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(...) I agree. Congratulations to TLG for creating a real town building! I see the TLG designers were taking notes with respect to your wheel well trim/lintel idea;-) JOHN (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Wow indeed. I never thought I'd see an official set like that. It's perhaps a touch overdone - too many colours/details in a relatively small space - but still, wow! With these 2007 sets you are spoiling us, ambassa... er, LEGO. I have vowed (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) No, sorry to disappoint, but a row of terraced houses in England (and there are possibly millions to choose from) would never have that kind of pattern. The only exception I can think of is occasionally you find houses set at a slight angle to (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) This set is completely beautiful!!!! Remember LEGO Ambassador Steve Sander's (URL) announcement>? Check out (URL) this drawing>. It says this modular building project will launch in April and there will be more detail in the March (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Amazing lego set. I can't see myself buying it, but really look forward to seeing builders expand upon it and make blocks of similarly styled and detailed buildings. Jonathan (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(URL) Just saw this on BS. I've heard the set mentioned by name on Eurobricks but to see it... just WOW. Tim (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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(...) I noticed these yesterday but work got in the way . . . I really like the colors used and the use of plates as well. The smoke effect above the burned out window is really nice. I might give it a try on buildings for my next layout. The Maersk (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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Very nice, the brick (as in the 'real' ones ; ) orientation and boarded up windows are great details and the whole street comes across nicely. Thanks for sharing! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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As you already know from the Brickish Association I love these houses. I think they are my favorite MOC of all time. They are definatly the UK equivalent of Jonathan Lopes' seedy city building, but I can relate more to them! Although everyone in the (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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Hi Alastair, thanks for sharing your architecture creations. I love the way you build these typical houses form England. And you not only did "copy and paste", you added various styles. So life comes into the LEGO bricks. I remember these types of (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Really well done! I'm always impressed by folks who have achieved a certain look, not just of pure shape but also of texture and colour. Calum (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) In 1914, the German navy converted a banana transport into the armed merchant raider Mowe; this ship turned out to be very destructive to the British and her allies. Almost 50 ships were captured, sunk, or mined by the Mowe. The ship's (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Stunning work. The model is packed full of details and since I'll annoy the people who know the names of things on ships if I try to comment on most of them I'll stick to what is probably my favourite detail... the captain's beard (small (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Of course if you want some real teak veneered LEGO tiles, I am your man. lol I would think that the deck would be of teak, but all woods available. Tommy Armstrong www.brickengraver.com (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Uups, had no idea - I thought that is a quite common name for small sailing boats and harmless things like that. So I declare my loyality to a democratic and republican constitution :-) Andreas (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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A great concept, beautifully executed. With regards to the planks, everything in LEGO has a degree of cartoonification, so if it gives the right impression without being too distorted, it's valid in my book. Al (who has also just got posting (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Andreas: You sure know your ships! I like the attention to detail such as the navigation lights, anchor winch, ventilation shafts, draft lines on the side of the hull, etc. As you may be aware, a ship of this name was one of the more successful of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Andreas Weissenburg wrote: Excellent! This is a great MOC to see at a display, and I really like your detailing - from the small anchors to the minifigs themselves. x-posting to the .boats subgroup. "Big Daddy" Nelson (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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"Andreas Weissenburg" <andreas(dot)weissen...ne(dot)de> wrote in message news:JEFwps.BKJ@lugnet.com... (...) That's pretty... You get the "Oooooooh" award for the day! -Rob www.brickmodder.net (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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Hello, after reestablishing my posting privileges, I'd like to show my latest creation (part of a longer harbour project), a steamship in a style of the first decades of the 20th century: The freighter 'Möwe' (seagull) (URL) It does not have a real (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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This is a recent MOC of a row of English terraced houses. It's typical of working class housing from around 1900 as can be found across much of the Midlands and North of England. See (URL) start with and (URL) for the other pictures once moderated. (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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I built this a few years ago, but I don't think I ever announced it at the time. It's a Scots Baronial mansion house, based on the buildings of 19th century Edinburgh architect David Bryce. It's not modelled on any single house - he'd never have had (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.arch) !
