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Hey,
More Saully goodness.
Philistines Try to Keep Weapons Out of Hands of Israelites - I like how you
varied the heights on Saul’s family. The tiled floor is nice in that scene, but
the small square gaps are annoying. Plus there are four 1x1 plates in the very
front that are slightly askew. I’m sure the minifigs would always be tripping
over those. I do really like the blacksmith shop. The quoting George Bush at
the end seems heavy handed.
Saul Rejected for Seeking God’s Favor - Lots of great big army scenes in this,
but my favorite picture is the people hiding - particularly the well for some
reason. Ooh, trans fishies! I like Saul’s sacrifice scene a lot - the balance
is good between the altar, the flame, the bones and the blood on the ground.
Slaughter of the Philistines - Jonathan’s armor bearer reminds me of Patsy from
the Holy Grail. Was that intentional? In the “complete accordance with your
heart”, I wish there had been some way to use clickit hearts rather than the
drawn-in hearts. Probably my favorite pic in this story is
this one, with the guy looking at his severed hand in confusion.
Jonathan is cursed - I really like the forest scenes. The use of soft focus is
really good at making it look like the forest stretches on and on. Nice
honey-on-a-stick solution, but for some reason the croissants look more like a
brain on the ground than a bee hive to me. In
this
pic the detached arm doesn’t quite work.
War on all sides - Great battle pics all around. I’m not a huge fan of the
tire-heads, but the action is all great - particularly the severed amonite head
and the killing of three philitines with one sword-thrust.
God Commands Amalekite Genocide - I see a couple more places where Saul would
trip on his floor. Lots of ABS violence here. The scene of Saul and his army
marching into town and the “No, not the children” scene are particularly well
done.
Saul Rejected for Incomplete Genocide - I love the “what is that bleating and
mooing I hear?” scene. I imagine Saul saying “Cattle? What cattle?” Saul’s
such a weasel. The scene where he kneels is nice.
Anyway, all good stuff. Isn’t Saul getting a headache after all this killing?
Time for David to make an appearance.
Bruce
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
I can’t believe I missed the opportunity to title my post about the first set of
Saul stories “Saul About the Benjaminites”. That would have been awesome. My
girlfriend came up with that one a week too late.
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Philistines Try to Keep Weapons Out of Hands of Israelites - I like how you
varied the heights on Saul’s family. The tiled floor is nice in that scene,
but the small square gaps are annoying. Plus there are four 1x1 plates in
the very front that are slightly askew.
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Well, Saul’s just starting out as king and he can’t afford the the highest
quality floor installers just yet. But I understand that he’s hired someone to
fix those askew tiles in between this and the next set of stories. :)
The little gaps are little weird, but I can put up with them aesthetically for
allowing me to tile with the light gray highlight color. I think from most
angles they look more like little dark squares as part of the tile pattern
rather than “holes”. But yeah, sometimes they do just look like holes.
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The quoting George Bush at the end seems heavy handed.
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I suppose. It’s hard for me to restrain myself from overt empathizing with the
non-Israelite nations in the Bible. Especially the Philistines, since even
their culture’s name has come down to us as a slur whose meaning is especially
ironic since a reading of the Bible stories strongly suggests it is the
Israelites themselves who are themselves far more “philistine”. Using the
amalgam of Bushisms put in the mouth of the Philistine leader was an attempt to
get the viewer to empathize with the Philistines much more than any sort of
criticism of Bush or his policies.
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Saul Rejected for Seeking God’s Favor - Lots of great big army scenes in
this, but my favorite picture is the people hiding - particularly the well
for some reason.
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A fairly simple well, but my attempts to make it fancier all seemed to get in
the way of showing off the other hiding people. Not sure if it’s just a very
shallow well, or if maybe they’re standing on the shoulders of people lower down
in the shaft of the well. :)
Yeah, I was very happy to see those fish pieces released in other colors. Got a
few on Bricklink a few weeks back.
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I like Saul’s sacrifice scene a lot -
the balance is good between the altar, the flame, the bones and the blood on
the ground.
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Thanks, yeah, I think that’s probably one of the better animal sacrifice shots
so far.
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Slaughter of the Philistines - Jonathan’s armor bearer reminds me of Patsy
from the Holy Grail. Was that intentional?
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Heh, no, not intentional. Much as I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
it’s been years since I’ve watched it, and I had to look up who Patsy even was!
But looking at screen shots, I see the resemblance. :) Maybe it was
subconscious.
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In the “complete accordance with
your heart”, I wish there had been some way to use clickit hearts rather than
the drawn-in hearts.
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Hadn’t even thought of Clickit hearts, but that’s a nice idea. I suppose I
could have just superimposed them in Photoshop, but sad to say, I have yet to
acquire any Clickits.
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Probably my favorite pic in this story is
this one, with the guy looking at his severed hand in confusion.
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I like that one (though the hero shot of Jonathan’s attack--with his sword
gleaming--is my fav). I just happened to pick up an already-made Philistine
solider who, for whatever reason, was missing a hand, and his head was turned
toward his stump as if contemplating how on earth that could have happened. So
I just placed him in the scene.
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Jonathan is cursed - I really like the forest scenes. The use of soft focus
is really good at making it look like the forest stretches on and on.
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Soft focus is helpful that way. I also threw a lot of green in the sky in the
background to give it something of a forest canopy feel. There’s a number of
palm trees back there which would look out of place if you could tell what they
are instead of just being blobs of green.
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Nice honey-on-a-stick solution, but for some reason the
croissants look more like a brain on the ground than a bee hive to me.
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Any better ideas for a hive? That’s the second time I’ve used the croissants
(Samson also came across honey) for lack of a better idea.
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In
this pic the detached arm doesn’t quite work.
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Yeah it doesn’t quite look right. But I wasn’t sure people would get what was
going on with the ephod if I didn’t show him reaching inside. It’s weird that
the Bible seems to assume the reader is already familiar with what the heck the
ephod is for and why the Israelites would draw lots to determine God’s will
(instead of, say, talking with him directly which is the far more common form of
communication with God in the rest of the Bible).
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Saul Rejected for Incomplete Genocide - I love the “what is that bleating and
mooing I hear?” scene. I imagine Saul saying “Cattle? What cattle?” Saul’s
such a weasel.
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Really? Does Saul come off as a weasel? I never thought so in my reading of
these stories, and I certainly didn’t mean to portray him that way in my
illustrations. Seems like he’s doing the best he knows how but that the game is
rigged against him. Of course, anyone who would actually carry out a genocide
(even if commanded by a god) is far worse than a weasel in my book, but I never
thought of Saul as particularly weaselish.
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Anyway, all good stuff. Isn’t Saul getting a headache after all this
killing?
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Not a headache per se, but he is about to be tormented by an evil spirit that
Yahweh sends upon him.
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Time for David to make an appearance.
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Working on it right now. :)
-Brendan
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Nice honey-on-a-stick solution, but for some reason the
croissants look more like a brain on the ground than a bee hive to me.
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Any better ideas for a hive? That’s the second time I’ve used the croissants
(Samson also came across honey) for lack of a better idea.
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A yellow worm screw?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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