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(...) I was hoping to see the trains i've heard blabbering about... Josh (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) The ground is made up sand green plates and bricks. The lighting in my living room is really yellow, so it throws off the colors. I was hoping for some sunligt to reshoot the photos, but we've had rain here for a couple of weeks. I was (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Beautiful. I really like the mausoleum and the angel statue. Is the ground normal green? Something about the lighting makes it look half way between normal and sand green. Bruce (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Looks great! It looks like it came right out of the graveyard area in Diablo II :) Love all the little details--lanterns, scythes, and the like! Wonderful job! Dave K (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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I was hoping to get some better pictures of this before presenting it, but time seems to have slipped away. Presenting my MOC for this Halloween: (URL) I got this idea when my daughter placed a skull head on a Harry Potter minifig (nothing scarier (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oops, yeah. I know that, really! ;) Too early in the morning, I guess. Let's try that again... Overview: (URL) we go. Sorry about the mistake! ~Mike (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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(...) deeplinks. See (URL) (which is also in the FAQ group as this is a common question) I look forward to seeing your work after moderation. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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Been a long time since I used the word "accoutrements"...hope I got it right. Anyway, here's the latest in wacky things from the Spotted Cow. It's a CCC-compatible corner wall manned by a huge crew of...black guys. I guess this is the counterpart (...) (21 years ago, 30-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.build)
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@zonnet.nl> wrote in message news:HnJ9y1.168C@lugnet.com... (...) Wow, so many of those sets look so... not juniorized! That (URL) helicopter> actually looks like a helicopter! And the new sets in the racer's series! (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks for the link,interesting there are no new themes here for the start of 2004. New sets includes 4 Creator, 3 Jack Stone,5 World City, and 10 Racer sets. Also included are the 3 Star Wars sets already announced, and 4 SW minis. The World (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town)
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If you want to see sets, go here: (URL) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) You could strategically place roof details like chimneys, air vents and the like to cover the holes and cutouts for a flat roof. The other good thing about the train plates is that you could remove the whole floor section easily. The downside (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) J1 and all, I've just uploaded another 25 pictures I took the weekend of October 25 & 26 at the GMLTC's first place finish at GATS. (URL) J1's post-show wrapup (URL) and 'read me' pretty much sums up everything. Enjoy! (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament: The Full Extent of The Law
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The final 8 illustrated stories from The Law have been added to The Brick Testament website today: (URL) For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take note of the content warnings for the stories before viewing. Enjoy, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) I want houses/apt./hotels, stores & schools for town: ARCHITECTURE! Jeff (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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So I've been eagerly anticipating the 2004 releases and I have no idea what to expect. How far has lego come with their anit-juniorization? What will become of Town? And what new or returning theme do you wan to see? Yikes I'm dying to see some (...) (21 years ago, 29-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's a very nice render Travis. Could you post the light and camera settings, or even the pov file? They'd be perfect for instruction images. Cheers, Allister (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) Sweet trucks Tom, sweet render Travis. I think the baseplate might need tweaking somewhere in translating it to POV to kill the reflection though. I seem to recall some discussion of that somewhere but can't find it offhand at the mo... but (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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They look great, individually and together! Ray SPLTC (...) (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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Tom Duggan recently sent me some .ldr files of his awsome firetrucks. I thought I'd check out what they looked like rendered together. (URL) and LMKWYT! -tk (21 years ago, 28-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.cad, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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(...) Well, not only that, but CCC buildings make *fine* old european village buildings for those eurotrash train layouts as well. :-) PS, as far as the train wagon plates go, I've started to think that they might not make bad large flat roofs, with (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Check out our latest CCC compatible MOC from our (URL) homepage> just in time for Halloween! (2 URLs) What does this MOC have anything to do with Trains? I've got several of the (URL) 10015 Passenger Wagon> on sale and figured out a way to use the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | MonLUG's 5th Train Show, November 8th and 9th
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A french message follows. Un message en français suit. Hello, I'm happy to announce MonLUG's fifth participation in a train show at the « Expo Train Modélisme » in the Montreal Area. It will be held at Georges Vanier High School in Laval (just north (...) (21 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.loc.ca.qc.mon, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains) !
