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Re: A little math cioncerning ships, containers and Minifigs
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lugnet.boats, lugnet.trains
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lugnet.boats
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Fri, 21 May 2004 02:07:40 GMT
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JAVANREE@VANREE.NETspamcake
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Those containers are gorgeous, as is Mark's 8wide. That's not what I'm
> debating. I just don't have enough brick(1) to do very many of them and
> I'd rather go for a huge pile of smaller containers that I CAN do, and 2
> or 3 ships instead of just one big one.
From my model railroading I know all about selective compressing and there's
usually a certain breaking point where it looses it's effect and becomes
silly. IMHO the 4-w container is at least close to that if you use it
together with minifigs and 6-w trains/4-w cars (let alone wider)
Now I know LEGO is not a true to scale thing but some logic is needed to
give it a "could be real" feeling.
> Hopefully the effect of bustle and busyness would still come through.
If that's your goal I'd keep minifigs away from the yard and keep the trucks
4-wide as well or it'll show real quick.
> Hopefully this is helping people think about the issue, there is no
> "right" answer.
True. It's a matter of what you find more important, immersion because of
quantity or quality (not that I'm knocking down the 4-w container, but you
trade in realism for amount)
> 1 - if you look at the construction details (the ldr file shows how
> terrifically clever the build is) you'll see that this container consumes
> mass quantities of parts that are rarer than the 2x4 brick.
I know, I built one for Luigi for 1000steineland ;) Although you can save
quite a bit of parts if you think it over.
--
Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
Brick Piles | Santa Fe B-unit
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