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I know Jake recently got an excellent book on LEGO trains published. I’d love
to see something similar, but all about building minifig-scale LEGO towns.
I imagine that major sections of the book might include:
- vehicles
- buildings
- landscaping & decoration
- incorporating trains
and within each section, there might be multiple chapters – e.g., under
vehicles, there might be a chapter on cars, another on trucks, a third on
emergency vehicles, etc. Under buildings, there would be a chapters on basic
architecture, houses, city buildings (stores, post office, etc.), skyscrapers,
and furnishings.
It’d all be indexed so that if, for example, I want to learn how to make a hot
tub or a coffee maker, I can look it up in the index and go right to the
appropriate page. Each model would be presented as a picture, some text
description, and where needed, instructions showing how to make it. (Maybe the
instructions would take up too much room, so they could be provided as
downloadable supplemental material.)
Would anybody else love this book as much as me? Or, would its net effect be to
dump buckets of cold water on the Town community, as it gave away all the
secrets that builders previously had to discover the hard way?
Best,
– Joe
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In lugnet.publish, Joe Strout wrote:
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I know Jake recently got an excellent book on LEGO trains published. I’d
love to see something similar, but all about building minifig-scale LEGO
towns.
I imagine that major sections of the book might include:
- vehicles
- buildings
- landscaping & decoration
- incorporating trains
and within each section, there might be multiple chapters – e.g., under
vehicles, there might be a chapter on cars, another on trucks, a third on
emergency vehicles, etc. Under buildings, there would be a chapters on basic
architecture, houses, city buildings (stores, post office, etc.),
skyscrapers, and furnishings.
It’d all be indexed so that if, for example, I want to learn how to make a
hot tub or a coffee maker, I can look it up in the index and go right to the
appropriate page. Each model would be presented as a picture, some text
description, and where needed, instructions showing how to make it. (Maybe
the instructions would take up too much room, so they could be provided as
downloadable supplemental material.)
Would anybody else love this book as much as me? Or, would its net effect be
to dump buckets of cold water on the Town community, as it gave away all the
secrets that builders previously had to discover the hard way?
Best,
– Joe
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Hi Joe,
It’s not exactly a book, but we are trying to cover as many of those sorts of
things as possible over on BrickWiki. Go check it
out and if there is anything specific you’d like to see added, put in a request
on the requests
page. It’s early days yet but if lots of people chip in it could become quite a
useful resource.
Tim
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In lugnet.publish, Timothy Gould wrote:
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It’s not exactly a book, but we are trying to cover as many of those sorts of
things as possible over on BrickWiki. Go check
it out and if there is anything specific you’d like to see added, put in a
request on the requests page. It’s early days yet but if lots of people chip in it could
become quite a useful resource.
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Thanks, Tim — I confess that I thought BrickWiki was just about the history of
LEGO. I didn’t know it was a repository for building techniques as well. I
agree, that could be quite useful. In some ways, not quite as nice as a glossy
book on my coffee table, but on the other hand, there is certainly appeal to
living, community-driven documentation too.
I’ll check it out and contribute what I can.
Best,
– Joe
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Thanks, Tim — I confess that I thought BrickWiki was just about the history
of LEGO. I didn’t know it was a repository for building techniques as well.
I agree, that could be quite useful. In some ways, not quite as nice as a
glossy book on my coffee table, but on the other hand, there is certainly
appeal to living, community-driven documentation too.
I’ll check it out and contribute what I can.
Best,
– Joe
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I agree about nice, shiny books. Of course, if we could get enough information
and a liberal enough publisher, we could print the shiny book eventually ;-).
Tim
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In lugnet.publish, Joe Strout wrote:
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I know Jake recently got an excellent book on LEGO trains published. I’d
love to see something similar, but all about building minifig-scale LEGO
towns.
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Kevin Wilson has a great town planning section on his site:
http://www.lionsgatemodels.com/COntent/Townplan/townplan.htm
Russell
BayLUG/BayLTC
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In lugnet.publish, Joe Strout wrote:
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I know Jake recently got an excellent book on LEGO trains published. I’d
love to see something similar, but all about building minifig-scale LEGO
towns.
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You know, it was surprisingly easy to do my book. TONS of work, certainly. But
very fun work, and it’s been great to have accomplished it. Interestingly, it
wasn’t “hard” work, in sense that only a select few people in the world could do
it. It was “dedicated” work, meaning that you have to really stay focused on
chugging through. But it was one of the most fun side projects I’ve done so far.
I’d say if you want to see something like this, jump in! I’ll even introduce you
to my publisher if you’d like. (Same folks that Published Virtual LEGO, as well
as the
upcoming book from Allan)
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Team
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In lugnet.publish, Jake McKee wrote:
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You know, it was surprisingly easy to do my book. TONS of work, certainly.
But very fun work, and it’s been great to have accomplished it.
Interestingly, it wasn’t “hard” work, in sense that only a select few people
in the world could do it. It was “dedicated” work, meaning that you have to
really stay focused on chugging through. But it was one of the most fun side
projects I’ve done so far.
I’d say if you want to see something like this, jump in!
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No!!! Don’t say that. I really, really don’t have time for any more projects,
so telling me how much fun it was isn’t helping me at all. Please tell me that
it was gruelling, thankless, back-breaking labor that made you regret you’d ever
gotten the idea, so that I can sleep more comfortably at night. :)
Thanks,
– Joe
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