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(...) Well... According to this: (URL) the show quit four years prior to my birth .) The fact I live in Sweden might explain why I've not seen any re-runs either. Perhaps it's not only the town that has gathered a lot of dust :P (...) It's the tail (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.fun)
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To answer a couple of your questions ... (...) Yeah, there's a lot of dust everywhere in my town. That police car in particular is about 20 years old. It's from set 6384. (...) That's Alice from "The Brady Bunch!" That whole page is one big, silly (...) (21 years ago, 23-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.fun)
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(...) I thought it might be Dutch ... so I'll apologise again ...sorry But this site is quite difficult to navigate (if you don't speak Dutch) ... so more direct links to info would be helpful ... SteveH BeLUG (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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The car factory is of martijn booghaarts. He is a member of Dutch LUG de bouwsteen ((URL) Maybe you can find more info there. Rob "steven house" <steven_house@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hn64pz.1J03@lugnet.com... (...) broadband (...) Line"? (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Its a straight line assembly plant that is intended to build a Lego car piece by piece (how many? - I don't know)... adding parts at each station ... I believe its by the Italian LUG (apologies if it isn't) ... unfortunately they spent most of (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) THANKS for the photos!!! So much to see... I'll have to abuse my broadband tonight and view each shot! Can you tell us more about the "Car Assembly Line"? The one pictured here: (URL) post on your MOCpages site says: "I've seen the car (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Okay, here goes: Issue 2 -- Page 01 In the Zoo pic, is the guy in red pushing the other man over the ledge or does he try to rescue him from certain Aussie fame? Love the 'art'! Ah, a mob is not complete w/o torches and at least one pitchfork! (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.fun)
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(...) You know I never saw the first one. I was just talking with a freind a week ago, about how neat it would be if someone made comics (Although we were talking like the newspaper kind) out of LEGO. The fact that you made 2 whole comic books is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Seth, thanks very much!! I would probably be horrified to sit down and calculate how many hours we spent on this little project. I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed by the fact that more people haven't responded. Oh well, I guess (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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My first visit and exhibit to a major show ... Plenty of photos ... so take your time! Trains (URL) and Star Wars (URL) Midstorms and other stuff (URL) I also met a great bunch of people from the Lego community of Europe and a few from the USofA (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !
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Hi folks, We attended our fourth public presentation last weekend. It was a important milestone for us, because it was our first anniversary. Yes! one year already and it was in the same location. This time we had a little more time to prepare (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Jason and Bryan, That was really entertaining. I'm surprised more people have not replied here, because you did a great job. I can understand why the sequel was so long in coming, because it obviously required a ton of work! Very well put (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Drive in Theater and wireless Camera in Monorail/Train
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(...) What a fabulous idea ... the drive is fantastic ...I have the exact same camera ... so I should copy this idea for BeLUG ... I've tried it on my home layout ... and it works fine ... now all you need is to hook it up to a projector and beam it (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Mystery Legoland Hospital from 1978?
