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Re: For building India, a review
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Tue, 8 Jun 2004 07:35:29 GMT
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Hello Erik,
thanks for sharing the pics. I like the color scheme you've come up with.
And although you can't come close to minifig scale,
it really makes it more lifely.
Very nice MOC!
Regards
Daan Bargerbos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com>
To: <lugnet.build.ancient@lugnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:15 AM
Subject: For building India, a review
> I've opened up a lot of Adventurers India sets, even built some, but I • never
> considered this much of an area for building until just recently.
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> First of all there is K.K. Quah's excellent Taj mahal. See
> http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=1303
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> I have just an idea, actually a source of ideas, to share:
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> Want to get inspired to build ancient India? Try Ashok Banker's novel, • Prince of
> Ayodhya. It's a retelling of the Ramayan, the quest of prince Ram to • defeat the
> demons of the lower world in the great battle of his time. It's heavy on
> freakish monsters, combat, Kung-Fu, sorcery, and kama sutra (for those who • have
> any interest in that.) It doesn't have ten percent of the rich texture or
> intellectual integration of Gore Vidal's _Creation_, but what it has got • is a
> dime-store novel pedigree (who knew kung fu was so Aryan?) that takes the
> pretentiousness right out of an ancient epic.
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> In short, it makes me want to substitute a blue troll's head on a Scorpion
> Palace guard and give antlers to a snake.
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> -Erik
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> P.S. See if they quote this on the reprint's back cover.
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