https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/list.php?20Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:09:36 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,42062#msg-42062 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,42062#msg-42062
We have a toddler, so non-smokers only. We also have a cat and a turtle, in case anyone's allergic.]]> Monarth In English for AFOLsSun, 01 Sep 2019 19:54:52 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,42017#msg-42017 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,42017#msg-42017Are there any people willing to act as hosts among us? If so, reply to this topic. :)


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsWed, 21 Aug 2019 19:54:53 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39765,41817#msg-41817 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39765,41817#msg-41817
Saatamme saada taas vieraita Baltiasta ja ehkä Ruotsista PiiPoo Helsinkiin.



- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsThu, 27 Jun 2019 21:45:20 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40871#msg-40871 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40871#msg-40871 TheQ In English for AFOLsFri, 14 Sep 2018 08:12:45 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40842#msg-40842 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40842#msg-40842
Omena Hotels is affordable hotel, 4 persons in one room costs only 250-260 € for 21.-23.9. There is no breakfast at the hotel but since the location is in downtown, there is a lot of restaurants, shops and breakfast options around. Also there is no reception at the hotel, they just send you the room key. There is still cleaning so it's not a bad option. There are two Omena hotels in Helsinki, both of them are in downtown (near Kamppi shopping center so one train stop from Pasila, around 30 minutes journey by foot, I think).

Forenom has both hotel and furnished apartments in downtown. Their price range seemed to be around 250-350 € for 4 persons during that time. Forenom website is bit confusing since you find both apartment hotel room and apartments there so be careful to check the location of the room you book. The locations are spread around Helsinki and it seems that you can fairly easily reach Pasila from any of the location.

There is also Airbnb but the prices vary alot and downtown Helsinki seems bit more expensive. But if you find Airbnb apartment that is located close to railway, you can easily reach Pasila via trains as Pasila.

Hopefully this helps! If you have any questions, please ask!]]> TheQ In English for AFOLsTue, 11 Sep 2018 19:48:25 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40827#msg-40827 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,40827#msg-40827
As I already established on Facebook, my family is able to house 4 people (two rooms with two beds each) that weekend. We live 50km away from the city however, but the route to the exhibit center is very straight. (About a 40-minute drive.)

In case they don't have a car, I'll be at the event all day everyday, so I'm able to drive our guests to the event and back.

Points of note are that we'd prefer non-smokers (baby in the house) and we have a cat if anyone is allergic. (Also a turtle)

-Jesse Åhlgren
LUG Ambassador]]> Monarth In English for AFOLsSun, 09 Sep 2018 16:09:53 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39765,39765#msg-39765 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39765,39765#msg-39765
"Rekisteröidy"

Then fill the empty fields as following:

"Käyttäjätunnus" = Your nickname
"Salasana" = Your password
"Salasana uudelleen" = Repeat password
"Sähköposti" = Your email

The system will send you an email with a link. Click the link and then you can sign in normally
by clicking the button

"Kirjaudu sisään"

in the upper right corner.

If you have any problems, just email me:
sami.kattelus@helsinki.fi


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsSun, 21 Jan 2018 20:17:38 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39747#msg-39747 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39747#msg-39747
I am creating the plan for our community build and I noticed that at least Alex will be joining. Our floorplan is quite complex so I had to create one overview map and several partial maps. The overview map is in the shape of a cross and the individual maps are parts of that. All pictures are available on Flickr and are updated regurarly. The partial maps are encoded with compass point letters (in finnish). Here is the short version :
North = P
East = I
West = L
South = E

BR
Martin aka lokka71]]> lonkka71 In English for AFOLsSat, 20 Jan 2018 17:54:27 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39589,39658#msg-39658 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39589,39658#msg-39658Dropbox

The key section of the module is the corner: There must be TECHNIC holes between the third and fourth studs from the corder AND TECHNIC bricks where the holes are must be on top of two plates, as such:
]]> TheQ In English for AFOLsMon, 15 Jan 2018 20:31:43 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39657#msg-39657 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39657#msg-39657here. Module does contain a lot of TECHNIC pins that are not necessary but I just personally like to use them. Most important thing of the whole module structure is the 4x4 area in the corner:



If the instructions are not clear, just ask more details and we will help you out.]]> TheQ In English for AFOLsMon, 15 Jan 2018 20:29:00 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39595#msg-39595 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39595#msg-39595
Following an invitation from Sami to BalticLUG members I'm looking forward attending event in April.

I would like to bring as much as I can, however my self and other LUG member haven't decided which traveling option to chose. Depending on choice it would be possible to state how much exactly there would a chance to bring. There would be at least two houses that fit City layout. Both built on 32*32 baseplates at the moment.

Both (first two buildings) seen in here:
[www.flickr.com]

Please be aware grey house has been overhauled and is almost three times higher now. It is still considered WIP, so no pictures yet.

Do you happen to have any sort of requirements for house base? Like module or something similar. So that I could adapt it to your system.

In case there will be chance to bring more I would love to grab few my own Technic MOC's for "Stand-alone creations section" if possible.

Alex]]> Alex In English for AFOLsThu, 11 Jan 2018 15:28:35 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39589,39589#msg-39589 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39589,39589#msg-39589Moduverse

Moduverse is a modular base standard used by Finnish LUG Palikkatakomo Ry in collaborative layouts. One module is 6 plates high and measures 32x32 studs, same as regular smaller baseplate. However, the construction does not use actual baseplates.

Construction from base to top is plate-plate-brick-plate. The brick layer should have TECHNIC holes at least two studs from the corners (see picture). The full layer may consist of TECHNIC bricks. Edges visible on the collaboration layout should be made black, using either TECHNIC bricks or regular ones. If not enough black bricks and plates are available, the edge may be covered with black plates. This isn’t, however, preferred.