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(...) In one of these topics there's a link to a scan of a '79 catalog: (URL) Another thing that got my attention is that the baseplates of the police HQ and the fire HQ are not lined up at the rear, but seem to perfectly line up at the front. Was (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Erik Olson wrote: <<snipp>> (...) You mean those that needed to be filled via eBay? :) I read somewhere here on Lugnet that they had not kept a MISB-copy of each set so they had to go to eBay etc. to dig them out. (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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Me too! thanks! It was good to read those. I think that there is someone out there who knows the story. Ask Redini. Pester the people who post the archive photos on Lego.com. Bug Brad Justus. (If anyone would have a copy...) Query Jake McKee, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(URL) (...) All righty...thanks for those thread links. I dug around for some but was obviously not diggy enough! Sorry for re-opening an old can o' worms... :o) --Dave (jot and jab) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Dave, You aren't the only one who has pondered this one. See the thread from November 2002 (URL) It even goes back as far as March 2000 (URL) The world may never know... (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Yeah, it's a mystery. Left unsolved (not even cracked a teeny bit) (URL) hospital in the Idea Book 6000 is not even close, but hospital stickers are included. And I just noticed a detail on page 15. (First hospital appearance... the town is growing (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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OK, I'm guessing this was simply an unreleased set, but just to be sure, I figured I'd post an all-too-familiar scan from the good ol' 1978 LEGO catalog (the Town layout) and ask everyone if they've ever seen this COOL-looking Hospital set released (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Okay - I proudly present my series III ex-military Land Rover! That would also explain the more prominent rear lights, although I know they're still way, way too big! (...) And thanks for your comments. You and Andrew have both inspired me... (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I think it's all to do with the camera angles. I tried the top taller in the earlier model and it looked silly. Having just discovered a close-up mode on my camera, I'll play with that. (...) You've given me an idea... not for this model, but (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | Drive in Theater and wireless Camera in Monorail/Train
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For the last 3 shows, my Drive-in Theater wa part of the layout: after moderation: (URL) link Theater: (URL) is a shell for a laptop computer (Mac, G4, 17 inch screen). At the first two shows, we ran a powerpoint presentation of MOCs' from (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Technic scale bike fun
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Wow. Great MOC! (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Uh-Oh. A enemy for my (URL)! ;) Cool bike Adrian! I really like the use of swamp green! (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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ParLUGment just had our first showing here in Ottawa, and everybody loved it. The word "LEGO" was on the lips of both young and old at the Train Show. Everybody was coming back again and again. It was such a joy to see. The layout was the most (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !
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(...) I refered to the colors, not the name. But I see now that there in fact were some Kawasaki Samurai, looks like late 60's. (...) Yeah, the wheels always dictate the size. (...) Ooops! Leg cracked! j/k. (...) Bying "a couple of copies" usually (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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(...) That a very nice model, captures the original very well. I like the rear view especially. If only lego made some small-mid sized wheels more suitable for this sort of model. perhaps if you inset them further under the body? Also would it be (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) That's an idea, but this kit would be extremely expensive! I could probably make it in other colors if those wheels were only offered in something other than lime green. It certainly is food for thought, though... Thanks Adrian (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Adrian, It looks good, and I think lime green looks fine on a bike, it's Kawasaki-esque. Thanks, George (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Not really. It wasn't designed after any particular bike, I just liked the name. Maybe it's a future model :) (...) True, it is a bit larger than I'd wanted, but the size was set by those wheels, which are on the large size. If I had a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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(...) Is that ever purdy...wonderfully SNOTted saddle and corbin seat. Betcha this would be hot seller for those bikeheads out there...seriously. Cheers, -G (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I think you failed the Technic scale modern motorcycle scale thing, but it's still a good MOC! Perhaps the Belville figures is a better fit? I recall something about them being bigger. Also, the "seat" is unreal. But so are the Minifig horse (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town)
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(...) Maybe it's just a midget on a regularly sized bike :) Thanks though Adrian (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Surprisingly enough, this set here: [LEGOSet 4095] Has a fair number of lime green parts, including the wheels I used on the Samurai. Eric Sophie gave me the lime green parts from one of these as he was driving back through town after (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hello, that's my newest creation: A Renault Dauphine. (URL) When I saw the real car I wanted to rebuild it at once. More pictures available at BrickShelf: (URL) What do you think of it? What would you improve? Leg Godt -Sven (URL) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Very nice. Actually, it stands as a great rendition of a current-day sports bike too... not to mention a very clever use of lime-green elements. I know that colour doesn't currently constitute a particularly large range of elements. Believe (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: We're a band! We're a band! With guitars in our hand, we're crossing the land!
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(...) Thanks for the compliments, Shirley! Don't be so quick to downplay your abilities. No one is pathetic. I've come to realize building with LEGO is more like going to school -- I generally feel like I'm a sophomore or MAYBE a junior, where many (...) (21 years ago, 20-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Although I initially thought lime green had no use whatsoever, it looks perfect on a sporty bike like this. It's still enourmous for a Technic fig, but looks a little more to scale than a minifig on a turbocycle. Keep on SNOTin' --Bram (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Technic scale bike fun
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While Bram was at my house building his II-Blade, I set to work on my first Technic Fig scale bike. Ostensibly it's a turbocycle, and part of my turbocycle league. However, it's more of a miniland or techic model by scale, and town by theme. It's a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Dam(n)!!
