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Re: The Brick Testament - David, King of Israel
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Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:53:01 GMT
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Hey Brendan,
I’ve been meaning to go back and comment on the David/Saul stories before doing
this, but am afraid I’ll just get further and further behind. I do intend to go
back and do those, but for now:
King me: Not a lot to comment on here. I notice here, and in the following
stories, you use a horse barding as a curtain edge. That’s a really clever
idea. I think this one
would be a really nice curtain. The steps for the guy crowning David is a funny
detail. One minor quibble, didn’t you change up the arm colors in previous
stories to denote the different tribes? If so, the elders from “all the tribes”
shouldn’t have matching white arms.
Blind and lame: Quibble with the name here. It seems obvious from the context
that the “blind and lame” is a sarcastic reference to the taunt of the
Jebusites, but your title makes it sound like you’re reading it straight. The
townscaping with the quarter scale white buildings is nice. I’m not a huge fan
of the tan city wall. I appreciate that you’re giving it an interesting texture
with those large panel pieces, but there’s something odd about the mixing of the
panels with the normal bricks and the 1x1x5 bricks. Maybe (and this is being a
really small quibble here) it would look better if the central two columns of
bricks
in this picture had the 1x1x1 on top of the 1x1x5, rather than the other way
around, so that the “brick” portions were matching. Brilliant use of the map
tile, and by far my favorite picture is Joab and the soldiers wading through the
tunnel. Nice face on Joab and torch solution in that pic, btw. Good action
shot on the army bursting out of the well (what are the pieces of that well,
btw, some wheel hub?). The gate built on an angle is really nice, and in the
last pic there is another good use of a horse barding.
David’s wives and kids: Not much to comment here except that great wide shot of
the throne room in the first pic. Putting the throne in the corner there is
really nice, and the overall color scheme of the room is striking. I
particularly like the alternating rust round posts and tan lion heads, and
patterned elements work together really well here. On the rest, it is nice that
you altered up the poses a little. Nepheg has some touching interaction with
David. Freaky makeup on Eliphelet.
War: As always, good action shots (especially
here). Idols before and after burning is nice. Good use of perspective
in this scene. Finally, the joke at the end is funny, and the Japanese setting
is a really nice MOC in its own right.
Don’t touch the ark: As always, great Ark design, and also the oxen. The wagon
seems a little flimsy, but I guess that’s why the Ark almost fell off. I’m not
a fan of the brick-built instruments, but that’s always a problem.
Photoshopping God onto the Ark is a funny detail. As before, I’m not 100% on
the flex tubing as arms solution. The skinny arm seems a little cartoony (I
know, odd complaint for a LEGO story).
Over exposure: I really like that detail on Michal’s balcony with those odd
Technic wing pieces. The switching the perspective on the two halves of verse
16 is really nice. The shot from above seems like it would have been a
difficult photoshoot to get right (or is it photoshop trickery?). I’m not a
huge fan of the tent, but oh well. That detail with the repeated hinge bricks
in Michal’s room is outstanding. The last scene of David leaving with the slave
girls is funny. I think he’s losing his loincloth there, btw.
Bruce
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| (...) Hi, Bruce. Your absence really made me appreciate how fortunate I've been to have someone so consistently providing detailed and thoughtful comments and questions on each update to The Brick Testament. If you find time to go back and comment (...) (17 years ago, 22-Nov-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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