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Hello, I have completed yet another NYC firehouse. (URL) This one from 17th street in Manhattan. I had walked by this firehouse many times and always thought it had way to much detail to be recreated in Lego. I guess it would help if I had a picture (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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| | GFLTC at GTE Tampa – Images
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Train Fans, The members of the Greater Florida LEGO Train Club had a display the Great Train Expo in Tampa Florida over the New Year’s weekend (December 30-31, 2006). The 18 x 18 ft layout featuring the downtown Tampa skyline with three running (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.gflug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains.org, FTX) !
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| | Re: Tugmaster
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(...) I have to say that that is VERY nice. Captured the shape and style very well. Congrats :) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! I should be able to post pic's of my theater's this week. I just rec'd the parts to complete the 2nd one today and might have time to complete it this evening. (...) I think the wheel arch piece would be perfect for those windows. The (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) hey jonathan, good to hear from you and i'm glad it was timely! i just started to think about building the theater so i figured i better take some pictures. got any pictures to share of your theatre project?? i might need to "barrow" some more (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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(...) Depends... I usually work from original building plans and LOADS of pictures. I try to do most things to scale, which keeps me from making huge mistakes :D (...) Ehhh well there are a few projects in various stages at the moment, I will only (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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(...) Cool. Thanks for posting these. It is quite timely that you post pictures of theatre's. I have just finished one and just rec'd the B-Link order today to finish another. PS: snooping around on Brickshelf and I see updated pic's of your layout (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | starting a town/train jambalaya box?
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hey all, i was just wondering if there would be intrest in starting a town/train jambalaya box. if you are interested please add your name below. ondrew (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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(...) Enjoy? I sure did! Nicely done... funny as it seems, I think "modern" (at least for me) is very difficult to pull off well (in the brick). Do you have your next building already picked out??? Janey "Red Brick" (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Small town building reference
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(...) Hey all, Well I’ve been at it again. The other day I visited Geneva and St. Charles Illinois and took some pictures for your viewing pleasure. Most notable of the photos are 2 theaters. The Geneva Theater was featured in the recent movie "Road (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Tugmaster
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(...) Oh dear. I've obviously offended a fan :P (...) (URL) First renders> are allowed to be catastrophes :) (...) Yeah. But I never like to do the common versions. Has to be at least a bit different ;) (...) That is very cool. If only my cab had (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi Tim, very nice tugmaster! But "oddity" is not fair :-) It reminds me to my very first Ldraw project (and my first rendering, which was a catastrophe): (URL) Only the colour red seems odd. The really cool tugmasters of the really cool tug drivers (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi All, A (URL) little intermodal oddity> I turned up looking for shunters. (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Tim PS. The MPD is provided to show how it all sticks together. There is only one direction (backwards) that the studs don't point in some part of (...) (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
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| | Re: Minifig Scooter
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Well I'm no townie, and have no use for a scooter, but this is still a pretty impressive design! Very nice work indeed! Thanks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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(...) I used mainly stacked plates and bricks... there's a bit of SNOT to get the Window row fall back ½ stud, the rows right of the window are jumper plates and plates, held by invisible technic bricks. (...) The building was pretty much 1:40 all (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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(...) I like this a lot. It's a great choice to build in Lego and you've pulled it off most admirably. I particularly like the way you've simulated the spiral using studs out tiles (unless my eyes decieve me). My only crits are that it's perhaps a (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)
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| | Finally online : Cafe De Unie
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I finally managed to post my last (may/june 2006) MOC online : Cafe De Unie, an architectural masterpiece by JJP Oud, built in 1925 (and rebuilt in 1986) (URL) Jan-Albert van Ree | (URL) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town) !
