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Hi All, After long consideration I decided to mutilate bricks. I have resorted to only de-facing then so far. One might say its more like a 3D decal, others my scoff. This is what LEGO designers do, so why not. We have directly influenced them on (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What is that, a *push* train? (URL) (no sense in *all* of us cutting and pasting:-) I like the idea, Steve-- very innovative. The possibilities and applications are endless. And perhaps mutilation is *the* way to go, because even if TLC were (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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, (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I took some better pics... (I nuked the old ones) www.brickshelf.com/c...gi?f=16873 SteveB (...) (23 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! (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Erik, As someone with a little molding experience (sand casting for metal, and injection molding), I understand what you're saying. I thought for a while about how to do that, and you are right, you do need a moving cam inside the mold so the part (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Very cool looking, Steve. The effect is stunning. later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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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 (23 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Steve, Those really look great, very clean when all together on the train. Nice idea. jt (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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NICE! I gotta wonder, could a slope be "ribbed" to match a corrigated brick? It would make a nice vent for a DB on a locomotive, or on a F40PH! Finnaly can get the vent to make the angle of the roof!? Josh (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Yeah! Great work!! I love to see the raw material (raw Lego ;) being put to good use :) My only question is "Is the only difference between engraving and milling the depth of cut?" Another few 10/1000 and you too will have your own window parts. JB (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Excellent stuff, Steve (and Tommy). Now my mind is whirling with possibilities. :) Could a little more information about what different kinds of things would be possible be given? As well, of course, as what kind of time/effort/money are (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) No, that would be Hop-FrogXAAC.DAT I believe. At least if you were printed/engraved on a torso or basic brick. -- Tony Hafner (who's endured Steve's english enough to not be offended by his constant misspelling of my name) www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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POn May 11th in Centralia, WA, PNLTC had a little train-fest get together with 16 members from all around the Pac NW. Pics to follow on our web page but here's pic of the members present. www.brickshelf.com/c...i?i=170465 SteveB (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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I typically think in picture and the 1/2 head smiley face wallpaper on your web page prompted your name misspelling, not saying that i donno how ta mispel ;) SteveB (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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