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It was time to build something from a
Poser figure.
In the past I had done the plans first, then ordered the pieces, then built.
This time I decided to try to build using only the pieces that I already owned.
This meant doing a complete sort of every brick in my collection. A couple
weeks and two seasons of Buffy The Vampire
Slayer DVDs later I had sorted, bagged, and weighed all of my pieces.
// 1x1 1x2 1x3 1x4 1x6 1x8 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x6
Blue 518 2423 359 1546 248 7 1082 1835 96 5
Green 357 1766 15 274 28 0 793 142 1077 0
Black 677 541 76 881 1085 28 863 211 75 1
Red 5542 2909 2329 1663 157 936 1173 1152 727 223
White 328 563 1203 661 95 58 1359 22 65 29
Yellow 437 1747 1 838 247 274 2111 1091 757 1456
49808 total bricks. But only 8977 in yellow. I was a bit suprised at the 16874
bricks of red. An almost complete lack of yellow 1x3 bricks was because of a
herd of bunnies that I had made a while back.
I tried to limit myself to 90% of each type of brick. This would allow for
padding in case I had overestimated the quantites because of the weight of the
ziploc bags.
It took almost a week to squeeze the sculpture into this piece distribution.
// count 1x1 1x2 1x3 1x4 1x6 1x8 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x6
Red 390 265 260 90 47 14 12 38 20 46
Yellow 378 872 0 741 190 237 236 961 434 271
So it would end up taking about 5500 bricks.
A week later and a full season of CSI Miami
and King of the Hill, and I had a proof of
concept.
The left hand still needs some work. But I think it’s still very cool overall.
Pictures link to brickshelf folder (after moderation):
Comments welcome and appreciated.
David Winkler
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| (...) I look at this work and see a great creation built with my favorite bricks and I appreciate the effort it took to build. I also look at this and see a work of art produced in a favorite medium that I can identify with and appreciate. Any way (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| (...) This is a great sculpture, a very nice follow up to the piece you brought to brickfest. Is this the final form, or a proof of concept for yet another piece? I'm curious about the yellow- how did you decide on that? I can visualize several of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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