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(2 URLs) Brickshelf (when modded)>. Here is my latest. It is a 4-8-8-2 Cab Forward. It is not modeled completely from a single train. But the most influential is the cab-forward(4294) that resides at California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. I (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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(...) Ahh, good point. (...) Another good point. So, they retire the old arm mold and create a new one, reuse the droid arm and things come out more or less even. And that's with added playability. Sounds like a good business plan to me. (...) As (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Words to live by. Tim (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Except in this case, they'd be creating a new mold for the skeleton torso. If I remember correctly, the current skeleton torso has ball for the shoulder to fit the socket of the arm, where the one pictured appears to have a bar attachment for (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) The answer is clear to me-- saves TLG $$$. Anytime they can eliminate a mold and "shoot two birds with one stone", it cuts their production costs. It appears to me that droid arms have been getting a lot more use than as just as arms. As a (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) arms, then they'd be holding their weapons *sideways*. The "lead" skeleton there looks like he might have a droid arm for his *right* arm (because his flail is arguably sideways), but most of the rest of the skeletons are all holding their (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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"David Simmons" <xenobuzz@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:JB0Luo.Bp1@lugnet.com... (...) Why do those skeleton arms look exactly like mechanical battle droid minifig arms? IE part (URL) wonder why TLG would suddenly drop manufacturing of the (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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(...) brought to our attention? David Simmons xenobuzz@earthlink.net (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Berlin tram - class GT6N
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(4 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, Decided to have a play at with trams. This one is an (URL) ADtranz low floor> in Berlin city livery (class GT6N). The most challenging element of this was to incorporate the wheelsets properly given (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Best year
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(...) Very impressive. Very impressive indeed. I totally was not expecting the change in quality, but I guess that's what I get from having low expectations. Would anyone happen to have pictures of any of the other new castle sets? I'd be interested (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | Winter Tree
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(URL) All in all it uses 31 green large leaves and 64 white large leaves. I'm rather please that, though I didn't use any small leaves, I was still able to get a conifer-like shape. If you'd like to know why I used green to begin with, I did it for (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Minifig Scooter
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Hi all, For quite some time I've rather fancied giving my minifigs scooters. There are a number of perfectly acceptable designs floating around Brickshelf but they all seemed a little too big to me. After trying to come up with ideas with alarming (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Best year
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(...) never getting one of those seaports pictured! (...) They look to be a mixture of AFOL building & early 90's set design. The Seaport & Gas Station aren't quite as exciting to me personally, but I still can't wait to see detail pictures. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 27-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Best year
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Dear Lego, You've restored my faith in the company. If you asked me last week, I would have said 1991 was the best year ever for Lego town. (URL) after seeing the new sets, I think 2007 might be better. And that's saying a lot. (URL) left my dark (...) (18 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town) !!
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| | 2007 town set pictures
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(URL) am pretty excited about the parts in the cement mixer and garbage truck. In addition to the fact that they look really good. Jonathan (18 years ago, 22-Dec-06, to lugnet.year.2007, lugnet.town)
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| | Several Save 9v Trains Announcements.
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Announcing the LEGO Digital Designer Database at (URL) Many LEGO fans have asked for a place where they can post reviews for LEGO Factory models and find models rated highly by other builders. In response, Save 9V Trains is rolling out its LEGO (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Unlikely Society -- Chapter 3
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Getting closer to the feel of the old ones (which I enjoyed!) though I would still like to see the old unlikely society re-emerge... Thanks for sharing and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Unlikely Society -- Chapter 3
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Hey everyone, We're pleased to announced that Chapter 3 of our Lego superhero comic, The Unlikey Society, is posted. This chapter ended up being longer and a lot more complicated, special effects-wise, then previous chapters. That's why this one (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New Town MOCs: The Christmas Parade
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This is great! We have a display in less then a week at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra that is being billed as a"Holiday display".I would like to borrow some of your ideas for our layout.The flags on the streetlamps and the white rope/christmas (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Set 7904 extra's
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(...) I have not much idea if it is the new trend or common around other sets, but my 8288 crawler crane came with an unsual amount of extra pieces which cannot be explained by alternative models. There are even quite a few big pieces remained. (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.year.2006, FTX)
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| | Set 7904 extra's
