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Check it out! Tell me what you think! (URL) up is a Gravwell Micro-fig scale cruiser. Later, pat (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) look-and-feel that really appeals to me. Their scale and shape kinda remind me of the spacecraft seen in the movie Independence Day. (...) I've been playing with the idea of a microfig-scale fleet for a while. My first Lego aircraft were this (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Grrr, Hate to show my ignorance nut what is a microfig? have I missed something or are these just hypothetical? Cheers Tim (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Microfig is a scale, not an actual figure, that is anything smaller than minifig scale. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Is there a way to gamma correct your pix to pick up some of the subtleties? -Tom McD. (hoping it ain't my monitor...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If a minifig is about yea tall, a microfig is about one-something-ith of that height. Basically, anything significantly smaller than a minifig. I generally don't count creatures made from just minifig legs to be microfig-scale; but rather (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Here's a microfig-scale Thunderbolt from Babylon 5. Looks too much like a Star Wars X-Wing for me to be overjoyed with it, but I really like the design. 0 0 Inlined: 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 mtb_body.DAT 0 1 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 -1 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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(...) It looks good. The rear view is very interesting. I also enjoyed the 1200YF design. One thing, though. Please change the link colors on the new fighter page. The dark green on gray background is virtually impossible to read. The other pages, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Check out these, you should get the idea. These are classics of the art: (URL) Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) When I was little, I almost always made things to that scale. I liked to build huge ships, and didn't have enough lego. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Isn't it, though? Those are like brilliance in small doses. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I can sympathize with Patrick. Taking pictures of black models sucks. Getting sufficient light to capture detail, without being too harsh is frustrating. And it seems no amount of gamma tweaking or contrast/brightness adjustments does any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) That looks GREAT Sproat. But just give up, flip the wings over, change the red cones to gray 1x1 round plates, add a little to the rear of the body, and call it an X-Wing. Dead-on. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ingenious, sproat. how on earth do you come up with the idea to change angles with those small plate-and-clip pieces? great stuff! ..jg (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) What really bites is if the majority of your Lego collection is black, as mine is... I just rationalize it by saying that it adds to the "mystique" of the model. (...) That's a photo? Nah, it's a rendering, right? That's *really* a photo? Nice (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Where can I get some of the 1x1x1 bricks with four side studs to build these? (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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I have put new lighter pictures on the site and changed the link color on the 3-2B page. Thanks for all of the kind words everyone, it is much appreciated. More to come soon! Pat Justison (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Someone mentioned that they were available in a Roboforce set, but I am not sure which one. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks, I got the idea of using a big mirror from those car shows where they put mirrors underneath to show off detail. The clouds were an unexpected bonus. :-) To bad most of the pictures turned out so bad. (...) Well yeah, when was the last (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) you know, it's funny how that works out. when i disassembled the majority of my sets a few years ago and sorted the pieces into colors, the black pieces were the most abundant. and of the smaller plates and bricks, the black pieces had the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Yet another reason to get a digital camera. I take pics of black models with both the flash on and off, at slightly different angles, and take WAY too many pics, then look at them on my laptop to decide which to keep, throwing out over half of (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) --snipped-- (...) tom's hit the nail on the head here. just the right shutter speeds, aperatures, and additional well-placed lighting could probably bring out the best of a black model, though this can be a pain for someone that just wants to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Quiet! You'll get Todd going (again). Newsgroups everywhere! Besides, there's already lugnet.publish. Its charter includes photography techniques. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) "lugnet.display.photography") (...) oops! right you are, sorry about that. ..jg (26 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I keep saying to myself that I need to invest in some fill lights and spectrum corrective filters for the camera.(1) Which would be useful for digital photography as well. Controlled lighting is the key to getting consistently good pictures. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Also sprach Terry K: : Someone mentioned that they were available in a Roboforce set, but I am not : sure which one. I don't think so ... I am complete in these, and I don't remember one ... although the 2154 Robomaster has a ton of 1x1 w/ one side (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Hmmm.... Well, I know I have two of the things. And I know at least one of them was from a set purchased within the last year. I will try to figure out which one. (set, that is) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) You are speaking of the 1x1 brick w/ 4 side studs, yes? They come as part of a decorative assembly in several of the ninja sets - 1 of those, 2 'trash can lids', and a 2x2x2 cone brick, all in dark grey, that make a decorative thingie. (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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