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Museum of American Heritage
351 Homer Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Schedule: Show Hours: Friday-Sunday 11am-4pm Monday-Thursday closed
Admission: Donation
We are pleased to announce that our 5th Annual "Living LEGO-cy" Christmas show
will be on display in the Frank Livermore Learning Center at the Museum of
American Heritage in Palo Alto for the Holiday season. The display will run
Sunday, December 7, 2008 through Sunday, January 11, 2009. Friday and Saturday,
December 5-6, 2008 are members-only set-up days, from 10am-5pm, and the learning
center will be closed to the public on those days. BayLTC will be presenting a
self-running train layout with several loops of trains running through town,
farming, and suburban scenes. In addition, BayLUG members will have a variety of
other models on display.
More Info: http://www.moah.org
Russell
BayLUG
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The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) is pleased to announce that on October
10, 2008, we turn 10 years old, and we want you to come out and celebrate with
us! The party is at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto on Sunday,
October 12. The room will be open to the public from 3pm-5pm. There will be
displays to see, LEGO to buy, and refreshments to enjoy. The museum address is:
Museum of American Heritage
351 Homer Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Hope to see you there!
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLUG/BayLTC
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russell Clark
rclark at telis.org
408.605.5412 (cell)
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is
pleased to announce that we will be displaying for the fifth time at the
Train Collectors Association Cal-Stewart Spring Meet in Santa Clara. Here
are the show details:
Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 2008
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Show Hours: Open to TCA members all weekend.
Open to the public Sunday only 10am-2pm.
Admission: $5.00
Kids under 12 are free
This layout will be our dress rehearsal for the 2008 NMRA National Train
Show in Anaheim in July. This means that the layout we are taking there
will be set up 100% here. If you can't make it to Anaheim this summer,
this is your chance to see that layout.
Additional information may be obtained at:
http://www.norcaltca.com/pages/calstew.htm
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLUG/BayLTC
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russell Clark
rclark@telis.org
408.605.5412 (cell)
February 2008 BayLUG Meeting
Sunday, February 24, 2008
11am-4pm
Museum of American Heritage
351 Homer Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
BayLUG will be having a meeting and show on February 24, 2008, from 11am-4pm
in the Frank Livermore Learning Center at the Museum of American Heritage in
Palo Alto. Members can bring models to display, as well as buy/sell/trade
LEGO parts and sets. Display space is limited however, so you need to
reserve space or even bring your own table(s). Watch the members mailing
list for more details.
There will be members offering LEGO parts and sets for sale or trade, so
bring your wallet.
Setup for members only will begin at 10:30am. Teardown will begin at 3:30pm.
The theme for the building contest has not yet been decided.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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I am pleased to announce that in 2008 the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG)
turns 10-years-old. We hope to have some special things planned for the year
which will culminate with a birthday celebration in October. Keep watching our
website for updates.
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Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) and
Train Club (BayLTC) are pleased to announce our 4th Annual "Living
LEGO-cy" Holiday Display at the Museum of American Heritage.
Saturday, December 8, 2007 to Sunday, January 6, 2008
Museum of the American Heritage
351 Homer Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
http://www.moah.org
Show Hours:
Friday-Sunday 11am-4pm
Admission: Donation
BayLTC will be presenting a self-running 12'x25' layout with several loops
of trains running through downtown, waterfront, and suburban scenes. The
theme of this layout is "Holidays in the Bay Area," and will feature
locally-based scenes with a holiday theme. In addition, BayLUG members
will have a variety of other models on display.
In addition, you can read the latest newspaper article featuring BayLTC here:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_7560504
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russell Clark
rclark@telis.org
408.605.5412 (cell)
October 2007 BayLUG Meeting
Sunday, October 14, 2007
11am-4pm
Museum of American Heritage
351 Homer Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
This is our BayLUG anniversary meeting. BayLUG is turning 9 this year. Come
out and help us celebrate!
BayLUG will be having a meeting and show on October 14, 2007, from 11am-4pm
in the Frank Livermore Learning Center at the Museum of American Heritage in
Palo Alto. Members can bring models to display, as well as buy/sell/trade
LEGO parts and sets. Display space is limited however, so you need to
reserve space or even bring your own table(s). Watch the members mailing
list for more details.
There will be members offering LEGO parts and sets for sale or trade, so
bring your wallet.
Set-up for members only will begin at 10:30am. Tear-down will begin at
3:30pm.
The theme for the building contest is "Halloween". Build and bring a model
that fits the theme of the contest to enter. Only BayLUG members are
eligible to enter. There are three age groups:
6-11 Years Old
12-17 Years Old
18 Years and Older
There will be one prize given for each age group. Only ONE entry per member,
please. All members wanting to participate in the building contest MUST show
their namebadge to be eligible to participate. If there are any under-6
entries, there will be an age appropriate prize available for them as well.