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Anyone else noticed that set (URL) 7904 - City Advent Calendar 2006> seems to have an unusually large number of extra parts included? For the 9 days I've opened so far, from the 9 individual little polybags, only the two bags that just contained a (...) (18 years ago, 9-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.year.2006, FTX)
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| | New Town MOCs: The Christmas Parade
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At our recent (URL) LEAHI display>, we created a small town display called the (URL) Christmas Parade>: (URL) Roy Gal provided all of the minifigs, and redecorated his famous (URL) San Francisco Street> for Christmas. (Thanks, Roy!). For my section (...) (18 years ago, 9-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Trust Bank
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I really like this, ACPin. I've always wished that your photography was better, though. Do you set up lights? I see flash glare in several shots. Do you set your camera to manual focus, and/or manual f-stop? Large, interesting areas of your shots (...) (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Trust Bank
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Just another day at the (URL) Trust Bank> where customers from all walks of life conduct their own business... (2 URLs) AC (18 years ago, 8-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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(...) :o) Nice! But, sorry. Not it. The building is not in Detriot or a large city. And, being that I used to produce art books, it was featured in many. Images of it have been painted by many painters of a specific genre. (hmmm, weren't my diners (...) (18 years ago, 6-Dec-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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(...) (URL) ??? :-) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Hmmm. Not a skyscraper building. Only one business in the building. If I built interiors, which I do not, there would most definitely be a counter area that served refreshments. Sorry for being a tease, but that is all. ;o) I am (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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Ver nice.Great colors! (...) Michigan? Hints?? :-) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! Good eye! Yes, when I built this I didn't know those parts were available in Dark Red. I'll have to make the switch. (...) So, cool. I agree. I have done a (very) little research on neon lighting kits for modelers. Still poking ideas (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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(...) Hey, that's a peach, hon! I've had that diner on my radar for a future build because it's local and cool. You've done a great job, Jonathan! I hope in one of those BL orders you are getting 20 of (URL) in dark red;-) Here's a (URL) cool pic> (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Mickey's Diner in St Paul MN
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Hello, A while ago, when I was deeper into my diner phase, I built a diner inspired by Mickey’s in St. Paul, MN. I was inspired to build it by looking at the works of painter John Baeder. (His work also inspired my AlMac’s Diner, which I later found (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | new moc: cantilevered house
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for parlugment's participation in ottawa's annual train show, railfair 2006, i built a cantilevered house hanging onto a mountainside. the group had decided to try a new concept this year, leaving each member to build their own section, which didn't (...) (18 years ago, 2-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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| | Re: Manchester's Millyard in the news
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(...) That was the first thing I noticed in the pictures, was that Kjeld was there. Amazing work, amazing project. I look forward to seeing it someday! JohnG, GMLTC (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Sniffing around for a firehouse (Was: Manchester's Millyard in the news)
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(...) I agree. The NE has many inspirational firehouses. Cambridge 4 is my favorite from that bunch. Those stations are all huge! Wow! (...) Great firehouse. I have checked that one out many times before. Excellent detailing. (...) That is one cool (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Sniffing around for a firehouse (Was: Manchester's Millyard in the news)
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Being a fan of the old style fire stations like these, I must say, this part of the country is probably one of the best areas for the historic fire stations. Where I grew up they had several of these, and the best part is, most of these are now (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Sniffing around for a firehouse (Was: Manchester's Millyard in the news)
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Apologies for replying to my own post . . . but, (...) And, there it is: (URL) I think it is a nice looking station. But, rummaging around the firenews website I came across another Haverhill, MA station that I think is just gorgeous! (URL) In my (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.ma, FTX)
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(...) Nice work, Allister: It's fine to recline. Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Well, it's been a looong time since I posted a town model, and I suppose this counts as one, and it'll be a change to have some human powered transport shown for a change ;^) This model is based on my Bacchetta Giro short wheelbase recumbent. Poor (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Springfield Tire Fire and 6 wide pickup truck
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Very Nice! I like the slick, polished look you have created. Good work. God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) It was a good base to work from. Glad you enjoyed it! Adrian (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Cool! I never got around to building it for real. The updated hood & chrome gives it more 'zing' & you made a great scene to go with it! Jeff S (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Nice, Simpsons MOCs are always appreciated :) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Good stuff! I really like the pick-up truck. I tried building a similar one in orange a few months ago but it really didn't come out very well. I like this one alot. Great work guys! Jonathan (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(2 URLs) The truck is based on work by (URL) Jeff S.> See, I don't just build space. Cheers! Adrian (18 years ago, 20-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Big LEGO building auctioned at museum benefit