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Last weekend my dam was part of the GATS show. I was it's first showing. I took some pictures of the dam detached from the rest of the layout, and put them up on brickshelf: (URL) construction, I kept in contact with Mike Gallagher, who build the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: We're a band! We're a band! With guitars in our hand, we're crossing the land!
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(...) Hi Joel, I really like your band. The ingenuity of you guys (and some gals) always amazes me, since my own attempts are still at the pathetic stage. Could you please tell me what you used to make the bass drum? Is it a 2x2 round brick on its (...) (21 years ago, 19-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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"For God's sake, don't say it! Stan Lee will break our legs!" Heeheeheehee. Yay. Great stuff. Soren (URL) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Whoops, sorry 'bout that. It should be fixed now. -Jason (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quite nice! One comment; the page select for issue 2 has many references to file:// instead of http:// whichm means they'll only work on your machine.. - -Tom Jason Gross wrote: | Hello everyone, | | My (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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Copy: lugnet.fun (...) I love it! It's better then the first one, especially your image altering power.. eh, technique has improved! I have to analyze the scenes a bit more LEGO-wise later on but things look great! It's a little odd, I thought about (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.fun)
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| | Re: We're a band! We're a band! With guitars in our hand, we're crossing the land!
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(...) Thanks Gary! LOL! She's great! I don't know if she'd with Crazy Leo's band, but a stage is a stage.. other acts are certain to find their way to the venue sooner or later so one never knows who might show up. :) Joel (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Ross Crawford wrote: SNIPPED (...) Thanks for the positive response. I agree, which is why the banjo was done away with.. ;) Brickenrocker has some rather nice ideas and may be the site I recall seeing before. Probably where I got (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Lego Comic Book Sequel
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Hello everyone, My friend Bryan and I are thrilled to FINALLY be able to publish the second issue of our Lego-based superhero comic, "The Unlikely Society." We published the first issue waaaay back in April, so the sequel has been a long time (...) (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) Joel that is superb, those speakers are great! But a great band needs *LOTS* of mean looking guitars, maybe you should try to sign a deal with (URL) Brickenrocker Guitars>? ROSCO (21 years ago, 18-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Cool band Joel! Hey, can this girl I know join?: (URL) Take care, Gary (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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The Southern Pacific LEGO® Train Club (SPLTC) will be joining up with the LEGO® Company sponsored "What Will You Make, Americas?" 2003 Roadshow (URL) There will be an assortment of displays showing off the new Designer product line of LEGO® as well (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.az.phx, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Paul Janssen wrote: SNIPPED (...) I'm still thinking about speakers really or rather where to put them. Maybe under the stage somehow so the sound seems to be coming 'from' the band etc... with no unsightly 'non-LEGO' speakers to be (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, Allister McLaren wrote: SNIPPED (...) Thanks for the feedback. The drum kit idea hasn't really changed much over the years; I made a band as a kid and found I still like this approach the best because it's simple. :) (...) LOL! Yeah. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Nathan Wells wrote: SNIPPED (...) Well.. it depends on how cross eyed I get and how shakey my hand is at any given time. :) I've got a few heads that weren't badly marked and a few that are. In my personal experiences with the Alpha (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Ah. AT heads might be the only heads I would modify (I'm strictly a purist). Does the knife create any indention in the head where the mike was, or are you able to scrape the printing off by itself without damaging the head? Thanks! (URL) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) FYI you can get them in white in the World City Police helicoptor (there are 2). Just dont apply the stickers :) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Joel, When I read about the OS/rcx, I got thinking (yes I do sometimes...). We could plaly I-tunes from the movie Theater (Macintosh Laptop). This will not interfer with display of the presentation and/or the wireless camera. In the last (...) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Ummm, looks more like a series III (1) Lightweight to me. A great model and the colour suits it really well. Would be interesting to see some LDraw plans. Mark (1) Apologies for being a Land-Rover anorak. However the 90 designation came in (...) