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Re: The Brick Testament - David, King of Israel
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Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:18:16 GMT
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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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Hi, Bruce. Your absence really made me appreciate how fortunate I’ve been to
have someone so consistently providing detailed and thoughtful comments and
questions on each update to The Brick Testament. If you find time to go back
and comment on the last few updates, great, but please don’t feel obligated.
It’s just great to have you back.
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Nice to be appreciated. I’ve started in on my missing commentary.
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I kind of imagined them carrying
down from Israel to Judah the king-making kit, including the wooden steps and
King Saul’s royal robes. David wears the robes ceremonially in this scene to
show that he is now the king over all that was once Saul’s. But in the next
story he’s got his own royal military garb and his own
lounging-about-the-palace outfit once his palace is built.
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I was wondering about the green robe. Very well thought-out. Of course, David
somehow got several inches taller for the coronation. :)
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If so,
the elders from “all the tribes” shouldn’t have matching white arms.
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-explanation-
I should have known that this was well planned and not a mistake. Seems like a
very sensible plan.
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I’d be curious to hear how you interpret this story, specifically what David
says about hating the blind and lame, and the explanation of the common
saying. But that best be taken to off.topic.
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I really do think it was an insult referring to the Jebusites going back to
their taunt. It doesn’t make sense to me otherwise.
This whole
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built-on-a-diagonal thing started because I was trying to solve the perennial
problem of trying to make a
good
pointed arch doorway out of LEGO. I’ve seen it pulled off nicely on a
larger scale on some cathedral MOCs, but I have never figured out how to make
a decent one on a smaller scale. For this gate, I tried a new strategy (to
me at least) or using two half-arch pieces at a 90 degree angle to create something like a pointed
arch. If anyone has suggestions on a better way to achieve this feat, or
links to a MOC where it’s been done well, please do tell!
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Well, I’ve seen someone make gothic arches by cutting arch bricks and putting
them together, but that offends my personal building ethic. You can do use two
1x2x3 inverse slopes, two 1x2 inverse slopes, ad two 1x3 inverse slopes, which
will give you a shape 8 wide at the base with a point at the top, but it’s not
quite the right shape (I did this
here, the top half of
the right hand doorway, when I was trying to come up with some shapes for Arabic
architecture).
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Just as a nitpick to your comments though, the names given in this story are
the names of the sons born to David.
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D’oh!
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Thanks. I was happy with that shot. I have to admit, I’m getting a little
worried about my continued ability to give these endless stories of wars and
massacres some personality in my depictions without simply repeating the same
old tricks.
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Perhaps I should be worried for myself that I continue to appreciate LEGO
violence.
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The
idea is to get people to see just what an unbelievable amount of the most
brutal sorts of violence makes up the bulk of the Old Testament.
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I’d disagree with this characterization, but would rather focus on the brick
than argue this here.
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Heh, I still agree with you, but still don’t have a more reliable solution.
Later in
this scene I used my other trick where a rubber band laces through the arm
holes and holds two normal minifig arms out to the sides. But for that you
need both arms out.
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You did have a nice optical illusion once where you hid a second figure behind
the first and you showed the arm of the second figure. I do wish that the ball
joint on a fig arm was a standard size (e.g. bar diameter) so that arms could be
more easily incorporated as build elements.
I love that scene of Michael’s. Such a clever use of the Two-Face torso.
Bruce
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