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Re: The Brick Testament: Jephthah!
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Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:38:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
   Great work as always.

Thanks, Bruce. It’s good to be back after a 2-month hiatus.

   God Refuses to Save Israel: Nice group of idols. Who worships Jar-Jar?

A winged, horned Jar-Jar no less.

   LOL on the Israelites pulling the horses.

Now *that’s* opression. I sat around for some time thinking of another way to show the Israelites being oppressed besides showing them working in the mines, cutting down trees, or otherwise being whipped while doing manual labor. I thought of putting Ammonites sitting on top of the horses, but that seemed like a little much for some reason.

   Massacre of the Ammonites: Nice interpretation of “threw away the foreign gods”. :) (I think that’s a typo, btw, you say “god” but I think it should be “gods”.)

Gotta love those ancient trash bins. Thanks for the typo correction.

   Is Gilead’s father’s beard painted?

Our friend Leonard may be on to something with his post. ;)

   I like the modified hair, btw.

Gideon’s hair is a modified version of the Qui-Gon hair that I’ve had around for a while and used occasionally before. Jephthah’s hair both as a youngster and an adult, and his daughter’s hair are all modifications of the standard female hair piece. When I orginally cut one of those pieces to get the below-the-crown hair for Abimelech, I noticed that the upper part of the hair (the part I didn’t use) looked sort of cool for a parted-down-the-middle cut. So I ordered a bunch of those pieces in different colors and tried making some different hair-dos with just some simple hobby knife cuts and an emery board to smooth out the cut edges.

   In 11:3, the backdrop light gray/dark gray mountains fit really well with the gray patterned raised baseplate.

Thanks. I wanted Tob to have a distinctive look.

   Nice floor in 11:12.

Thanks, that’s one of my favorite interior sets that I’ve done. I made the staircase in that seen there a month or two ago. I wanted to make set of stairs with a 1/2 stud offset between stairs, and I liked the look of the bottoms of the plates showing on the stair’s vertical surfaces.

   I can’t say I really like the sculpy-beard in 11:13.

Again, I defer to Lenny’s reply on this.

   In 11:13, what are the red pieces that make the sides and armrests of the throne?

Hmm... that is a strange piece. I’m not sure what it’s called, or how to even look it up since I’m not sure what set it’s from. :/ Anyone else?

   In 11:32, how is that severed torso suspended?

That I can answer. :) Behind the Ammonite soldier’s legs is a 1x1 cylinder stuck to the baseplate, and a red lightsaber blade planted into it. The soldier’s upper torso is dropped onto the lightsaber blade, and the blade itself is hiding behind “blood” of the same color.

   Jephthah: I like the windows in the building in 11:34 and 35 a lot. Interesting altar table and nice use of the black fig in 11:39.

Thanks, I liked those windows. I’d seen others do similar ones, with a more traditional cross-shape in castle or cathedral walls. The altar looks a little strange to me--it didn’t occur to me until later that there’s should be some wood or kindling underneath the body. Instead you see the holes in the later that the flame pieces go into.

   Ephraimites: In 12:4-5 I really like the layering of the green ground up out of the river. Often in the past your landscape has been fairly flat.

I agree, it’s nice to see some sloping to the landscape, especially at a riverside like this.

   Speedy gon-hietbrink strikes again! :)

Thanks for the speedy comments!

-Brendan



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(...) I believe they're from hockey sets: (2 URLs) HTH ROSCO (19 years ago, 31-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)

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Hey Brendan, Great work as always. God Refuses to Save Israel: Nice group of idols. Who worships Jar-Jar? LOL on the Israelites pulling the horses. In that same scene I like the detail of the white railings with the red backing as a doorframe. (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)

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