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Subject: 
Re: Mountain/Quarry
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:39:09 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Bruce Hietbrink writes:

Snipped instructive examples.

my
general conclusions are:
BURPs and LURPs can be good.  They make it quick to build up large
structures and save relatively limited supplies of gray bricks for detail
work.  However, too many of them, especially if they are evenly spaced,
leads to a look that is too patterned and unnatural looking.

Yes. The issue here may well just be "what is the point at which you have
'too many'..."

For me, for this mountain, 10% face coverage was just at the edge of 'too
many', so I stayed below that mark. On the back which was designed to be
less visible, I used quite a few more.



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  Re: Mountain/Quarry
 
I've had to build several mountains for my Tolkien project and have gone back and forth on BURPs/LURPs. I wasn't thrilled with this cliff: (URL) it was basically just a Burp pile. On my next mountain I tried to completely hide the BURPs (though they (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)

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