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Re: The Brick Testament - David Joins the Philistines
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:25:43 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Trying to catch up, very slowly.
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Hi, Bruce. Thanks for taking out some time from the holidays to comment.
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David Collects a Third Wife - Great face on Nabal. I also like the pattern • snip
I’m not a fan of the studs on the back of Abigail’s legs
here, perhaps if instead you used something like
this brick.
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I forced myself into a corner on that one. It’s the chance you take using a
relatively rare color like dark blue for a minifig’s outfit. I would probably
have avoided the studs using a dark blue 2x2 or 1x2 tile if I had any, but I
don’t. The piece you suggested seems like it would work well, but alas it is
one of many, many elements not currently available in dark blue.
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In
this scene I like the bed design. Is that a Fabuland headboard?
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I believe it is.
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The 1x1
tall round brick is nice along the bottom of the bed. Good blood trail in
the “God struck him down” scene. In the last scene, what is that torso on
Paltiel? It’s really nice.
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That’s the torso of Keiken from the Exo-Force. I’d been wanting to get my hands on that fig since
it first came out, and finally shelled out the money to get him on Bricklink. I
was very happy to have such a distinctive “old man” face, plus the “old man in a
rage” face on the back. The torso is nice too, as you noted.
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David Spares Saul Again - In the second pic, are those real tents? I had
assumed they were just black double slopes until I reallized that Saul’s blue
and white tent was in the mix.
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Your first impression was correct; those are black slope micro-tents. That’s
also a micro version of Saul’s tent just made with alternating blue and white
plates. Glad the illusion works.
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Good use of the double sided face on Abishai.
Why does Saul sometimes wear a Slytherin badge and other times not? (Also,
is the non-badge torso a modified version of the badge version, or is there
another torso with a similar pattern?)
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Whoa, you caught a slip-up. I really like that Harry Potter torso (there’s
another like it in crimson with a gold band) except for the badge. For most of
the photos I resorted to photoshopping out the badge and covering it up with
another “wrinkle” or two to match the ones already there. But it looks like
this one slipped past me. I suppose I could come up with an ad-hoc
justification (perhaps its only his sleeping robe that has the badge?), but
that’s weak. I messed up. Perhaps one day I’ll correct it.
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In
this pic, is David’s arm and spear just leaning there? How many times did
that fall down in photographing the scene? :)
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Heh, it fell over a lot. Yep, that’s just leaning there with good ol’ friction
and gravity.
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David Joins the Philistines - David looks good in a Philistine hat. The
repeated references to David and Saul’s reconciliation are funny.
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David joining the Philistines (and the Israelites later not holding this against
him) is pretty confounding as the Bible presents it. I’m not sure if there’s a
logic to it I’m missing or what, but I have read that scholars think that the
stories of 1 and 2 Samuel got jumbled around at some point so that they don’t
really tell a coherent chronological story (despite it seemingly being presented
as if it were one). So maybe if the stories are sorted in the right order it
makes more sense, or maybe groups of originally independent David stories got
mixed together, or maybe there are stories that got dropped from the collection
that would have aided coherency. Who knows?
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David Massacres Women and Men - Lots of effective mayhem scenes here. In
27:8, the guy carrying a sheep over his head is funny. Great new camel
design.
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Of course I was wondering what you’d think of the new camels when I was
redesigning them. Glad that get the Hietbrink approval. :)
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In the very last scene, I think Achish is trying to hyptonize me
through the screen.
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Those
little black lightning bolts under his eyes can have that effect.
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Saul and the Necromancer - In 28:5-6 I’m curious as to what pieces make up he
out-of-focus Philstine army.
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I think for that scene I just used scores of blue minifig arms (with the yellow
hands in place). Since I keep minifig arms sorted by color, this has been a
handy solution in other scenes too. Usually the arms are used as corpses in
scenes depicting the massacre of tens of thousands of people (of the sort that
is so frighteningly common in the Bible).
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The necromancer’s home is cool with a jumble of
all sorts of objects. I’m not thrilled with the necromancer herself made of
all those mismatched bits.
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The hat and epaulets may be a bit much, but I like the legs and torso combo. I
can’t think of when else I’ll get to use the dead cat necklace torso piece.
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The use of the Pooh hunny pot is inspired.
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Thanks.
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Philistines Reject David - Not a lot here to comment on. In the last pic,
David’s men do look fairly depressed. Good head choices.
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Thanks, I did try to position each figure so that the most let-down looking
faces were visible to the camera.
Looking forward to more comments, should you get the time to leave them. Hope
you had a nice Christmas with your burgeoning family.
-Brendan
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