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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Find it here:
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> http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon/lego/blaktron.htm
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> Feedback of any kind will be gratefully accepted.
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> -- Richard
Oooooh! Ahhhhhh!
I love it, it's great!
Feedback... as in, rationally :-)...:
The story is great. Personally, I had to read it twice to get it, but that's
because I tend to unconsciously skip a sentence or two at times - and every
sentence here was vital to understanding. That's not a bad thing, just perhaps
something to think of.
The pretext (Ladyship Black Pearl) gives a great touch of mystery and intrigue
to the story.... her torso is lovely, BTW.
I just can't wait to see how you manage to involve space-travel in CW... it's
a fabulous idea! Mixing themes is always fun (though I never would've
thought :-)
All in all, great job! I'll be expecting the sequel!
-Shiri
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Space and Castle, my too favorite themes. You have one of the most promising
sites ive seen on the net! Now tell us what tool you used for the torso =)
Whos are new favorite lugnet memeber?
Pearson
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In lugnet.castle, Pearson Castner writes:
> Now tell us what tool you used for the torso =)
I made several Blacktron I imposters (about 20)with spare elements from other
minis, and by brassoing off the print of old, faded, or misprinted black mini
torsos and replacing the erased print with a sticker I made from a scanned
Blacktron I mini torso. I printed the traditional Blacktron I pattern out
with an inkjet printer onto floppy diskette labels by Avery (they have an
adhesive backing). After scanning a real Blacktron I mini and an imposter
mini side by side, I sent the resulting and unretouched image out to several
people -- some of whom thought the imposter was the original and real thing.
This confusion on the part of others fueled my particular madness.
Lady Blacktron was made the same way except that I played with the torso
design for about an hour one morning to blend elements of the traditional
castle maiden torso with elements of the Blacktron I torso design. There are
two version of the Lady Blacktron torso, one with greyed contour space on
either side of the torso and one with only a thin grey line indicating the
torso's contour and then more black filling the space beyond that.
Cheap process except for the time brassoing the torsos, scanning, manipulating
the images, and printing. Now if I could figure out how to print pure yellow
ink from my horrible Lexmark 3200. But I guess I can't complain about a $60
color printer...still, there must be a way to make it print its basic cmyk
colors without a dithering pattern.
The software I am using is Photoshop 5 and MS Publisher (an older version). I
don't know why, but Publisher prints really nicely whereas Photoshop doesn't
do nearly as well. I have no idea why this should be so, and I have tried all
manner of different print settings.
Wait until y'all see blacktron shields and capes...of course, there is the
small matter of documenting the great war amongst the generals before we get
to that part.
-- Richard
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Pearson Castner writes:
> > Now tell us what tool you used for the torso =)
>
> I made several Blacktron I imposters (about 20)with spare elements from other
> minis, and by brassoing off the print of old, faded, or misprinted black mini
> torsos and replacing the erased print with a sticker I made from a scanned
> Blacktron I mini torso. I printed the traditional Blacktron I pattern out
> with an inkjet printer onto floppy diskette labels by Avery (they have an
> adhesive backing). After scanning a real Blacktron I mini and an imposter
> mini side by side, I sent the resulting and unretouched image out to several
> people -- some of whom thought the imposter was the original and real thing.
> This confusion on the part of others fueled my particular madness.
>
> Lady Blacktron was made the same way except that I played with the torso
> design for about an hour one morning to blend elements of the traditional
> castle maiden torso with elements of the Blacktron I torso design. There are
> two version of the Lady Blacktron torso, one with greyed contour space on
> either side of the torso and one with only a thin grey line indicating the
> torso's contour and then more black filling the space beyond that.
>
> Cheap process except for the time brassoing the torsos, scanning, manipulating
> the images, and printing. Now if I could figure out how to print pure yellow
> ink from my horrible Lexmark 3200. But I guess I can't complain about a $60
> color printer...still, there must be a way to make it print its basic cmyk
> colors without a dithering pattern.
>
> The software I am using is Photoshop 5 and MS Publisher (an older version). I
> don't know why, but Publisher prints really nicely whereas Photoshop doesn't
> do nearly as well. I have no idea why this should be so, and I have tried all
> manner of different print settings.
>
> -- Richard
Finally! Someone sees the potential in printing your own torsos!! What do you
print on to? I've experimented with sticker labels (not glossy enuf) and now
as soon as I get a better printer, I'm gonna try it with Crak'n peel Plus.
<<KM>>
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