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Re: Town on wheels (was Re: Millennium City)
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:03:06 GMT
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Erik Olson wrote in message ...
> How much city are you going to build?
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 actually thought
about blocking the door and crawling under the table, but I'm not as agile
as I used to be so I nixed that idea.
Also, I plan on using blue baseplates as the harbor, but representing the
deeper "ocean" for my divers with chicken-wire at tabletop level and a
shorter platform underneath for my sea floor. That way I could still have
the boats "floating" yet have the submersibles able to be lowered "through"
the surface of the water.
I'm not really sure how many roadplates I can fit within 48", (four or five
is my guess), but I'd like to build a little bit wider than that. An
alternative would be to make the anti-doughnut--the town as an island with a
2'" walkaround--but then I'm not sure if I could reach everything without a
_9 to 5_ garage-door opener setup.
I'm not sure what I'm actually going to do, really, but I'd like it at least
as large as Millenium city. (I almost wish I hadn't seen it--too many
ideas!) Nothing's going to happen anytime soon, however, since I don't have
the space in my house, and I'm not looking at getting anything larger for
awhile. :(
> One of my ideas was to do a castle, 64 studs deep and 8 feet long. Really a
> fortified coastal city, with ships out in front.
That sounds like a neat idea--a walled city with a port. Maybe one day I
can attempt a minifig Ethsthar, Lankhmar, or (my personal favorite)
Ankh-Morpok.
Great. Just what I need--more ideas.
Brian (bbq) Sauls
(My wife says I'm a few bricks shy of a blue tub--I wonder what she means?)
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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. (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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