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Re: Ross Neal's ISCC Contest entry: BN EMD GP-50
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:27:21 GMT
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Since he has no activity here on Lugnet, posting wise, I sure hope he at
least gets to see these encouraging responses.
Ross, you have a telent!!! I cannot believe the models you have created at
such a young age. Being fairly inexperienced in advanced building
techniques, I see your stuff and learn a lot. Thanks for inspiring us
younger AFOLs and KFOLs with models that blow away lots of the adults!!! LD
should hire you to make the next MOC lego set. (Jake: nudge nudge)
Thanks Ross for allowing your dad to share your awesome stuff!
Jeremy
In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal writes:
> Well, it was quite a building year for Ross-- he turned 13 a few weeks back and
> this MOC was the last thing he built before becoming a <shudder> teenager:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7051
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> I entered it into Rene's building contest. There are so many amazing things he
> did in this loco, I just hope my pics are able to show them. We also bought
> some decals for it to snazz it up further:-)
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> He worked from an HO dummy model I got years ago with the intention of
> recreating it in LEGO-- and I couldn't have done better. He was meticulous!
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> He (we) did cut tubing, and did cut 2 chains for the back and front of the
> decks, but everything else is straight/SNOT building.
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> There are also 3 pics of the loco displayed on a large bridge that will be used
> on the TCLTC layout. I had built the bridge, but Ross made a simple suggestion
> that caused me to want to rebuild the entire thing-- it was adding the cool cap
> "stones" under the arches. It made the bridge 100x better in appearance!
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> Enjoy!
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> -John
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| (...) But of course! He reads every response and is very grateful for all of the compliments. Even though he is getting to the age where he could participate in LUGNET, the fact is that this kind of venue doesn't have much appeal to him. He's a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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