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Big and red and shockingly affordable ; ) Good work all round! The atm looks very different to the ones I'm used to but that is probably just a regional thing... God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Kelly- This is great! And more importantly, you beat me to it! I was down at that very PAB wall a while ago and bought myself loads of red headlight bricks and 1x4 dark red tile. I have the first two floors of a building built with this exact same (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Nice building. Great color. Nice building technique. I love the foundation bricks. When I can, I use the similar styled MegoBlok bricks. And, while at Toy Fair this year I noticed Knex had a similar brick. (...) Wow! I was approaching $60.00 (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Pick-A-Brick is our friend. I'm an excellent procrastinator. Over the last month or so, I've been surreptitiously working on an actual physical brick MOC, when I should've been doing other things. You can tell me if it was worth it. The design (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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"John" <John@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:JDu4uz.Kq4@lugnet.com... (...) John: I really like the buildings. Two suggestions on the small building: (i) you might want to consider offsetting the front door to one side and putting another window (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) ... (...) ... LDR plans for Jeff's cottage with fence are at (2 URLs) -dw (18 years ago, 25-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) LOL ALL you do is give, Kelly! :-) JOHN (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I'm planning on bringing my houses, I've seen how cool it is to have a lot of houses in the same scale form a neighborhood. The purpose of my houses is to (URL) make everybody else's look good>. :) GPLR did this for at least one GATS, you can (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Ondrew Hartigan wrote: is (...) It is mainly so there is enough of a front and back yard so people build something in these spaces. If you don't leave the offset then the houses are too close to each other and there isn't enough room (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) An airport builder, man after my own heart. What I've done for my airport 4.2, is put two radar dishes on the top roof of my tower, I built the roof SNOT style, with two Technic hole bricks, attached the radars to axles, put a gear at the (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) this is really really a cool idea. allthough i won't be attending brickfest this year because of brickworld, i think i might take a crack at this. is there any particular reason for the large offsets? i can understand the side offsets as thats (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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The Town / Train display is putting out the call for Suburban houses to populate the areas outside the city limits. If you haven’t built town MOCs before but want to give this one a try – this is the perfect opportunity as the investment in pieces (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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(...) You could put a technic 1x1 brick with pin behind the headlight bricks to add some security. Not behind each one but maybe every other one or two (or five)? I did that on this firehouse from 4 or 5 years ago. (URL) I didn't go as high with the (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Sorry I don't quite get what you mean here. I'd like to try this technique but my brain is not seeing how you do this. Do you have any pictures of the WIP or illustratioins of how these go together? (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Oh, yeah, you've done the same thing. I like it. It's a great effect. Now, I have interlocked the brown with my tan to keep the front face sturdy, but I don't see how you can make the headlight bricks any sturdier-- what more can they bind to (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Being an old hand at this (i.e. before LEGO saw the light): (2 URLs) may I suggest using bigger bricks just next to the headlight bricks, and interlock them inside the building? You won't win any interior design awards, but it will keep you (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to build radar dishes, satellite dishes, communications antennas etc for use on the roof of a smallish airport/air traffic control tower? Looking to build in white or possibly old light grey. Thinking of the 6 (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) As the bumper sticker says, "mean people suck" >:-( (...) Hope it was a good one (or two;-) (...) Thanks, Jonathan. I really only want to impress you:-) As for the sides; it's kind of a sketchy building technique. The corners are simply 1x1 (...) (18 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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The tracks from the Snowmobile 8272 and Bulldozer 8275 make a great tunnel mouth or bridge arch - smoother than using slope bricks. (URL) used 27 links at the moment, fixing them twice on each side. The arch as built fits well over 6-wide, 8-wide or (...) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) I noticed these on Brickshelf before seeing the post here. I think you did just fine with the name. Made me LOL when I saw it. I'd attempt to offer additional ideas but a nasty email from a licenesor has fried my brain already this morning. :/ (...) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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