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Re: Laser Tower
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Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:20:22 GMT
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> Hey Keith. I cannot believe I missed this huge, amazing MOC.
> I love it! Did you use up all your bricks? :)
Thanks for the kudos, my friend.
> I have to ask, what sort of buiding process did you follow?
For the laser tower, it was based off of a piece from an out of print board
game called Fortress America. I think there are alot of humbling,
oustanding, if not epic mocs out there. That said, the one thing that kills
me is when they are photographed on somebody's diningroom table, or
surrounded by low-rent buildings. Station 45 was a way to display my mechs
and landing craft without the 'diningroom table' effect. I decided on a
wall section because it would be easily transported to Brickswest. With the
laser tower, I wanted to justify (as much as you can with sci-fi) its
existance. I started with an idea for a power source for such a large
weapon, and decided a dam would be a pretty cool location. It may not come
through that well in the photos, but the canal backs up to a small concrete
dam, with a road that runs along the top. The basic canal layout came
first, with all those ninja rock walls that I bought for the Fishing Village
and Himoda Temple projects. The sides are actually big green bricks,
supported by red columns (see the lunchroom), and camoflaged with gray flats
on the surface. Once that was done I worked on the tower itself, and then
the surrounding buildings and techno-crap came last. A great deal of the
project was dictated by what I had left in gray. Usually I separate all the
gray components I have in large quantities, and design structures from there.
> Did you have enough parts or did you get them as you went?
I had most of it... the large amounts of gray trash can lids I purchased for
the baseball stadium light arrays the year before. I think the only expense
on the laser tower were some 1x6 gray bricks and a couple packs of train
windows & doors.
> How long did it take you to build these MOCS?
Station 45 was a caffiene feuled weekend before Briskswest
The Laser tower took a good month and a half of tinkering.
> I would really like to see more dude.
Thanks very much. I really appreciate it. I have some other stuff on my
brickshelf gallery, but only about half of it is sci-fi/military. I'm also
into the midieval Japanese theme, and more mundane town creations like my
baseball stadium and lighthouse. I'm working on a hospital right now, but
it won't be ready for another month or so.
Thanks again for all the kudos.
Cheers,
Keith
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