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| TexLUG was invited to participate at Maker Faire 2008 in Austin, Texas this past weekend. We're not the first LUG to display at Maker Faire, but this was our first time, and we walked away with not one but two "Editor's Choice" awards for our (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.org.us.texlug, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.space, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian Worker's Cottage
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| In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote: -- snip! -- (...) Onya Tim! Love it! My missus also highly approves! The Hills Hoist in the background is *awesome* - all it needs is a kid swinging off the hoist! :-P I'm actually working on a new town module (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | Australian Worker's Cottage
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| (URL) Hi all, Thought I'd break with my recent lazy tradition and actually announce an MOC. The above is a fairly simply designed Australian worker's cottage: a style of house quite common in certain suburbs of Australian cities. As some people know (...) (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: building 6-wide cars
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| (...) Or even better (though probably too complex to make en masse) try (URL) misterzumbi>. Of course my main suggestion is to make them five-wide. Tim (16 years ago, 23-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: building 6-wide cars
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| (...) I'd start here for inspiration and ideas: (URL) There any many others that have really refined the scale nicely as well that I routinely look at for inspiration and ideas. I had a great amount of difficulty building in this scale myself, but (...) (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | building 6-wide cars
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| Our train group is going up to 6-wide cars (and 8 wide trains) for the next layout. Anyone got any advice or tips on how to make them (and how to make them look good)? I am good at making 4-wide cars but not so much at making 6-wide. (16 years ago, 22-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| (...) I have at least two shots of each custom piece of equipment in the shop on my Flickr Site. Most of them aren't too hard to reverse engineer. -Duane (16 years ago, 17-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| Really nice job! Do you have any intentions of positing designs for the equipment? (16 years ago, 17-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| (...) Nice model, you really captured the feel of Norms workshop. All you need now is to find a suitable printed piece (or make your own decal) to use as a sign. (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| (...) I do Being today a more woodworker than lego builder, I can really recognice a lot from what I am doing.... this it very well done very close to reaility. Though, there is not much room around the table saw. Then again, I'd like more too :-) (...) (16 years ago, 15-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| (...) You're alive!?!?! Nice work Duane...Glad to see you building again :) Jim F. (16 years ago, 14-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Woodshop
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| (...) Ah, the smell of plastic dust. I remember it so well. (16 years ago, 14-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Woodshop
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| (2 URLs) Enjoy! -Duane (16 years ago, 14-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Lions Gate Models town building custom kits - the very last run is now open. No more ever after this!
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| As many of you know, since 1999 I've been designing and producing custom kits of town buildings and other town-related stuff - everything from small cars through houses, hospitals, a factory, and a 29" long car ferry, to a 3500-piece apartment block (...) (16 years ago, 13-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | new moc: microscale auditorium
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| (2 URLs) this moc started out as a study for different radii of curved walls. then i decided to go ahead and finish it into something. i was thinking along the lines of a large public building/display space - art gallery, auditorium, theatre, etc. (...) (16 years ago, 10-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Motorized, steerable bus?!?
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| (...) This one ? (URL) Erik (16 years ago, 8-Oct-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Motorized, steerable bus?!?
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| I need help finding a MOC that someone did a few years ago. I remember a bus that had a motor in the back and a steerable front axle. The front axle had magnets connected to it, facing downward, in such a way that it would follow a line of metal (...) (16 years ago, 7-Oct-08, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: 2009 City
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| (...) I think the horse trailer is made up of two of the following in white: (URL) and four of the below parts also in white: (URL) The other parts look like various recycled parts from the LEGO pallet. I can think of some interesting alternative (...) (16 years ago, 23-Sep-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 2009 City
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| (...) this set brings me back to the paradisa theme. i like the cows in the new farm set also. (16 years ago, 23-Sep-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: School Buses - both hovercraft and normal
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| (...) Reminds me of something NASA might do ; ) Great work on both models, I slightly favour the town version (only because of my deep hatred of space erhm, I mean only because of my personal bias against futuristic progressions that retain so much (...) (16 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space, FTX)
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