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(...) Hi Tim, Thanks and thanks again for directing me to that link. I am thrilled with the light yellow building, but think I need to revisit the dark red one. You know, your suggestion on the roads is right on the money. I am a little annoyed with (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks very much. I really would have liked the tiles to me light yellow as well, but to my knowledge they are not available. I then was going to use dark bley (because I had them) but I thought they'd be to dark. I ended up with the light (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) John,Great looking new street..I like the El(it reminds me of mine:-) ).The dinner looks good in those colors along with the neat gabage truck.Of course the dark red building looks good.On a side note it was great meeting you theis past (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Jonathan, I'm loving the car repair shop with the hotrod just poking out. I have a little suggestion though, I think it could look quite good if you raised a 1x2 tile on the road every so often. Need not be a full plate either but I think (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Uh, are those hookers? :D Very nice work. I love the contouring of the dumptruck. And the use of 1x1 tiles on the corners of the yellow building to simulate shoddy/rotting brickwork is brilliant. Again, very nice work. (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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In addition to meeting lots of builders I admire and getting tons of inspiration to build, my trip to NMRA in Philly enabled me to pick-up the bricks I needed to complete this street on my layout. (URL) It is supposed to replicate a busy industrial (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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Very Nice! Reminds me of a Thunderbird's scene for some reason... I am also picturing the accompanying heist to go with the accompanying bank. Keep up the great work and God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Security cam view of bank vault (3 URLs) Only problem now is building a bank for it! :( AC (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Cool part for a lintel on a window
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I noticed this part: (URL) And thought it would be great for a lintel on a building window. As I learned here on Lugnet, a lintel is the top part of a window. A part that people quite often use arches for. I'd love these parts in bley, dark bley or (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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(...) That's what usually happened to us when some of our friends dropped by and there were no rooms available. The boardwalk and all of the structures throughout the whole length of it gave the Wildwoods a distinct feature that none of the other (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Nice motel. Brings back memories of when we went down there, before we had any kids, and crammed as many people in one room as we could... Now you need to build a section of (URL) Morey's Piers> and a working Sea Dragon... (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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The summer weekends spent along the Jersey shore have been a constant getaway for my family when the kids were younger. We'd essentially drive down to the Wildwoods and stay at (URL) various motels> that lined up the beach. These motels had the (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Storm drain puzzle / Keep Them Rolling
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Hello All, First, a small quiz for you lot: Can you figure out what parts I've used to build the inlet grating of the storm drain seen in the following picture? And how I've attached those and the lid of the drain? (URL) I'm trust that many of you (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.fun, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi everybody! A few weeks ago, Dan Parker, Nathan Sawaya, and myself -- along with members from The LEGO Company -- unveiled a new LEGO display at FAO Schwarz in New York City. The minifig-scale city of "Bricktropolis" is built on a 6-foot (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, FTX) !
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| | LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes
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I've been tinkering with the "ldraw.xml" file in LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), and have come up with the following list of fixes for good LDD/LDRAW conversion. In case you hadn't already discovered, if you append ".ldr" to the end of the file name (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build) !!
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| | LDD Signal Box for Save 9V Trains Contest (and John Neal)
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Here's an LDD model of a British railway signal box. (URL) Signal Box>>(URL) The roof layout comes from one at Oakham, theough the steps are turned around here and the door set back to allow for a wider view from the windows. The roof lifts off to (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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Here's some scaffolding I made at the weekend. I'm mainly a spacey kind of guy, but I guess you could use this in a townie/train scenario. (2 URLs) Pete (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: A Few Firehouses
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(...) Thanks, Dave. Sorry for the late reply -- I am offline on the weekends and much of the day on Fridays. The firehouse "jlcreation" was inspired by a newer firehouse in The Bronx. Unfortunately, the firehouse was involved in scandal over the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | ILTCO @ NMRA Nat'l Train Show Press release
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Hi All, There has been a press release by the NMRA about our up and coming layout, thought I'd share it with you. (URL) more generic info on the show visit www.iltco.org and there is a news blurb and linked article with all the detailed information. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.iltco)
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| | Another tram / light rail from Turin!
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(URL) After my first attempt to build a tram from Turin ((URL)), I've decided to make another one in the same scale (1:37). The model I've chosen is the "Fiat ML 7000", a tram that I use very often. This tram is about 28 meter long and it is someway (...) (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: A Few Firehouses
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(...) There is some great details in these building. I really like Picture "18". Those details at the top are great. I will have to borrow that design. I also really like how picture "jlcreation" has that cement block look. Very convincing. Keep up (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I love the top. Great job! I use yellow for hidden parts of my buildings too. I like the mention of PAB in your write up. Glad to see a MOC that was heavily made possible by PAB. Very nice. Jonathan (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | My New Building MOC.
