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ILTCO is pleased to extend an opportunity to the LUGNET community to take advantage of an offer previosuly extended to ILTCO members to purchase the LEGO Metroloiner at a substantial discount. LEGO Shop-at-Home North America is offering a special (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: A little math cioncerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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(...) While on one side I'd say that you're right here, on the other hand some things in proper proportions can get a point across much better. (URL) you've ever seen a real terminal, you'll know it's really overwhelming. I think using 4*6 or 4*8 (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Wow a very helpful resource. I will be looking at this more in the future to try and add more animals to our layouts. Thanks! (...) Even better, I know there are some great beast/monsters out there, so having them linked in a single place is (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) some good examples. Thanks! George (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A little math cioncerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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(...) I agree with Larry here (...) Larry introduced me to this term/concept and this is what I had in mind. The container size is the key. The model seems to have 5 rows of 2-wide containers and you would want 4-wide which IIRC is what the train (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Ducks? hmmm, try (URL) here>! (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Snip Thanks, Bruce. This promises to be an excellent resource. I've already gathered a few ideas from it. The sheep design that I have been copying ((URL) as you have linked> and (URL) other> (URL) permutations>) are based on a design by Tom (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Hi Bruce, Good job with volume one, it's a great resource. I have a beasty for vol. 2. His name is BUB (Big Ugly Beast) and he was an entry in the CCContest. Here's the link --> (URL) Job! Josh (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) Thank you for being one of the biggest contributors. I especially like your donkey and your deer. (...) weeks ago, so I don't know how I missed that. Now that I see Jojo's stuff I remember that as well. Is that a goose or a swan (not that it's (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A little math concerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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(...) Actually, they probably should be 2.1 wide or something. In fact I hope to see some of these at BrickFest DC in the Micro Scale exhibit... wouldn't a microscale dockyard and train container loadout facility be cool? (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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Great resource, thanks for putting it together! Just a few additions you may want to consider: Jason J. Railton's horse: (URL) Koehler's geese: (URL) Pigeons: (URL) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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(...) And obviously there was a lot of effort that went into compiling all those links. Well done. Regards, Allan B. (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: A little math concerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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I think we should build 3-wide trains to fit these new 2-wide containers... ;-) JohnG, GMLTC fut .trains, just to rile John Neal... (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Brick Built Beasts volume 1
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Hi all, I have compiled an article with links to animal MOCs at approximately minifig scale by a large number of AFOLS, which can be found on Classic-Castle.com's how-to page: (URL) was compiled initially to help add details to castle layouts, but (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town) !!
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| | Re: A little math cioncerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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(...) (snip) (...) Well, that's sharp and all, but I think building to scale really misses the point. That container's 8 wide! I prefer my scenes more packed with detail rather than doing one 10 foot long ship so that I can fit my to scale (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Dark Grey Track in HP Train 10132?
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(...) To answer my own question, I saw this on the Lego club website: (URL) company rep (sink21) says that "All new track (track produced as of January 2004), like all LEGO elements will be in the new colors." :-( How long will the stock of old dark (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Custom signalman (LED mod!)
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(...) really into modding to create non-existant parts but these add another dimension. *Goes away to think about how to put a self contained light in this* (URL) Tim (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) lugnet.parts.modifications - nice idea that. I'd certainly be able to contribute ;) Nice work Rob! Can't wait to see your minifig miner's helmet complete with white LED. Or shouldn't I be giving you such naughty ideas ;) JB ... dremel well ... (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Custom signalman (LED mod!)
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(...) Just give me a 1x1 round transparent plate with embedded light source, on off switch, and replaceable battery, and make sure it fits on a stud from the bottom and into a 1x1 round from the top and I'll make my own. :-) That's not TOO much to (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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"Cary Clark" <cclark2@nScP.rArM.com> wrote in message news:HxwtDp.uw0@lugnet.com... (...) that (...) in a (...) exactly (...) better (...) program, then (...) in it's current Alpha state is a better track layout tool than TrackDesigner is. But that (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Custom signalman (LED mod!)
