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Re: Pokemon Lego sculpture
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:34:25 GMT
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Nice job on those sculptures...especially on Bulbasaur's head and eyes and
also the bulb. Perhaps its body needs to be a bit bigger but I won't
quibble. They are better than anything I've tried. How about trying
Psyduck next 8).
Keith Blumenthal
In lugnet.announce, William R. Ward writes:
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> I built these models a couple of months ago, but I've been dragging my
> feet about getting pictures on the web. However, I brought them to
> the BayLUG meeting this past weekend, and as a result pictures of them
> have made it onto the club website. To see them, go to
> http://www.baylug.org/
> or if you just want to see the models, you can go to one of these:
> http://www.baylug.org/fests/2001-03/AUT_7570.JPG
> http://www.baylug.org/fests/2001-03/AUT_7571.JPG
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> These are life-size sculptures of Pikachu and Bulbasaur, two of the
> most famous Pokemon. I know not everyone loves Pokemon, but my wife
> and I enjoy it a lot. When I first came across Eric Harshbarger's
> site, I felt motivated to try to make similar constructions, and the
> first idea I had was to make Pikachu. But once I did that, he was
> lonely, so I made Bulbasaur to go with him.
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> The colors are not quite the same as the "real" Pokemon - the stripes
> on Pikachu's back should be brown, not black, and Bulbasaur should be
> a lighter shade of blue. But I set a restriction on myself that I
> would only use pieces from the 3033 blue tubs. I bought 12 of them,
> and while I have a lot of the smaller bricks left over, I used almost
> all of the larger ones of all colors (inside their bodies is a grid of
> supporting structures, mostly 1x8's horizontally and 2x2's and 2x3's
> vertically).
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> Check 'em out and let me know what you think. I have some photos of
> the internals and from more angles that I need to scan and put on the
> Web - sooner or later I'll get around to it.
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> --Bill.
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> FUT: lugnet.build
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| (...) Thanks! The bulb was very tricky - it's 6-lobed (though I had a hard time telling from the cartoon whether it's supposed to have 5 or 6 lobes, and took the easier choice). It used up almost all the green from 10 3033 tubs. I am also (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.build)
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