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I’m working on a viking shipyard for an exhibition in Høje Tåstrup next month.
The shipyard itself is
ready, so now it is time to build longships.
What do you think of it?
Any blatant anachronisms?
Play well,
Jacob
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LEGO boats
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It occurred to me that I ought to repost this info here on LUGNET for any
Brickworld attendees who might not read Classic-castle.com.
Hello everyone. I will again be coordinating the Castle display at
Brickworld.
Classic-Castle’s own Baron von Ellermann will be the Pirates Coordinator. This
year the Castle and Pirate collaborative displays will have a water area between
them, so high seas battles are a go! The “water” tables will have a blue cloth
spread over them, but please feel free to bring blue baseplates to line the
shore with. That way we can make a beach along the coastline. The sea
serpents, Viking longboats and Pirate galleons will have plenty of water on
which to fight it out. Which brings me to my next point...
We’d like to create a Viking village this year as part of the collaborative
Castle display.
A
simple Google image search yields many pictures of
how Viking buildings may have looked. Making a Viking building that plays on
popular stereotypes of how Viking architecture looked works just as well too.
;-) Typical Norse architecture has a lot in common with many of the
civilian/residential MOCs that I’ve seen people make for medieval era displays.
There was a prevalence of wood used over stone, and roofs had distinctive
pitches and decorations. Do you already have a Castle themed building that you
think might work in a Viking village? Just add plenty of minifigs wearing
horned helmets, and that “might work” suddenly turns into a “you betcha!”
Of course, the collaborative Castle display is not limited to Vikings. Any and
all Castle themed creations are welcome. In 2007 (Brickworld’s first year) I
tried promoting CCC walls,
but with limited participation. Then in 2008 I tried promoting landscaping, and
we had many more people bring wall sections. :P We would like to make another
fortress enclosure out of CCC wall sections this year. Any wall sections
(straight, corner, gate, etc.) will be greatly appreciated. We will also be
using the Tall Walls this year.
Lastly, please fill out the “MOC info” on the Brickworld site once you’ve
registered. (This is for all MOCs, not just Castle ones.) If you plan on
including a Castle MOC in the collaborative display, make sure to click the
“Classic Castle City” checkbox in your registration information. The checkboxes
can be changed, so you can update them if your building plans change.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me or reply here.
David Gregory
Brickworld Castle Coordinator
crazylegoman@@@verizon...net
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Horvath wrote:
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Reading your tutorial made me wonder whether scans of the orignal parts could
be vectorized using Inkscape (Inkscape includes an automatic raster-to-vector
converter). The resultant SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file could then
maybe be converted to a “flat” LDraw file. One would then proceed normally as
outlined in your tutorial.
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Hi Mike,
Yes, I considered this possibility in the beginning, but I was not convinced by
the vectorization process. One key issue is that silk-screened parts are far
from perfect (misprints, color registration problems...). I found that cleaning
all these defects would probably be harder than the manual vectorisation
process.
And would remain the issue of a flat pattern that need to be cut along former
polygon boundaries... but I am working on this one!
Philo
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Reading your tutorial made me wonder whether scans of the orignal parts could be
vectorized using Inkscape (Inkscape includes an automatic raster-to-vector
converter). The resultant SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file could then maybe
be converted to a “flat” LDraw file. One would then proceed normally as outlined
in your tutorial.
-Mike
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In lugnet.announce, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create
> a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former.
Philo! Awesome tool, can hardly wait to check it out. I've been waiting for a
long, long time for such a prog.
w.
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