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Hey Brendan,
Oops, your most recent installment (David and Saul) made me remember that I’d
never commented on the Final Acts.
Paul in Athens - In the first pic I really like the microscale Accropolis, and I
featured it on MicroBricks. In the second
pic, the floor is really nice. It’s not really complex like your headlight
brick mosaics, but the pattern is very pleasing. In 17:19-21 I like the SNOTty
floor, but the transition to the studs-up plates seems abrupt. BTW, nice
statues throughout. Is that white woman’s hair sculpy?
A close shave - I really like the menorah design and also the use of the grill
plate in the wall of the synagogue. When Paul strips off his close, it would be
more effective if you had an actual fleshy torso (Patrick from the Spongebob
sets).
Speaking in tongues - Not much to comment on here. I’m not sure why tongues
necessitates rolling on the ground, though.
Book burning - In the first pic, that’s an interesting bed design. Is that
based around a window frame? In the same pic, I like that pattern in the back
wall. Nice action shots for 19:16, very WWF (oops, WWE I suppose). In the book
burning scene, the use of gray hair as rocks is cool. How appropriate that all
of the books of magic being burned came from the Harry Potter theme. :)
Bored to Death - Nice attention to detail having Paul’s hair start growing back
in. I also really like the scenery outside the windows (and changing from day
to night). In the scene where Eutychus falls, the legs going out the window
look great. When he is “picked up dead”, the broken neck design is very
effective. I think I probably complained about this when you did this story the
first time, but I think you do the story a disservice by cutting off verse 12,
where Eutychus is fine. I know you have verse 10, but your rendering makes it
seem that he’s not quite dead yet, but probably headed that way, rather than
having had a miracle occur. I know you have to make judgements about where to
end stories, and that the breaks and headers in most modern Bibles are not
inspired, but an honest reading of the text says that this incident goes through
verse 12, since verse 13 picks up with a change of scene.
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Hi, Bruce.
In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Oops, your most recent installment (David and Saul) made me remember that I’d
never commented on the Final Acts.
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Hey, I thought I’d finally slipped one right past you! :)
Always nice to have your comments.
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Paul in Athens - In the first pic I really like the microscale Accropolis,
and I featured it on MicroBricks.
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It’s an honor. Nice post, by the way. And thanks for bringing to my attention
that microscale Manhattan. Very ambitious.
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In the second pic, the floor is really nice. It’s not really
complex like your headlight brick mosaics, but the pattern is
very pleasing.
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Thanks, I’d just gotten a bunch of lt. gray 1x1 tiles in some discounted parts
packs at a LEGO store and was itching to use them.
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In 17:19-21 I like the SNOTty floor, but the transition to
the studs-up plates seems abrupt.
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I hear that. It’s an odd setting. I tried to get a sense of what the Aeropagus
looked like, and it seemed like it was an outdoor meeting area up on a rocky
hill. I assumed the Greeks would have decorated it, so you get the contrast of
polished “inlaid marble” floor and straight-up rocks. But it could have been
more smoothly executed in LEGO.
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BTW, nice statues throughout. Is that white woman’s hair sculpy?
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I assume it’s ABS, though I’m not positive. The part has the LEGO logo printed
inside (like other LEGO hairpieces). Must be some type of prototype that never
made it to market. But as long as it’s officially LEGO in some respect, I guess
I feel OK using it.
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A close shave - I really like the menorah design and also the use of the
grill plate in the wall of the synagogue.
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Thanks, I thought the use of the grill plate was sort of “experimental”. I
really like having it as a latticed window, but incorporating it into the scene
was tricky.
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When Paul strips off his close, it would be more effective if
you had an actual fleshy torso (Patrick from the Spongebob sets).
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Good call. Though it might have confused people why Paul has
chest acne. Are those
dots on the back, too? I don’t have that fig yet. :(
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Speaking in tongues - Not much to comment on here. I’m not sure why tongues
necessitates rolling on the ground, though.
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Well, the text says that they were not just speaking in tongues, but also
“prophesying”. When I’ve come across that term in the Bible before, it usually
seems to imply the person being in some sort of prophetic frenzy state (much
like in the “Everybody in a Frenzy” story in the latest BT update).
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Book burning - In the first pic, that’s an interesting bed design. Is that
based around a window frame?
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Yep. Wanted to try out a simple bed design for the sick guy in that photo, and
liked the idea of the window hinges as little legs for the bed.
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In the same pic, I like that pattern in the back wall.
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Thanks. Just a little something to keep it interesting. I was working on that
wall design when I got whisked off to Europe for the art show in Slovakia. Had
to finish it when I returned a month later.
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Nice action shots for 19:16, very WWF (oops, WWE I suppose).
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I admit, I have been watching a lot of WWE wrestling this past year -- as will
become apparent from a little LEGO side project I’m finishing up right now. :)
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In the book burning scene, the use of gray hair as rocks is cool. How
appropriate that all of the books of magic being burned came from the Harry
Potter theme. :)
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Heh, yeah, I didn’t think of that. Is that really the only LEGO line that has
used the books?
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Bored to Death - Nice attention to detail having Paul’s hair start growing
back in. I also really like the scenery outside the windows (and changing
from day to night). In the scene where Eutychus falls, the legs going out
the window look great. When he is “picked up dead”, the broken neck design
is very effective. I think I probably complained about this when you did
this story the first time, but I think you do the story a disservice by
cutting off verse 12, where Eutychus is fine. I know you have verse 10, but
your rendering makes it seem that he’s not quite dead yet, but probably
headed that way, rather than having had a miracle occur. I know you have to
make judgements about where to end stories, and that the breaks and headers
in most modern Bibles are not inspired, but an honest reading of the text
says that this incident goes through verse 12, since verse 13 picks up with a
change of scene.
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Actually, last time I illustrated this story, I ended with “He was picked up
dead” and didn’t have Paul come down at all. And yes, you called me on that at
the time, as did some others. So now in the new version, Paul goes down, does
whatever-he-does when he lies on top of the young man, and then goes back
upstairs to keep talking until dawn. You’re right that I am still leaving off a
couple things from the story: that Paul leaves when he’s done talking, and that
people bring the young man home. Both seemed kind of incidental and not
essential to illustrate.
-Brendan
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