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Re: Wanted: book on LEGO town building
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:54:03 GMT
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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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 & (...) (19 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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