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Hello all, I just wanted to share with you my newest Town MOC. First a little back story on how this MOC came about. I had been messing around with making a 6 sided shape using 2x8 plates and 1x4 hinge plates. After building several disk, I stuck (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.town) !
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| | Several new MOC's
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I have uploaded pictures of quite a few MOC's to a web picture gallery. Among them are: • A front-end loader and a dump truck at minifig scale with working technic mechanisms • Technic 6-legged walkers, a Technic vehicle that automatically circles a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | BrickFest Bulletin: Town/Train Contests
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(URL) Town/Train Contests Announced for BrickFest! The BrickFest Staff is happy to announce the Town and Train Competitions for BrickFest 2006: There will be 5 awards for train, and 5 for town. Train 1) Best Steam Engine-Themed MOC --Must be (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: A Few Firehouses
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(...) Thanks, Mark. L8 is my second favorite! Thanks again, Jonathan (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Your buildings are amazing. I especially like 18.jpg. Wonderful job!! --Mark (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! E289/L138 is my favorite. It took a couple of attempts to get it to where it is now. The first version came out really large. It is the most recent firehouse I have built as well, though it has been built for about two years. I tried (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Incredible work, Jonathan! I'm sitting here drooling over the realism, the amazing attention to detail and the SNOT construction methods - especially on E289/L138's firehouse. Just awesome. -Steven (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | A Few Firehouses
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I decided to put all my firehouses into one folder on brickshelf (though, I forgot to take photos of one of them). Here they are: (URL) Some have been seen before, some have minor adjustments to previous versions and a couple haven't been shown (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !
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| | Re: School's Out For Summer!
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(...) The big trick is to attach the [LDrawPart 4073:36][LDrawPart 4073:57] upper "flashing" lights and yet keep the rounded edges of roof [LDrawPart 6191:14] visible when viewed directly from the front or rear. If I used a [LDrawPart 3666:0] as an (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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That's pretty sweet! Now you've gotta do a flat-fronted school bus! :-) (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) That's very cool, I've always been a fan of six-wide town vehicles. However, I think that the yellow hood looks a lot nicer than the black... Derek (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Excellent. I just love the back of it. Though I don't drive more than a couple times a year, if that, I definitely remember what the back of a slow moving school bus looks like. Great work. Jonathan (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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To honor of the end of the school year, I've built a six-wide school bus: (2 URLs) MOCpages> (URL) Brickshelf> No more pencils, No more books, No more teacher's dirty looks... Enjoy! Spencer (18 years ago, 6-Jun-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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(...) The beds look very institutional, and the rickety bridge is nice. Great work! Next, you should do (URL) Motel Hell>. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I'm looking forward to seeing that on this Saturday's Sci-Fi channel orginal movie. (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | The Sunny Shores Retirement Home
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Welcome to... (URL) It has been awhile since I built a Town MOC, and places like this do exist in World City. "Big Daddy" Nelson (18 years ago, 5-Jun-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | My Own Inverse Pony Ear Bus Stop (was: "Raeynop" schleim technique)
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(...) Yes, you are right. Sort of; it should be a 2wide plate (or a 2 + (2 * n) wide). This insight of yours and your reply to this (by now quite old) post got me thinking again about what this technique actually could be good for. The result was (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Would You Like To Play A Game Of Chess? I Play Very Well....
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Oops, sorry about the crosspost to these groups-- wasn't intentional. JOHN (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(URL) Built by my son, Ross. Portable. I lost my queen in our first game because I couldn't tell the pieces apart. He didn't care;-) Enjoy, JOHN (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. I seem to have missed the jingle below the front in my version. (...) A little difficult to do in CAD or with my collection. If Joseph "bricks of mud" Williams would like to give it a go it might be possible ;) (...) Interesting idea. (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Problem with clikits and Belville parts is they're a bit too large for this scale. Of course what it really needs is to be made at Model Team scale to get full 100% bling. Tim (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I agree, What it could use is some click-it parts and a few Belville colored parts. (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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It's a Jingle Truck!!!I've seen waaay to many of thsoe. I think it needs more jingle, especially on the front end, and the parts need to be old and battered. Maybe a vignette wit hte driver pulled over and the engine apart on the shoulderr being (...) (18 years ago, 25-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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bling Tim (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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I've been meaning to make one of (URL) these things> for quite a while and finally got around to it. I'd say this is the first (and probably only) MOC with four blues, two oranges, yellow, red, brown, black and white. (2 URLs) BS Gallery> It doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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Wow! Beautiful job, Jim. The photo totally fooled me. "Why did he include such a large image of the actual building?" was my first thought. (I still highly recommend posting to announce.moc, by the way. It'd be a crime is a MOC this nice went (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Jim- That is one beautiful big building! -Ted SCLTC (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Working Minifig-Scale Mailbox - Resolved!! ...
