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| (...) the (...) at (...) them. Sounds great, although with the flex tube ladder all you need are a couple of 1x1 plates with clips and you're sorted ;-) Jennifer (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| (...) pre-minifig Lego style (the cab of the truck) with more modern Lugnetesque design ideas (the details on the rear). Also, I especially like your control panel which uses the Technic bricks with the short pegs to simulate knobs, gauges, and hose (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Engine 71 - New Fire Truck
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| (...) went with the 1x16 beams because of how the ladder hangs off the side of the truck. Basically there are two 1x2 hinge bricks set into the side of the truck, at the level of the top of the back wheel. Attached to each hinge brick is a 1x2 plate (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Pics of VLC layout at Trains 2001 show, Burnaby BC
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| (...) The 'Popular Vote' was not handled well this year. There was NOT one announcement about it, everyone I talked to said "What a popular vote? Where do I do it? How?" etc... So most didn't vote I'd bet... Since no one but the regular train people (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
| | | | | Re: Pics of VLC layout at Trains 2001 show, Burnaby BC
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| (...) Here's a pic of my wife holding the plaque last year... (URL) Dean Husby LUGNET Member #320 TFM's LEGO Workshop - (URL) Vancouver LEGO Club - (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) finest (...) Thanks Larry! (...) It's out plaque for winning the popular choice layout award at the show last year. We didn't get it this year unfortunately, even with a twice as big and 4 times as good (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
| | | | | Re: Pics of VLC layout at Trains 2001 show, Burnaby BC
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| (...) That's a pretty neat way of doing it. I tried this before (without the tyres though), but couldn't get it all to fit close enough together whilst still being flexible enough to get round corners. Congratulations to Robin for making it work. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
| | | | | More pics from our latest train show
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| Hi all! In addition to Jude's pics, I've added 145 more pics from our 1st MonLUG train show held last weekend. (URL) and let us know what you think! Pierre MonLUG #1 (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Engine 71 - New Fire Truck
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| (...) retaining the essential utilitarian look. For the ladder on the side, I managed to get a not bad result by using 1x3 technic liftarms and flex tubes on my skip truck: (URL) was inspired by the ladder on Rosco's tower crane which used axles (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Pics of VLC layout at Trains 2001 show, Burnaby BC
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| (...) work. And what I think is so neat is the *expanse* of it. I had a question, what is the placard (with the rail section) embedded in the mountain (visible in (URL) ) all about? Is it an award of some sort? I didn't see a clearer pic at a short (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.vlc, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.van, lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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