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| (...) (1) That series has a generally "curving" style which IMO looks great, almost an eastern European military design, though would be a challenge to capture in blocky Lego... I really like your solution, tho. Now if only I could gather the pieces (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| "You have the most amazing grasp of greeblies, Eric." Jeremy what is a greeblie? "A question about building in that scale: How do you design the joints? Do you lock them into those angles, or are they loose yet strong enough to bear the weight of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Jot that down as another d'oh from me (and it's not even noon yet). I meant "greebles". :-, Greebles are all the tiny little pieces of stuff that model makers put on spaceships, etc. to give the illusion of detail from a distance. An example (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Thanks but what is "greeblies" ahh I don't understand? About the Joint connections, I use worm gears, turntables and Technic girders to achive the conections, if I make a small prototype I use black friction pegs. I hope you one day build a large (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Oh ok, ya , this is important, adding detail or grabbing your eye is somthing I study, each part of the design should allow the eye to transition from one area to the next still maintaining the overall impression, detail of course should add not (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Ah I see. I call all the little detail pieces "premeditated seagull poop" :-D And I mean it in a good descriptive way. It's just a silly term I made up making the my black horse mech when I was talking to one of the LUGOLA guys.. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Indeed, to much is no good, it's definitely a balance thing...like lego feung-shui or somthing, I call it don't put that there or put that back! gaahhh! (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| yep greebles is a real movie industry term... The British industry uses the term wiggets... I love that Excalibur by the way... I wish I could build it with my limited parts collection :P cg-88@home.com Bryce McGlone <bmcglone@ditim.com> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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