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(...) That's pretty cool! It's an interesting vig - a little more of an absurd situation than Joe normally gets in, but good. I like the Time Twisters dishes on the snail shell. Thanx for using my design - nice to know people like stuff the I've (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Thank you for all of your generous comments. This MOC is my third Lugnet post and guess the third time is the charm. My previous two came and went rather quietly with 1 or 2 responses (while posts such as a swastica spaceship generated massive (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) Thank you. Do not think that I have not considered modeling some of the other architectural masterpeices in the city. Last year I actually laid out a one story outline of the Guardian Building in red bricks before deciding that in order to do (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Working Minifig-Scale Mailbox - Resolved!! ...
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...Well, maybe NOT resolved, but it works for me!! I really liked your idea, Jeff and decided to try it out. The result is included in this "Joe Vig" vignette: (URL) All I did was to turn the (black) 1x1x1 brick with stud on all sides so that it's (...) (18 years ago, 23-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Impressive. I had to look closely to see if it was Lego or not. Congrats :) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Absolutely fantastic! I too enjoy the color combination. The compression to keep the size reasonable yet still work in a minifig layout is excellent. There's only one problem - you are inspiring us to build bigger!! Keep up the great work! Roy (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jim, This is simply spectacular. I've been watching the very promising progress shots on BS and I'm stunned at the end result. Absolutely brilliant! I love all your art deco stuff but I think this one is the best. I'd love to see some shots (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Like it? No. Love it? Oh yeah! I can't wait to see it in person in Philly! Great work, Jim! JOHN (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Absolutely, beautiful. Perfect color choices. Great job! Jonathan (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Great work Jim!! Although I haven't been involved with the Michigan club, I had the pleasure of meeting Jim last August when he was on tour of Downtown Detroit's Historic Theatre Tour, where I was a guide. A great guy! Jim has also done a (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I've got that set & it is VERY COOL! A great build & it did remind me of classic sets. I dislike the click hinges, but the set is so good & 'classic' that I can easily overlook it. It has a classic smiley pilot with a cool midnight blue pilot (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote: <snip> (...) Like it, I think I nearly wet myself. That is a work of art. Love the use of tan/ dark orange combo. Aaron A (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Australia :) (aussie web sites end with .com.au, hence au) (...) Ditto, The Clear one on the other hand.... (...) Diameter touches studs either side so unable to have anything connected. It's hight is about a plate and a halfish (i may me (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Wow Jim, that's truly amazing! Not only a great model, but the picture really helps sell the reality of it. Very well done. AB (18 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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Greetings fellow builders: I have just completed a 7.5 foot high skyscraper MOC: A Lego model of the David Stott Building, a 37 story art deco office tower erected in Detroit during 1929: (URL) I am planning on bringing this building to the NMRA (...) (18 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | New Seaplane set in old Legoland scale
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Looks pretty cool. (URL) pieces. It appears to use the new click hinge sloped roof piece instead of the old finger hinge peice, but other than that it look very nice. -Mike Petrucelli (18 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New MOC - STVFD Engine 82
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(...) Great to see another rig added to the fleet! Very nice work, indeed! I especially like some of the details on the back (hose connection, traffic cone, etc.). I'd second the motion to shorten the pump panel by a brick. Also, it looks like the (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the idea. I like it, but it's not the style of American mailboxes, so I made this: (URL) -Ash (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Fire Dept List (was Re: 411 on Brian Gallant?)
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Here is the site address for the LMFD (LEGO Metro Fire District) if you click on members, there is a list available for all the member sites there. (URL) Tom D www.stlegofd.com (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Fire Dept List (was Re: 411 on Brian Gallant?)
