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Subject:	Re: The Brick Testament: Abimelech, King of Israel
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.ancient
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2005 23:38:06 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:

The Brick Testament website has been expanded today with three new stories from the Biblical book of Judges, relating the tale of Israel’s first king, Abimelech:

Sixty-Nine Sons Slaughtered

Massacre at Shechem

Abimelech Not Killed By a Woman

...plus a bonus story of Israel’s sixth and seventh judges, Tola and Jair:

Tola and Jair

(NOTE: For anyone unfamiliar with The Brick Testament or the Bible, please take note of the content warnings for the stories before viewing.)

Enjoy,

-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith

Jg 8:33: Great idol! Very grotesque and creepy.

Jg 9:3-4: The turntable bases look great as a tile floor. I’ve used them as mullions before, but this is an really nice use. The neat thing about it is that you can put another pattern underneath the turntable bases.

Jg 9:30-31: The undersides of the bricks make an interesting accent in the walls.

Jg 9:48: Pretty horrific.

Great stuff, as usual.

Marc Nelson Jr.

Subject:	Re: The Brick Testament: Abimelech, King of Israel
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.ancient
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2005 00:54:03 GMT
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Hi, Marc.

Thanks for the quickly-produced comments. But I guess you’ll have to try harder to if you want to beat Speedy Gon-Hietbrink to the punch.

In lugnet.build.ancient, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:

Jg 8:33: Great idol! Very grotesque and creepy.

Just the sort of Baal that might tempt anyone away from worshipping Yahweh. :)

Jg 9:3-4: The turntable bases look great as a tile floor. I’ve used them as mullions before,

Hey, that’s a pretty cool use for them too.

but this is an really nice use. The neat thing about it is that you can put another pattern underneath the turntable bases.

Sure, you could use different colored 2x2 bricks or plates underneath them to get more intricate patterns.

Jg 9:30-31: The undersides of the bricks make an interesting accent in the walls.

Yeah, it’s one of those things where it would be pretty hard use to a technique like that and build a MOC with good overall structural integrity, but with my quick-and-dirty Brick Testament sets that are only shown from one or two angles, it’s a lot easier to experiment with weird building techniques like that.

Jg 9:48: Pretty horrific.

Glad I captured what I was going for, then.

Great stuff, as usual.

Thanks, Marc.

-Brendan