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Hi all, I posted some pics of a couple of town trucks I made. The first one, (URL) has steering wheels. Note the realistic angle of the wheels, achieved using two technic motorbike pivots: (URL) The trailer has working stand, moved through the spare (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.town)
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| | trading new 4032-IBERIA for 2x5120 used
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Hello all, (4 URLs) I have a 4032 set with IBERIA stickers to offer for trade. It is sold onboard only on IBERIA airlines for a limited period. I would like to trade it for two used 5120 technic-electric polarity inverters ((URL)). This special (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jun-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: New Airline Promo
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) SAS (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Replying to my own message ... My co-workers from Stockholm are in town today and brought with them one copy of the SAS (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.promo)
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| | BrickTopia - Futuristic Cargo Ship MOC
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This is a futuristic cargo ship that I made from the new Maersk set: (URL) are appreciated (20 years ago, 3-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Need inspiration for town buildings
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(...) A good book for fast food restaurants is (URL) Orange Roofs, Golden Arches>, by Phillip Langdon. I am consulting it for a series of micro-scale fast food joints I am working on. If you own a digital camera, I would recommend keeping it on your (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Need inspiration for town buildings
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Brian Kendig wrote in message ... (...) people (...) I second the suggestion to look at train club show pics. There's lots of good work out there. Just walking around and taking pics is very helpful too: I find myself looking at roofs a lot :-) The (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, Brian, check out the buildings from the under-construction TCLTC layout: (URL) Some are what I call "background buildings" (meant to be on the edge of the module and thus are thin to conserve space), and some are full sized. Hope they (...) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Need inspiration for town buildings
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Hear, hear. By all means go out and look around. Take some photos. When I started doing this, I could be anywhere and guessing how many bricks wide, high etc. something would be. (Of course you make crazy exaggerations as needed.) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I went through the same problem while our local train club converted my Mindstorms/Technic interest into a more general Lego town/train interest. Most of my initial inspiration came from browsing brickshelf's huge wealth of train show pics. So (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Need inspiration for town buildings
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I've been wanting to build buildings around my Lego railroad - not just open-backed buildings like are in most Lego sets, but buildings which look good from all directions. But I've been sadly suffering from an utter lack of inspiration. I could use (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | COLTC to display at Marcon, May 28-30.
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Starting tomorrow, COLTC will display a small layout at Marcon. Marcon is the annual "Multiple Alternative Realities Convention". The convention is held in Columbus, OH, at the Hyatt Regency. read more about it, including costs/other features at : (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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Hi Bruce, it's me again. Having checked out the other dogs, I thought I'd better post the dog I made for my wife a couple of years ago. It's nothing spectacular really, it's kind of a mixed breed, but I think it works at minifig scale. (URL) Peace (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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In lugnet.castle, Jason J. Railton wrote: Hi Jason, (...) Let me know when you put those up and I'll add links. I initially made my rabbits (also the newer design I just posted) for the chapter "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" for my Lord of the Rings (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New MOC: Grolsch Brewery Plant
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(...) The only time we consumed Grolsch was during the toast as part of the unveiling ceremony :-) Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to count all those studs in the instructions... Eric (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Wow, what a great model - and great use of MLCAD as well. Now what I really want to know... Was any Grolsch consumed during (or after!) the build?? ;^) Darrell (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Reed - Thanks for mentioning mine, I was on holiday. I've now done a separate page to index just the pictures of the Shire Horse: (URL) have a DAT model, but I haven't converted it to instructions yet. The same with some ducks I've designed, (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) I'm glad you noticed the vehicles, since there are not many close up pictures of them. Here are the ones I do have: (4 URLs) The trucks are all 3 wide, the other cars 2 wide and the forklifts 1 wide. (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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Cross-posting to .build.microscale, just in case anyone there missed this. All I can say is wow! I especially like the microscale vehicles. Do you have any closer pictures of the forklift in this picture: (URL) Another particularly clever microscale (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: Grolsch Brewery Plant
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(...) Very true. I used the term MOC generically as 'non-TLG-creation', without thinking about the literal meaning as an abbreviation. If you'd want to coin the term OOC, this display certainly fits the bill, since it was a team project and it (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New MOC: Grolsch Brewery Plant
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Wouldn't this be more of an OOC than a MOC? With so many people working on it, "My" doesn't fit, "Our" does ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.town)
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