The contest judging will begin at 1:00pm.
Remember, the contest is for members only. If you're not a member, sign up
prior to the meeting and you can participate in the contest.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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Dear Lego Community:
This summer, The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose is offering 7 weeks
of Lego Robotics programming, with Beginning and Advanced classes, and an
entire week celebrating Lego Robotics with just girls! Galileo Educational
Services, the organization that operates The Tech's summer camps, is
currently hiring Lead and Assistant Instructors for our Lego Robotics
classes. Lead Instructors will develop and deliver the curriculum, and
Assistant Instructors help motivate and lead the campers as they take on The
Tech Lego challenge. This is a great opportunity to apply all that you've
learned, inspire kids, and work in a wonderful environment where the RCX
Brick is truly adored. Come have fun and inspire 4th-8th graders as they
create and innovate with Lego Robotics!
The Tech Museum of Innovation offers hands-on science and technology camps
each summer. Campers enjoy special access to The Tech's world-class lab
facilities and learn under the guidance of experienced educators. Galileo
Educational Services is now hiring Lead Instructors for the following
classes in addition to Lego Robotics:
- Video Game Design: Game development
- Inventors Workhop: Circuitry and invention
- Computer Programming: The FUNdamentals of computer programming
To learn more about these opportunities and others at our sister program,
Camp Galileo, please visit http://www.galileoed.com and click on "Jobs." To
apply, click the application link and fill out our online application. If
you have any questions, you can reach us via email at jobs@galileoed.com.
Interviews are in progress, so apply today!
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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russell Clark
rclark@telis.org
408.605.5412 (cell)
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) is
pleased to announce the details of our second meeting this month. The
meeting will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2007 and will be held in the
Frank Livermore Learning Center at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo
Alto. We will be allowed to sell, however our Preferred Parts Vendor will
not be selling at this meeting.
The address for the museum is:
Museum of American Heritage
351 Homer Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94302-1731
http://www.moah.org
Admission: Donation Requested
The museum hours are 11am-4pm. The meeting will be held during the museum's
open hours. Member's only setup is from 10:30-11am, and member's only
takedown is from 3:30-4pm.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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Bay Area LEGO Users Group meeting
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Fremont Main Library, Fukaya Room
Fremont, CA
(Note: Originally this was listed as a Train Club meeting. We changed our mind
and have decided to make it a general LEGO users group meeting. Sorry for any
confusion this may have caused.)
BayLUG returns to the Fremont Library after a two-year absence due to library
renovation, with a general meeting.
(No contest is currently planned, but if you have any ideas please send them to
Bill or Russell.)
Meeting schedule:
10am-noon: Setup / members only
noon-1pm: Lunch break
1pm-4pm: Open to public
4pm-5pm: Teardown / members only
Note: we are not allowed to buy or sell at the library, and food is not
permitted. Only barter transactions are allowed, and plan to eat offsite during
the lunch break or step outside for a snack.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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Bay Area LEGO Users Group meeting
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Fremont Main Library, Fukaya Room
Fremont, CA
(Note: Originally this was listed as a Train Club meeting. We changed our mind
and have decided to make it a general LEGO users group meeting. Sorry for any
confusion this may have caused.)
BayLUG returns to the Fremont Library after a two-year absence due to library
renovation, with a general meeting.
(No contest is currently planned, but if you have any ideas please send them to
Bill or Russell.)
Meeting schedule:
10am-noon: Setup / members only
noon-1pm: Lunch break
1pm-4pm: Open to public
4pm-5pm: Teardown / members only
Note: we are not allowed to buy or sell at the library, and food is not
permitted. Only barter transactions are allowed, and plan to eat offsite during
the lunch break or step outside for a snack.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc/
Fire Chief, PCFD
There is a very fine line between
"hobby" and "mental illness".
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In lugnet.org.us.baylug, Russell Clark wrote:
> Last weekend BayLUG installed our latest LEGO store display. The theme this time
> is "Save 9v Trains":
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=226744
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> We installed a shelf system with several MOCs of rolling stock and some minifig
> protestors. The store would not let me use the Save 9v Trains web address or
> logo.
>
> Russell
> BayLUG/BayLTC
Russell,
Great job with the window display! That's a nifty way of drawing attention to
the plight of 9V trains. And, some very intriguing and unique MOCs as well!
Jordan
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Last weekend BayLUG installed our latest LEGO store display. The theme this time
is "Save 9v Trains":
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=226744
We installed a shelf system with several MOCs of rolling stock and some minifig
protestors. The store would not let me use the Save 9v Trains web address or
logo.
