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(...) As far as I can see, Hafhead appears to have a minor obsession with apocryphal brick designs. If he keeps this up, he may actually have to come up with some kind of forward-looking naming scheme. ;) These are way cool, BTW. -- Hop-FrogXAAA.DAT (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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And the .dat files for the 3 ribbed bricks 1x2, 1x4, & 1x8 (1.9k): www.sstanamera.com/~...ks_all.zip BIG thanks to Tony Halfner for creating these! SteveB (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Very cool looking, Steve. The effect is stunning. later, James Mathis (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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The rest of the story... I met Tommy Armstrong at BricksWest. He has a buisness that does custom engraving and created all the name badges for BricksWest (and I think Brickfest as well). Anyway he and I discussed custom engraving patterns onto (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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That is just beautiful. Probably some purist put a hex on your train. -- Bob Fay THE SHOP (URL) Barile" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message news:GvwuK5.BA0@lugnet.com... (...) brick (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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While attempting to get the close up the sucker slipped and... (URL) thing these are LEGO! (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey Steve, That's my F40PH. Better pics here: (URL) shortened the engine 3 studs, changed the Technic pulley fans to 4x4 Turntable base's, and removed one of the motor's from the baggage car before the Fullerton show. I hope to add some decals (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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I took some better pics... (I nuked the old ones) www.brickshelf.com/c...gi?f=16873 SteveB (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) This is really cool, Steve. Milling grooves into the parts can get you designs that would be impossible or at least costly to mold into the part. Molding a texture on the side of a brick is expensive. It requires more moving parts in the mold, (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Interesting indeed Steve, do you have any close shots of and engraved brick by itself? How are you doing the engraving? jt (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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