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(...) Mine is here: (URL) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I haven't separated out my fire apparatus and station, but they are accumulating slowly at Roy Gal (URL) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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I'd like a link to my trucks i have built (URL) IndyLUG (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Roy, we're building a new list of fire model links to put on the Town home page. See (URL) you like a link to this BS gallery, or some other page? Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Very nicely done, Roy! I have been meaning to try and build some fire equipment for a while, and I think this MOC may be the final inspiration I need to build. Thanks for sharing! -Matt :) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! Actually, that's the bumper of another of our engines, E84. E82 (the one the model is based on) has just a flat bumper, hence the one on the model. As for the wheelbase - you're right about that. I think I should remove one stud from (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Roy, Very nice, really captures the flavor of the real deal. Looking at the pics on the stvfd.org website and your Brickshelf gallery I'd have to say I prefer the updated extended bumper with the hose bed and pre-connect (seen in (URL) and (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Roy, I like it a lot. The wheel base looks a little longer than the prototype but it gives a good feel to your version just the same. The length of the cab looks great! Excellent detailing as well. The rig that your model is placed on: is (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | New MOC - STVFD Engine 82
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Hi all, After a long period of not building much, I finally got around to making something new: A model of Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department's (URL) Engine 82>, a 1993 Pierce. (URL) I volunteer at this station, so I took some pics in its (...) (18 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Brilliant station by dagealka
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(...) Its a work of genius IMHO. although I don't think it contains any SNOT techniques that haven't seen before, it seem to have them all in there. What makes it great tho, is the way they are melded together to create a building thats full of (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanx! Sorry, but what's "AU"? (...) Good idea for some things, but I try to stay away from Trans-Pink :) I might pick up some somewhere along the way, for the insides of things. Are they based on standard Lego units, at least? (could it be (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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It's so hard to make a working anything in fig scale that a castle fan like myself will come out of the woodwork to compliment this 'newfangled' contraption ) God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) My goodness. This might either inspire people or make them give up the hobby. I won't make any SNOT/kleenex jokes, but will say, there is a ton of SNOT! Love the tan crates and the yellow pallet jacks among many other wonderful details. Along (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi all, This model appeared in BS recently and I think it's brilliant. User signed off as Daniel on the 100steine post so thanks Daniel for this excellent work. (2 URLs) BS Gallery> (URL) on 1000steine land> I'll leave it to you to find all the (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Fantastic, Will be modifying it to suit the AU enviroment. so damn impressive In lugnet.announce.moc, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Try one of these in the center of the base (URL). I love this piece, and have bought many a clikit (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) --SNIP-- (URL) --SNIP-- (...) This is a really cool little MOC. I've been trying to think of ways to keep studs up at the bottom but nothing has come to me yet. Tim (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Cool, great little MOC. Janey "Red Brick" (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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This is my latest creation - small, but pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I've made it for the <vlc.ca VLC>'s Show in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. If you're in the area, please drop by - check out (URL) Surrey Museum website> for more info. (...) (18 years ago, 18-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Kevin! The fire association has fractured into two groups, but it would be nice to have one place on Lugnet that someone could find fire-related Lego links. Also, here are two awesome Brickshelf folders that are sometimes overlooked by (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I had hoped that the fire association pages would between them have lists of fire-related stuff - but one has now vanished and there's not much on the other one! So, people, add links to your and other fire equipment pages to this list, and (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The reason is great news for Brian, but bad news for the Lego community. Brian got a job as a permanent firefighter for the same department that his father works for. But his real-life firefighting duties are keeping him too busy for Lego (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about Tom. Thanks, Dave. It might be handy to have these type of links on the town page for easy access. Hey Kev-- maybe have a header that is inclusive of ALL Fire related MOCs? :-) JOHN (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Could also try Tom Duggan's folder here: (URL) DaveE (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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I was searching for inspiration because I need to build a fire engine. Of course I've bookmarked (URL) Asbury's Brickshelf page> (and one could argue that that's all the inspiration one could ever need!), but I also was interested in perusing Brian (...) (18 years ago, 16-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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This is the second set for the Rum Runners sub-theme. Illegal booze runers aren't much fun if there aren't any cops to chase them, so I built the Copper's Callbox set. (2 URLs) Brickshelf Gallery> The set consists of a rookie cop on foot patrol, and (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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This MOC is for the Vancouver Lego Club's 2006 Surrey Museum show. If you're in British Columbia's Lower Mainland this Summer, I would reccomend that you check it out. See the (URL) Museum website> for more info. This model is admittedly a (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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--SNIP-- (...) Quite possibly. Tim (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi, thanks for your comments. I agree, but I cannot move the cockpit as the concave double slope bricks wouldn't fit in then right below the windscreen. (...) Thanks, some tries make me presume these only look well when using LGEO, right? (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Florian, You're getting a nice little collection there. I really like the long nosed passenger jet although I feel it would look a lot better if you moved the cockpit forward one brick (the nose is just a little too long IMO). (...) For (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Sorry, this should of course have been (URL) Florian (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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Hello everyone, I'd like to show you my town models: (URL) They're all available for download in LDraw-MPD-Format (as instructions). BTW, I'm not sure how to do golden astronaut visors in LDraw yet (so they actually end up shiny in POV-Ray renders), (...) (18 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.town)
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Inpired by this post: (URL) I like the gangsters idea, and I think it'd be a fun Adventurer's sub-theme, which I've nicknamed Rum Runners. The theme takes place during the Prohibition era of the United States, pitting the Rum Runners against The (...) (18 years ago, 6-May-06, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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