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Re: How do you guys do it?
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lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military
Date: 
Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:53:25 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Dave Lander wrote:
   Ya know, I’ve been into Lego for a while myself. I haven’t had the time or money I’d have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still love Lego. I’ve been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one question for everyone. How do all of you pull it off? Everything I’ve seen on this site so far just blows away anything I’ve ever even come close to attempting. Even the things that you people say you need to work on are far ahead of anything I’ve ever done.

Anyway, I’m hoping to get some time together to dust off the ol’ bricks, and if I can, get some cash for some new bricks too. If I ever get a chance to make any posts feel free to ask whatever questions, and give whatever advice. Above all, everybody keep up the great building.

As others have said, Welcome!

Lots of great ideas in this thread, as a ‘old-timer’ I thought I could toss out a couple more.

Don’t feel you need to build HUGE things. Yes, some of us love to build massive things like 8-wide trains and 4+ foot tall buildings and mountains that make the buildings look small.

But, some of the coolest things I’ve seen are very small -- between 10 and 20 pieces. Some are less than 10 pieces!

Dirty little secret: It’s easier to build big than to build small...

Building small forces you to distill down to the very essence of what you’re trying to create. What is the fewest amout of detail you can include and still have people able to recognize what you’re making. As an example, look at the mini Star Wars sets - brilliant work.

The other bit of advice -- never be afraid to take something apart if it isn’t working out the way you wanted it to! As an example, my 8-wide SD-50 locomotive. I worked on it almost every Thursday for at least three months - and I still might make more changes to it. I’d try something, look at the photo I was building from, take it apart, repeat (many, MANY times!)...

LEGO bricks are a great building medium, because you can take them apart and reuse them. Take advantage of that fact!

And I’m surprised no one has called me on the ‘cheating’ I did on the SD-50... ;-)

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: How do you guys do it?
 
(...) There's one I'm still looking for, that someone posted on .space a while ago. It's the coolest thing I've seen. (...) Depends on the builder :P For me, that's true. I have a hard time building small, which is why I build both big and small, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient)

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  How do you guys do it?
 
Ya know, I've been into Lego for a while myself. I haven't had the time or money I'd have liked to have for it over the last few years, but I do still love Lego. I've been coming to this site for a while now, and I just have one question for (...) (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.military)

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