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In lugnet.build.military, Dave Lander wrote:
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Ya know, I’ve been into Lego for a while myself. I haven’t had the time or
money I’d have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still
love Lego. I’ve been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one
question for everyone. How do all of you pull it off? Everything I’ve seen on
this site so far just blows away anything I’ve ever even come close to
attempting. Even the things that you people say you need to work on are far
ahead of anything I’ve ever done.
Anyway, I’m hoping to get some time together to dust off the ol’ bricks, and
if I can, get some cash for some new bricks too. If I ever get a chance to
make any posts feel free to ask whatever questions, and give whatever advice.
Above all, everybody keep up the great building.
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As others have said, Welcome!
Lots of great ideas in this thread, as a ‘old-timer’ I thought I could toss out
a couple more.
Don’t feel you need to build HUGE things. Yes, some of us love to build massive
things like 8-wide trains and 4+ foot tall buildings and mountains that make the
buildings look small.
But, some of the coolest things I’ve seen are very small -- between 10 and 20
pieces. Some are less than 10 pieces!
Dirty little secret: It’s easier to build big than to build small...
Building small forces you to distill down to the very essence of what you’re
trying to create. What is the fewest amout of detail you can include and still
have people able to recognize what you’re making. As an example, look at the
mini Star Wars sets - brilliant work.
The other bit of advice -- never be afraid to take something apart if it isn’t
working out the way you wanted it to! As an example, my
8-wide SD-50 locomotive.
I worked on it almost every Thursday for at least three months - and I still
might make more changes to it. I’d try something, look at the photo I was
building from, take it apart, repeat (many, MANY times!)...
LEGO bricks are a great building medium, because you can take them apart and
reuse them. Take advantage of that fact!
And I’m surprised no one has called me on the ‘cheating’ I did on the SD-50...
;-)
JohnG, GMLTC
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This one time, John Gerlach wrote:
> But, some of the coolest things I've seen are very small -- between 10 and 20
> pieces. Some are less than 10 pieces!
There's one I'm still looking for, that someone posted on .space a while
ago. It's the coolest thing I've seen.
> Dirty little secret: It's {easier} to build big than to build small...
Depends on the builder :P For me, that's true. I have a hard time building
small, which is why I build both big and small, because the small really
challenges me. The big can challenge me too.
> Building small forces you to distill down to the very essence of what you're
> trying to create. What is the fewest amout of detail you can include and still
> have people able to recognize what you're making. As an example, look at the
> mini Star Wars sets - brilliant work.
What John said :)
-Anne
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