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(...) Ok... now the fun part is we still need to come up a good standard for connecting buildings....:-) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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Chris Leach wrote in message ... (...) is (...) feel. I like towns where the blocks are not all the same size, personally, and it's often necessary to fit into a given table area. If there was no max size, there would be nothing stopping you (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, There are only 2. Due to the large size and high ceilling of each unit, there really isn't space for a large number of apartments. You can see the entire back view here: (URL) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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Great job Brad! Gotta love the swimming pool and apartments. Are there only 2 or are there others that you haven't made storylines for? Well, Good job! Hasta La Vista, Sean (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks - Hmm - I never thought about a cross-appartment romance. (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks - I actually didn't put that much thought into the use of specific figures. I chose them for their looks and size. I just happened to have 2 C3P0's handy for use in the bedroom. (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments. (...) The panels are attached by using a 2x2x3.3? aquazone column with a 2x4 set of studs on the side. I used one of these pieces on each side of the panel assembly at the bottom. The panel assembly is heavily (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I was thinking a max size so that the cross roads would work and so there is a "standard" to work with.(my whole point of this)and we get a more block feel. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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Chris Leach wrote in message ... (...) Do we need a max size? Provided a large size module has connections in the right place, or is self-contained inside road plates, I think it could be as large as desired. The city block I built for last year's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Fabulous as always. I really like the interior details. Sounds like Mrs Brick needs to hook up with James Plastico....if that doesn't work, I'm available. Thanks for sharing, great stuff!! Jonathan (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That's an ingenious use of pieces to get the bowling alley wooden floor look! Overall, the building is fantastic, as with your whole town. One question though; if c3po is a protocol droid, wouldn't the avid star wars fan know it's bad protocol (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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Brad, Wow! As usual, you have taken seemingly useless elements and used them in ways no other person has thought possible. I love the pool design. How did you attach the panels? Great use of elements at the entrance. The bowling alley! Very creative (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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This is my latest high-rise building: (URL) features several large appartments, a built-in bowling alley, a roof-top swimming pool, and an exercise room. Don't miss the detailed interior here. As usual, there are some interesting stories to go along (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) 2x3 being the largest blocks? Uh oh. I'm building my blocks as 2x4s with the 8-wide alley running down the middle. I have some more buildings finished and hopefully will have a sample block to bring to the next meeting. David Kohrman (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hmmmm that's true....I was just tring come up with a stadard "block size" which is still possible if you build modules that are able to go together.Let's just say then the max could be the 2x3 32x32 plate size and no bigger which will allow (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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Chris Leach wrote in message ... (...) wide? (...) It seems to me better to have a small module which can be joined and arranged in many different ways, than a large monolithic module. If your basic module is 32x32 you can make an arrangement as (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Kevin ,what is your thinking then just a block being 1 32x32 baseplate wide? That seems to small.I have seen alot of train show pics and it seems most clubs put at least 2 30" tables together(we in MichLTC do both 2 and 3 tables deep)So I dont (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Yup. Good points. I think the thinking behind using 2x3 was that it's large enough to be a significant block.. it does not take roadways into account and thus won't work on a 30" wide module. If you go with a one baseplate standard it needs to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Yes, but it's still tight fitting that on 30" wide table (either a banquet table or a PNLTC module) once you have road plates and track(s) next to it. My understanding from the pics is that the actual (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Chris was proposing 2x3 standard 10 inch 32 stud a side baseplates I think, not the 15 inch extra large 48 stud kind. Hope that helps. (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.town)
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