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My thinking here is that there is a polynomial or even exponential time function at work with large sets. The more parts a set has, the greater the fraction of total build time is spent looking for a particular part. The way to decrease that (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Fixed Zam Wessels cockpit
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Annoyed to no end or mercy by Zam Wessel's disbehaving cockpit, I made a small modification to keep it shut. It's small and painless, and still lets you open it when you want (as opposed to rubber bands). You need 2 (well technicially 3) pieces: a (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
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(...) 2 1/2, and thats it? :) I don't have the set, but that does seem a little sluggish :) It certainly looks more fun to build than the UCS X-Wing, which I have built. I'll really have to wait and see till I get one (key word there (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Beef'd Up The Gunship
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(...) Really cool, Kai. I've had my Gunship for a week now, and finals have been keeping me away from doing what you did. All of this year's sets seem to suffer from the same swiss-cheesiness problem, and it's good to see the holes filled in. One (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Beef'd Up The Gunship
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Well, I went and did it. I took the Republic Gunship and made it somewhat more accurate to the movie version. This one was a doosey. I am awaiting some parts so I can finish off the engine. I also used some bleeched white parts to give it that tan (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
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Took me ~8 hours total; had I worked straight through, blindness would have resulted. Would have been done sooner had I not used a wrong shade of grey early on. Finished the 'hammerhead' in ~2 hours then went to FL for the Orange Bowl. If you think (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Silly picture of the week.
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I've started doing these again - very silly. Sorry. Here is this week's instalment. If anyone wants me to stop, just say the word! There's a Star Wars connection to my first offering, so I've posted it in two places. (URL) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
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(...) I bought it a little over a week ago at around 9pm at a TRU. Got home and started it at 9:30pm thinking "Well, the other UCS sets took me roughly 3 hours, so I'll still get to bed not long after midnight." I worked pretty much non-stop on it (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Yes, but it did take 5-6 hours and I couldn't see straight after I was done :) Ken (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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I just spent two and a half hours working on the RBR I got at Target on Thursday. And I only finished the front hammer-head section. And I had to stop because my eyes were hurting. Is it just me. I'm no master Lego builder, but I've put together (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Star Wars CII
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(...) (URL) Ron's hair? Who woulda expected to see that nice Harry Potter boy and his friends hanging out with all those battle droids. . . (What you really can't see in the picture is the Wolfman on the top row, left hand side. Someone had a lot of (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Event pictures: (URL) here are the extra parts from the AT-AT for ya: (URL) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Star Wars CII
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(...) PIC-TURES! PIC-TURES! (...) Only "well over an hour"? I reckon that pretty much shatters my best record ;) PIC-TURES! PIC-TURES! -s (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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Hey everyone - Sorry no pictures yet!! But I just got back from Star Wars CII. Ondrew Hartigan and I drove down from Chicago for the day to meet up with Tim Saupe, that was a real treat seeing him in person after getting to know him pretty well (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: S@H "Special Edition" Catalog
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(...) Thanks for posting them at least...I haven't gotten it, and was wondering what the fuss was about. Actually, I am not jealous at all about not getting it... I guess I am not really a big star wars collector... the only real starwars sets I got (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) They aren't scans, just photos shot with my digital camera. Considering the quality, I probably should have reduced the size. Be warned: these images are 200Kb-300Kb each. Start at: (URL) Steve (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Episode II Set Comments
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(...) Bah, keep ranting! I was getting all into it and then you stopped! mo www.galacticbrick.com (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Where is the Queen?
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Well, don't worry about Jar Jar. Though he plays a big part, he only has about three minutes of actual talking time (thank ye o' mighty script-writers and storyboard designers!)therefore they probably won't make another one of him! As far as Amidala (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Where is the Queen?
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(...) Well, that's certainly my hope--and that's what Harry Knowles, the Ain't It Cool guy--has said in his review: "First, I must say that this film makes THE PHANTOM MENACE a better film. In fact, I would have to say that not only does it do (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Good point. I read a while ago that the Star Wars sets were supposed to focus on key characters. Amidala is definetely key. -Mani P.S. In Epi. II she's a senator. Sorry if I'm repeating common knowledge. (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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