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In lugnet.starwars, Joel Jacobsen writes:
> After looking once more at Dan Jassim's latest minifig carrier, a question
> came to mind I wanted to ask him but it could also be posed to everyone.
> Just to satisfy my curiousity, of course. :)
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> (To everyone) Do you keep models built until you have no choice but to tear
> them down for parts, or do you treat them like models - they're built and
> stay built and work around that to make new creations?
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> Build, photograph and tear down to build anew.
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> - or -
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> Build, photograph and keep it built till the parts are needed?
I typically build, photograph, cad, then let the model sit around until I
need a piece from it. I put them into cad so that I always have a record of
exactly what pieces were used, and how the model was configured.
There are some MOCs that I never bother to put into CAD. These ones are
either experimental (to test out how certain building techniques will work
with a certain type of model) or ones that get built that I feel aren't
worth the effort of cadding.
> I think I tend to do this because I remember how much time was put into them.
This is exactly why I cad them. Once a model is built and cadded I can
reproduce the model in a matter of minutes... it's the actual design that
takes time. Even if I'm not going to share the MOC with the world, if I
like it I'll cad it so I can use the pieces for something else but still be
able to rebuild the model if I ever desire to do so.
>
> And usually I find that I tend to try and keep them together as long as
> possible, even when stealing bits off of them - if it's not a key piece that
> would destroy the whole thing just to get to.
>
> Jus' wonderin'... :)
>
> Joel J
Though I try to keep my bricks well sorted, I have a rather large
"to-be-sorted" pile that I put the experimental mocs or half-dissembled mocs
into. It's basically a Lego junkyard, some mocs are almost complete, others
are stripped to a basic shell, and others that are just bits and pieces of
old mocs. Typically when I'm building and I need a specific piece I'll
check my sorted bricks first, then check the "to-be-sorted" pile. One of
these days I'll take the time to sort the pile out... <G>
-Bryan
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| (...) I've got one of these as well. Sometimes I'll sit down and try to turn multiple junkyard fragments from different models into one model. I've not yet attained success with this, but it's good for ideas. -JDF (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| After looking once more at Dan Jassim's latest minifig carrier, a question came to mind I wanted to ask him but it could also be posed to everyone. Just to satisfy my curiousity, of course. :) (To Dan) Did you have to tear down your original carrier (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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