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| Yes, they are silly, but the one "black ink" with the two Storm troopers laughing in the back; gave me a great laugh 4am at the job! Loved it!! (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) My habit is to tear 'em down for a rebuild until I get the lowest number of bricks used with the highest level of functional detail and strongest and most efficient design. I've been doing this since I was a kid and I noticed as I returned to (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| In lugnet.starwars, Shaun Sullivan writes: ... (...) Oh man, those are 2 tables I wish I could see in person! Your WWII models and your SW walkers are just awesome. (...) Yeah, me too. I'm running out of room though. Oh well. Before, I used to use (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I wish I could get a second TIE... unfortunately they're nowhere to be found here. We've got lots of shuttles and AT-STs and all the others, but the TIE spots on the shelves are always empty in every store... I guess somebody's building an (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| I normally don't post in Star Wars, but we have been discussing a Japanese website in mecha and space that has some awesome SW stuff on it. Here's an index: (URL) is my favorite: (URL) mirco models can be found here: (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Great question! In part because all of us have to wrestle with this question all the time! (...) For the most part, I'm definitely in the "keep models together" category. I have a table covered with all of my WWII models right now, and another one (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| "Andrew Summersgill" <ajs@nospamblahblahblah.co.uk> wrote in message news:GB041F.CnC@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) and (...) McDonald. (...) making (...) Sort of looks like a Scimitar bomber (vaguely!), but I agree, it does look cool. I also bought a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| I was mucking around with one of my LEGO TIE Fighters the other day - yes, I finally persuaded my fiancée to let me buy another one - well, it just doesn't look right having Darth or the Shuttle escorted by ONE lowly TIE and besides, Ronald the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Hehe..I've found pieces I forgot I had doing this. ;) ANd yes, finding new ways to do things is fun - it gets me out of the rut caused because "That's how I've always done it." :) Joel J (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I've got one of these as well. Sometimes I'll sit down and try to turn multiple junkyard fragments from different models into one model. I've not yet attained success with this, but it's good for ideas. -JDF (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Bram, I don't build anymore because is messes up my parts sorting! Bob (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| "paul hanson" <pghanson@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GAxJ25.2Az@lugnet.com... (...) MOCs (...) collection. (...) the (...) on (...) Guess we're a minority Paul.... I took me about four months to build my crane, and as soon as it was (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I typically build, photograph, cad, then let the model sit around until I need a piece from it. I put them into cad so that I always have a record of exactly what pieces were used, and how the model was configured. There are some MOCs that I (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| "Joel Jacobsen" <jjacobse@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:GAxrAz.JLy@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) bricks. (...) years (...) That's where I am right now. I don't want to spend much more at the moment on new bricks but I also have a lot of MOCs (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) It's me, too..:-) I also prepare building instructions of them in LeoCAD before taking apart. (...) (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I tend to work on Lego ships for weeks and in some cases months until I am completely satisfied with it. Then I rebuild it in MLCAD, will do some experimentation with different color schemes, create picture instructions, rendings in various (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Hmm, my building habits are.... Right now I'm primarily in sorting mode. Unfortunately unless something happens to really make me stop buying it may be a while before I get caught up (though I am slowly catching up). I have done some building (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| I have a tendency to let the models I build accumulate, until I reach the point where I can't bear to see all the pieces that are unavailable. Then I tear apart practiaclly everything, except a few of my particular favorites... of course I'll even (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| That's awesome Dan, you definitly have the touch on your carriers. They keep sneaking up on me. The exterior detailing is absoulutely incredible. Well done once again. I love the burp usage btw. (i'm envious too :) Jeb (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Hehe.. that's cool. Though that does require the procurement of more bricks. Something that is a bit costly to me. Right now I'm in the "hey... I've been acquiring bricks for the last 3 years and now that I have space to build, let's see just (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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