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Hi everyone. Well, there are no houses on eBay right now that I can bid on so I am going to start planning for the next section of my suburb...the mountain. I was thinking I could make the mountain out of non-Lego elements. Thus, getting a model (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) At PNLTC there's a mountain that's kinda like you want: (URL) . And Jacob Sparre Andersen made a dat file of a big mountain: (URL) . Alan (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.town) !
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You can build your own mountain, that way you can have it flat at the top and have caves and other things. If you build it with newspapers and then cover them with a thivk layer of plaster, you can then file the plaster flat and paint it. Perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) them (...) it. (...) You know, I was actually thinking about making one out of plaster! I've worked with plaster before so I know how to work with it. I'm not too sure how I could get the texture. The paint is the same way. I guess I would (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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Brendan: [ Building a LEGO mountain? ] (...) What about using technic beams and plates for the main part of the mountain? You will probably want to use hinges, slopes, and other stuff to add details - and thus realism. I think you will have to build (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Yes, and I wouldn't mind generating one to whatever specs you have - even flat tops and vertical surfaces for "drilling" tunnels. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Well, you're really going to get two different looking designs if you make a mountain out of Lego's, and a mountain out of plaster. First of all, with Lego bricks, you will get a lot of jagged edges which is perfect for a mountain. You can (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I built my moonscape like a pinata, but it has it's downsides. The moonscape is now under repair, after the famous "foot" accident ;-) Not to mention all the tiny fragments of plaster that decorated my room after that... Perhaps I'd make it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) ...That would be almost as heavy as concrete (tho easier to work with). U could also use either foam insulation sheets (those big pink rigid foam sheets u can find at home deopt), or find a can of spray foam. That stuff is fun, u spray it and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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We have a Styrofoam mountain in the NGLTC layout. Its made from the sheets of pink home installation, Great stuff foam and a thin layer of sheetrock putty (for texture). Also a few clone blocks were added as rocks to the mountain to give it some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) ...you used clone bricks!!! The horror!... Hmmmm, but better than defacing real bricks... and besides, the whole thing isnt 'pure' anyway. ...But seriously, I like the mountain. I've seen the pics before and had done a similar thing for model (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) You are so close to the dark side now.... I think you have been hanging out with rich too much recently... I propose any mountain on the club layout will be pure bricks and burps. -Chris (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) WOW! Now that is a GORGEOUS mountain. I mean, no offense, but I wouldn't paint a mountain yellow. However, if that was brown, gray, and any other color it would look absolutely perfect. I'm sure it's extremely easy for you to describe it in (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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Glad you liked it Brendan. I know that some people prefer a "pure" LEGO mountain (so would I, but I'd rather use the limited bricks I have for other projects), I modeled it after a mountain that was on the cover of a S@H catalog I saw a few years (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.town)
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