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(...) it over a period of two+ years?! I know a guy whose mom and dad made him a fund that he could collect at maturity after turning 18, but he waited until after college (which, thanks to a scholarship, was 75% covered) to buy a boat and Camaro (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) revere Alan (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Actually, If room cooperates I fully intend to put a few thousand dollars into this project over a span of a year or two. Hopefully I can sell some hockey cards of mine to help. As of today I have no legos at all... I had to part with my huge (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Actually, If room cooperates I fully intend to put a few thousand dollars into this project over a span of a year or two. Hopefully I can sell some hockey cards of mine to help. As of today I have no legos at all... I had to part with my huge (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Where does an 18 year-old get the funds for a project like this? Especially if you are or will be a college student next year, as I will be... But if you can pull it off, all the more power to you! --Bram Bram Lambrecht.........Br...L@JUNO.com (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Ambitious? Theres an understatment. If you pull this off, I'll revear (How do you spell that word?) As a god. What you plan is simply amazing... But instead of buying all those specialty sets, I recommend just finding auctions and such, It (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Joe Macias writes: <snip> Wow! That's ambitious. Sounds great, though! (...) From my (and other people's) experiences, painting on studs, hinges and other interlocking parts will affect their compatability for the worse. Sorry :-( (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Joe Macias writes: You do realize to get all those sets you'll have to pay over $1000. But this airport does sound cool! Alan (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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To what scale are you building the aircraft? If you build to TLC scale you aeroplanes will be pretty small and indistinquisable from one another. On the other hand building to minifig scale (i.e. build a 747 to accommodate 600 minifigs) things could (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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Yes, yet another airport dream... I haven't built with legos for over 5 years, when I was 13. But I wishtake it up as a more serious hobby. I'm going the whole 9 yards on this one... The current details are as follows for a large airport: - 130+ (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.town)
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Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... .........snip....... (...) I think I remember black as well, but no grey. Silas (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Hi, Znap came to a nearby TRU so I bought the 3510 polybag to check it out. I wonder about using Znap for a skyscraper skeleton. Does anybody have a working scheme for this? Below are some of my thoughts so far. Why do it? Load-bearing brick walls (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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Hi gianluca, Did you know there were even double tyres sets of wheels in those days. I can rmemeber if there were any other colours the black and red Greetings and keep building Nico (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Yep, I've got tons. :) (...) The white ones were cool... I always wanted a bunch, but I only have five or six... :( (...) Unfortunately, no... Red and White were the only colors... Jeff (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Hi,folks, maybe someone of you can help me. Do you remember the old town wheels piece? It was a 2x2 plate with a metal axle under it and two hubs fixed to the axle. The hubs were often in red,but in some cases they were white. Were these wheels also (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Following is my attempt at the translation. Comments between parentheses are my own words. The rest of the translation is a bit loose in some sentences. Read well, Andreas Stabno (URL) Ballmann in his little empire The little basement (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) It probably does. The bee and wasp are both pretty annoying insects, so I may be confusing them! ;-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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(...) Halftoning is incredibly easy with a good image editor, like Corel PhotoPaint. Could someone translate the article? My German's not very good either (ie, I can sometimes guess what something says...) --Bram Bram (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Cool, Ben. How did you get the newspaper halftone look? That is some forgery, you've outdone yourself with that one! Really, you ought to slow down, though, you're so far ahead of us in the forgery trade that we'll NEVER catch up, you keep (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Hmmmm,I'll check on my vocabulary...But I think that "vespa" (another Piaggio model and maybe parent of all nowadays scooters) means "wasp". (...) Yes, also because 3-wheeled lorries were popular in many countries,expecially after WW2 and (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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