Russell
BayLUG/BayLTC
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The Scale Rails Online site has two LEGO Trains forums, one for general LEGO
Train discussion (http://www.scalerailsonline.com/default.asp?CAT_ID=17), and
one specifically for BayLTC discussion
(http://www.scalerailsonline.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=45), which is sponsored by
our club. I am a moderator of both forums, and I have been asked to help promote
the LEGO forums. I would like everyone to take a look at the forums and let me
know if you have any suggestions for either promoting them or enhancing the
content, like more categories, etc. I have already placed links to them on both
of our club LUGNET pages, and I have posted a news feature on our site. Two
things I would like to see are links to the forums listed both on lugnet.trains
and in the ILTCO site links section.
--
Russell Clark
President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG
http://www.baylug.org/russellc
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Aircraft are difficult to taxonomize on LUGNET. This isn’t a military plane,
but military fans will recognize the “gooney bird” - the military’s version of
the DC-3 - so I included that. I decided to post it mainly under Technic
because of the working parts, though most of the plane isn’t really Technic.
I’m including Town because that’s the closest minifig theme, and while it is
roughly minifig scale the minifigs can’t fit inside due to all the mechanical
and structural parts. And I’m including my local and club groups. I wish we
had lugnet.build.aircraft, but there is no such thing.
Anyway... the rest of this post is based on my
blog article for this model:
When my father left the Navy and joined United Air Lines in the late 1950’s, he
flew this plane, the DC-3.
Like my Lunar Mobile Lounge, this has been at several BayLUG meetings, and now I
am finally posting about it here.
Also like that model, it is motorized. There are two motors, located in the
fuselage: one which powers the propellers and the other which makes the landing
gear go up and down. There is a battery box in the fuselage that powers the
propellers, and a wire coming out of the entry door leading to a battery box
that controls the landing gear. In both cases, a Technic axle passes through the
fuselage and the base of each wing. For the props, there are bevel gears in each
engine which drive the propshafts. For the landing gear, the axle is mounted
directly to the mechanism. A roof panel is removable to view the mechanism
inside. Here’s a video I made to illustrate how it works:
YouTube
QuickTime via
BrickShelf.
There are other parts that move as well: the ailerons, elevators, and rudder are
all freely hinged. Oh, and the wheels rotate :-) The wings and vertical tail can
be removed easily for storage and transportation.
The fuselage is designed using half-stud offsets to achieve the desired shape.
This means the walls are very fragile as they cannot be properly interconnected.
On the leading edge of each wing are “de-icing boots” which are made of rubber
in the real plane. These are modeled using a curved brick that I got at LEGOLAND
California in their “build it and buy it” area in 2003. I don’t know if they
were ever part of an official LEGO set, but I never saw them anywhere else. It’s
the same shape as the trans-light-blue spotlights in the Soccer sets. These
“boots” are attached at an angle using plate hinges and plates, and have
half-stud offsets to follow the desired wing angle.
Overall this was an interesting experiment in half-stud offsets and integrating
a Technic mechanism into a realistic looking model. I learned a lot making this
and hope you enjoy it.
Click the photo above to see more, or click to look
on Flickr
(slideshow)
or on Brickshelf. And
of course there’s the blog entry.
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In lugnet.trains, Bruce S. Chamberlain wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
Hello, Jonathan-
This version looks very close to
Ross’ riff on
James Mathis’ design. History HERE.
JOHN
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That is correct. James made some new instructions after seeing Ross’s version
and I built it. You can see James’ instructions and pictures of the trolleys
I built here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=129646
Bruce
BayLTC
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ooo. I remember this, now.
Thanks all.
Jonathan
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
Hello, Jonathan-
This version looks very close to
Ross’ riff on James
Mathis’ design. History HERE.
JOHN
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That is correct. James made some new instructions after seeing Ross’s version
and I built it. You can see James’ instructions and pictures of the trolleys I
built here
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=129646
Bruce
BayLTC
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In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
Hello, Jonathan-
This version looks very close to
Ross’ riff on James
Mathis’ design. History HERE.
JOHN
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On 9/27/06, Jonathan Lopes <juanito11217@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward wrote:
> > > I was just poking through these . . . very nice!
> > >
> > > Is there another shot of the blue/gray/white trolley in this shot anywhere?
> > >
> > > <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2043072>
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> > I don't have one, but you can see that same photo with a lot more detail here:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=252674936&size=o
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> Ah, that's great! Thanks!
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> I may attempt one similar to that soon.
I think it's a James Mathis design, built by Bruce Chamberlain. But I
might have that mixed up with another trolley. If it is a Mathis then
you can probably get the plans from him.
http://www.brickbuilttrains.com/
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