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(...) Different elevations are neat. I have not had good-looking results doing this yet, but someday I hope to figure out how to do it well. After looking at all of the pics in the folder, I am quite amazed at the amount of SandGreen slopes used on (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Bruce Hietbrink writes: Snipped instructive examples. (...) Yes. The issue here may well just be "what is the point at which you have 'too many'..." For me, for this mountain, 10% face coverage was just at the edge of 'too many', (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Growing tired of the same old red routine I used in building my locomotives, I decided to try this one using the classic black and gray motif... (URL) made a host of other improvements to this model, not least of which is an overall lengthening of (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I've had to build several mountains for my Tolkien project and have gone back and forth on BURPs/LURPs. I wasn't thrilled with this cliff: (URL) it was basically just a Burp pile. On my next mountain I tried to completely hide the BURPs (though they (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Whoops, good catch. 24x24 is what I mean. Sorry about that! I actually miscounted, I used 2 of these. One with the corner replaced (tacked together with plates) and one with it omitted.. The one with it omitted was used just behind the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmm, where are you folks finding 32x32s with missing corner? I have a box full of 24x24s with missing corner, but no 32x32s... :-) :-) :-) I really need to do some sculpted stuff, if for nothing else, just to use up all those huge bricks :-) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't completely cover them; just about 1/2 covered or so. It lets me get a consistent background color by using piles of grey or dk grey burps. I find that it does take quite a few bricks, but because the burps are the structural layer, I (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) One entrance/portal has angled wings (something that you don't see much in LEGO models) and the other has straight wings but an angled portal. The angle is 45 degrees and it's almost an integral distance, there is a little bending at the top (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Nice work; I'm especially impressed by the angled tunnel entrance, those are always my particular demon. So much so that I've sworn against them 3 shows running now... :) Looks to be about 45 bricks of vertical or so? My only significant (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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i didn't see an existing lego trains community on livejournal.com, so i went ahead and created one. if you are a livejournal user, and would like to join the community, come on over. this is not meant as a replacement for lugnet in any way, simply a (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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