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| (...) Well thanks for the encouragement folks! The main reason that I came out with this information early was that I could get feedback from AFOLs. One possibility would be to give you folks an option, by coming out with both a book and a CD. Also (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | My First Train MOC
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| For my first train MOC, I wanted to do something small, simple and fairly easy to recognize. It is based on the recipe from the ILTCO website. (URL) let me know what you think. :) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) That looks very nice! I like it a lot. I think you've done an excellent job of capturing the essence of an old steam tractor. My only criticism is that it seems too small for minifigs. This page (URL) has some pictures (about 2/3 of the way (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) Congrats Gary! Following up on Lindsay's question, if you do decide to make a .pdf available, within about 10 minutes you could have a book available on cafepress.com. Just upload the .pdf and cover graphics (JPGs) and you'll rake in free (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| (...) Well, this is the hard place! (URL) This container is 40ft x 8ft x 9ft6in high, the size I see on lorries in the UK, built to 8mm:1ft scale. You could drive a model of a 5ft wide fork lift truck into it or two minifigures could walk in side by (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) Hey, this sounds very interesting. As a Mac (not MAC) user, I am a bit curious about the format. Will it be a PDF? That would make the book available to people using any operating system. Also, what sort of price are you estimating? If the CD (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) First of all, great idea. I hope this works out for you! You are doing the hobby a whole lot of good here! I do want to suggest though that you reconsider your above statement. There are some lines that came out after 1994 that are very (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| In lugnet.announce, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: --snip-- (...) -snip- (...) Wow Gary, sounds very interesting. Almost like a "must have" for AFOL's :-) Great work! I'll be looking for the announcement of where to order the CD. Mark "must have!" de Kock (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| Your project sound very interesting, but I would much rather have a printed version! (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) (snip) Wow, Gary. Just wow wowowowowow. I've been wondering "Where's Gary been?" and now I know. What a wonderful piece of news! I'm very, very interested. Are you going to .pdf the text, so that the interminable bibliophiles among us can (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) (snip) (...) Good luck, Gary! I can't wait to get one (And I'm sure you meant "Bricklink";-) JOHN (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Announcing new comprehensive book on Lego on CD.
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| (...) Now this I could use. Anything that can help me get a more accurate number to give to the insurance company is good :) Only problem is going to be converting from USD to AUD :) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| (...) Not really if you model a European railway... Before the standard 20/30/40' containers the Dutch, German and most likely some other railways experimented with door-to-door transport using special freight boxes, which were around 1.5*2*1.5m A (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Mini-fig Scale Maersk Ship...
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| (...) Agreed. This is a known issue with the standard (as designed by LEGO) minifig scale container, it's too small. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place though, either we abandon the design (and lose compatability and not have a use for all (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jun-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | Wild West links page
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| Hi all, Aargh! I can't help myself. In poring through Brickshelf for the animals list I made recently, I keep finding great creations to catalog. So, in my ongoing obsession to organize things, I present this links page of Wild West themed MOCs: (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.western, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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| (...) My favourite German is Christian K ;)... oh word... well, just like Adrian, Kartoffel, that amuses me... As I'm currently learning German, I find a few words amusing or interesting, (even while recently being over there) 'Frühstück', which (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
| | | | | Re: Traction Engine
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| (...) Oh how disappointing! Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) LOL. Actually Janey, I think she's showing him her camera. But I could be wrong.... ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Nicely done Rosco, great steamer! I like the grooved bricks as hay bales, but I have one question, what is that female fig and male fig on the back doing??? They arent kissing are they? Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Traction Engine
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| ...or steam tractor, whichever you prefer. (URL) I built this some time ago but never posted the final pics. The tyres on the rear wheels are made from slices of bicycle inner tube. All pics (URL) here> after moderation. Enjoy! ROSCO (20 years ago, 16-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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