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Sanjay D'Souza wrote in message <38B70357.C4D5F27F@h...il.com>... (...) <SIGH.> All those tiles. All those town sets that I never owned. All those trees! You realize, of course, that I hate you now.<g> A truly spectacular job. I love the detailing (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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Brian Sauls wrote in message ... (...) The city took 18 months to plan. From the time I tore down my previous 6x5 roadplate town in Jan 1998 to the time I constructed Millennium City in October 1999. The city plan grew as I purchased more and more (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> Sanjay, I hope you are aware of the fact that I too hate you now. Your collection of sets outnumbers mine by far. I have been collecting since around 1987, yet I only have about half of your collection. The work you are (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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Kyle Henneberque wrote in message ... (...) From now on I'll be watching my back ;-) To be honest I've kept a few things under wraps. I've done a George Lucas and started with part 3 of City Tours and I'm working my way back to parts 1 and 2. The (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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Re: Millennium: All good stuff, Maynard! I'm doing my first town. Since it has acquired one or two emerging characters, I thought of doing a day-in-the-life walkthrough. Sort of a Bill and Mary episode. This would supplement the do-it-yourself (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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Sanjay D'Souza wrote in message ... <snip> (...) Has anybody actually done this? I was wondering how to make a large city (other than to stop turning my Lego room into a nursery) that was completely accessible without being a huge doughnut. Not (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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How much city are you going to build? I decided last year that my town would be long and skinny. That way it could be parked out of the way atop a bookshelf. Talk about Main Street! For now, I am trying to keep baseplates separable. One of my ideas (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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Erik Olson wrote in message ... (...) My original intentions were to usethe extra bedroom, about 12'x13'. I wanted to build 4' wide tables (read that as plywood on sawhorses) with roughly a 4'x4' hole in the middle with a cutout for the doorway. I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The baseplates are 10" each, so they would overhang by 2" on a 48" sheet. I have ply on the floor of my lego room. The major portion of my city is on the floor, with a shelf hung on the walls at about 48" high, with a opening for the door. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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I guess I should put my two cents in... (...) the door.>> You see, this is the beauty of painting the roads and grass for a city instead of using baseplates. You guys have to worry about creating enough room for baseplates. If you put baseplates on (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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