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(...) necessary... I realized this when making my "modern" one. You make one of these "old time" ones from Lego pieces, and I'll make it light up... :) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Custom signalman (LED mod!)
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(...) I think it's cool. And spot on for a modern lantern or torch or flashlight (as you like) Old time ones have wire handles so they can be swung overhead when necessary... (URL) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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This guy was fun to make. Well, anything I make where I get to use my Dremel is fun... I'm happy with the "lantern" I came up with. I'd like to see some of your designs as well! (URL) -bm www.brickmodder.net (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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(...) That's not quite what I meant. I was saying that you can't have a single line of track that has sections that follow the current official layout standard and other sections that follow the proposed idea of riding down the seams between (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | NGLTC display at Dawsonville LEGO Outlet store Memorial day weekend
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The North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) will be presenting their annual train display on Saturday May 29th at the Dawsonville Georgia LEGO Outlet store at the North Georgia Premium Outlet Mall. The layout will be setup in front of the store from (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga) !
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| | Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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You got me thinking and, they *can* work alongside each other : ) Check it out : (URL) just to prove that I really spend way too much time in front of a computer screen, I made some low polygon, mockup, moonbase elements in MLcad to try out ideas (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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In lugnet.trains, David Laswell wrote: ... (...) TrackDraw in its current state addresses all of the features you mentioned in a prior post: more than 4 connection points, 'true' rendering (baseplates exactly stitch), etc. I don't doubt though that (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Sets 10157 and 10158
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If I read this correctly, Lego will be offering stand-alone versions of the cars from the 4511 High Speed Train set. Interesting. Can anyone shed any more light on this? Bryan "Pascal BRUGIER" <pascal@brugier.com> wrote in message (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Volunteer needed for container swap BFDC2004
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(...) Jeff, are you gonna just stand there and be nominated like that?! Avoid work like the plague! Because if you don't, I'm gonna nominate you to organize rtlToronto16, 17 and train7. :) Calum (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Track Designer Registry
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(...) I was trying to find a comprehensive list of TrackDraw features (one that didn't require slogging through 300+ posts in a Yahoo group), and I ran across this post. In all this time, has noone else figured out that you can copy/paste elements (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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(...) I don't have a copy of TrackDraw yet (I only recently downloaded Track Designer), but I'm pretty sure it's less a problem with the design program and more a problem with the actual track geometry. The Monorail track was designed with the (...) (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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(...) The advantage to that design is that the area between modules should already have 8-stud/9-brick clearance, so as long as the train isn't too high, it should be able to pass through safely without any major modifications to existing modules. (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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| | Volunteer needed for container swap BFDC2004
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I nominate Jeff VW... -Rob (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Sets 10157 and 10158
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Hello, Here, in France, I have today confirmation by LEGO of two news trains sets : 10157 ans 10158. The name of 10157 is : Hight Speed Locomotice The name of 10158 is : Hight Speed Train Car. Normally it's same, Locomotive and Train Car of the (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New train set Harry Potter 10132
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(...) I heard somewhere that after the universal colors are set the tracks wouldnt change in color. (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New train set Harry Potter 10132
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(...) Didier - This is interesting news, thanks for posting. This is just a friendly reminder to please follow up any discussions of the color change itself, frustrations, etc, to lugnet.color. Figured I'd get this one in early :-) XFUT --> .color (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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| | New train set Harry Potter 10132
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I'm sorry to announce to the AFOL train community that the new Harry Potter train set ref 10132 contents rail tracks in the new dark grey colour. Maybe is it just for the European market. Anyway train wheels are black ! (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Problem with lego pneumatic parts
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(...) Presumably that was Ben Fleskes... (see (URL) Interesting....they make custom plastic parts. (...) I have been very pleased with the wheels Ben commissioned and it's in part a testimony to the molder he chose (and in part to his engineering (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Moonbase: Nailing down Moonway and Rail Standard
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I believe this pic that I made a while back will help people visualize what Lenny is talking about : (URL) beleive that this idea maximizes the real estate available... (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.trains)
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