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(...) Thanks! I have been lucky to get to LLCA this past summer and was able to stock up on dark orange bricks. I had been there in 2002 or 2003 and bought quite a few then as well. It is one of my favorite colors and I use it quite a lot. Here are (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) The pictures don't show it very well, but the walkway *is* there - it's an overhang that circles the interior with the exception of over the back hangar door. The only part missing is the passthrough behind the statue. Of course, there's no (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Nice to see a MOC in one of the best 'new' lego colours. The sideways mounted bricks also compliment the building nicely. My only complaint would be the windows, they just don't do it for me for some reason... God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Very nice! The trouble alert is my faviourite, and the statue is well done, a walkway would have been cool. All round well done! God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Splendid work, Chris. It's especially heartening to see that the (URL) announcer> now has such a classy (URL) place> to go when he's on a date with, say, (URL) Griffin>. MEANWHILE... (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Very nice! I like the the fountain and scultpture. Cool interior as well. Jonathan (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hello, I've finished my most recent firehouse, that of FDNY Engine 5 on E. 14th Street in Manhattan. I got over there on Saturday and took a picture of the real thing as well. I may try to do that for the other firehouses in my gallery. Here is a (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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Anyone here remember the Super Friends? Superman? Batman? The Wonder Twins? Okay - anyone remember their clubhouse? (URL) Yes, for some strange reason I decided to use up just about every white brick in my collection to recreate (URL) Hall of (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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NWBrickCon 2006 is fast approaching. The space for Town and Train in the Expo Hall will be large (16'x29') but is already filling up and I need to know what will be there. Contact me at the above (despamblocked) address to let me know what you will (...) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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Hey, A couple of years ago, I built the (URL) Tilt Train> and James Mathis came up with a (URL) great idea> on how to simplify the tilting mechanism. Ever since I've been wanting to use this tilt design to built the Swedish X2000 high speed tilting (...) (18 years ago, 24-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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Love the mottled brickwork on the ground floor! (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.town)
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--snip-- (...) Hi Steven (and Jonathon), Sorry for the delay but I've been on holidays for a while. Thanks for your comments. I'll probably finish it off sometime, although my main interest was in getting the front done right. Complicated shape with (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. That mosaic is really nice. Stickers too! I have been thinking of adding Ten House to my collection of NYC Firehouses, but I am still hesitant to do it, unfortnately . . . Not to hi-jack this thread, but, coming soon from me are (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.town)
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Every year the Western Washington Fair in Puyallup invites a train club to display at the Fair. This year that club is the Puget Sound LEGO Train Club (the first L-guage club so featured since the PNLTC displayed in 1999). The PSLTC has a 32'x15' (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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I don't know who built/posted the pics on brickshelf, but I like the mosaic design of the truck. Also, since it is Ten House, virtually destroyed by the 9/11 disaster in NYC, I thought I'd highlight it here. linkage: (URL) got to visit 10 house on (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Tim!!! I'll second what Jonathan wrote ... It looks awesome! And the attention to detail is incredible! I'm a Mac user, so I don't have the software to download the instructions. Any chance you can post some instructions as jpegs? (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Steven, Wonderful looking trucks. Thanks for posting your latest pics. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Asbury" <stevenasbury@comcast.net> To: <lugnet.town@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:58 AM Subject: Re: LAFD, NYPD (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Tim, I am so glad you picked up on this. I just knew you'd have an incredible take on it. I can't say enough, I am just stunned. I was able to get some building time in last night, but quickly realized this: I make pretty good buildings. My (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I can see the idea of this, but I'd take it further. The white is very bright and contrasts too much with the very dark rust colours. I'd lose the stripe (or use a different colour entirely - sand blue?) and swap the white for something (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) I'm not on the list and it's actually seven wide - six looked too small since it's such a big looking truck. It started off as six so it should be easy enough to convert back again if you like (2 URLs) MPD with instruction steps> Let (...) (18 years ago, 8-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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