Naturally, a model may be bigger than one module – it is possible, for example, to build a larger house on 64x64 module.

If the landscape of a module consists of various colours, it is important to offer pictures to neighbouring builders so that the boundaries look natural.


The road module

Palikkatakomo Ry’s collaborative city layouts, the Moducities, feature SNOT roads. These feature asphalt built using black bricks and a yellow central axis (dashed line, four-stud-long black and yellow plates, with two-stud-long black lines on both ends). One sidewalk is six studs wide, the other eight studs wide. They are built using light bley of old light grey plates. See LDD file for closer information.


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsWed, 10 Jan 2018 16:47:23 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39370,39370#msg-39370 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39370,39370#msg-39370in general, you can post it here, so I will answer. =)


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsSun, 17 Dec 2017 22:13:47 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,39369#msg-39369 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39369,39369#msg-39369for our foreign AFOL guests.

The guests, on the other hand, can announce here if they would like to be accomodated
by a host.

A few lines about yourself and other critical information (do you have pets or allergies etc.)
wouldn't hurt either. ;)


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsSun, 17 Dec 2017 22:11:13 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39365#msg-39365 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39365,39365#msg-39365you would like to bring to HupiCon 2018.

State the category and theme, e.g.

BrickWorlds, Tatooine, 12 modules.

A module is 32 x 32 base that is built in a certain way. The instructions can be found here:
(link to be announced)


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsSun, 17 Dec 2017 20:34:22 +0000 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39251,39251#msg-39251 https://www.palikkatakomo.org/forum/read.php?20,39251,39251#msg-39251
HupiCon 2018 aims to be one of the biggest Lego related events ever in Northern Europe.
In this topic I share some general information about the event in English and you can also post
here questions about any practical issues etc. In general, if there is any problem or question, you can also send me email to sami.kattelus "at-mark"helsinki.fi


Some background information about HupiCon:

HupiCon is part of a larger exhibition that consists of four separate exhibitions that all take place in the Exhibition Center in Helsinki (located in Pasila, near the city center). The other exhibitions are:
- PetExpo (cats&dogs and anything smaller, last year they even had skunks)
- OutletExpo (fashion, design and handicrafts)
- ChildrenExpo (in Finnish, "Lapsimessut", many things for children without any spesific theme)
- HupiCon (check the list below)

These four exhibition form together the biggest exhibition in Northern countries. We expect
well over 50 000 visitors. The atmosphere of the events is family friendly and most of the visitors are
families and there will be many children. However, every year there has also been many hobbyists and
otherwise curious adult visitors as well.

HupiCon also includes many other cool things in addition to Lego world. These include
- RC vehicles such as cars, boats, helicopters, planes and drones
- Traditional building models
- Boardgames
- Many games in general such as Escape Room games etc.
- Pokemon card tournament
- NERF gun shooting range
- Doll World
- Doll houses
- Electric car tracks (e.g. the ones like Carrera builds)
- Star Wars cosplay (501st Legion and Nordic Garrison)
- An audience chamber where the hobbyists can hold speeches or shows or workshops if they want to
- Something related to music, though not yet announced. Possibly a setting to compose your own music?
- Lightsaber battling
- Many other things! I will update list when I get more information.



Practical issues related to taking part in the Lego event

We are more than happy to call visiting AFOLs to take part in the exhibition! =)
There are some practical issues that are listed below:

- There are three ways to bring in your models to exhibition. First, you can take part in the huge collaborative Lego Worlds creation that includes several different themes, so anything in minifigure scale should find a good
place in there. In addition to that you can take part in GBC that is, Great Ball Machine. Here is a video from our previous exhibition:

[www.youtube.com]

In addition to these, we also accept some stand-alone models, too, but the idea is that anything in minifigure scale should be fitted in the collaborative Lego Worlds. Stand-alone models thus include only such creations that do not fit into the minifigure world, e.g. Bionicle or other similar characters, microworld scaled models or Mindstorms or other robotics etc.

- We expect you to take part in the looking after duty, too. The creations must be carefully looked after, and everybody should do some part of that. In return of this, Lego Company provides us with some Lego related gifts that we share during the sunday afternoon.

- There are two competitions you can take part in. More information later.

- We set up everything during the Thursday on 19th of April, so we would wish you to be in Finland by then.
On the otherhand we unbuild the exhibition on Sunday after the exhibition closes to the audience.

- There may be some possibilities regarding the accomodation to stay by local members who offer to be as hosts.

- Some of the travelling costs will be compensated in collaboration with a local toy store. More details later.



The Creations

There are 3 categories:

1) The huge collaborative BrickWorlds creation which will include several themes:

a) Original City and related themes (Super Heroes etc. anything that fits in). This is the biggest theme.

b) Star Wars planet of Tatooine

c) Middle Ages/Castle/Pirates

d) SteamPunk/other SciFi


2) GBC
Great Ball Contraption machine. An example of a previous year can be found here:
[www.youtube.com]

Ask more if you want to participate in this, so we give you more detailed instructions!


3) Stand-alone creations
This category will only include creations that do not fit into the collaborative creation or into GBC.
Such creation include e.g. Bionicle or other large scale characters, Mindstorms or other Lego-robotics,
mosaics etc.



The Instructions
The Instruction regarding taking part in the collaborative creation will be uploaded to another topic in this foorum.


- Samppu]]> Samppu92 In English for AFOLsSun, 03 Dec 2017 21:52:30 +0000