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Re: Harold Flies! Worship my Photoshop Skilz!
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.parts.mod
Date: 
Thu, 2 Feb 2006 04:17:11 GMT
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In lugnet.duplo, John Neal wrote:
  

Okay, okay, my Photoshop skilz rule Monaco, but that’s about it.

No comment ;)

   We at the TCLTC have a Thomas the Tank Engine area of our layout, and so when we found out that there were going to be a few new Thomas characters released, we naturally got excited. The new characters are Cranky and Harold, and we thought it would be fun if we could animate them (Okay, Ross thought that would be fun). So, that is what he did:

A slight modification was necessary to make Harold’s propeller spin, and that was to d-d-d-drill a hole through the pin on his roof. Ross took it from there. He simply used a 9 volt battery with a snap attachment (?) and spliced it to a LEGO wire, and connected it to a LEGO motor. Simple! The motor, which is spinning the blades directly without gearing down, makes a nice noise and generates convincing, high speed RPMs. The spinning blade pics such as this are NOT Photoshopping, but taken with a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second for the blurring effect.

That’s a very neat mod, well done!

   Also, I’ve posted a coupla pics of the Crankie set (#3301); one showing the duplo 8x8 turn-table element.

Well that element isn’t really new, but the Cranky set looks pretty cool too. I think some of my friends’ kids might be getting those sets when we finally see them here.

ROSCO



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  Re: Harold Flies! Worship my Photoshop Skilz!
 
(...) Oh, yeah, check that out! I'm pretty Duplo ignorant, but it was fun building with big legos! I dig'em:-) JOHN (18 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)

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(URL) Okay, okay, my Photoshop skilz rule Monaco, but that's about it. Actually, there is a little more to the story.... We at the TCLTC have a Thomas the Tank Engine area of our layout, and so when we found out that there were going to be a few new (...) (18 years ago, 2-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)

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