Subject:
|
Re: Prepackaged Lego Mosaic - Color distribution?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.build.sculpture
|
Date:
|
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:32:57 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2224 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.build.sculpture, Will Chapman writes:
> In lugnet.build.sculpture, John Radtke writes:
> > The deed is done. This is from the order confirmation and not out of the
> > box, as it were - I'll confirm when they arrive just to be anal.
>
> Wow, John! Now *that's* taking the initiative ;)
>
> I suspect that the color bags do not all contain 90 bricks each then? A
> simple calculation of 90 bricks per bag * the number of bags per set yields
> vastly differing amounts. A minimum of 1936 1x1s are needed to fill the
> 44x44 interior space of a bordered 48x48 plate, right (44x44 = 1936).
>
> According to my calculations below, these bags must contain differing
> numbers of bricks per bag. If we assume 90 bricks per bag :
>
> K34431 Cat : 21 bags = 1890 1x1s (Too few bricks?)
> K34432 Dino : 31 bags = 2790 1x1s (Overkill?)
> K34433 Johnny : 23 bags = 2070 1x1s (Just about right)
> K34334 Tiger : 25 bags = 2250 1x1s (A bit too many)
>
> John, I sure appreciate your validating the exact color-to-set breakdown. I
> would like to provide a set matching algorithm for my MosaicMapper app to
> suggest the appropriate sets to buy to meet the color breakdown of the
> user's custom mosaic.
Bags from the custom kit are all 90 pcs - gotta figure these are the same.
Do your math again ;), Tiger is 24, Cat & Johnny 23. I suspect the 13 white
bags (and/or maybe the 7 black) in the Dino is just wrong and will verify
that when it's in hand.
Anywhere from 23 to 26 bags should be normal. A baseplate of all one color
would need 22 bags of 90 pcs (with 40-some left over.) Adding even one
square of a second color would make it 23. At the other extreme, all one
color but for one square in each in the other four colors would yield 26
bags - 1 bag in each of four colors (with 89 extra parts each color), still
needing 22 bags to cover the rest. Small additions to the four colors
(without exceeding 90 each) could reduce the main color by one to three bags.
Now that I'm reminded that the order confirm actually lists all the mosaic
contents (baseplate, bag of slopes, and inst. as separate items too), anyone
could probably any time have ordered these selecting pay-over-the-phone,
gotten the confirm with the breakdown, and just not completed the order.
Hehe, live and learn. Not like I don't need the parts anyway. My last
mosaic left me with precisely 11 medium gray plates! (I hate how in these
mosiac kits they transform light gray into medium gray, and use light gray
for the new very light gray. Consistency please!!)
Jake did seem to verify over on the FBTB boards that the custom kit removal
is temporary for technical/upgrade reasons of some sort. Providing a
breakdown by these pre-made kits is, I think, still a great idea. Three
times I've tried ordering mutiple copies of a custom kit by calling customer
service and it has only worked smoothly once. Apparently changing the qty
for something that can normally only be ordered singly is not a straight
forward operation, even on their end. The premade kits can be freely be
ordered in multiples without goofing around.
John
#388
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Prepackaged Lego Mosaic - Color distribution?
|
| (...) Wow, John! Now *that's* taking the initiative ;) I suspect that the color bags do not all contain 90 bricks each then? A simple calculation of 90 bricks per bag * the number of bags per set yields vastly differing amounts. A minimum of 1936 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
10 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
