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Re: MCP - Mecha City Project
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:12:48 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Brendan Mauro wrote:
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And don’t forget Marc’s MCP
prototype
at NWBrickCon!
In lugnet.build.mecha, Bryce McGlone wrote:
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The idea of the project is to build a large war-torn city to use as a
diorama to display Lego Mecha at BrickFest 2007. (Yes we know it hasn’t been
announced but have faith that something will happen.)
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BrickFest PDX has!
And one note: why use black for the raised roads and not dark bley? Since
the roadplates are dark bley they would match up better, and you could save
brick by just building 7 brick + 2 plate supports and laying the roadplates
across the top. Dark bley bricks aren’t that hard to come by...I’m sure one
Fire Nation Ship alone
would be good for 2-3 sections...
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The main reason I choose black bricks and light blay tiles was the fact that you
can get these parts from the Pick-a-brick at most Lego stores. Yes, dark blay
would look better, but because the road section use a lot of parts, I figured it
would work to everyone advantage whoever wanted to build raised road sections.
I built three road sections with a large cup of 1x4 black bricks and a large cup
of 2x2 light blay tiles and had half a cup of tile and about a quarter of a cup
of black brick remaining. This plus a small cup of 2x8 bricks and 4x8 plates
along with a tub of Duplo made about 95% of what you see in the
examples. If you would like to build some section in dark blay, please go
ahead. Real cities have different color asphalt. Plus, I think it would be a
great addition to the MCP City.
The main reason for the road section is to allow creative design in the roads.
Since the majority of Mecha battles will take place on streets within the MCP
City, raised streets would allow you to be more artistic with the battle
dioramas. I.e. craters, broken asphalt, crashed Mecha, whatever your mind can
conceive.
Check out 13th pic from top. Using just a mire roadplate or a roadplate raised
up would not allow you to do as much craters and wholes in the ground.
Here is how I in vision the raised road section of the MCP City. Each raised
road section is like a building. Have it tell a story just like a blown out
building would.
Brandon Griffith
Mechahub Special Ops
Brandon@mechahub.com
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| (...) And don't forget Marc's MCP (URL) prototype at NWBrickCon>! In lugnet.build.mecha, Bryce McGlone wrote: (...) BrickFest PDX has! And one note: why use black for the raised roads and not dark bley? Since the roadplates are dark bley they would (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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