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Hey all, After a few weeks on Backorder, I finally got my orange bricks from the halloween pack. I used the Orange bricks to make rock formations akin to the ones found in the southwest american deserts. I was going for a "Big Thunder Mountain" (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Cows (and chickens and pigs and fruit oh boy!)
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Greg, If you can get the scala spicy kitchen set for cheap (I think it's like 12 bucks at shop at home) you can get a roast bird piece with removable legs, and sausage links to sell to your bbq lovin' minifigs. I also lifted some Jam Jars for my (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Done! While I was at it I went ahead and ordered a couple of the belville accessory packs that I had only recently noticed in the catalog. Along with the corn sign from the duplo farm animals I figure that with the fruit and vegetables from (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Thanks for this tip Jon. I never bother to check out the Duplo listings but having looked at this one I definitely think that having some of those fences would be great. The only similar ones I've found are in the huge 5988 Adventurers set and (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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Hey all. If you haven't checked out the shop at home specials this week, Check out the Duplo farm Animals. For only eight bucks you can get a bunch of fencing (always needed when building a wild west town) and some cattle and pigs. The Baby Animals (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Victorian Era Troops
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(...) gives an authentic feel to the figures. The wacky tack is a great idea. I'm still curious and would love to see more pictures of the shotgun you made - (URL) looks like you ground down the back end near the action and possibly between the (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Christopher Pisciotti Loch Forest, CA (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.western)
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As promised, here are the pics of the Zulu era British soldiers. You may notice that in some photos the soldiers have blue pants and in some photos their pants are white. I took the original photos before I found out that the pants should be Navy (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: US S@H Specials, Apr 25 - May 01, 2001
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(...) As of 11:30 est 4/27, LSAH says they're out of this item. Greg (24 years ago, 27-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.western)
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If anyone hasn't checked out the Shop at home specials this week, They noted that there are still several "Frontier Patrol" Sets available through SAH service. They are 5.99 but that includes a horse three soldiers, and some scrub brush. Now, what (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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Hey Everybody. I have been doing some searching for more Union soldier minifigs and I finally found some. Unfortunatly I do not have any money to spend on them, being a poor college student that I am so I thought I would share the website I found (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Bayonet Pictures!
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(...) Yes i saw the Gabarro torso on most, but i thought when people were refering to the RR stuff that they had an identical torso. Oh well, i know thats where you get the Kepis though. I might head out to My TRU today maybe some mysteriously (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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I was torn using the divers knives for bayonets since most civil war era bayonets were more of the "Tent peg" or "spike" Variety. Since I have all of those tool wheelsfrom the Rock Raider minifig paks, I tried using the screwdriver, but it didn't (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Yes - the RR mini-fig pack (4930) includes one dark grey torso (even though it's a little marred by having the yellow&black striping on one of the pockets) and two pairs of dark grey legs. And of course the kepi... You might want to check any (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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Wow great pictures, I would of never thought about whacky tack for adhesive, i would of superglued!(did a couple of sniper rifles this way, liked how they came out) But now i must invest in whacky tack... :) i love all the confederate pictures (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) I couldn't agree more. So tell one tell all, lets share suggestions and post those pics. Wouldn't be it great to see a Civil War theme! That may be a little too much to ask though. Might not be a broad enough appeal. Also one more thing about (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) Thanks for the info Nate. What you said about the variety of uniforms used by the Confederate army is one reason why I'm not obsessed with trying to recreate any truly authentic LEGO look-alikes. I think having the grey kepi and torso is (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) ....... (...) Hey Everybody, The Confederate artillery doesn't necessarily have to have red kepi's. They can have any color hat really, but they do have some sort of red marking on them. Some wore a red band around a grey kepi, or around a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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(...) I've been asking myself that same question - what the heck am I going to do with all those extra Axle, Bandit, Jets & Sparks mini-figs? I'm thinking that my nephews are about to get a load of Rock Raiders dumped on them. And how about a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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Greg, I think your pics are sweet, I was out of the country so I missed them the first time. What do you do with all of the left over Rock raider parts? The heads are useless, except the scowling bearded guy, because they've got mic's on their (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
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