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Hi, everyone! I've been pretty busy lately so sorry for the lack of updates. Just yesterday I participated at a black-tie benefit dinner for (URL) The Museum of Arts & Design>, New York. The Museum is moving to a new building on Columbus Circle in (...) (18 years ago, 17-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: More Pictures from GWLTS-IV
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(...) That's where you're going wrong ;) Just use the heads and bugger the bodies. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: More Pictures from GWLTS-IV
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(...) It's just a pain with the General Lee, as everything is against you in Lego. There are no clear windscreens of a suitable angle, the best looking Creator wheels are too big for minifig cars, and these Junior wheels are too thick to work (...) (18 years ago, 15-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | More Pictures from GWLTS-IV
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This is my picture library from the GWLTC display in the STEAM Railway Museum back in October. I went off to LegoWorld immediately after and forgot to point out these pictures. Thanks to Martin Long and Mark Palmer for the use of a tripod to get (...) (18 years ago, 15-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Behold! The first official LEGO toilet!
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(...) A girl sitting on a toilet with the seat up? Wow, now I'm really starting to feel confused! (...) Exactly, there not up against the watertank at all, they are completly vanished. This means that the seat isn't up, but simply gone altogether (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Manfred is right, but the seat is up, (those black tiles are missing) so who knows why she's sitting there. Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Gallery: (URL) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Unlikely Society - Chapter 2
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Hi everyone, Chapter 2 of our Lego superhero comic, "The Unlikely Society," is posted and ready for your reading enjoyment. This one is all action, baby! The villain is revealed, and super-powers are unveiled, resulting in chaos, destruction, and (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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| | Sweet store, book store, cafe and more - all in 1 building!
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Hello all, Before I totally dismantle my building of the Sweet store..., I decided to finish parts of it off and take some extra photos. Sadly my camera is on up the creek without a paddle (hopefully get a new one for Xmas :D) so sorry for the (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Behold! The first official LEGO toilet!
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(...) How else could you see that it's occupied, before hoisting it off? (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Oh, come on Brendan. Being a girl, she could be peeing instead, wich is much less offensive :-) And looking more carefully, I miss the white plate between the black and yellow bricks, so she might just be resting on the toilet, without (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Behold! The first official LEGO toilet!
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(...) And Duplo citizens are served by: (URL) complete houses (based on Peeron inventories): (URL) Scala citizens by: (URL) Scala babies by: (URL) homemaker, there's also: (URL) (complete with minifig baby) For Belville, at least the following (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Couple of new(ish) buildings
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(...) Hi Kevin, Thanks. The part is this part from quite a few recent town vehicle sets. (URL) When I first saw it on the recent fire truck, I knew I wanted to use it as a lintel. thanks again, Jonathan (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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And by the way - ain't NO one goin' in that thing if that massive window ain't blocked off, perhaps with a 2x3 plate! (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hey Jonathan, the buildings look great! What is the dark-gray piece that you used to make the 3-wide arches on the 2nd floor of the orange building? I'd love to use that piece for one of my own projects but I don't recognize it. Thanks-- (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Here is another image: (URL) Also, here is an earlier, larger version of the same firehouse. (the brackets are slightly larger as well) (URL) The station is built from dark orange bricks. Let me know if these show you the detail (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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Oh, my, Bruce! Isn't that image against the LUGNET Terms and Conditions or something?! Shame on those perverted Danish toymakers. They should be banned from LUGNET. -Brendan ;) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Wow, look at that! I guess I was too quick when I titled that post "first official LEGO toilet". Much thanks for the correction. And I suppose the argument could be made that minifigs are (URL) just baby maxifigs> (not to be confused with (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hey, By far my favorite part about 265 is this pic from the instructions: (URL) The bottom left image is the official LEGO "girl poopin'" model! Bruce (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) snipped Hey Brendan, Does that mean that "girl" builders have always been ahead of the times??? Wink! Or maybe maxifigs, just couldn't hold out as long! (URL) Janey "Red Brick" P.S. A few of the Lego geeks I chat with, have taken to the habit (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Oh, poop. :-) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I can see that you are flush with excitement! (...) Whoa, that wipes me out! JOHN (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Minifigs have been holding it in for more than 25 years now, but relief is finally in sight now that the LEGO company has released its first official minifig bathroom in the form of a port-o-potty in set (URL) 7905 Building Crane>. Here's the (...) (18 years ago, 13-Nov-06, to lugnet.year.2006, lugnet.town, lugnet.fun, FTX) !
