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Re: Color scheme in Brick 1 x 6 x 5 with Rocket Launch Pattern?
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Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:32:33 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > I don't have the part, but the photos posted make it look to me like the
> > blue from the part is slightly visible through the paint. So the paint in
> > the areas in question doesn't contain any blue.
> >
> > Having said that, the two red circles highlighted in the bottom photo make
> > it appear that the regions modeled in light blue are actually very light
> > gray, and not quite white, since the circles highlight contrast with actual
> > white.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
>
> I have the part, so I've been holding off commenting until I can look
> at it. But I lack patience, so... In my mind, I remember the part as
> having shades of white and grey on the questionable bits. Therefore
> the light blue just plain looks wrong to me. I do have the Tigura
> beast in front of me and it's clearly printed with a large patch of
> white with a bit of the orange bleeding through from the plastic
> underneath. I'd model that as white, not light orange.
>
> My guess is the extreme white you see in the picture is the same
> printing as the "blue-white". It's just brighter there because it
> overlaps the earlier grey printing pass. This misregistering of the
> printing passes will look different on every part and should not be
> represented in the model.
>
> My 1 cent, for now...
I haven't found the part yet, but I've found the sister spacewalk
brick and examined it. If you flip the brick over you can clearly
see that it's not quite smooth. Compare it to a smooth brick and
you'll see what I mean. This was probably done to hold the paint
down. So what you're seeing as light blue is just the texture showing
a bit through the white paint. It shows less where the white is
printed on top of the light grey because the grey paint is lighter
and fills in the texture like a primer. On the sister brick I can
see some spots where the white overlaps the dark blue paint and forms
yet another blury shade of blue. Don't go there. It's white and
dark blue and that's it. Here's a scan. Look at the bottom right.
http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/spacewalk_lego.jpg
Anyhow, hold the brick at arm's length. It registers as white. Look
at the instruction scans at brickshelf. They printed it as white.
There is no light blue. It's just an illusion. :-)
Another issue is the blue (1) color. I'm undecided on this one because
it's really just the background color, but it'd look silly if someone
used this pattern on for example a red brick. I guess I'd go with
blue instead of 16 because it makes no difference for official lego
bricks, and it makes the pattern more fun for people who play with
LDRAW. The spacewalk brick doesn't have this problem, by the way.
Have fun,
Don
I've posted a modified MPD file to show what I'd like to see.
http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/ssuit.dat
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