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Good call. Excellent model. I partcularly like the drum kit. (...) What's the definition of a gentleman? Someone who knows how to play the banjo, but doesn't. :) Allister (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Nathan Wells wrote: snipped! (...) Yep. And yep. I'd actually forgotten I'd modified the head. Just took an X-acto knife and removed the mic. I really have no use for the cool Alpha-Team heads with mic's. The same thing was done for (...) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Dave! I've given some thought to adding actual music but in that it's (thus far) been displayed as part of the local train club display... I'm not convinced that most would be happy to endure my choice of music despite how cool it (...) (21 years ago, 16-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) SNIP (...) I've been wondering, Peeron says this face has a microphone printed along with that hugh grin, but I don't see it on this fig. Modification, perhaps? (...) 4 in 4793-1 - Ogel Shark Sub 2 in 7153-1 - Jango Fett's Slave I™ 2 in 4789-1 (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Great stuff. I like the look. On the topic of the lights. If you have a Mac(iTunes+os9) and a RCX you might like this idea I had from while back (URL) the show in-sync to the music! Again props on the layout. DaveG Ps: Mail me/comment if (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That's a hefty compliment, thank you. It was a blast to build. Now if only they came in more colors than just red, it'd be perfect! :) Joel (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments, Brendan! I can't take credit for the 1x2x1 plates as the electric guitar bodies as I am pretty sure I saw someone else use them with a different piece for the neck in the past, but I don't recall anyone using (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That is really cool. I particularly like the use of wrenches and corner plates for guitars. That is probably the best rock band scene I have seen done out of LEGO. -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, the Reverend Brendan Powell Smith spake: (...) Read Joel's initial post: (...) it's this part: 'Technic Brick 2 x 2 x 2 with Hole and Click Rotation Socket' (URL) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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I love it. Great job with the band and instruments. I particularly like the drum set and the expression of the drummer is awesome. The guitar cables are a nice touch too, and the monitor amps... and the giant stage poster behind the drummer. Wish I (...) (21 years ago, 15-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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<snipped> (...) Nate, Thanks for the kind words. My wife was trying to help me find some 1x2 with technic hole bricks for a speaker tower initially. I'd planned to just stick the stud of a 2x2 radar dish in it but they were really too big and then I (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Joel, Looks really cool. The speakers are just great! I believe the title is in reference to a Audio Adrenaline song from their album Don't Censor Me. Nate (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Well this is a first of sorts for me on several levels: It's my first time to use FTX for a post so if this fubar's, my apologies ahead of time. It's the first (and hopefully) the last time I'll use such a long title but I couldn't resist. Gold star (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.fun, lugnet.technic, FTX) !!
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(...) Hey all, I just wanted to let you know that I have some more pictures of my Log Cabin MOC from COLTC latest show from the Dayton GATS show from last weekend (Oct 11,12 2003). Some of my pictures did not come out as I hoped but some did. I (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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For our last show, I've made a rowing regatta. Having been heavily involved in the sport for many years (in the past), I finally got around to building it. I hope in future I can expand the lake for a real regatta (6 boats). (URL) make detailed (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.town)
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| | The Brick Testament: More Laws than You Can Shake a Stick At
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The Brick Testament website has been updated today with nine new illustrated sections of The Law: (URL) For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or this section of The Bible, please take note of the content warnings for these stories before (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.town) !!
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| | NovaLUG display in Truro, NS, Oct 18th
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Hey folks, NovaLUG is proud to announce our fourth public event. We will be participating in the Model train show in (URL) on October the 18th from 9am to 4pm. For this occasion, we decided to work with all new creations of our favorite train and (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | ParLUGment to Display at Railfair 26, Ottawa, Canada
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Hello, The Ottawa LEGO club ParLUGment is pleased to announce our first local showing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On October 18th and 19th, we will be displaying a 16' x 9' LEGO Train layout at Railfair 26. The show is at Algonquin College near (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment) !
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