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| The Richmond Lego Users Group (RichLUG) will once again present a display at the Virginia Aviation Museum's Eighth Annual Wings n' Rails show in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24-25. Hours for the event are 9:30 am to 5:00 pm both days.The museum is (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| (...) They're also hideously ugly. I'll make an MOC to use them after you display them at a show ;) Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| (...) But the new LEGO containers are 6 wide! JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| (...) lol. I just look up the dimensions of these things and they're restricted to 2.5m wide including mirrors. 8 wide is about 0.8 studs to the foot for US trains (IIRC) so 7/0.8=2.66m so you're right. I thought these things were bigger. They sure (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| (...) Very nice, but let's be honest here-- it may be six-wide, but it is 8 wide scale:-) And its 6 wide containers would look spiffy on (URL) this>:-d (hmmm, intermooodal:-d) JOHN (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| (...) I remember as a kid being scared s**tless when we overtook those things between Mackay and Brisbane. As an adult knowing what sort of stresses and 'cures' the drivers put themselves through I think I'd be even more scared. Tim (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Australian road train
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| Having recently traveled the entire length of the Eyre highway from Norseman to Port Augusta in both directions and passing many road trains of all kinds, I can tell you that you got the look down perfect :) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Australian road train
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| (5 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, A different sort of train but still six-wide ;) Been wanting to do one of these for a long time but was never happy with the grille and nose. Thanks to many ideas and some harassing by misterzumbi I (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | A few Norwegian MOCs & a DCC-question
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| Hello there, so, after a lot of time of being passive, I finally decided to break the ice :) First, a few local MOCs (train & town): BM-71 (Flytoget, the Oslo airport train) (URL) This was my first train MOC, made a year ago. I was struggling a lot (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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| (...) When they were built, as cheap housing for factory workers in new industrial towns, there were often acres and acres of them. Not a blade of grass in sight. Yes, the kids played in the street - but then, all traffic was horse-drawn and there (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Spring Flowers
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| (...) Ah, thank you! Very clever. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Spring Flowers
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| (...) Easy, just put them on top of the regular flowers on the stem. In the following pic, you'll notice some regular flowers showing beneath the clikits. The clikits flowers with the hole fit tightly on a stud, while the clikits flowers with the (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Brown Town Buildings (pics)
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| (...) :-) (URL) HERE> is a pic of the revision taken at our train show exhibition this past weekend. Thanks again! JOHN (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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| (...) Thanks for the description. Very helpful. The pictures don't look all that rough or depressing to me, but then again I'm quite badass myself. ;o) I figured even rough areas have kids that need to run around. Here in NYC there are rough areas (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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| (...) This might give you some idea: (URL) are typically a few blocks of these houses together, but occasionally you will find isolated rows, sometimes even outside of built up areas. Some towns and cities seem to be largely made up of these. They (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
| | | | | Re: Spring Flowers
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| (...) Me too. But how do you attach them to the flower stems? /Tore (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
| | | | | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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| (...) Thanks very much for doing this and following up, Tim. I was hoping you would. It is nice to see the different types of housing from different countries. Question(s): Would these types of houses comprise an area or neighborhood? Are there (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Copenhagen Metro elevated railway station and train
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| Hi, Some years ago I built a subway station based on the new Copenhagen metro ((URL) Lugnet post>, Brickshelf: (URL) station>, (URL) train>, (URL) reference pictures>). Looking back now, I'm not quite satisfied with the result, especially the train (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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| (...) Ok, I took some pics last week First of all, some pretty standard terraces (URL) A variety of surface finishes and one that has its windows changed (URL) A couple of cornershops (2 URLs) And one that used to be a cornershop, included to show (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Spring Flowers
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| (...) Brilliant!!! Wish I'd thought of it Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 BAYLUG / BAYLTC (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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