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Hey Brendan,
Great as always.
Giants: LOL on the old-style figs with the big round heads. I've got one
of those from my first set (I think it was 111). I had been expecting a
bunch of Hagrids or Jack Stones, but these were funnier to me. The use of
insect antennae as grapes worked well. One thing I didn't like was the
torso on the guy featured in Num 13:27-28 (I think it's from one of the
Himalayan Adventurers sets). It seems anachronistic and doesn't fit with
the others (mostly various Jedis). OTOH, the new faces (basketball guy and
old mad Indian guy) are nice. Oh, that one guy cries gigantic tears! :)
God Dooms his People: Not as much here--lots of cloud talking. I do like
the "Let's stone them" "Yeah, with stones". I assume this sounds better in
the original, but in the translation it is a silly construction.
First Rebellion: More giant tears. The group with spears has a very
mob-like feel. It seems like they should have pitchforks and torches and be
heading up the hill to burn down Frankenstein's laboratory. The Amalekite
and Canaanite armies look cool (nice consistancy with the Amalekite army,
will you be able to keep that up and have different armies for each
different tribe they meet in Joshua and Judges?). How do they hold their
respective shields? Do the hands fit into those elements? Or do you have
some attachment on the back they're holding on to? Aftermath of the battle
is very gruesome. I like the choice of face in Numbers 14:45 for the
Israelite on the bottom right.
Sabbath-Breaker Stoned: Apparently when you gather wood in the wilderness
it comes in the form of nicely cut boards. ;) Good shocked face on the far
left in the first photo. I expected some comedy on the "stoning with
stones", something like "how should we stone this one?" "I don't know.
Let's just go with stones again." Final photo very gruesome.
Where to now? Are you planning on continuing straight through the
historical OT books? Or break it up by jumping back to the NT. I was
thinking this morning that it will be fun to see your take on more poetic
things like the Psalms or Isaiah where it isn't straight narrative.
Bruce
Bruce
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
> In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> > Great as always.
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> Thanks, Bruce.
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> > The use of insect antennae as grapes worked well.
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> Is that what those are? I've only bought them on Bricklink, so I don't know
> how they were originally used in sets, but I assumed they were supposed to
> be two cherries with connected stems. Hmmm.
Hmm. I see that Bricklink does call them cherries. I've got one of these
elements and for some reason I thought it was antennas for one of those insects
from the Belville sets. I think I got this in an e-bay lot that had some
other Bellville elements, including one of those ladybugs, so maybe that's why
I made that connection.
> Yeah, it does stand out, but I wanted to give those 12 explorers some extra
> character to separate them from the rank and file Israelites. They are
> repeatedly described in the Bible as "leading men of the community", so some
> special clothes seemed right. I examined the torso, and checked for
> anything particularly anachronistic about it, but besides the style of
> having a kerchief at the neck, it didn't seem too unbelievable to set in
> ancient times.
I guess my main issue was that the colors and a striped shirt didn't fit with
the Jedi robe style that most of your Israelites are wearing. Perhaps not
actually anachronistic, but it does look more modern to me.
> It's hard to avoid that. Yahweh sure does like to talk. I try to cut down
> his flowery speeches to their bare essantials at times, but for me, God
> dooming the Israelites is really the crux of the story here.
I'd say not just for you. Most Christians would also see the proclamation that
they will spend 40 years in the wilderness as the key point.
> I'm certainly going to try to keep that up. I really like the idea of each
> separate people having their own distinct look for their armies.
Good luck. You're going to accumulate huge armies by the time you're done.
> > How do they hold their respective shields? Do the hands fit
> > into those elements? Or do you have
> > some attachment on the back they're holding on to?
>
> The Amalekites' (red/black army) sheilds borrow the technique used in the
> new Adventurer sets: there's a 1x1 round plate attached on the inside of the
> shield that lets a minifig attach his hand to it. The Canaanites' (blue
> army) sheilds have four studs on the inner side, so I used a "tap" piece
> pressed in between the four studs to act as a handle.
Thanks. I'll have to use that trick with the boat studs sometime. Those make
great shields. I'm not sure how many taps I have, though.
> I think I'll eventually go back and do some more New Testament material, and
> possibly even some of the non-narrative parts of the Bible like the Psalms,
> or the visions of the prophets. But overall I think narratives tend to work
> best for The Brick Testament.
I agree. I'm just curious as to how you would tackle the more poetic imagery
of these other parts.
