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| | | Welcome, Ian. I've been lurking here for some time myself, and reading over the messages in this group (and others) tells me that there are several schools of thought on this issue. First of all, there are what I would call the "purists." In simple (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Well, this is, sort of, what PNLTC does. (and WAMALUG, for that matter, in their recent show.) I suspect it will be what I do in my home layout as I don't have enough bricks for modules. (...) This sounds interesting. It would be important to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Richard W. Schamus
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| | | | | | | (...) Well, I'm not the only voice of WAMALUG, but I can confirm that a lot of the lay-out was modular from many sources within the group. We tried real hard to keep a balance of differant types of items. We, (WAMALUG) are just lucky to have many (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Douglas Pegram
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm curious...have you regulated the requisite size per module (as per N-Trak) if someone can come up with a set of guidelines regarding size, track placement, and relative height of ground cover several people from very different areas could (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Richard W. Schamus
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| | | | | | | | (...) too (...) This is true, but then you could look at our current layout, or look at the area of what we have been given for any particular show, and, actively pettition and negotiate for a certain position on the layout. (A negotiated (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Sounds fun. One of these days I'm going to drive up from North Carolina... Frank (24 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Dean Husby
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| | | | | | | | (...) Regarding your message above. Do you have problems of pieces going missing? Ie, you have less pieces after and event then before? We are about to start up a Lego club in Vancouver, BC Canada and are a little concerned about what to expect. I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Richard W. Schamus
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| | | | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) Ie, you (...) pieces (...) Yes, I can see and fully understand the concern. I've always brought just what I needed, (completed item for show, and stuff for sorting that I could build with). Though it has been alluded to by a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | | | | | (...) As far as I know, we haven't had much of a problem with pieces getting mixed together. Every members track are marked on the bottom side in some way(black marker, silver marker, etc). A few of us tend to borrow each other's pieces. Right now, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:15:16 GMT Christopher Tracey <ctracey@wamalug.org> wrote concerning 'Re: Model Railroad Scenery': (...) heheh - we _meant_ to do that, but ended up just knowing which fig was who's... I think this weekend we'll actually do it (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Thomas P. Rafert
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| | | | | | | (...) Now Larry, if I've got enough bricks to cover the table surface I'm sure you do. :-) Yes, I know I use Duplo for structural support and a ton of BURPs for terrain, but hey all together it doesn't look too bad. (URL) > (...) I had talked about (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —William A. Swanberg
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| | | | | | | | "Thomas P. Rafert" <trafert1@gte.net> wrote in message news:38AE13DC.DD860A...gte.net... (much snippage) (...) you do. (...) (URL) (...) close (...) the (...) layout (...) to use (...) the (...) I actually considered this as well, but without (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —William A. Swanberg
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| | | | | | Interesting that, not having seen any of these layouts, I hit upon the basic structural ideas behind all of them. Maybe I should take a trip to Vegas? -- William A. Swanberg CPT, SC Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT) swanberg@msn.com (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Ben Roller
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| | | | (...) I've yet to see any REAL purists. If you think you are a purist, take a look at what your Lego layout is sitting on...until I see tables made of Lego bricks (including the legs) I won't consider any layout that's not on the floor a REAL purist (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) bricks (...) REAL (...) I'd have to disagree, if we want to go to that type of reasoning, and display of LEGO creations where there is any dependancy on anything not made by TLC as part of the LEGO line of products, would not be pure. This (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —William A. Swanberg
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| | | | | So then, wouldn't this require some type of anti-gravity device (made entirely out of Lego, of course)? : ) -- William A. Swanberg CPT, SC Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT) swanberg@msn.com "Ben Roller" <broller@clemson.edu> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: Model Railroad Scenery —John Gerlach
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| | | | (...) Since we're being silly, doesn't that mean the building we're displaying in would have to be made from Lego too? And, the electricity to power the trains would have to be made from Lego Solar Panels, or using the Technic motor as generators... (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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