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Re: Café 361 open for business again!
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lugnet.town
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Sun, 19 May 2002 21:56:01 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jason J. Railton writes:
> "My Own Custom" anyone?
Yes, please! :-)
> I wanted to build some new town buildings to go around my train layout. I
> also wanted to re-build a lot of my old sets, but I know that they wouldn't
> be suitable. Then I hit on the idea of doing both, by modernising an old set.
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> So, here it is. This is the earliest Lego set I ever remember having - the
> <set:361> Café with Baker's Van. I must have been about four years old when
> I had this. Now see my new version at:
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> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.j.railton/town/index.html
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> And in case you're wondering - yes, if you take the building up you will
> still find white spots on the baseplate.
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> LMKWYT - or if you've got any old sets you'd like to update. Better yet,
> let LEGO themselves know. I'm sure there's plenty of scope for new releases
> here.
Well, I love it! My highlights would be the SNOT sign and the TV outside (I
hope the weather is sunny, otherwise everyone will miss the WC ;-)
The PTC is very finely modelled, congratulations for it as well.
Now, if I were to customize a set... my first choice would be that old Coast
Guard Base (back from the time of the "stiffies"), which I'd turn into an
oil rig. There might be room for a "doubling" in size, whilst keeping the
proportions similar. Picture a 64 x 64 studs base with a giant oil rig on
top of it... mmmm... :-)
Keep up with the renovations; I'm very curious to see what you will achieve!
Pedro
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| (...) Funny you should say that, because that was one of my inspirations. Did you know that the <set:369> from 1976 was updated to <set:575> in 1977 to accommodate minifigs, and to suit the US market? If you want to do an oil rig, why not start with (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.town)
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