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| It's been a few years since I posted anything of note here on LUGNET, so it feels good to be back. I saw one of these on TV and the idea of a plane that could scoop up water and dump it on a wildfire kind of appealed to me. So did the idea of using (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) Yes. I tend to think of 'minifig scale' as anything built to fit minifigs, rather than an exact ratio. It's all an approximation with lego. (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) Just call 'em a city o' midgets and go with 1:60. ROSCO (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Mona Lisa
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| (...) Jason, Using MS Paint, I made and saved about 140 drawings of circles of various colors atop squares of various colors. I omitted combinations where the pieces were rare (1 x 1 orange plates, 1 x 1 round green plates, etc. ) After I saved all (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) Thanks for the vote of confidence. I do try to keep my inner pedant under control as much as possible ;) But in this specific case I think pedant is quite applicable. Tim (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, have not really seen the word "pedant" used in a long while--maybe since studying for the SATs back in Age of Aquarius so I had to look it up again. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules. One who exhibits one's (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) --snip-- (...) Hey Tommy, I agree for the most part and certainly don't keep to a single scale in my own dioramas (or even work completely to scale on many models). Selective compression, forced perspective and other techniques are very useful (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) It would be nice to scale a barbie profile to the average female height and add her to the picture. Although I get mildly irked by the abuse of 'minifig scale' the main reason I did this was 'cause I thought it would look funny. (...) Perhaps (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) When I first read this, I laughed out loud. Yes, the topic is worthy of discussion and debate. So why did I laugh? One word...... Barbie. Every so often you will read or hear someone in the media complaining about Barbie. "Her proportions are (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| I think this whole issue of scale and size brings into question just how humans see the world and depict it. Western Civilization and the whole scientific mathematical outlook of the world originated only a few hundred years ago with the discovery (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Mona Lisa
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| (...) Very impressive. I hadn't seen this technique before, it rocks. Did you use a computer program to help you decide which color to use for the 1x1 rounds and the plate beneath or...? Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) --snip-- (...) I think you're demonstrating my point here by confusing size and scale here. A 'scale' defines the ratio of each dimension of the model to the real thing. Thus HO scale is 1:87, half scale is 1:2, true nano scale is 1:10^9 and (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) Minifig scale, as with micro-scale and nano-scale, is a very broadly defined term. Miniland scale can be nailed down fairly precisely, but you can make one creation and call it nano-scale, and then make a matching creation that's half that (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | SCLTC photos from NMRA 2008
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| (URL) from the Southern California LEGO Train Club's contribution to the 8-club ILTCO layout at the 2008 NMRA National Train Show in Anaheim, California on July 18-20, 2008 are now posted on the club's (URL) website>. (9 URLs) -Ted Michon SCLTC (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) For the most part although I have seen it used to describe set scales a little recently which is, in my opinion, just plain silly. (...) I vary my scale quite a bit even within a diorama but for buildings I probably use closer to 1:60 than (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) I've always used the term "minfig scale" to differentiate from "Miniland scale" to help explain that the vehicles, structures, and figures in Miniland at LEGOLANDs are not the same as the vehicles, structures, and figures in LEGO sets. -Ted (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Tim, You are absolutely correct in describing the minifigure as an unrealistic model of a person. If minfigures were real people they would resemble some of the unhealthiest humans with big head and extremely overweight bodies. I think the (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Minifig scale?
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| (...) Indeed. I think the use of the term 'minifig scale' is just a turn of phrase. (...) A striking silhouette indeed, though I wonder if your silhouette is representative of humanity. Hmmm... perhaps there are members of the community who are more (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | | | Minifig scale?
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| Hi all, Of late I've noticed a resurgence in the use of 'minifig scale' as a term. Being a mathematically inclined pedant I tend to take issue with this term as minifigs are so deformed it strikes me as impossible to define a single 'scale' to them. (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
| | | | | Mona Lisa
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| The Mona Lisa uses a pointillist style that I first saw in Roy Cook’s Aayla Secura Pointillist Mosaic winner of best mosaic at Brickfest 2006. My method differs slightly from Roy’s. Roy attached his 1x1 round plates to Technic bricks. I attached my (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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