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Hey, Bruce.
In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
Thanks.
Well, one theory of the origins of the Sea Peoples (of which the Philistines were a part) is that they came from the
Greek Islands.
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The, um, position in the second
photo is a good variation on your previous depictions of fig relations.
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Delicately put. Thanks.
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As much as I disliked the hair/beard piece you used in the earlier Samson
stories, when I read this one I reallized what you were doing and the overall
effect is really good. You could have added a couple of more variants in
between, starting with the classic hair mold and also adding the Harry Potter
hair in between.
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I didn’t really see an opportunity to show more of a gradual hair-growth given
the Bible passages I had to work with. I show Samson as a newborn (no hair),
and then as a growing boy (already with long hair). By the time we see Samson
again, he is going down to Timnah to pick a wife, so I figured his beard must
have been growing in for a few years now if he’s, what, 17 or 18 at least in
that story, so using just a printed-on beard didn’t seem like enough. Of
course, his hair really should be longer in those earlier stories, but I did
want to have some progression from young adult Samson to mature adult Samson
with the wild caveman hair.
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Samson and Delilah - I’m really digging the customized hairpiece you used for
Delilah. Great job on that.
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Thanks, it’s really nice to have more hair options--ones that cover very basic
hairstyles that could be from virtually any era, like this simple female hair
parted-to-one-side modification.
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In pictures like 16:9 I really like the
Philistines hiding behind furniture in the background.
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When I first read this story in the Bible, I imagined that each time Samson
broke loose of his bindings, he would have had to have seen the Philistines in
the room, and there must have been a brief massacre. It made it all the more
mind-boggling that he would continue to trust Delilah when it was that obvious
she was trying to have him killed. But upon repeated readings, it became
failrly clear that the Philistines hiding in the room are the very same leaders
who first made the deal with Delilah, so they must have survived each time
Samson was tied up and broke free. I guess they had some really good hiding
spots. Like behind the sofa, behind the bookcase, and in the closet. :)
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The tied-down Samson pics would have been good for a certain contest
on JLUG a while back.
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Not sure what this refers to (I had to look up what JLUG is). Was there a LEGO
bonadge contest of some sort there?
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the millstone thing he’s pushing in the last pic is exactly as I’ve imagined >
it (or perhaps seen it illustrated in some children’s Bible picture)
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I had that same thought. There must be some famous version of blinded Samson as
a prison grinder, but I can’t think where it’s from. Or maybe it’s from some
similar story?
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though it might be better with the handles in brown.
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D’oh. Agreed. They probably wouldn’t use stone handles.
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Final Mass Murder - BTW, I agree with Steve on “murder” vs “kill”. These are
different words, and your previously stated MO is to go with the straight
translation of the text, which would imply “kill” at various places. Story
titles are a different thing, though, I would agree.
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OK, you guys are going to have to help me out, because if we are discounting the
story titles, I cannot locate a single use of the word “murder” in any of the
past twenty stories in Judges. What are these “various places”?
In the single instance where I had used the word “murder” in the Samson
stories (to describe an act that undoubtedly does qualify as a mass murder), I
reviewed the matter and changed the wording to reflect the more accurate
translation of the Hebrew.
I am having trouble understanding why this phantom issue is bothering you guys.
If it’s my story titles you take issue with, as I offered to Steve, please go
right ahead and make a case that Samson’s killing of thrity men for their cloaks
and/or his killing 3,000 men and women in the temple should not be considered
acts of murder. (I’ll set the follow-up to ot.debate just in case anyone wants
to take me up on that or continue this discussion further.)
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I’ve complained previously about the flex-tubing-as-arms
solution, but in 16:29 it looks right to me. I guess I’ve always imagined
that scene with his arms stretched straight, so the lack of elbow doesn’t
look so odd.
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I wish I could figure out a way to get the standard minifig arms to stay in a
stretched-out-to-the-sides position without having something obvious holding
them in place. I’d rather use standard arms wherever possible, because it does
generally look better (what with the elbows and proper thickness and all), but
those arm-to-arm-socket connectors are so peculiar, it’s very hard to make them
interact with any other LEGO elements.
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I see your comment upthread about the use of a LEGO paperclip.
Very clever. I thought you maybe had a white spider-man climbing rope
running through the tires to hold them in place and it was just suspended
above the frame of the photo.
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Oh, actually I did use black LEGO string running through the tires (not the
spider-man rope) for those big collapsing columns (again, small traces of which
were later removed in photoshop). Good call. :)
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Great collapse. I can imagine this was a
frustrating scene to get just right long enough for photographs, especially
the column of 2x2 rounds (or was this where you used the paperclip?).
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Yes, it’s the balcony collapse scene where I employed the paperclips because the
collapsing columns had to actually support weight.
Thanks for the comments!
-Brendan
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