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Re: Macaroni Brick Patterns
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lugnet.build
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Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:58:06 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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I was messing around with some 2x2 macaroni bricks the other night and made a cool pattern, but I didn’t
have enough bricks to fully flesh it out, so I fired up ldraw. Once I had
the first pattern, I couldn’t help but try my hand at a few more:
I don’t know if these have as much potential as
headlight brick
patterns, but still...
-Brendan Powell Smith
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Very interesting.....
This reminds me of the first 2 Lego sets ever produced that did not involve a
building. That was the #1300 and #1301 Mosaic Sets from 1956. These Danish
only sets contained a lot of 1x1 round bricks, 2x2 (quarter circle) and 2x4
(half circle) macaroni bricks, as well as 1x1 and 1x2 bricks. This set also
contained a 10x20 thick baseplate to build upon. Design possibilities included
something like these patterns, but on a much smaller scale. These sets were not
a great seller, and were discontinued by 1957.
Gary Istok
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| (...) Very interesting. I did not know about those sets at all. Both for the headlight mosaics and these macaroni patterns, one really needs a lot of bricks of said type to make a real-life version of these. Fortunately in this day and age of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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