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Re: Brick Testament: First Glimpse of the Promised Land
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Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:25:01 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> Great as always.
Thanks, Bruce.
> Giants: LOL on the old-style figs with the big round heads. I've got one
> of those from my first set (I think it was 111). I had been expecting a
> bunch of Hagrids or Jack Stones, but these were funnier to me.
Yeah, I had to decide between various larger-than-minifig size figures for
this story. Besides what you mentioned, I also considered the LEGO Explore
scale people, Technic figs, and Scala folk. At some point I want to make a
website comparison of all the scales at which LEGO has made figures.
> The use of insect antennae as grapes worked well.
Is that what those are? I've only bought them on Bricklink, so I don't know
how they were originally used in sets, but I assumed they were supposed to
be two cherries with connected stems. Hmmm.
> One thing I didn't like was the
> torso on the guy featured in Num 13:27-28 (I think it's from one of the
> Himalayan Adventurers sets). It seems anachronistic and doesn't fit with
> the others (mostly various Jedis).
Yeah, it does stand out, but I wanted to give those 12 explorers some extra
character to separate them from the rank and file Israelites. They are
repeatedly described in the Bible as "leading men of the community", so some
special clothes seemed right. I examined the torso, and checked for
anything particularly anachronistic about it, but besides the style of
having a kerchief at the neck, it didn't seem too unbelievable to set in
ancient times.
It interesting that while I have the ancient Israelites in drab colors, just
about every other illustrated Bible I've seen tends to have them in much
more elaborate and colorful, and sometimes patterned frocks and tunics.
> God Dooms his People: Not as much here--lots of cloud talking.
It's hard to avoid that. Yahweh sure does like to talk. I try to cut down
his flowery speeches to their bare essantials at times, but for me, God
dooming the Israelites is really the crux of the story here.
> I do like
> the "Let's stone them" "Yeah, with stones". I assume this sounds better in
> the original, but in the translation it is a silly construction.
Most likely. @8^)
> The Amalekite
> and Canaanite armies look cool (nice consistancy with the Amalekite army,
> will you be able to keep that up and have different armies for each
> different tribe they meet in Joshua and Judges?).
I'm certainly going to try to keep that up. I really like the idea of each
separate people having their own distinct look for their armies.
> How do they hold their respective shields? Do the hands fit
> into those elements? Or do you have
> some attachment on the back they're holding on to?
The Amalekites' (red/black army) sheilds borrow the technique used in the
new Adventurer sets: there's a 1x1 round plate attached on the inside of the
shield that lets a minifig attach his hand to it. The Canaanites' (blue
army) sheilds have four studs on the inner side, so I used a "tap" piece
pressed in between the four studs to act as a handle.
> Aftermath of the battle
> is very gruesome. I like the choice of face in Numbers 14:45 for the
> Israelite on the bottom right.
Poor, decapitated Uncle Vernon...
> Sabbath-Breaker Stoned: Apparently when you gather wood in the wilderness
> it comes in the form of nicely cut boards. ;)
It's a miracle! @8^)
> I expected some comedy on the "stoning with
> stones", something like "how should we stone this one?" "I don't know.
> Let's just go with stones again."
That's good stuff. @8^D
> Final photo very gruesome.
I hope to have captured how almost unfathomably gruesome a form of death
that stoning must be.
> Where to now? Are you planning on continuing straight through the
> historical OT books? Or break it up by jumping back to the NT. I was
> thinking this morning that it will be fun to see your take on more poetic
> things like the Psalms or Isaiah where it isn't straight narrative.
I'm going to be forging ahead through the Old Testament for the foreseeable
future (next few months, at least). There's just so many great stories in
there I want to illustrate.
I think I'll eventually go back and do some more New Testament material, and
possibly even some of the non-narrative parts of the Bible like the Psalms,
or the visions of the prophets. But overall I think narratives tend to work
best for The Brick Testament.
Thanks for your continued detailed comments,
-Rev. Smith
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