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| Hi Kevin, Just wanted to say I like your layout. Nice choice for hopper colour - the red ones look very neat! And the definition of the pictures is just great! Good camera... :-) So what will you be doing to all those gray 12V rails now? (the ones (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| Hi all, I finally got around to posting the pictures of my last layout. (URL) was having fun trying out the macro mode closeups with my digital: (URL) a look and let me know what you think. Kevin (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Microfig doesn't mean space does it?
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| (...) sweet! well I look forward to seeing it! -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Microfig doesn't mean space does it?
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| (...) Truth be told, I just finished one of those yesterday, after reading this particular thread over. The castle itself is 28x28, with the surrounding land occupying a 48x64 area. I hope to have pics of it up as soon as I can find a digicam to (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Although, the type of castle I meant was like the full deal, I'm thinking about a foot long with a village etc, glacis moat, inner wall, everything. :-D (...) -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Ahem: (URL) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I'm not sure about other castleheads (or Castleworldheads), but I'm living in a gopher hole right now... pop my head up once in a while, but mostly I'm hiding. In a couple weeks, I'll be done organizing NALUG's next train show appearance, and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Not sure you're talking about these, but here are some original microtrains my son (10 years old at the time) built last year: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) And even a 6 stud long chieftan bridge laying tank! And a bunker, and humvees! and infantry! BTW, Bryce, I think I'm catchin' up as far as shameless plugs go, ;-D But it will be tough to beat da masta' though! :-D -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.military)
| | | | | Amoco Gas Station & Church update
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| First the gas station, I've gotten the windows, and about 1/3 of all of the tiles i'll need, and the interior is 99% complete (last two photo's are new): (URL) Church, however, now has a roof!, it may be missing a few parts, but they are coming. All (...) (23 years ago, 8-Sep-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Yeah, heck I shouldn't even be posting here! :-D Well, I was just upstairs fiddlin, and I came up with a way to do a micro fig tanks! and only three studs long! I'll incorporate this with a diorama, pics tonight, should be good...hehe. :-D (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) bravo! The fact that it's a minifig-scale toy train is over the top. :-, (...) I think I've seen these. As I recall, they were using "plate 1x1 with clip light" as the axle on a 2-wide truck -- an technique I'm now using and would like to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Me too. :-, A microfig (I'm thinking "stickfig" :-) castle would seriously rock, though. Actually, I'm kinda surprised that we're not seeing more from the Castleworld folks. Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I did a minifig scale train layout a while back. (URL) to you see what i have cooking next... -chris ps. someone a while back was making fantastically detailed towns in microfig scale. don't know who though.... (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) full castle in microfig scale (moat, glacis (sp?), bailey etc. absolutely everything), should be fun, you'll have to wait a little while though, I have other priorities at da moment, ;-) -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Barbara and I did some: (URL) - jsproat (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I've seen a castle and cathedral built in microfig scale. I also remember a tiny town in the context of a train layout in the basement of a minifig-scale house. I don't recall the originators of either of those. X-Posting to .Castle and (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains)
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| I had decided to pose this question before the treehouse was posted, but I will ask anyway. Is anyone building town or castle stuff in microfig scale? I was looking through David Macaulay's (of How Things Work) Building Big and thinking how (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
| | | | | Re: Monorail Page / Pics
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| (...) Thanks for the praise, Ben, but I can't take the credit - it was my camera, but many of the pictures, including that one, were taken by a co-worker of mine while I was busy fussing with my layout :) Jeff E (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Is bigger better? Or is detail what counts?
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| Dave Amos wrote in message ... (...) is (...) Well, just to be awkward, I like something in between the two: buildings which are closer to "scale" for minifigs than LEGO sets, but using smaller prototypes so I'm not building giant skyscrapers and I (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.town)
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