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Sorry all this was ment to be posted early May 2003 Well its over for another year, the Brisbane Miniture Train Show, that is. First off many thanks to the people of Brisbane (not many of you will read this but none the less) for loving our diplay (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Express Deluxe Set for $99,98 @ Amazon
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(...) And don't forget the FREE shipping. Ben (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brickfest
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I can't make it:( but an MOC or 2 may show up with someone else, I'll post of they are gonna be there. I wanted to come BAD, but I KNOW I'll make it to BricksWest (after all its here in San Diego!). Hope to see some pics of the DCC! Josh (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: UPDATE Re: vose inspection car render
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(...) Hi, Travis, First of all, nice model! I don't have too many tips on making a render photorealistic, but one thing that may help is if you decrease the camera angle and then move the camera farther away so you see the whole model. That will (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | LEGO Express Deluxe Set for $99,98 @ Amazon
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Hi all, Dunno if someone posted this earlier (couldn't find a post) but Amazon is offering the Deluxe Set (4535) for just $99,98. (URL) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Just have to post, LOVE the train shed
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(...) What did you expect? TLC pretty much ignores anything other than 6-wide, always has been (try running 8w on older 12v tracks for instance) :D Not that I'm an 8w devoted builder, more a flex-scaler (6,7 and 8w for now) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The legendary set 383 reloaded....
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(...) Wow Ben! Again you amaze me with some wonderful creations, I can't wait until 1000steinewelt! But please stop posting all these beautiful pictures, because we still need to build pretty much everything so I actually shouldn't be surfing and (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) That would be ideal, IMHO. It would allow, among other things, LNP to be used for PC to LDCC communication. At IndyLUG, we've been wishing for DCC L-gauge since inception. The word "thanks" simply doesn't cover it, Mark. Congratulations on (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brickfest - Trains
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(...) It will be good to see you again, Steve. Jeff VW x-posted to brickfest. (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: UPDATE Re: vose inspection car render
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well i'm still at it. and i'm please to say that I think that things are getting better and better. Still not photo realistic, but I think that certian parts (ei... the inverse wedges on the roof) will never render correctly until the part is more (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Brickfest
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Hi All, I just completed my arrangements for Brickfest and was wondering which other train heads would be there! This is my first BF and can't wait! Finally get to meet some more east coast brethren (and sister-ern too). Is anyone thinking about (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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Hi Ralph, I should be able to extract the source for the low level driver routines this week. If anyone else is interested, please email me. Note for BrickOS users: it's not simply a matter of plonking the routines into a program. The kernel will (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The legendary set 383 reloaded....
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Hi all! after my first pair of oldtimer trucks got highlighted, here is the next MOC of that theme: this time I rebuilt the legendary set 383 from 1973. But I did some modest modification to the up-to-date piece assortment of course... Again I tried (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | RE: DCC for the RCX
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Mark, would it be possible to share the code of your DCC controller, I am the author of pbForth and would love to add the driver to the pbForth library. I've also got a servo driver in pbForth already. Too bad Hitechnic is out of business. Their (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) One way is to mount one or more magnets on the underside of the train with their N-S pole oriented across the width of the train (to differentiate it from the couplers of just any old train) and then sense these specially-marked train cars (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | UPDATE Re: vose inspection car render
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hey guys, the emails about the color libraries came all morning, and i'm glad to say that now I can use all the cool colors from (URL) well as the original colors from color.inc. This souped up render has replaced the orignial. Here is the link. (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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(...) LDCC (...) to the (...) to (...) this (...) of (...) index (...) I (...) the (...) Great, Chris, I'm glad it's working for you - and with another brand of decoder, yet! (...) worked (...) mode and (...) parameters. (...) of (...) meanings (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC for the RCX
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I just converted my first engine to DCC yesterday and started playing with LDCC 1.01. LDCC is fantastic! Thank you, Mark! I installed an AD330 N-Scale decoder from Model Rectifier Corp according to the directions on Tom Cook's site. At 0.8 Amps this (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Just have to post, LOVE the train shed
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(...) I just want to shout out a hearty "I agree completely!" to this. I received the Train Shed last week, and although I haven't built it yet I have 'read' the directions and looked through the parts packs. Great parts, great details, great set - (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Some pics of my vintage train collection
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In a few weeks, I hope to have time to photograph my collection with a better lighting, backdrop, etc. but for a sneek preview, I quickly snapped some shots of my (vintage) train collection, so far I only got around to buidling my 4.5 and 12 V (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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