber like the old ones would have been, (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Classic .space! I want one. I love classic space stuff, and I wish I had the time to build more. Spotlighted. :) -Anne -- It might look like I'm doing (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. nothing, but at the cellular >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. level, I'm (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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Here's the model year 2081 Spaceship Surface Transport, which has several modifications from its MY 2073 companion. Included in the new version is an independent-suspension system for rolling over small craters, an extra axle for the trailer (with (...) (18 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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The two-man Cupid team visits the moon once a year on that special day in February. The Cupidster to the left is armed with a hand-held "Passionate Paradise" Laser of Love, which smites people with a sickly-sweet love drunkenness. And the Cupidman (...) (18 years ago, 10-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) "I've got a bad feeling about this" Lovely irony. The RoboPants guy is cute. I look forward to seeing RoboForce wiping out the Gungans, and Blacktron skooling Stormtroopers in a hallway fight. Aaron (18 years ago, 9-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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I've got a few more images like this in mind that I need to work out in more detail, but here's the first in what'll probably be a small series: (URL) Enjoy! -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 9-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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(...) Thanks much for your kind words! I've had a lot of fun exploring Classic Space, and have some more ideas on the way... :o) -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 9-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yep, but it came no where *near* orbital velocity - about a factor of 30 to low in energy. I agree, it's a nice mechanism to get away from the atmosphere problem, but so do balloons (for a far lower cost, actually). no offense to Space Ship (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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These rocket sleds are a fun little build, and what a team. Beyond that, I'd like to thank you for almost single-handedly replenishing the oxygen tanks of .space. That you have brought such humour, classic style and quality photography with you is a (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) When I made the suggestion I was picturing a really long version of the 6394 Metro Park & Service Tower "elevator" mechanism. I guess it would work better to use technic racks with a worm gear driven elevator. That could even be motorized. My (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) On the other hand "Space Ship One" already surpassed NASA in efficiency with the use of a "carrier plane" to get a much higher start. Building a plane specifically designed for high altitude super sonic launching of "rocket ships" is one easy (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) snipped (...) Indeed! New Mexico has approved land for Virgin Galatic to build the first international spaceport. Virgin Galatic is even taking applications for employees. (URL) Commercial enterprise will drive down costs and increase (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I did some preliminary studies for building a space elevator. I think with some very significant selective compression of the diameter (and length) of the cable, the anchor station and the cable cars could be done. I was considering the LoM (...) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The problem is rockets use reaction mass, and need to carry it along, so the rocket equation enters into everything you do. And honestly a rocket is not a very good way to use the energy: you have to launch at high speed (rocket equation (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Yep - grey wheels definately look Spacier! Looking forward to seeing it once your BL order arrives. Another possible place for cranes is at the back. They have those folding ones that trucks use for loading pallets, etc. on the truck's own (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I would add *yet* to that. (...) Hmmm... I don't know a town layout on the floor with a "space elevator" to a manufacturing platform way up on a shelf could make a really cool albeit parts intensive MOC. -Mike Petrucelli (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) All right, all right... I just bought some gray wheels via BrickLink... Definitely interested to see how the real thing looks when they get here. Guess I'll have to make something else with 18 big blue wheels. ;o) Thanks all! -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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Just when you thought the people behind those red helmets were all men... Here's the elite all-female rocket sled team. These women are highly trained for the efficient and effective patrol of the most hazardous life-bearing worlds. Known as Fire (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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"Wolf Read" <readw.at.oniddotorstdotedu> wrote in message news:JD0w78.Hvr@lugnet.com... (...) I like the gray best. (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks much! I'm always happy to hear other people's interpretation of what I've created (this goes to everyone who's commented on my postings--thank you all!). Your nitpicks touched on one of the biggest struggles I've had with this MOC. I've (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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[somewhere far away in the internet, a poor soul struggles valiently to stay on-topic... "it's not LEGO!!" he screams, but the siren song of inccorect physics draws him screaming back into the fray once more...] (...) I still have my doubts. It's (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Actually space manufacturing will likly be a big business sooner (as in the next few decades) than people might think. Due to the "instant" cooling space permits it is possible to make super strong alloys that are physically impossible to do (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I like this quite a bit - it would have come in handy tootling around my Moonbase module (the Alpha-Omega Landing Pad II) for sure! My two nitpicks are so small I can't believe I'm bringing them up, but I would have figured the Classic Space (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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