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| In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> I'm almost done with this hill landscaping I'm doing. It's for my first
> chapter, and (due to my lack of pieces in any color, especially green) is only
> 3.3 studs high and approx. 32x32 in the widest places.
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> Has anyone done this before, and can give some tips I can draw upon to my 'lil
> hill? (It's actually only a hilltop (1), but whatever)...
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> Because I don't have enough plates, I'm using as much vegetation as possible
> without causing ridicule, in order to hide cracks, etc. LMK if you have other
> suggestions.
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> TIA,
> Shiri
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> (1) That's the name of the school I went to 'till 2nd grade ;)
Shiri,
I have actually done quite a bit creating hill's. Unfortunately most are a lot
bigger than what you are doing. Strangly enough the only hill landscape I ever
posted was for my Star Wars Rebel Base which was built into a hill side.
http://www.nelug.org/mfpics/eksw1.jpg
http://www.nelug.org/mfpics/mmsw3.jpg
For those that are relatively new to LUGNET these are pictures of the NELUG
set-up at Mindfest last Fall. I did the base, Dave Eaton did one AT-AT, and
Shaun Sullivan did the other AT-AT and the AT-ST. The rest was a combined
effort. Just giving credit where credit is due.
Anyway for these hills/mountains on either side of the base entrance I mostly
used BURP's and Gray Bricks. The interior is/was hollow with the exception of
a few supports. You wouldn't want to lean on it to hard but I think it came
out pretty good. I have actually collected a lot more BURP's since this
picture was taken and at some point in the future I plan on using this same
technique to build a mountain for my Castle World stuff.
I think if you have a few BURP's and some Bricks or Folliage to fill in the
gaps you could do something pretty impressive for Castle World. I know Jeff
Johnstone mentioned he is going to do things mostly like setting up sets for a
movie or a play. In that case only what you see has too look good. If you
have large gaps that are hidden with scenery or something else I don't think it
really matters.
Let us know how things are comming.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
| | | | | | | | | | | | | I have a large hill (volcano) behind my Imperial town at:
www.cyberis.net/~tcoats/models.htm
Take a look.
Tim
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