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Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
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Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:08:21 GMT
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Here, here,
I was wondering what happened there and am glad it came out the way it did.
My designs ended up in fifth and sixth place (waterfall scene with train and
hospital). Pretty awesome considering those were some of my first ones. It
seems that the competition gets stiffer by the week though. I thought I had
some good ones this week, but they are further back. Again, congratulations
on your win Mark. I'm looking forward to more of your work!
Mark
[markslegoland]
PS I've started posting multiple shots of my designs on brickshelf (see
http://news.lugnet.com/build/microscale/?n=450 for the links). LMKWYT.
> From: "Mark Chan" <markhchan@comcast.net>
> Reply-To: lugnet.build.microscale@lugnet.com
> To: lugnet.build.microscale@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Town Hall - Micro Scale for Lego Factory Contest
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:48:56 GMT
>
> In lugnet.build.microscale, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
>
> >
> > [And you won Week 3!] Congratulations, Mark!
> >
> > Why am I so happy about that? Even though my train station came in a • fairly
> > distant second, I don't mind losing to such a kickin' design like this. • But
> > the important thing was that LEGO once again made sure that there wasn't
> > ballot-box stuffing going on. The {original} Week 3 Senior level winner • was a
> > fairly crummy little street scene that gathered about 200 votes in the • last
> > two days. There was no way that anybody looking at the Town Hall would • choose
> > that simplistic entry, which got an unrealistic 250+ votes. So my faith • in
> > the integrity of the contest has been renewed, and I may actually enter • more
> > designs.
> >
> > It was just my bad luck to go up against your model. As time goes on, • and the
> > designs continue to improve, my chances decrease so I need to hurry up. • I've
> > got two killer sets in mind, one easy and one fiendishly difficult.
> >
> > Congratulations on your victory!
> >
> > {Kelly}
>
> Thank you, Kelly - that is very kind of you. I was wondering who had the
> great
> train station, and I'm glad to see it's a fellow LUGNETer. I told my wife I
> would have been happy to lose to your excellent train model (it was a small
> 4-8
> vote gap for many days) - and it was definitely deserving of a win.
>
> You actually had a much cleaner thumbnail to show off your station's
> details.
> I'm now wondering whether the clean thumbnail was due to your 45 degree
> picture
> offset (since my ~ 23 degree offset doesn't scale straight lines as well),
> or
> whether I just sent in a save file to Lego without zooming in close enough
> - or
> both.
>
> After Saturday, I believed I had lost, because I saw the 13 yr old's street
> scene and the sudden/questionable 200 vote jump before the weekend. So I
> actually didn't have the heart to check the site again until late yesterday
> -
> and was surprised to see my model in first. It does renew my faith in the
> system
> - which is more important than winning. There is no pride in winning a
> rigged
> contest.
>
> Please keep sending yours in, and post blowup pictures in .microscale or
> .town
> so I can check them out. I'd love to see them!
>
> I have one more design halfway in mind - and I'm sure there is some rule
> about
> not being able to win twice - so any new entries I send in shouldn't affect
> anyone. It's just so fun to work in microscale, even if the LDD software
> isn't
> the greatest.
>
> With the current trends, I agree that by week 11 the entries (especially
> from
> LUGNETers) are going to be breathtaking, and I can't wait to see the
> creativity.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Mark
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