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The Brick Testament website has been updated
today with two new stories providing an illustrated account of the second and
third of Israel’s judges, Ehud and
Shamgar:
10,000 Moabites Killed
600 Philistines Killed
(NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take
note of the content warnings for the
stories before viewing.)
Also a note for any fans of The Brick Testament in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I will be doing an in-store book signing appearance tomorrow night, Friday March
18, at the
Borders
Books in Sunnyvale, CA, starting at 7pm. If anyone can make it, it would be
fun to see some friendly faces, so please stop by. And if you already have a
copy of The Ten Commandments (or Genesis or Story of Christmas) I’d be more than
happy to sign ‘em, so bring ‘em along!
Hope to see you there. :)
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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hello Rev. Brendan Powell Smith,
enjoying your bricktestament I came upon this mistypo '' upstaits "
in
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/10000_moabites_killed/jg03_23.html.
Now going on with the joy!
Regards
Daan Bargerbos
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith" <thereverend@thereverend.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:08 AM
Subject: The Brick Testament: Ehud and Shamgar / book signing tomorrow
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/ The Brick Testament> website has been
> updated
> today with two new stories providing an illustrated account of the second
> and
> third of Israel's <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/ judges>, Ehud
> and
> Shamgar:
>
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/10000_moabites_killed/jg03_12.html
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/10000_moabites_killed/thumbnail02.jpg>>
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/10000_moabites_killed/jg03_12.html
> 10,000 Moabites Killed>
>
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/600_philistines_killed/jg03_31a.html
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/600_philistines_killed/thumbnail.jpg>>
> <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/600_philistines_killed/jg03_31a.html
> 600 Philistines Killed>
>
> (NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please
> take
> note of the <http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/ content warnings>
> for the
> stories before viewing.)
>
> Also a note for any fans of The Brick Testament in the San Francisco Bay
> Area.
> I will be doing an in-store book signing appearance tomorrow night, Friday
> March
> 18, at the
> <http://clients.mapquest.com/borders/mqinterconnect?link=borders&id=473
> Borders
> Books in Sunnyvale, CA>, starting at 7pm. If anyone can make it, it would
> be
> fun to see some friendly faces, so please stop by. And if you already
> have a
> copy of The Ten Commandments (or Genesis or Story of Christmas) I'd be
> more than
> happy to sign 'em, so bring 'em along!
>
> Hope to see you there. :)
>
> -The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
>
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LMAO Brendan!
Jg 3:12 Love the offset handle for the mouth :-)
Jg 3:12,17 How’d you attach fat kings hands? And the use of tyres is excellent!
I can see a Buckingham Palace guard there somewhere..... ;-)
Jg 3:16 Burning embers are really nice.
Jg 3:16-17 Dunno why, this reminds me of the first Matrix movie where Neo and
Trinity go in to rescue Morpheus :-P
Thanks!
Legoswami
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Samarth Moray wrote:
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LMAO Brendan!
Jg 3:12 Love the offset handle for the mouth :-)
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Wow, good eye, Samarth.
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Jg 3:12,17 How’d you attach fat kings hands?
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The hands are just pushed into the arms. :) It was attaching the arms that was
a real pain in the butt. I used a few different methods in the different photos
of King Eglon, depending on his pose. In this photo, his left arm is actually
just held in place by his hand that is grasping the turkey leg, and the turkey
leg is pressed into his stomach, which has a 1x1 headlight brick to hold the
turkey leg. His right arm is kept in place using a a spigot piece which is
attached to another 1x1 headlight brick on his backside. The whole problem with
arm joints is that they don’t click into place with just about any other LEGO
element, so it is more resting in place on the spigot, and held in place by the
cape. As you might imagine, his arm kept falling off.
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And the use of tyres is excellent! I can see a Buckingham
Palace guard there somewhere..... ;-)
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I’m just keeping the Moabite headwear consitent. :) We first saw these outfit
back in “The Wilderness” for
Balaam’s Talking Donkey. The original place I saw tyres used for headdress was
Gary Thomas’s
Temple of Catur Muka.
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Jg 3:16 Burning embers are really nice.
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That’s a pretty simple fire, but I did like the use of those brown technic
pieces as firewood.
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Jg 3:16-17 Dunno why, this reminds me of the first Matrix movie where Neo and
Trinity go in to rescue Morpheus :-P
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I suppose he’s headed into a building with concealed weapons amidst a whole lot
of armed guards. But he’s not exactly packing like Keanu Reeves was. And Keanu
wasn’t bearing a false gift. And those tyres-for-hats are more stylish than
anything in The Matrix. :)
-Brendan
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For anyone who couldn’t make it to Border’s tonight, here’s what you missed!
Good times.
-Brendan
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Hi, Daan.
Thanks for the typo report. The text has once again been made infallible.
-Brendan
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Hey Brendan,
Great stuff as always. You should do some vigs along with your chapters, btw.
:)
Moabites--
3:12 Awesome idol, esp the onion dome.
King Eglon--Great fig idea. I saw the post above about the difficulty with the
arms, which is too bad. I wish there was a way to make a fig like this that was
sturdy enough to move around. 3:14 The upside-down baseplate works really
well here, esp the stairs. Are the black and brown beards painted, or did you
get those at Legoland or something? Ehud - I’m not so sure I like the black
arms. Perhaps if there were black legs to match. 3:16 - I agree, those technic
bits make good logs. 3:18 - the real standout in this chapter,
construction-wise, is the incorporation of the bricks with technic axel holes in
the floor pattern. Very nice. The throne and the red lattices in subsequent
pics are also very nice. 3:23 is kind of escher-esque in that with all the snot
my eyes keep wanting to make different directions “up”. And, of course, any good
BT story ends with a slaughter. Again I like the jumper plate as shoulders for
the guy in the river.
Philistines--
Not much here to comment on. I’ve said before that I’m not a big fan of the
tubing-as-arms solution. In the first pic the raised arm looks okay, but the
left arm in that and the second pic would, IMO, be better as normal fig arms.
Any chance of a future signing in LA?
Bruce
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