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Kedleston Hall is a classical 18th century mansion in Derbyshire, UK. I've modelled it in LEGO, and you can see the results here: (URL) front is largely accurate, excepting the lack of sculpture and the fact that I've compressed the staircase so (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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(...) Either size is fine, I just need to know how big they are for space planning. By the way, the 32x48 format is 32 wide and 48 deep (to answer your question from the other day which I never got back to!) Jeff (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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I have been putting them down on 32x32. No alley. Is this goning to mess anything up? SteveB (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Steve, What size footprint are the houses going to be on? The 32x32 without alley or the 32x48 with alley? Thanks, Jeff (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Wow, are you hiring a moving company to get these houses, plus 300 train MOCs, and who knows what else to the convention center? Bruce (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hi all, I had some good lighting today so I took some good shots of my latest Moscow related vehicle, a RaF 2203 van in Moscow traffic police colours. (2 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Since those shots turned out so well (at least as far as (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.ru, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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I'll be binging 9 houses! They are already built just some simple base plate mods required... Here's some pics from my MOC pages: six unique... (2 URLs) and three simple "company" houses... (2 URLs) SteveB (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) That's a ZNAP part. It is LEGO. (URL) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.inv, lugnet.town)
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While wandering around Bricklink, I found this auction. (URL) Does anyone recognize the curved part in the lower left of the 3rd photo down? I am not nearly up to speed on technic parts as I should be. The curve appears to be made around a 3 stud (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.inv, lugnet.town)
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Quick clarification: You will need to bring your own baseplates (whether 32x32 or 32x48 footprints). If you bring the 32x48 footprint please try and include the tiled alley - if you don't have the pieces, let me know, and I'll bring some extra black (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Kelly- Who are you kidding? This building is great! And what else SHOULD you be doing if it isn't building?! (You ARE allowed to do things besides run LEGO websites and organize BF and ...)! I look forward to seeing it in person. -Ted (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I helped clear out some of those dark red 1 x 4 tiles, too. But certainly didn't do as an effective job as you. ;o) I think the building is very well done, and certainly looks beautiful. -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) -snip (...) Excellent work! I was checking this out on Brickshelf a little earlier. Seeing so many parts compose this structure is so cool to see! Plus "ya done good" with the ATM awning! But, I want your Mask/USB Flash drive. :( Great (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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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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| | Tunnel Mouth / Bridge Arch
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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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Very nice, especially the signs ; ) God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(URL) We have lengthened the Thomas section of the TLCTC layout, and so we needed to build a few more buildings to fill in the gap. Nothing earth-shattering here, but I did have some fun with them: The Chinese characters used on the Chinese (...) (18 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: What are the companies in your city?
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Is there a statute of limitations on responding to a years' old thread? ...Now and then, while searching for something else, I stumble onto an old thread that I missed but that I'd like to post to.... Such as... (...) This actually makes me want to (...) (18 years ago, 20-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | ULUG attends the Great Train Expo in Salt Lake City
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To all, Over the weekend (February 9th and 10th) ULUG participated at the Great Train Expo in Salt Lake City. This is our second show together. Our last (URL) show> was a success but we still needed to work out a few minor issues. We were warmly (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | How long is a piece of string?
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To be more specific, How long is the piece of string in the 6361 Mobile Crane set. I just bought one of these great little sets and the only thing It's missing is the string from the crane. I have some genuine Lego String in my parts bin and want to (...) (18 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Wow, thanks a lot for the comment :-) I've accumulated a pile of unphotographed MOCs - expect one in a few hours! Manne (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Wow! That is looking really great! I love the umbrella (even as a concept before I get as far as your excellent design...) The mannequins are excellent and the shop window is a very creative use of parts. I can't wait to see more MOCs from you! God (...) (18 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Small Town Diorama + umbrella
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Hi all! My first MOC here :-) (URL) Featuring an umbrella, which is what sparked the idea: (4 URLs) Gallery post-mod> (18 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Old 12V, town, yellow castle adverts
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(...) They were lovely sets then with decent features (signals anyone?) Shame I was never allowed any :( (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | attention!: PAUL SINASOHN ----jambalaya box
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hey paul, i have emailed you privatly but gotten no responce. did you recive the jambalaya box and more importantly did you mail it to the next location? ondrew (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Old 12V, town, yellow castle adverts
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hi folks, I just wanna let you know that I've uploaded some hires scans (each 6-8 MB) of adverts I found in some old german comic books from the eighties. enjoy! (URL) never thought I would ever post in these groups ;-) (18 years ago, 7-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: ZiL 158 Bus
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(...) I hear you. I need to take a break myself. (...) Thanks for pointing those out. The rear end of the roof of my trolley is quite similar to that of the greyhound bus. One of these buses will be appearing on my layout at some point. That is (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I miss it too. When I get a sand green headlight brick I'll put it back but I'm trying to steer clear of BL for the time being ;) (...) Very nice proto. I have to strongly recommend looking at (URL) this> (and more after clicking up) and (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Looks great! I do miss the sand green 1x1 tile on the headlight brick towards the rear though. Regardless of what it represented, I think it added some nice texture there. I really want to build on of these for myself. I just love the look of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Hartford Hosts England's Loudest Band
