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Subject:	Re: ZiL 158 Bus
Newsgroups:	lugnet.town
Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:21:03 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote:

In lugnet.announce.moc, Timothy Gould wrote:

Hi all,

My latest MOC, a ZiL 158 series bus. It is fully buildable although the yellow arches cost a small fortune.

BS

FlickR

Tim

I love it. I am constantly amazed by the things you do with the brick.

Thanks very much. Of course I steal a lot of the tricks from our German building friends so 1000steine is really the source of it.

I like the approach of using the 2x2 clear slope underneath the yellow arch. It obviously isn’t perfect, but it works and it works just fine. The point is clearly made with the available parts. The limited parts pallets is actually a part of the hobby that I have grown to embrace and now actually endear. I still get frustrated now and then, but working with what is available has become part of the challenge for me.

That’s precisely why I like working with the constrained pallette of Lego rather than full kitbashing (well, that and the fact that my hands vibrate like an old washing machine). It forces you to use different parts of your brain to get around difficulties. Sometimes a mechanical solution such as building massive SNOT buttresses will work but other times you just have to accept a slight “error” in order to maintain the “look” if not the accuracy.

The main time I get frustrated is when a useful part isn’t available in a common colour (such as the yellow arch in this which exists but was never released in sets). This seems to be particularly true for green which somehow has a much more limited pallette than the other basic colours.

Excellent.

6 wide too. Perfect for many towns.

I like to keep my vehicles in scale with my trains. Seeing what people can do with six-wide cars does tempt me sometimes but I guess I’m a sucker for small.

Best,

Jonathan

Thanks for your kind words.

Tim

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		Re: ZiL 158 Bus
(...) I love it. I am constantly amazed by the things you do with the brick. I like the approach of using the 2x2 clear slope underneath the yellow arch. It obviously isn't perfect, but it works and it works just fine. The point is clearly made with (...) (18 years ago, 30-Oct-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)

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