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Re: The Brick Testament: The End of the World (and more!)
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Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:32:48 GMT
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Hi, Bruce.
In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Great to see new installments so soon.
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Yeah, it feels good to be back in the swing of things. I hope to start in on
the final installment of the Life of Jesus stories soon and keep this momentum
going.
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Canaanite Dogs - I like the building on the right in the first picture quite
a lot. What’s the bowl on the left in the second picture, by the way.
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The dark gray thing? That’s the same ball-joint piece I used as the water jars
in The Transmutation story. The earth orange bowl on the left is the another
part of the ball joint.
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It’s nice to see a little bit of landscaping in the background. One of my
complaints with BT is that often your landscaping is all flat baseplates.
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Particularly with this revamp of the New Testament stories I’ve been trying to
make better use of landscaping. Part of my motivation for redoing a lot of
these stories was that some the original photos were embarrassingly simple, just
a few figures plunked down on a tan baseplate. I don’t think I’m among the best
LEGO landscapers out there, but I’m doing what I can to make the scenes a little
more interesting.
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Disciples Sent Out - Hmm, the green flame thing is kinda cool but it says
more “Emperor killing Luke” than “Jesus blesses disciples” to me.
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Well, the text doesn’t really say anything about blessing here. This passage is
generally translated as Jesus “gave them power” or “gave them authority” over
evil spirits. I guess I envisioned that as some sort of transfer of magical
powers. But who knows what that sort of thing would look like?
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I love the expression when the disciple is being fed a bug.
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That’s one gag from the original version of Instructions to the Disciples that I
tried to keep exactly the same. I couldn’t think of a way to improve on it.
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The raining flames with burnt bodies in the background
scene is very effective.
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Ever since I stumbled upon that way to connect flame pieces to each other, I’ve
been tempted to go back and redo the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah from
Genesis. I don’t know if I will, since that’s now a published story, but at
least least I got to do this Sodom-like scene in this story.
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Lazarus Reanimated - Great hammock solution.
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Thanks. I originally tried to create the hammock without cutting a net, just
folding one in half instead. But is was very bulky much less elegant.
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In MM&L’s house i like the beams offset by half a stud quite a lot.
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Had to think for a moment just to decipher MM&L. :) I like how their house
looks, too. Those are 1x2 tiles hung vertically rather than offset bricks.
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Good cave and cliff. It took a bit for me to figure out what
the grill tile was at Lazarus’ feet - I’m not sure
if that’s effective.
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Hmm, OK, yeah, I wondered if that would be clear or not. I took some photos
with it there and some without, but ended up thinking it worked. Maybe I was
wrong.
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Switching in the Vader head for the mummy head works well.
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OK, good to hear that worked. :)
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Jesus and the Poor - Funny but sick take on the leper. Those offset bricks
are nice in the wall and the doors-as-table is surprisingly effective.
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Ah, yes, Simon the leper. I searched through the gospels to see if there was
any other info provided about him. Was he someone Jesus had cured of leprosy?
If so, there’s no mention of it. And he isn’t called Simon the former leper, so
I had some fun making a LEGO leper (hosting a dinner). I liked how the doors
worked as the table top. It’s pretty hard to otherwsie get a rounded dinner
table.
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Jesus Curses a Tree - Hmm, I’m not sure if the withered tree works. I think
it would be better if you recreated the camera shot from the first pic in the
story with Jesus walking away and the tree in soft focus in the background.
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Hmm. Interesting idea. Though I can’t say I was unhappy with how the withered
tree turned out.
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Temple Tantrum - LOL on the name. This is probably my favorite of this
batch, as everything in here works really well. The action is particularly
well portrayed in the “turning over the tables of the moneychangers” scene.
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Thanks. I was glad I was able to figure out something for the “whip of cords”
there. My first several attempts didn’t look so hot. I’m kind of fascinated by
the Jerusalem Temple structure in Jesus’s time (built by Herod the Great in 4
BCE, destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE), and really wanted to capture what the
temple courts might have looked like.
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The End of the World - Along with Temple Tantrum, another very well done
story. I like the building in the first scene quite a lot
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That would be my attempt to capture the great Temple complex from the outside.
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and the earthquake is cool. Bring out your dead brought a smile to my face.
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Fun stuff to build.
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In Matt. 24:9, the column made of twisted technic ribbed hoses
doesn’t really work, IMO. It looks like it should be in a sci-fi,
rather than ancient, setting.
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I’ve had that twisted column sitting around for maybe six months now. Maybe
this wasn’t the best place to use it, and maybe you’re right that it’s not
really ancient-looking enough. But this scene seemed appropriate enough to me,
with Jesus making such a vague prediction. He doesn’t say who will be carrying
out this presecuting and putting to death his disciples, but he says that they
will be “hated by all the nations”. So I picked the dark peach colored people
to represent one of these unspecified nations that will hate, persecute, and
kill Jesus’s disciples. Since I was dealing with an unkown nation, I felt I
could take some artistic liberties with their architectural style.
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The clouds and the rapture scenes are really good, but the most
effective scene of all is the fires of Hell. Great work.
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Thanks, hell scenes are always fun, though this one maybe looks more like a lake
of fire than a fiery furnace, which is the description given in that verse.
It wasn’t until I’d finished that scene that I realized I’d made a hell scene
without using the standard LEGO fire piece!
Much thanks as always for your comments.
-Brendan
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