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(...) I just got confirmation. TLG is sending me all the various LEGO that I requested for the kid's play area. If the Calgary club kicks in the $50 for the hardware and provides the tables and supervision as expected, we should have an awesome play (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.ca.nalug, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: MOC: Bridges for Trains
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Sorry about that. I didn't realize what I had done untill I got finished loading all my images. I discovered you tend to get spoiled when you switch to a cable server, unfortunately, not everyone can enjoy it! I take some time tomorrow to reload (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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Adrian, Some very impressive pieces of engineering! The outside trusses and sheer scale must make it very exciting to follow a train across. Please, some shots of your curved bridges too. -BMW (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm not sure about a language barrier--he writes as well as some allegedly native speakers of English I know! Still, I apologize to Kai for my snippy jab; nothing was meant by it. Dave! (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Latest MOC-- a Chateau
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(...) Maybe he did like Troy C. did and bought about a million of the 5938 Oasis Ambush set (see (URL) to see what I did with them) Adrian -- www.brickfrenzy.com (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Where did you get so many 2x2x3 slopes for the roof?! I could do half of one side in a plethora of colors. I'd kill for that many slope pieces. (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) ...Fantastic work! I'd love to see some details of the girder structure (like how the LEGO math worked out to for that height). That beast is beautiful tho (even at huge picture size (as others have pointed out :-) How did you work out the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Royal Train Website
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:G6Jw1x.Gns@lugnet.com... (...) Eehhh! that hurts to think about thinking about attempting! Anyways...scratch building Z is pretty impressive, Brian. I couldn't scratchbuild an HO much less (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Good Heavens! That's like those guys who sculpt animals out of grains of rice! Unless you're three inches tall, that's an astonishingly small medium to choose. Bravo! Dave! (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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Chris, The dark green on the "Kathryn" locomotive is nothing more than carefully trimmed contact paper used to line kitchen drawers. Because she was decorated five years ago, the gold pinstriping and lettering was cut and applied by hand under (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: "No Contact" Homebrew Train Sensor for Mindstorms
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Just a follow up to this topic now that I have an RCX of my own (thanks Santa...and my wife) I found that using the Radio Shack light sensors for detecting on coming trains to the crossing works great. No special wiring needed at all, I basicly (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics)
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* Brian Williams (brian_williams@ameritech.net) [010101 11:54]: (...) Would you do me the favor and explain how you did the coloring of the engine? I have never seen that color. I would *love* to see some tutorials for how you have done stuff. Or (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Roof building (was Re: The Royal Train Website)
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(...) Daan, If you look at the buildings with the red roofs you can see some black bricks mixed in with the white. The black bricks right under the roof are special parts. The part is basically a right triangle with a small rectangle cut out (where (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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(...) I know a little. In considering how to mold a part you have to consider every concave surface carefully. Many things with concave surfaces can nevertheless be made with non dynamic two part molds if you choose the mold separation line (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Can anyone tell me how you can build roofs with the plates like you can see in he url Larry ponts out as one of his favourite pictures? I tried to figure it out, but I don't come further as putting them together with the "car-element" (I dont (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Turntables (was: The Royal Train Website)
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(...) Larry, thanks for the pointers. I just got trains for the first time this December and this coupled with talking to Jim Rosikiewicz about gearing problems for his turntable at the last GardenSLUG meeting has had me thinking about how to do (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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(...) <snippage> (...) (taking a shot into the dark) Might it have something to do with simplifying the mold process for that part. By elminating those 'thru the rail' slots, they now have/had a more simple molding operation. Same might be true of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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"Rick Clark" <jrclark@nospam.aol.com> wrote in message news:3A513A94.87EF98...aol.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) worked (...) advantages in (...) Along this same line, the train windows currently being produced in the soccer bus sets and in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC: Bridges for Trains
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(...) Dude, you need to scale those pics way way down... and then repost them. I couldn't wait around for the first one to D/L. And remember, Kevin's bandwidth for brickshelf is being donated, let's not push our Loch, er, luck. The thumbnails look (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The Royal Train Website
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(...) It's complex but not undoable. Several people/orgs have done it. The "old" (1) "main" (2) GMLTC layout had a turntable as well. Mindstorms actuated/animated. I believe the indubitable J1(3) has expounded on how it worked. It was pretty nifty (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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