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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. :)
>
> (To Dan) Did you have to tear down your original carrier to start this one?
>
> (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?
>
> Build, photograph and tear down to build anew.
>
> - or -
>
> Build, photograph and keep it built till the parts are needed?
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>
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> And if you do tear it down to build new, do you tear it ALL down or just
> snitch the parts needed and leave the rest built till the next part is needed?
>
> --
>
> I have found myself building till I run out of bricks and then trying to
> scrounge up something else that works rather than cannibalize currently
> built MOC's.
>
> I think I tend to do this because I remember how much time was put into them.
>
> 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
My habit is to tear 'em down for a rebuild until I get the lowest number of
bricks used with the highest level of functional detail and strongest and
most efficient design. I've been doing this since I was a kid and I noticed
as I returned to the hobby that my creations tend to run along the same
lines of my childhood fantasy models, they just get bigger. Everything is
for the parts bins until I sellect them for a project. Once the project is
complete, it sits around, gets played with and only do I tear it down after
I either have a desire to build a new creation or need the space for
something else or just want to reassemble a factory LEGO model/series from
some of those parts. I have been leaving models built longer as I grow
older because I either have less play time :o( or because I like to write
stories around my creations :o)
I say tear 'em down!
Then build 'em better!
Aaron
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