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Re: I posted some new pics y'all, otherwise known as the confessions of a belville builder
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Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.belville, Damien Nesbit wrote:
> Um, Okay.
> Belville. Its so sissy. How do we toughen it up? Easy. Eliminate the
> pink, then add weapons.
> For those of you that have seen my "Redbrick Island" layout, I've
> constructed a swordshoppe to add to it. Whereas the rest of the island's
> buildings basically have 3 open sides and a detailled facade, this bulding is
> "closed" on two sides so that the proprietor can display as many weapons as
> possible. This will probably be rebuilt as I can decide how to display more
> weapons as without being too cluttered.
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> the link:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=145647
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> After running a search for "technic figure" or "maxi-fig" or some other
> similar term through the brickshelf galleries, I discovered the aformentioned
> work of Brent (see previous posts to .belville). It inspired me to try to build
> a spacecraft for my little uglies. I'm not that impressed with it, and I hated
> it more and more with each added brick, but I really wanted to complete it and
> document it as an excercise. So I did. FYI: I still haven't disassembled it,
> though I swear that I'm going to.
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> the link:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=145474
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> However, the starspeeder is not the only thing that needs a tear down. I
> really want to pull it all apart soon and try to work on something big.
> Although I should mention that a large part of my motivation when working on my
> belville creations is an attempt to illustrate to TLG how to expand the line. I
> usually build with a "set mentality", thinking all the while of at least
> presenting a format for cool, affordable, belville sets. Either way, most of my
> parts are tied up in construction, and it was working within the limits of my
> collection that generated this building:
>
> the link:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=145651
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> Finally, I've been reading a lot about brikwars and thinking about the
> general structure of incorporating belville combatants into the fabric of the
> games. So here are some of the weapons that we might see produced en masse when
> equipping your Belville Brikwarriors.
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> Archers:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1388298
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> Shields:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1388188
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> Long Pole Arm aka 2 Constables man a checkpoint:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1388352
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> sorry to talk so much, i hope that you enjoy it.
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> Word.
>
> D.
Brilliant again, Damien.
I especially like the outpost of the archers. This is a good inspiration for
doing something more with these little ladies.
Till now I used them only as a sort of referential of the dimensions of my
buildings.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=972972
But that is going to change.......
Thanks for sharing.
Leo.
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