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Re: 6-foot-tall freestanding Chase logo
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Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:06:32 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Sean Kenney wrote:
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Anyway, I know it’s not much in the way of a sculptural masterpiece, but it
was an interesting challenge nonetheless and I thought I’d share. At the
show, a few passers-y stood speechless, literally with their jaws down. I
suppose many folks just aren’t aware of us crazy LEGO addicts. :)
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Sean, you can count my jaw with the others, down there on the floor.
Truly a massive undertaking, and very well executed. Bravo!
I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after
only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours looks dead-on all the way up. How did you
keep it plumb as you glued? Did you use an exterior/interior skeleton form as a
guide?
---Will
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| (...) Thanks, Will! The sculpture has two forms of internal support.... a metal armature, and LEGO-beams. Metal for rigidity, LEGO for accuracy. The metal armature is mostly for keeping the model upright, and wasn't welded as precisely as LEGO (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | 6-foot-tall freestanding Chase logo
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| Hi again, everybody: I'm happy to announce I've just completed my largest sculpture ever. It's, unfortunately, a very plain (boxy) shape, but it was a fun (and blistering) challenge to build nonetheless. (URL) JPMorgan Chase asked me to build this (...) (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
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