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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:43:08 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   I got a chance to meet up with Jonathan last night and he took me back to his place... not to look at his etchings but rather at his town/train layout. I took lots of pictures.

--SNIP--

  
I like the burned out buildings and general gritty NYC neighborhood/”ashcan” look he’s been able to achieve with this layout even if it’s not quite “done” yet... There were some things I was not permitted to photograph because they are not yet revealed (jawdroppingly great) entries for Ondrew’s town contest. Hopefully we’ll be seeing lots more of this layout!

++Lar

Wow!!!! This layout is truly inspirational. Between Ondrew’s and yours we’ve got wonderful nature and wonderful urban nature. Fantastic!

Thanks Lar for posting these pictures too. There are some things that need to be seen work-in-progress and this is one of them. I also notice a lot of cars in the background. Desperately looking forward to seeing more of this.

Tim


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   I got a chance to meet up with Jonathan last night and he took me back to his place... not to look at his etchings but rather at his town/train layout. I took lots of pictures.

--SNIP--

  
I like the burned out buildings and general gritty NYC neighborhood/”ashcan” look he’s been able to achieve with this layout even if it’s not quite “done” yet... There were some things I was not permitted to photograph because they are not yet revealed (jawdroppingly great) entries for Ondrew’s town contest. Hopefully we’ll be seeing lots more of this layout!

++Lar

Wow!!!! This layout is truly inspirational. Between Ondrew’s and yours we’ve got wonderful nature and wonderful urban nature. Fantastic!

Thanks! Ondrew’s layout provided a lot of inspiration for mine.

  
Thanks Lar for posting these pictures too. There are some things that need to be seen work-in-progress and this is one of them. I also notice a lot of cars in the background. Desperately looking forward to seeing more of this.

Tim

Sometimes I don’t know ‘when’ to take pictures. You know, how far along I should be before I showcase things. Lar being in town worked out great because I probably would have waited a long time before I took them myself.

Thanks for the compliments and for looking!

Jonathan


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:17:09 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:

   Sometimes I don’t know ‘when’ to take pictures. You know, how far along I should be before I showcase things.

I think I know what you mean. I tend to what to only photograph finished MOCs-- just a few great eye-popping shots that maximize the “wow” factor. The same for pics of our layout. But personally, I find “under construction” pics rather interesting in and of themselves, and so I have tried to be more “less controlling” and snap shots of messy, unfinished scenes as well. And speaking of, I just took some pics of my new (hmmm, dark red) building “in situ” (lol, I just had an idea-- I’m going to name that MOC the “HDR” building;-)

But on to YOUR layout, Jonathan-- very nicely detailed and polished work. These are the sorts of projects that really turn my crank! With enough $$$ and the resource of Bricklink, the sky really is the limit for creating whatever we want (although I must chide you a bit for building with such great detail and then to create...“6” wides????:-)

I hope you have considered portability during your construction (the first iterations of our layouts certainly didn’t) so that you’ll be able to in theory show them off in some sort of public exposition one day. If not, it’s never too late to go back and change everything;-)

Keep up the good work (and the progpics:-)

JOHN


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:25:58 GMT
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--SNIP--

   (although I must chide you a bit for building with such great detail and then to create...“6” wides????:-)

--SNIP--

You have to chide him for building in a superior width? Very odd...

Tim


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:27:25 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   (although I must chide you a bit for building with such great detail and then to create...“6” wides????:-)

You weren’t looking closely enough, his BNSF locomotive is a 7 wide...
  
I hope you have considered portability during your construction (the first iterations of our layouts certainly didn’t) so that you’ll be able to in theory show them off in some sort of public exposition one day. If not, it’s never too late to go back and change everything;-)

I was harping on him about that. I want to see him come to the NMRA in Philly, even if only what will fit on a (train) carryon...

   Keep up the good work (and the progpics:-)

I think I’ve convinced him to start doing more in progress stuff... he has a tripod already and a nice Nikon with timer, macro, and flash control/suppression, that’s all you need.

++Lar


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:46:14 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:

   Sometimes I don’t know ‘when’ to take pictures. You know, how far along I should be before I showcase things.

