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(...) Gary, I think the Columbus club is already way ahead of you :-) (URL) fact they are recreating the entire Columbus skyline in Lego: (URL) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: NYC grit of the past
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(...) Those are some highly interesting pictures Jonathan. Some great inspiration and a lot of it is architecturally generic enough to be used in layouts based on other cities. I sure hope the station is 'dressed up' since I'm not sure I want to (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.town)
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I was rummaging around the sky scraper forum and found this thread (URL) These are the types of images that inspire parts of my layout. Burnt out NYC of the 70's and 80's (and beyond, in some cases). These images, as tough as they might be to view, (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: State Courthouse, Columbus OH
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(...) Very nice Paul!!! It's nice to see I'm not the only one who builds in the classic Lego scale (doors=3 bricks tall, windows=2 or 3 bricks tall). Now what you need to do is to build Columbus's Leveque-Lincoln Tower, a 1926 55 story Art Deco (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | The Gateway LEGO Users Group (GtwLUG) will present at the Great Train Expo
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The Gateway LEGO Users Group (GtwLUG) will present at the Great Train Expo, two tracks of steam and diesel train models running on a 12' x 16' layout with various scenes made of LEGO bricks. Watch trains travel by a water features with working (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Sounds awesome! I've long thought that the 7344 could be easily modified into a more realistic mining truck by adding (URL) to the front and some other details. As for the shovel, would it be a (URL) shovel> or a (URL) giant wheel loader>? If (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Matt! Sorry we never got the chance to meet in Washington. We've moved, but let me know if you ever make it down to Oregon. -Steven :-) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: The Crystal Coupe
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(...) Hey! Very nice! Especially considering the lack of variation of available parts in trans colors... I think I like the glass works building the best! Just watch out for evil minifigs with rocks..... Car is super cool too! Too bad the trans (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Excellent stuff. I like them all but really like the dozer the best. I think dozer's are difficult to do and you did it wonderfully. Thanks, Jonathan (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) It's always neat to see what's new in your folders Nelson, lots of great ideas and usage of blocks. I made a couple of cavemen after seeing your vig's and they are happily running amock thru the town. Your glassworks are very nice, I'm sure (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | The Crystal Coupe
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I came up with some experimental MOCs the other week, which I recently uploaded: (URL) And, while working with these trans-pieces, I wondered if whether or not a car could be built. Using some of my more rare parts, I managed to put together a cool (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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(...) Steven, that is 3 very nice machines. While the ever-present trade-off between form and functionality in town scale construction MOCs is very hard to balance, you've done it masterfully with these. Very nice! ROSCO (19 years ago, 4-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Beautiful work. Very well executed. Thanks for showing it! -Matt :) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Nice equipment you got there. I have a MOC idea to build a large mining shovel to go with the 7344 dump truck and using the large black bucket from the 8455 backhoe loader as a bucket but I just gotta get the right wheels for it :) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-06, to lugnet.town)
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I've just posted new photos of an (URL) dump truck> to go with my (URL) loader> and (URL). The front-end loader was a joint effort by myself and Pierre Normandin. See more photos (URL) here>. -Steven (URL) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Announcing Brickvention 2006!
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Well folks, it's finally here! The first all-Australian public LEGO fan expo, Brickvention 2006! To be held in Melbourne, Australia, on June 10-11 2006, Brickvention is still in the planning stages, but we are currently working on: Presentations (...) (19 years ago, 1-Mar-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX) !
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| | Munson Diner--3rd town contest entry
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Here is my latest town contest entry. (URL) It was inspired by the Munson Diner, formerly on the West Side Highway in Manhattan. I was really happy with the way my Almac's diner came out and decided to build more diners (I have two more in the works (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.contests)
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| | Re: State Courthouse, Columbus OH
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(...) Very nice! I am glad you included a picture of the real thing so we can see how closely you got to it. Great job! Lots of snot. I like the windows you indicate and also like the 3 wide window frames: (URL) I know from recent experience (pic's (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | State Courthouse, Columbus OH
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My latest addition to the Columbus downtown is the courthouse(click on picture to go to brickshelf folder): (URL) I'm pretty happy with how close I could get it, as the scale (1:100) was pre-defined by the surrounding buildings already exisiting. (...) (19 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: MAN 5t military transporter
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(...) Very pretty. For people like me who are 6 wide train heads, is this vehicle as is too wide to fit in at 8? Put another way... Many US military vehicles are quite wide... how wide is this one in real life? Did you post it to modelteam because (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.town, FTX)
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