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Re: The Brick Testament: Joshua and the Israelites Massacre Twenty-Nine Kingdoms
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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:35:50 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> You know, now that you say that I think I've been using the word incorrectly.
> The top of a castle wall with that classic shape of alternating high and low
> parts is a battlement or crenelation. The high parts are called merlons and the
> low parts are called crenels.
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> My attempt at ASCII art:
>
> []_[]_[]_[]_[]
> [ ]
> [ + + ]
> [ /^\ ]
> [ ! ! ]
Hmm. So you couldn't build a wall with all merlons? That's too bad.
> Isn't that the Padme torso? I always assumed it was trying to make some curves
> to her shape.
You're probably right.
> Of course, I'm not sure how closely Natalie Portman's body
> matches with guys with manboobs. :P
That sounds like a topic for ot-debate. @8^)
> Ooh, you could also stick a leg out front for goose-stepping Nazis.
True, though I probably wouldn't dress Nazis in the same sort of ancient tunics,
I'd probably just use regular gray minifig legs in the goose-step pose. Unless,
of course, they were ancient Nazis. @8^o
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=102419 (post-mod)
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> Thanks for this. I really appreciate seeing the details.
Sure.
> > Here's a focussed close-up shot of the micro-scale version of Hazor
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> Cool. What is that thing in the middle? Is that some sort of Belville
> birdcage?
Scala, I believe, but birdcage, yes. I think I used it previously as a minifig
-scale birdcage in one of the pharaoh's throne rooms.
> > Here is the other micro-scale city from the latest stories, Debir:
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> This one looks better than Hazor when in focus (though the soft focus makes
> Hazor look fine as well). Ah!!! There's a giant rat attacking the city!
Thank goodness the ancient Nazis hunted the ancient giant rats into extinction.
> Nice use of random elements to come up with an interesting skyline (helmet, bellville
> bottle, etc).
I have fun with the micro-scale cities. The less in-focus they are going to be,
the less important it is that the individual pieces "make sense", and it's just
the overall impression that becomes important.
> > And here's the mini-scale city of Ai from a previous story:
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> This is the best of these in focus and stands up to close scrutiny. I like the
> minifig hair as a domed building, especially. What's the odd round rust-orange
> piece in the middle?
That's a fairly recent LEGO element from the past year or so. I've used it
before (flipped over) as a large dish. I think it's also used as part of a
"ball joint" that mech builders are using.
> > I took some other shots of the "walls come tumbling down" set from the Masscre
> > of Jericho story:
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> Cool. How fragile was that setup? It looks as if several of the leaning
> elements would fall over easily if you bumped the table during photography.
I guess it's more stable than it looks. There were definitely a few smaller
pieces of debris in there that were precariously balanced, but most of the
larger wall chunks were anchored decently with hinge pieces to put them at odd
angles.
-Brendan
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