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(...) A good book for fast food restaurants is (URL) Orange Roofs, Golden Arches>, by Phillip Langdon. I am consulting it for a series of micro-scale fast food joints I am working on. If you own a digital camera, I would recommend keeping it on your (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Brian Kendig wrote in message ... (...) people (...) I second the suggestion to look at train club show pics. There's lots of good work out there. Just walking around and taking pics is very helpful too: I find myself looking at roofs a lot :-) The (...) (20 years ago, 30-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, Brian, check out the buildings from the under-construction TCLTC layout: (URL) Some are what I call "background buildings" (meant to be on the edge of the module and thus are thin to conserve space), and some are full sized. Hope they (...) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hear, hear. By all means go out and look around. Take some photos. When I started doing this, I could be anywhere and guessing how many bricks wide, high etc. something would be. (Of course you make crazy exaggerations as needed.) (20 years ago, 29-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I went through the same problem while our local train club converted my Mindstorms/Technic interest into a more general Lego town/train interest. Most of my initial inspiration came from browsing brickshelf's huge wealth of train show pics. So (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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I've been wanting to build buildings around my Lego railroad - not just open-backed buildings like are in most Lego sets, but buildings which look good from all directions. But I've been sadly suffering from an utter lack of inspiration. I could use (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Rob Hendrix has performed another (URL) BrickModder> construction. This time he has built for me a new version of his illuminated drumhead on the Santa Fe Super Chief observation car...along with illuminated marker lights. (URL) Here's a link to a (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Starting tomorrow, COLTC will display a small layout at Marcon. Marcon is the annual "Multiple Alternative Realities Convention". The convention is held in Columbus, OH, at the Hyatt Regency. read more about it, including costs/other features at : (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.space)
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Hi Bruce, it's me again. Having checked out the other dogs, I thought I'd better post the dog I made for my wife a couple of years ago. It's nothing spectacular really, it's kind of a mixed breed, but I think it works at minifig scale. (URL) Peace (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I believe we have a volunteer to coordinate this. Details are being finalised. Please stay tuned for an announcement. I would prefer not to say who has volunteered, let them make the announcement themselves. There may be a commemorative (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Is this going through? LOWLUG is currently working on containers and we would love to swap containers at BrickFest DC. As we need to order parts to build these we'd like to know in advance how many containers (and sticker sets for people who (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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The BrickFest Committee is calling upon club members attending BrickFest to submit their club logos and URL to BrickFest for inclusion in the Participating Clubs section on the side bar on the home page. The web logo button size is 88 x 31 pixels. (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.org, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.events) !!
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In lugnet.castle, Jason J. Railton wrote: Hi Jason, (...) Let me know when you put those up and I'll add links. I initially made my rabbits (also the newer design I just posted) for the chapter "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" for my Lord of the Rings (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Reed - Thanks for mentioning mine, I was on holiday. I've now done a separate page to index just the pictures of the Shire Horse: (URL) have a DAT model, but I haven't converted it to instructions yet. The same with some ducks I've designed, (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Lmao I ain't one of them anymore... I have to deploy soon, i'll see about showing up, but I'm on my way to AZ for the weekend. Josh (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Ray Silva wrote in message ... (...) Gosh, a horse-drawn coral! Do they bring the corals up to the surface for this, or do they fit the horses with scuba gear? <g,d & r> Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) In lugnet.trains, Josh Baakko wrote: Josh, If you have time you should come by to check out the layout and hang out. If that is allowed under current SCLTC bylaws. Paul (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I really like the 2148 truck, I bought a bunch of those they were available, and ended up keeping 7, and that's quite a bit on my limited budget. It would be nice to see the 3442 truck return as well. That was a nice one too. Only kept 4 of (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) packs of two. TWS Garrison (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Can't wait to see it guys! Hope you look better then that SCLTC one... Josh (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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