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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
@bengood921 genius. I had been fixated on the idea that some type of pole had to stick through the Dragon Egg and that a Technic axle had to stick in the plate. SO SIMPLE!!!!! The five round plates work perfectly. Thank you.
As to the discussion on licensing and buying designs, I’d also like to point out that I downloaded the LDD design for…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
Attaching a screen shot from Studio of the way the Steam Generator is attached to the base. It looks like the Dragon Egg has two things stuck into it – 1/ a chrome silver round brick (71075), 2/ a black Technic 1×1 brick with hole (6541). That brick sits on top of a red 1×2 plate which appears to be resting on top of a tile and not attached.…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
I guess if I have to bail on the trans purple umbrellas and Dragon Eggs, I can set up an employee cafe next to the plant and use the Umbrellas for the tables and use the Dragon Eggs for planters.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
@bengood921 Thanks for your detailed response. Here is a picture of the inside of the Dragon Egg. I agree the Cylinder Hemisphere might be a better choice and actually does make more sense but if I can use the Dragon Egg with some type of connection scheme, I’d like to. If I switch to the Cylinder Hemisphere you suggested, I would probably…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
What’s the etiquette anyway for using someone’s design? I have been wondering if I should reach out to the designer, just in general, to let him know I am building his design. I just haven’t done it yet.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
The one end goes into the Plate OK, and I can stabilize it with a little spacer. But the end next to the Dragon Egg hole unless I can fit it with something that ends in a small round peg.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
Here is a view of what I have so far. The Reactor Vessel is just balancing on top of its Dragon Egg. The Steam Generators, once they get their Dragon Egg bottoms, will be installed closer to center and up higher above the gray bases on either side of the Reactor Vessel.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
Trans green is so Simpsons! I like the trans purple. I actually thought it was weird to make any of the pieces a transparent color but that’s what the designer did and I do like it.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year ago
I’m making some progress building my nuclear power plant. I’ve been buying up LEGO elements needed to make the components within the containment building first. I have come to my first major problem and I’m hoping someone has an idea for me. The Steam Generators and the Reactor have a purple Dragon Egg bottom (Container, Faceted, 4x4x 1 2/3,…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic 2023 Q1 build challenge -Micropolis build in the forum Build challenges! 1 year, 1 month ago
I’m sorry I can’t be at the Q1 meeting but I did want to participate in the build challenge. Please note that my base is lacking the sidewalks because I don’t have them yet. So I hope you can overlook that. I had fun doing this, and maybe went a little overboard on vehicles. I feel like my building is some type of telecommunications office…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 3 months ago
I saw a LEGO IDEAS nuclear power plant design in a post from the American Nuclear Society. It’s not the design that I’m planning to build but I wanted to support it. Thought that maybe some in the LUG would also want to support it. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/f57b13e6-146d-4f29-b500-decc0ca11f34/
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic New Parent – How to store/display Lego moving forward? in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 3 months ago
As a grandma I’m at the far end of this. When the kids were little we would build sets but then only leave them put together for a short period of time. Our tendency was to rip apart the build and throw all the pieces into the general collection. Most of the kids’ building day-to-day was free-form. We always kept the instructions though, and…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 4 months ago
Thanks for your thoughtful notes and observations, @bengood921. I have not done anything on this project since sometime in November. I was sick for most of December, not Covid but some other very horrible virus that involved a ton of coughing and lasted weeks. Anyway I will try to get back to this project soon. All I’ve done so far is isolate…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
@greg, I have not started anything in real life yet. For a good array of images from the LDD design, see https://imgur.com/gallery/2ae1nKw.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
Yes regarding Yucca Mountain – Harry Reid gladly advocated for billions in development money but then once the industry was ready to start sending spent fuel he was suddenly against it. Imagine. But I digress. I can report that I have used Studio to isolate the Containment building and then started removing outer containment elements to show a…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
Greg, cool photo. Is that a carrier?
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
@greg, yes this is the Westinghouse AP (Advanced Passive) 1000 megawatt nuclear power plant. I used to work at Westinghouse in the nuclear business. I got the idea to build a nuclear plant when I staffed the LUG table at the Home Show this year, and sat next to the windmill. I thought we needed a nuclear plant too.
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
I hope this will give you a laugh. I just this minute realized, after looking at this design and messing around with the parts lists for a week — that this kid DID NOT BUILD THIS PLANT IN REAL LIFE. He just built it in LDD. Duh. It occurred to me while I was looking at his picture of the containment building, which showed the completely…[Read more]
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Nancy Flury Carlson replied to the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
@bengood921 – thanks. Based on what you said I believe I will need to figure this out for 32×32. It’s probably best if I post the link to the place where I originally found this design. At the bottom he provides the link to the LDD: https://imgur.com/gallery/2ae1nKw if you need to see it. You might get enough info from the images he posts.
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Nancy Flury Carlson started the topic First-Time Builder, So Many Questions in the forum All Things LEGO! 1 year, 5 months ago
I found a perfect LDD design for the nuclear power plant I want to build. Downloaded LDD. Exported BOM list. Couldn’t figure out how to isolate a submodel so downloaded Studio. Defined a submodel in Studio of just the Containment building. Exported parts list for that submodel. Trying to work with both lists to estimate the parts I need for…[Read more]
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