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Re: BrickTopia Spaceport
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:45:58 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> Yet again a cool model.
> Good use of all that transparent-dark-green.
Thanks
> You have a collection of "cool" parts that I really envy :)
> Like the 4x4 quarter circles in blue.
These are cheaply available on BrickLink for about 30 cents each.
> And like the 2x2 round printed tile on the spaceship at the front
> And all the different control pannels you seem to have (I find that getting
> hold of "cool" control pannels is nigh impossible)
> I especially like how you used the printed 1x6x5 bricks (I own one of each
> printing of those but if the opertunity ever arrises to get more, dont
> think I wont take it :)
Most of these parts come from childhood classic space sets. I haven't looked
at BrickLink availability of these, but I bet that they are hard to get.
The newer SW, Mars, and Alpha Team sets have a good variety of flat control
panels though.
> Are those insectoid noisemakers in one of those pictures? (Is there any
> part you cant use in new and creative ways?)
Yep - Those are the Insectoid tails. Actually, I've used these quite a bit
as sculptures. They seem like useless parts, but you can use virtually
anything as a "sculpture." In this case though, they are supposed to be
some sort of exhaust system or something.
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| (...) Yet again a cool model. Good use of all that transparent-dark-green. You have a collection of "cool" parts that I really envy :) Like the 4x4 quarter circles in blue. And like the 2x2 round printed tile on the spaceship at the front And all (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.town)
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