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Re: ldraw based import parts
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:25:28 GMT
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I didn't take it as a "slam" but i appreciate the message. You might have
actually noticed i cleaned up the folder a little bit, deleted some of the
older cars. Two reasons for this- one there are a lot more models coming,
after all i just got bunch of new parts, and two a lot of them were just
MLcad pics. These were fine when i was just starting, but now i am
preparing renders of them- much more professional.
In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Gregory J. Overkamp writes:
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> >
> > Yeah, accurate cars are hard to model at minifig scale, but i tried.
> > Actually i only gave actual names to the first batch, then just gave them
> > names like racetruck- generic names are much more fitting. Now i moved to
> > tuning pre-existing cars from older lego sets.
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> Hello Gregory,
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> I agree, the shape of automobiles is hard to selectively compress in scale and
> still be "recognizable" as their full scale counterparts. I get the feeling it
> would almost be easier to model in microfig because you could get away with
> more abstraction.
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> That being said,I hope you didn't take my comments about your MOCs as a slam
> (it kind of comes off that way, though, sorry). The models themselves were
> REALLY cool, which is why I wanted to point my kids to the site. A lot of my
> students drive those kinds of cars, so they'd get a kick out of your MOCs. I'm
> into old Mopars, so it's not quite my cup of tea, but the parts themselves
> would be fun to model.
>
> Darrell
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| (...) Hello Gregory, I agree, the shape of automobiles is hard to selectively compress in scale and still be "recognizable" as their full scale counterparts. I get the feeling it would almost be easier to model in microfig because you could get away (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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