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(...) Minority ? You would be surprised how many AFOL's are much more like you. I'm sure there is a overwhelming "lurking" majority with limitid resources out there. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) you know, if it makes you feel any better, pretty much every instruction i've made was a much cleaned up version of my original MOC. while i can't speak for every model up on the instruction portal, at least some of us that make instructions (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oops, sorry for venting there. I guess I didn't realize I had such a sore spot there myself. I'm just sometimes frustrated by the really cool things other AFOLs demonstrate is possible but I can't achieve for time/money reasons. (...) Don't (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) <major snippage> (...) Yeeeowch. Ok, sore spot, got it. This is why I asked. (I don't build many trains you see...) But really do you think you're a majority or a minority of the LEGO buyer? If you really must have one of these models it is (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) All AFOLs aren't created equal. I'm an AFOL who's trying to keep to a budget and manage my personal free time between my family and my bricks. If I have to buy three 10020s so I can build a proper B-unit (i.e. three gray port holes per side (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Could you convert it to run on monorails? Allister (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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(...) What we really need is robots to comb the surface and rake "random" patterns into the surface to help make it look nice. But I do think some sort of rail-based transport would be the way to get around up there once enough infrastructure is in (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, A colleague and I have produced reproduction sticker sheets for some older Lego sets. These include stickers for some 12V train sets (7740 and 7725), a model team set (5540) and town set 6371. All stickers are on the same color backing as (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) What a great example of an oxymoron :-) Steve (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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"Tony Hafner" <lego@NOSPAM.hafhead.com> wrote in message news:HA2uEy.ECC@lugnet.com... (...) trains (...) is (...) recognize. (...) That's Gomez Addams crashing his trains together. [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) Moonbase - (URL) Store (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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Hello everyone, I just got back from the Lego Outlet at Discover Mills, (678)847-6078. They just received a huge shipment and I thought some of the folks here might be interested. They have received the Imperial Star Destroyer, the Black Seas (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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Very neat ! I love it! I have got to try my own version. Cheers Oliver Play Well. "Jason Krish" <ja.krish@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:HA0Ip3.LzH@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) ... After some conversation with Ludo Soete, I created a geometric construction to prove that the 9V point curve can be created from the same circle radius as the 9V track, without any straight sections. I did this by modeling this Track (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I've just added a new view showing the bushes and more of the mechanism. Re: level crosings, last surviving gated crossings in the UK are listed at www.signalbox.org/la...ssings.htm Some good photos too, particularly the beauty at Allington (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.trains)
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<snap> (...) The windshield is a normal slope 6x3x1 transparent yellow slope used in the classic space set 918. (...) thanks for the comments Bert (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) "Quite mad", eh? I saw your equation on the sidebar. The third picture is a little hard to discern, being so small, but it sure looks like something kind of nutty. Perhaps Michael Jackson would have been easier to recognize. And he is, after (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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I recall Brad Hamilton doing a very cool Ogel train for Bricktopia too. (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's been done... (URL) :-) (search the archives of .trains and you will find there are other ones as well!... some very cool ones too!) (...) (URL) as good of a fit, it's only got 2 of the three signature colors and not nearly as spacey (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle)
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You sir, are quite mad. And brilliant. Thats is sooooo cool. And it's so easy it's like "Duh" I anticipate the creation of more trains like this. Blacktron train, M-Tron train etc.. On another note, I now keep imagining a train that slowly goes back (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have bad eyes but I thought these were not small train wheels but rather the same sort of wheels used in the Hogwarts Express. In that case only a single rail is required since they have flanges on both sides. (1) And further, and more (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-03, to lugnet.year.2003, lugnet.trains)
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