I think I know what you mean. I tend to what to only photograph finished MOCs-- just a few great eye-popping shots that maximize the “wow” factor. The same for pics of our layout. But personally, I find “under construction” pics rather interesting in and of themselves, and so I have tried to be more “less controlling” and snap shots of messy, unfinished scenes as well. And speaking of, I just took some pics of my new (hmmm, dark red) building “in situ” (lol, I just had an idea-- I’m going to name that MOC the “HDR” building;-)

But on to YOUR layout, Jonathan-- very nicely detailed and polished work. These are the sorts of projects that really turn my crank! With enough $$$ and the resource of Bricklink, the sky really is the limit for creating whatever we want (although I must chide you a bit for building with such great detail and then to create...“6” wides????:-)

I feel my 6 wides are slightly beefier than most. . .with the exceptions of the subway cars which are indeed to narrow. Either way, I stil have a lot of growing to do with building trains. After all, I am (was?)a townie, trains are still new to me.

  
I hope you have considered portability during your construction (the first iterations of our layouts certainly didn’t) so that you’ll be able to in theory show them off in some sort of public exposition one day. If not, it’s never too late to go back and change everything;-)

Yeah, I thought about portability before I constructed the tables. I decided I was OK with a non-portable set-up. I don’t own a car and really don’t know of anywhere I’d need or want to take things, here anyway.
  
Keep up the good work (and the progpics:-)

JOHN

Will do, and Thanks!

Jonathan


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:

   You have to chide him for building in a superior width? Very odd...


Less is bore.

JOHN


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

   he has a tripod already and a nice Nikon with timer, macro, and flash control/suppression, that’s all you need.

Oh, is that all.

“... and this remote control”

JOHN


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:38:42 GMT
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In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

   he has a tripod already and a nice Nikon with timer, macro, and flash control/suppression, that’s all you need.

Oh, is that all.

“... and this remote control”

The timer is the poor man’s remote control, it gives you 10 seconds to do whatever...


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.town, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

   he has a tripod already and a nice Nikon with timer, macro, and flash control/suppression, that’s all you need.

Oh, is that all.

“... and this remote control”

The timer is the poor man’s remote control, it gives you 10 seconds to do whatever...

It gave us 10 seconds to get in the picture. . . http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1623043


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:44:11 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
  
The timer is the poor man’s remote control, it gives you 10 seconds to do whatever...

Tell that to Navin...

JOHN


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Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:36:20 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
In lugnet.town, Timothy Gould wrote:
In lugnet.announce.moc, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
I got a chance to meet up with Jonathan last night and he took me back to
his place... not to look at his etchings but rather at his town/train
layout. I took lots of pictures.

--SNIP--


I like the burned out buildings and general gritty NYC
neighborhood/"ashcan" look he's been able to achieve with this layout even
if it's not quite "done" yet... There were some things I was not permitted
to photograph because they are not yet revealed (jawdroppingly great)
entries for Ondrew's town contest. Hopefully we'll be seeing lots more of
this layout!

++Lar

Wow!!!! This layout is truly inspirational. Between Ondrew's and yours we've
got wonderful nature and wonderful urban nature. Fantastic!

Thanks!  Ondrew's layout provided a lot of inspiration for mine.


lol diddo. i've saved several of your pics for inspiration as well. then again i
have about 3000 images off of brickshelf that i use for inspiration. =)



Thanks Lar for posting these pictures too. There are some things that need
to be seen work-in-progress and this is one of them. I also notice a lot of
cars in the background. Desperately looking forward to seeing more of this.

Tim

Sometimes I don't know 'when' to take pictures.  You know, how far along I
should be before I showcase things.  Lar being in town worked out great
because I probably would have waited a long time before I took them myself.

Thanks for the compliments and for looking!

Jonathan


i'm glad larry got down there as well. It's allways intersting to see what
others pickup when photographing others models. His pictures provided some
insite into your modeling style that you might not capture. my only wish is that
larry or someone would take a wide shot so we can see just how large this layout
of yours really is.

ondrew


Subject: 
Re: Layout of Jonathan Lopes
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Date: 
Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:32:06 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:


Sometimes I don't know 'when' to take pictures.  You know, how far along I
should be before I showcase things.  Lar being in town worked out great
because I probably would have waited a long time before I took them myself.



i'm glad larry got down there as well. It's allways intersting to see what
others pickup when photographing others models. His pictures provided some
insite into your modeling style that you might not capture.

Excellent point!

my only wish is that
larry or someone would take a wide shot so we can see just how large this layout
of yours really is.

ondrew

I'll take an overall picture or two within the next few days.  I have been
running around at night like I am 15 years younger this week and have only been
home to sleep. This will continue for the rest of the week.

For now though, the layout is 8' x 16', two levels.  Coming soon: elevated train
to be completed and urban canal to be in place.

Jonathan


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