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Re: I'm Through Coloring Inside the Lines for Awhile...
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 06:39:02 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Chris Phillips writes:
> I'm the first to admit that I buy LEGO sets just for the parts. I never
Does that make me the second? ;)
> actually build the model in the instruction booklet. Until a recent post by
> Ralph Hempel about the 8226 Mud Masher that sent me on a bit of a building
> rampage. The Mud Masher had been sitting around my house collecting dust,
> just waiting to get parted out, so I built it. It is a great little model,
> easy to build, and even my too-cool-for-LEGO friends couldn't help but play
> with it. * • <snipped stuff>
> So I guess what I'm wondering is, how often do you build the model on the
> cover of the box as opposed to building your own designs? Do you usually take
> models apart after you build them? How do you display your models?
I almost invariably build the model first. There is typically something there
that gives me a neat idea, or a springboard for similar ideas, and so forth.
The only exceptions to date are when I buy multiples of a set, and one other:
3038 Spyder Slayer. I got halfway through the main models, and stopped,
because it really stunk.
Depending on the model, it may stay on display for a long time, it may come
apart in a matter of minutes. My only Guarded Inn has been on display for over
a year now, but it's the only thing to survive that long on the shelf. (A
close second is the Skull Eye's Schooner I got my wife for our last
anniversary)
Our models get displayed on a plain old bookcase, in front of the books. About
once a month or so, I wander past and give them a couple shots of canned air to
keep the dust off. :)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) display. Every so often, I may move them around, or take them apart for "storage", but I haven't built a model from scratch since I was 10 or so (I'm 22 now). Unfortunately, I don't have much of anything resembling an imagination. I just like (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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| I'm the first to admit that I buy LEGO sets just for the parts. I never actually build the model in the instruction booklet. Until a recent post by Ralph Hempel about the 8226 Mud Masher that sent me on a bit of a building rampage. The Mud Masher (...) (25 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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