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(URL) NELUG> was proud to rock Hartford at the Great Train Expo this weekend. We truly turned it up to eleven. (URL) Spïnal Tap was (URL), eagerly cheered on by a horde of Vikings and a bunch of bodacious babes (some of royal blood). Throw in one (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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(...) With thanks to Tim David and William Howard I managed to get one of these built. Thanks to the masses of SNOT and some choices I had to make to do with available bricks the bus weighs a tonne... which is probably prototypical. (2 URLs) and the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC Suburban House Standard
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(...) Ahhh yes. I have seen those trees. Some of my favourites. This one is a nice take on the technique. Tim (18 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, it was written: (...) I believe so, yes. I think the first time I saw this technique was a MOC by Anu Pehrson at a SEALUG meeting (URL) I think that MOC influenced Jeff's. (18 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.town)
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| | NELUG to Disaply at GTE in Hartford, CT
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(URL) NELUG> will be displaying at the (URL) Great Train Expo> in Hartford, CT this weekend. This layout will be a smaller than our usual layout, but will still provide plenty of fun for the show. Please feel free to drop by and introduce yourself (...) (18 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Another style Garbage Truck
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--snip-- (...) FWIW I like it better but as I mentioned earlier I do have a thing for mirrors ;) Tim (18 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: PSLTC Suburban House Standard
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--snip-- (...) That's a really pretty tree in that yard. Is the angling done by clipping the foliage segments together via the flower sprues? Tim (18 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | PSLTC Suburban House Standard
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PSLTC has developed a suburban house standard, which is presented below. Jeff Pelletier did most of the thinking and work. The primary constraints and goals of the standard are: 1) PSLTC typically uses roadplates with 7 x 2/3 sidewalks built up (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) No problem at all. Actually, you mentioning this reminds me that I have another street that I haven't photographed very well yet that has a similar corner building on it that actually was built to be a bank! So, thanks! ;o) Jonathan (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) There goes my whole scenario ; ) It actually does look like an american post office (casts mind back). In Ireland they're small and painted green, a luxuriously building like that is reserved for housing money : ) Sorry to assume.. God Bless, (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! The teeth were a last minute add-on and I like the mean effect they give. I am glad you noticed them. Regarding the pose: yep, just coincidence. I find there are only a few good spots on my layout to photograph vehicles and this is one (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Very nice! As usual with your work I find myself sucked into enjoying a town MOC (shudders instinctively ; ) I particularly like the 'teeth' look inside the back of the truck, a nice piece of realism. My other faviourite part of this MOC was (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! Jonathan (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Damien. I am pretty excited about the elevated train line. It has taken me a while to get it to work smoothly due to two really high inclines. (it goes from underground to above ground in a really short section). I am really confident (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That's a creative way to aviod the stud notch look of the 2X2 round bricks. I like it. David "Fuzzy" Gregory (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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Jon, Damn that Sh** is dope!!! Really. I've been playing with the idea of using the Spiral staircases to make wall sections for some of my Belville-scale stuff, but this is by far a more innovative and useful application. Also, the elevated line is (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I'll try a couple of things tonight and post pix tomorrow. Trying new things is good. I'll probably end up deciding that I should have done it a while ago. (...) ;o) lol! Jonathan (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) It has been a while since I built it, but I am sure the dark bley foudation is 2xn bricks and plates and the two shells (light bley and black) are built upon that and then brought together by another row of 2xn bricks at the very top. They are (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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--snip-- (...) I used to agree with you but lately I've decided that a slightly oversized mirror can actually add an awful lot to a model. I find that they just have that extra and subtle little bit of realism. Of course it's personal taste so YMMV. (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yes it is that one. (...) Thanks for the info and the link to the picture. Did you connect the light bley shell to the black interior at all or is it free floating? Cheers, Jude (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Jude. (and Tim, once again, for the cab design) (...) Thanks for that as well. Sometimes I wonder if I should be photographing the vehicles alone. Is this the building you're referring to: (URL) It is snotted only on the front. (it is (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks. Good to hear. And, thanks again for the killer cab. (...) It was important for me to do it in dark green. I am going to work on another style cab in dark green as well. (...) I have until now avoided mirrors. My overall thought is they (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Jonathan, I think is a great design. But a few questions about the grey snot tile bricked building in the background... Is it snotted on all sides? Or is the snot just a facade on the one side? Is the building fairly solid or does it fall (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Hi Jonathan, I don't think the back is too high at all. And I think the curve looks awesome. You've really captured the shape of the rear perfectly. Overall this looks excellent. I especially love the greebles on it. They really look (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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Hello, This is my a truck I built over the weekend. It uses much of the the Mack style cab design developed by Tim Gould late last year. It is a design I really like and I am using it in forthcoming vehicles in a variety of colors. (URL) I am (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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(...) Aaron, Nelson, and Tim: Thanks! It is exactly what I was going for: a simple corner building. It will be hidden behind an elevated subway later this week. I have always wanted an El but the drag is that it hides the buildings . . . Thanks (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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I've gotten into taking the style of the recent ambulance/cement mixer style vehicles, and applying that style to old sets I am personally fond of. 6676 Mobile Command Unit was one of them. Here is my take on the set, remixed: (2 URLs) Hope you like (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I was just saying at a fest on Saturday, 'has anyone managed to use those staircase parts for anything but a staircase?', and lo and behold! nice non-descipt building Tim (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) What an inventive way to use that staircase part! It really adds to the texture of the building. Spotlighted! "Big Daddy" Nelson (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Very simple and modern. almost looks real. Love the use of the spiral staircases. Well done Aaron A (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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Over the weekend ULUG (Utah LUG) participated in "The Ophir, Tintic and Western" Train Show at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah. We are a newer LUG (under 6 months) with 9 active members and this is our first Train show as a LUG. We were pleased to (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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