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Those are really great buildings. In image mid-view.jpg there is a wonderful fire station building of what looks like orange blocks with grey highlighted features. I was wondering if you I could get a close up of the brackets on that building. They (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) -snip- (...) Interesting design and building terminology/philosophy to point out. I try to use what I have, and I do challenge myself to use parts that have been laying around too, I know what you mean. -eric (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you, Eric. (...) I don't buy very many sets any more, but when I do and I end up with 'junk' (parts I don't normally use) I try to challenge myself to put them to use. Sometimes the results look 'forced' and other times I am happy with (...) (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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Jonathan, these buildings are fantastic! When I think about building mech bays, I always think how much more advanced the "Town" builders are when it comes to structure. I look up to folks like you when I build and I think to myself, "the more I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Ah, yes. Understood. (...) Thanks and feel free to grab any idea you like! Very few of my buildings start from the bottom either. Street level is usually the last thing I build. Sometimes I build from the 2nd level up (and then back down to (...) (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, down the road I could try that one out for sure, to display on (URL) this>. Problem is that these sections are too large (and too uncompleted;-) for us to take on the road. I would make a copy of yours to show off to the GP in our (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, very much! These are two of my favorite colors as well. I built the first version of the dark red building about 4 years ago in red. Just waiting for the opportunity to do it in dark red. With the dark orange, I have taken 3 of my (...) (18 years ago, 9-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Absolutely beautiful! When I looked at the first thumbnail I thought that it was a reference picture of a real street. I love the colour choice (that orange is my faviourite lego colour and the dark red and sand green suit each other so well). (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Jeramy. Yep, when I built with the reddish brown, I went into my part bin and tried to build only with what I had in there (which wasn't a huge assortment of parts). I did have a good number of Maersk ships and really wanted to use (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Tim. I am really pleased with the dark orange building. It was the most difficult building I have made with the limits in parts and getting the 3 wide windows and everything lined up the way I like. Also, I am happy I went "out of NYC" (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you, very much! Jonathan (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thank you very much, Pierre. And, please feel free to use any idea you want from my galleries. That is the main reason I post pictures. Best, Jonathan (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! You are one of my major influences. (...) Wow. I am truely flattered. I guess my suggestion would be this beast: (URL) But, what if it were done it with your approach? In its heyday. In its glory, before the fire(s). I'd love to see (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Jonathan, Again, an excellent collection of buildings! Your town layout is the epitome of everything that I evenetually want my home layout to be. (earth toned realism) I really like the use of the brown hinge top on the edges of your (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Jonathan, There's an awful lot to like here. I think these are probably your best facades yet. The detailing and colours are perfectly chosen. The decorative elements are of the same quality level as the top German town builders and they (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Your buildings are great. I really love the detail you put into the facades. Great work! --Mark (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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Wow... Beautiful! I love the details you put in your buildings, very inspiring. Jonathan, thank you for sharing your pictures. I hope you don't mind if I borrow some of your ideas! :-) Pierre (...) (18 years ago, 8-Nov-06, to lugnet.town)
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