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I made some changes to my MOC. It was my first train MOC and has been rebuilt 100 times it seems. Now 101. (URL) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Some new rolling stock in 7-wide.....
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(...) Nicely done, and very faithful to the prototype. I am really going to study your techniques of utilizing multiple drivers, because there are some steam trains that I want to model. (standing on the shoulders of giants:-) (...) It is indeed a (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: drawbridge
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(...) True, but it's not hard to make up two studs on the first curve that you happen to get to. (or in this case, one each, if that's easier) So for the LEGO purist, this is a better approach. (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: drawbridge
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(...) Our club's first lifting bridge (by David Wegmuller) took that approach. The trouble is that it screws up the entire layout because everything is off by 2 studs. For David's second version, he had to modify the ends of the track connectors so (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: drawbridge
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(...) Those are non-ASCII characters. If your browser/newsreader displayed them correctly you would see a sort of wavy line. Since only characters between 32 and 126 are guaranteed to be printable on all screens and to pass through all kinds of (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) Hi again John! (...) To be honest: I did not noticed it, but was used to too dark red by my old Olympus camera..... But still I think your building talent oversteps your talent to get ultrarare bricks in quite huge amounts in your hands. And (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) DARN then that even more blue then I thought! (...) Got 2 myself;) Josh (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Train Spotting
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Here's some shots of some real trains... Blue Talgo, Cascades (earth tones) Talgo, Sounder Bilevel, a couple flavors of engines too. Blue Talgo: (URL) once moderated... (URL) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) Thanks for the compliments, Josh. BTW, who said I *didn't* make any containers? ;-) Though I haven't photographed them yet, these Maersk containers from my Ambassador car (which are shown with Harry Potter light blue): (URL) have all been (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) lol Mind? I'd be honored to have an MOC of mine inspire a part of the GFLTC layout! But beware-- that building took almost a year to complete (acquiring parts), and not cheaply either:-/ It is also by far and away the most delicate of all my (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) Sounds spectacular, Chris-- I can hardly wait:-) And thanks for the compliments, my fellow Ashcanner! JOHN (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) I agree that the log bricks create a "neat" effect. For those who are reading along, here is a great example of what Stefan is talking about: (URL) thought the color of the frame and the facade are the same color, the indentation of the log (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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John, The all building rock! But, I like the gray building with the 2x3 light blue windows the best. I am going have to make one for my self, if you don't mind? Build on LTD... Robin W GFLTC/GFLUG (...) (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Box Art for 2003 LEGO World City Products!
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(...) These new sets? Ho Hum....parts in new sets? Mostly still Ho Hum......COMEON Lego more city sets like the new train round house...you know nice looking buildings with details? *Sigh*.........Chris (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) John...I saw these yesterday on BS.WOW as allways they rock! I like the large gray building the best(of course as most of MichLTC will tell you I prefer large 4 sided buildings).These are extreamly ashcan worthy. Coming soon from me you will (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) Impressive use of Pink!! (...) I fell out of my chair when I saw this earlier on Brickshelf after I uploaded a pic! Have to say you got REALLY lucky! Personaly I would have made lots of containers (even though they are really grey)! Your (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Some new rolling stock in 7-wide.....
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(...) At least I am on the way to make up a very first foundation stone for that. After a 3-minutes visit of the L-draw school in Zwolle in the class of Jaco I am now in the first degree of CAD beginners. When the Engine ever gets finished, I would (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Some new rolling stock in 7-wide.....
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In lugnet.trains, Andy Stringer writes: Hi Andy, long time ago, since we once met in Braunschweig.... Thanks for your nice words on my "Steppenpferd". Which by the way does not mean "tap dancing horse" (=Stepp-Pferd), but prairie horse (prairie = (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) Were those colors reversed, it'd actually look quite like many buildings in San Antonio, TX. Nice use of pink. (...) *drool* God that's a lot of Maersk blue! :^o (...) Very nice, dk. red is such a great building color. (...) Very commercial (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: New Pics: Buildings!Buildings!Buildings! Exotic Colors:-)
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(...) lol Well, there is indeed a layout, although it is very much under construction. I spent a lot of time and energy into getting these buildings finished, as well as being in acquisition mode to get enough bricks to complete the modules (they (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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