Later,
Bruce
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Hey Brendan,
Great job as usual.
Prostitute - Great face choice for the prostitute; that over-done eye shadow is
perfectly slutty. The blue/white aesthetic you use for the Philistine town is
very remniscent of Deborah Higdon’s
microscale Santorini. The, um, position in the second photo is a good
variation on your previous depictions of fig relations. As much as I disliked
the hair/beard piece you used in the earlier Samson stories, when I read this
one I reallized what you were doing and the overall effect is really good. You
could have added a couple of more variants in between, starting with the classic
hair mold and also adding the Harry Potter hair in between.
Samson and Delilah - I’m really digging the customized hairpiece you used for
Delilah. Great job on that. In pictures like 16:9 I really like the
Philistines hiding behind furniture in the background. The tied-down Samson
pics would have been good for a certain contest on JLUG a while back. BTW, that
red couch (best seen in 16:12) is a really simple yet effective piece of minifig
furniture. 16:21 - ouch! Nice blindfold, and the millstone thing he’s pushing
in the last pic is exactly as I’ve imagined it (or perhaps seen it illustrated
in some children’s Bible picture), though it might be better with the handles in
brown.
Final Mass Murder - BTW, I agree with Steve on “murder” vs “kill”. These are
different words, and your previously stated MO is to go with the straight
translation of the text, which would imply “kill” at various places. Story
titles are a different thing, though, I would agree. Great blue/white
architecture. BTW, I’ve complained previously about the flex-tubing-as-arms
solution, but in 16:29 it looks right to me. I guess I’ve always imagined that
scene with his arms stretched straight, so the lack of elbow doesn’t look so
odd. I see your comment upthread about the use of a LEGO paperclip. Very
clever. I thought you maybe had a white spider-man climbing rope running
through the tires to hold them in place and it was just suspended above the
frame of the photo. Great collapse. I can imagine this was a frustrating scene
to get just right long enough for photographs, especially the column of 2x2
rounds (or was this where you used the paperclip?).
Bruce
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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I didn’t really see an opportunity to show more of a gradual hair-growth
given the Bible passages I had to work with.
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Good point, and I agree with your solution.
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Samson and Delilah - I’m really digging the customized hairpiece you used
for Delilah. Great job on that.
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Thanks, it’s really nice to have more hair options--ones that cover very
basic hairstyles that could be from virtually any era, like this simple
female hair parted-to-one-side modification.
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On the topic of customization of that hairpiece, this reminds me of Pat Morgan’s
customized Saxon.
Bill Vollbrecht did something very similar with his
Willy Wonka.
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Not sure what this refers to (I had to look up what JLUG is). Was there a
LEGO bonadge contest of some sort there?
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Go to JLUG and do a quick search on “BDSM”.
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OK, you guys are going to have to help me out,
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Sorry to be unclear. All I was saying was that a literal translation of the
word used in these stories is usually “kill”, not “murder”, and I thought you
used “murder” in the text at least once. Maybe I’m misremembering. I’m not
commenting at all on the story titles, as these are always an editorial gloss on
the text.
Hmm, would there be a way to use the “official LEGO paper clip”?
---pauses---rips arms off nearest minifig (“Ouch!” cries the minifig)---tries to
shove a paperclip in---Grrrr---
Maybe not. The hole inside the connecter part of the arm is too large in
diameter to interact with the paperclips I’ve got lying on my desk. Maybe if
you wrapped the paperclip in some of the official LEGO tape that comes with the
same desk set.
Bruce
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Hey Brendan,
Nice installment, but I have to admit there’s not a lot of new ground here for
me to comment on.
Peaceful, unsuspecting people - Probably my favorite thing in this story is the
use of focused and unfocused areas of the photos in 7, 27, and 27-28.
Gang rape - Where’s the grumpy Levite face from? I’d also never seen the yellow
bottle (hmm, Peeron doesn’t have it, where’s that from?). I’m a little confused
as to the purpose of the brown technic piece in the background of some of the
scenes. I love the green/gray tiled floor in 21.
Massacre eachother - Once again, the DeCraemer-esque cliff wall in vs 47 is
outstanding.
Remorse - Nice incorporation of the new horn element (gotta get me some of
those) in the altar in the first pic. Nice transformation of the men at the
Rock of Rimmon between the previous story and this. Good face in the last pic
for the guy who got the “last one”.
Girls of Shiloh - In 21:23, the dancing is nice, and I really like the rock
wall.
Bruce
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