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Re: Taj Mahal
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Sat, 17 May 2008 03:03:57 GMT
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"Arthur Gugick" <torgugick@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My newest MOC, India's Taj Mahal, is a commissioned piece made for an
> Australian
> film called Taj.
Wow, that's impressive! I love the reflecting pond! Initially I thought the
pond was tiles and you'd used lighting to get them to reflect the real model
until I looked close enough to realise you'd built the reflection into the
MOC itself.
> What brings them together is the chance finding of thousands of white Lego
> pieces at a garage sale. They decide to build the Taj Mahal over several
> weekends.
OK, so you did use white parts? Looking at the photos, they look more like
tan parts to me but I guess that is just a yellow-ish lighting effect.
> First was the idea of "simple elegance". I needed to remember that the
> model was being built by a precocious teen-ager (with the help of her
> grandfather who is an architect) so I tried not to use any advanced
> building
> techniques (ie. SNOT, etc.).
I think I see some SNOT on the smaller domes :-) But then I'd like to see
the inexperienced teenager who can build even non-SNOT domes like those! But
I guess the film's audience will not be so particular as me!
>Second was the fact the model occasionally gets
> damaged (there's one scene where Vjay tips the entire model) so not only
> does
> the entire model neatly fall apart into 40 some odd pieces, but each of
> the
> individual designed elements (turrets, archways, bases, etc.) further fall
> apart
> along pre-designed fracture points.
Are these fracture points visible in the external model (at least to the
trained eye)? I am guessing you did layers of tiles rather than studs to
achieve it? What stops the model falling into more than 40 pieces? Is it
glued?
> With any luck I'll be heading off to Australia this summer with the model
> to be
> the Lego "expert" during some of the movie's filming. The producer is also
> ordering enough spare parts so that I (with some help) can produce a
> duplicate
> of the original model and some extra designed elements.
Which summer? The Australian summer? Or the northern summer? Whatever, let
us Aussies know when and where you will be coming as I am sure people will
want to link up!
Kerry
Proudly a member of LUGnet & Brisbane Lego Train Group (BLTG)
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| (...) Thanks! I actually stole the reflecting pool from a previous model of the Taj Mahal that I built three years ago. (...) Though my photography skills are lacking, I've improved over previous posts. The yellow effect is a result of a large (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.build)
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| My newest MOC, India’s Taj Mahal, is a commissioned piece made for an Australian film called Taj. It's a redemption story about an Indian man Vjay (Indian as in India, not North America) who rebuilds a relationship with his 10-year-old daughter from (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-08, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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