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Re: Definition of "micro"
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lugnet.build.microscale
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Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:31:06 GMT
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In lugnet.build.microscale, C. L. GunningCook wrote:
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This post is in hopes of fostering a good discussion about where Micro can or
should go.
What do others think?
Janey “Red Brick”
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I am a micro newbie. I followed the general “a micro fig is a 1x1 round”
guideline for BrickFest and built a building. It was a total blast to do
although in my opinion actually quite difficult to get the desired look. A very
intriguing challenge! In fact, I had so much fun with my first building, I built
more. I can recommend it.
As far as “actual scale” goes though, it is quite as varied as regular minifig
scale buildings are. Lego is not a scalable medium. Trains don’t have the
correct aspect ratios, nor do a great many town buildings. I have built a few
buildings for our LUCNY layout. Some were done to look like Lego town buildings
and some where done according to the recommendations of the Lego model shop
folk. They said go and photograph the buildings you want to model and then
replicate it accordingly. The photo scaled ones look great but they look very
wrong on a Lego train layout!
What I am trying to say is that the issue of scale with Lego is not as simple as
a ratio, like 1000:1. The Lego minifig scale building designer, and in my
opinion even more particularly the microscale designer must pay a lot more
attention to the final “look” rather than how close the end product is to a “3D
photo” of the building.
The really clever people in our community who I consider to be the real artists
of our medium seem capable of making us see exactly what they want us to see. I
doubt most of them count studs in the process.
JB
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| (...) Yes! This is exactly the point I touched upon in my WTC design paper(1). I've dubbed this type of technique as "mind's eye modeling", which I describe as "creating a model that visually matches or exceeds what a typical person expects to see. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| (...) Hello all, IMO, Microscale is really in a development stage, and although there are some key players that have done some outstanding work and have for years, most AFOL have yet to dabble in this scale. Micro is a delight because with in a (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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