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Re: Putting downt the Riot
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:52:33 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
   Wow, 15 spotlight reviews! And while everyone is busy with holiday shopping and traveling, no less. But I must say, rarely has a MOC been so deserving.

Thanks Rev., but it has been a slow news-day on Lugnet for a few weeks now, and I think people are just happy to see a MOC, rather than more bitching and moaning about the good old days and how Lego has somehow screwed them.
  
Astounding, I think, sums it up. I mean, I was not truly in the Christmas spirit until I viewed this MOC, Keith, and I thank you for that.

I should have known that the award winning creator of Vendetta: A Christmas Story, would enjoy the holiday spirit of this MOC. I’m glad I could contribute to your enjoyment of this special time of year.
  
The architecture and overall vision here are incredible. The Iron Reich garden (within a wall, naturally) is inspirational, and the preponderance of smooth surfaces and perfectly intergrated diagonal walls is just sweet.

Everyone digs the garden...if I had known that earlier, I would have inserted plants in all my MOCS. I’m a shamless schill who panders to the masses in my every decision.
  
Your photography is also improving greatly. A couple of these shots, here and here have that classic Brick Testament sharp-focus-foreground and blurred background that really makes you feel like you’re in the minifig’s universe, seeing things from their prespective. They look like stills out of movie more than photos of a MOC. Awesome.

I still hate photography, but I’m glad to hear that at least I’m getting better at it. Squinting at the Brick Testament for hours must have paid off in ways beyond my newfound appreciation for the Biblical classics.
  
I have to agree with others (and yourself) that the “rioters” could look more “rioty”. I know from experience that setting up minifigs on smooth surfaces is a bitch, but I think simply raising their little minifig fists up in the air would have a nice impact without making them exceedingly hard to balance the little buggers. That, and an angry face or two placed prominently near the camera would probably work. Then again, the placidity of an Iron Reich “riot” is spooky in an of itself.

That is good adivce, I’ll definetly give it a shot in the next diorama. I never thought of the bread-line as being spooky, but you are right.
  
I loved the inclusion of the Black separatists here--this you pulled off perfect. It’s subtle and brilliant. What is their plan? You just don’t know.

You’ll never know, whitey, until it’s too late!
  
Thanks for another ass-kicking, and merry Christmas!

My pleasure, and belated congrats on the new book. Keep them coming!

-Keith (I’ve never quite gotten over the dissapointment of meeting you in person and discovering that you are not a 50-something fire-and-brimstone southern preacher with salt-and-pepper hair.)



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Wow, 15 spotlight reviews! And while everyone is busy with holiday shopping and traveling, no less. But I must say, rarely has a MOC been so deserving. Astounding, I think, sums it up. I mean, I was not truly in the Christmas spirit until I viewed (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)

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