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| (...) Oh dear. I've obviously offended a fan :P (...) (URL) First renders> are allowed to be catastrophes :) (...) Yeah. But I never like to do the common versions. Has to be at least a bit different ;) (...) That is very cool. If only my cab had (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Hi Tim, very nice tugmaster! But "oddity" is not fair :-) It reminds me to my very first Ldraw project (and my first rendering, which was a catastrophe): (URL) Only the colour red seems odd. The really cool tugmasters of the really cool tug drivers (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Hi All, A (URL) little intermodal oddity> I turned up looking for shunters. (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Tim PS. The MPD is provided to show how it all sticks together. There is only one direction (backwards) that the studs don't point in some part of (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Minifig Scooter
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| Well I'm no townie, and have no use for a scooter, but this is still a pretty impressive design! Very nice work indeed! Thanks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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| (...) I used mainly stacked plates and bricks... there's a bit of SNOT to get the Window row fall back ½ stud, the rows right of the window are jumper plates and plates, held by invisible technic bricks. (...) The building was pretty much 1:40 all (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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| (...) I like this a lot. It's a great choice to build in Lego and you've pulled it off most admirably. I particularly like the way you've simulated the spiral using studs out tiles (unless my eyes decieve me). My only crits are that it's perhaps a (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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| I finally managed to post my last (may/june 2006) MOC online : Cafe De Unie, an architectural masterpiece by JJP Oud, built in 1925 (and rebuilt in 1986) (URL) Jan-Albert van Ree | (URL) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !
| | | | | 4-8-8-2 Cab Forward
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| (2 URLs) Brickshelf (when modded)>. Here is my latest. It is a 4-8-8-2 Cab Forward. It is not modeled completely from a single train. But the most influential is the cab-forward(4294) that resides at California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. I (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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| (...) Ahh, good point. (...) Another good point. So, they retire the old arm mold and create a new one, reuse the droid arm and things come out more or less even. And that's with added playability. Sounds like a good business plan to me. (...) As (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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| --snip-- (...) Words to live by. Tim (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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| (...) Except in this case, they'd be creating a new mold for the skeleton torso. If I remember correctly, the current skeleton torso has ball for the shoulder to fit the socket of the arm, where the one pictured appears to have a bar attachment for (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) The answer is clear to me-- saves TLG $$$. Anytime they can eliminate a mold and "shoot two birds with one stone", it cuts their production costs. It appears to me that droid arms have been getting a lot more use than as just as arms. As a (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) arms, then they'd be holding their weapons *sideways*. The "lead" skeleton there looks like he might have a droid arm for his *right* arm (because his flail is arguably sideways), but most of the rest of the skeletons are all holding their (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| "David Simmons" <xenobuzz@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:JB0Luo.Bp1@lugnet.com... (...) Why do those skeleton arms look exactly like mechanical battle droid minifig arms? IE part (URL) wonder why TLG would suddenly drop manufacturing of the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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| (...) brought to our attention? David Simmons xenobuzz@earthlink.net (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Berlin tram - class GT6N
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| (4 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, Decided to have a play at with trams. This one is an (URL) ADtranz low floor> in Berlin city livery (class GT6N). The most challenging element of this was to incorporate the wheelsets properly given (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Best year
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| (...) Very impressive. Very impressive indeed. I totally was not expecting the change in quality, but I guess that's what I get from having low expectations. Would anyone happen to have pictures of any of the other new castle sets? I'd be interested (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Winter Tree
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| (URL) All in all it uses 31 green large leaves and 64 white large leaves. I'm rather please that, though I didn't use any small leaves, I was still able to get a conifer-like shape. If you'd like to know why I used green to begin with, I did it for (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Minifig Scooter
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| Hi all, For quite some time I've rather fancied giving my minifigs scooters. There are a number of perfectly acceptable designs floating around Brickshelf but they all seemed a little too big to me. After trying to come up with ideas with alarming (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Best year
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| (...) never getting one of those seaports pictured! (...) They look to be a mixture of AFOL building & early 90's set design. The Seaport & Gas Station aren't quite as exciting to me personally, but I still can't wait to see detail pictures. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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