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Re: Reflections on my Lego past
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Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:37:38 GMT
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I really honestly enjoyed your story Anthony.
About your journey and maturity thought the brick.
> In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> Now that I look back... When I first began to be interested in Castle Lego, I
> only wanted one of each set. One of each is all I need, I kept saying, why on
> earth would I want duplicate pieces? And now, after buying 50 defense archers
> for $1.19 each, I kick myself when I think I could have bought 2 mountain
> fortresses, or black monarch's castles, or what have you. I could have bought
> 20 black knights or black monarch's ghost. But instead I wanted just one of
> each. I look at my fellow castle heads who have armies of 300 strong, and
> look at mine who before the 50 defense archers, was only up to 80 something.
How I can relate!!!
The folly of youth!
For if only I could go back and literally buy 100’s of the Black Knight…
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6009
But alas, this opportunity is gone, hopefully their will be others!
T’was a good read, thank-you,
--==Richard==--
> It seems to me, now that I look back, that I have grown as a lego enthusiast.
> Grown, or reverted, who knows.
>
> Now that I look back... I see that my building style has matured. When I think
> about my first huge castle, built with the help of my friend Pat, I realize how
> hideous the thing was. It was basically four baseplates attached in a 'T' and
> each baseplate was a different style castle. The center was a large
> tower-esque keep, with one tall, thin spire off set to one side. One baseplate
> was a black fortress, with catapults built into the walls. One baseplate was
> an empty walled fortress with a small spire in one corner. The last baseplate
> was blue, and atop it was a marsh with a marooned spire and a blacksmith's hut.
> Quite an eye sore castle. There were several others that followed. Each one
> in the same formation, but each one more refined, the color schemes matched
> better and better. Then came the day my friend Pat built his imperial fortress
> for his pirate collection. That day I started work on what is now known as the
> Fortress of the Mountain Pass. The rest, as they say, is history.
>
> Now that I look back... When I first started playing with castle sets, I wasn't
> opposed to painting my figures. You can the horrors that came out of that in
> my one villain, Trouble. His armor is the product of me wanting golden armor
> and then not wanting a set. As I tried to remove the enamel paint, the paint
> thinner did nothing to the helm. But the armor began to disintgrate. I
> immediately stopped trying, cried, called out to heaven why God oh why and then
> repainted the armor to at least hide all of the white, stressed plastic.
> Regardless of the fact that it turned out ok, looking back I never would have
> painted it. If you look hard enough on Haleron, you can still see the
> reminents of the silver paint I used on his helm. The silver breast plate was
> lost long ago.
> After that fiasco I was against modifying lego totally. I was a purist to the
> highest degree. Never again would I ever damage a lego piece for the sake of
> my theme. Then came my want for a cool, female knight. Now known as Rikio, I
> needed a cool female head, but castle lacks cool female heads. Then I gazed
> upon the Rock Raiders, and saw the female pilot. 'Well, it wouldn't be so bad
> if I just scraped off a little paint...' So I did. I removed her headset, and
> it turned out great. Then came my idea for a customized Lego pike. 'Nah, I
> don't use these brown lances anyway...' so off I went cutting them up and
> making 6 brown pikes, using the ends of the lances as the butts of the pikes,
> filing down the ends of spears to they sat in the lightsabre handle better.
> Then came my character for my teaser and subsiquent chapters, reproducing (and
> of course making so much more cooler) armor of Joel Jacobosen's. Cutting up
> six lego horns to further my goals. And now, torso stickers. I think to
> myself how totally and absolutely against I was of putting stickers on
> minifigs. And now, I think, look at all those figs you have. Space...
> arctic... adventurers... all usless to my castle theme for one reason or
> another. I could never sell them, just because I don't like getting rid of
> legos... but now they're just collecting dust. So why not put stickers on
> them? Why not make them useful?
>
> Now that I look back... I've grown as a castle head. And what I'm doing must
> be working, because of as of today I have 18,000 hits on my website. My
> building style has matured, and though I am not old in years, I'm wise in Lego.
>
> Now that I look forward... I hope to someday be as well known as Ed Boxer and
> Robert Carney. I hope that someday I will be as talented as they are in
> building outstanding castles. I hope that someday I will own as many bricks as
> they do too :)
>
> Now that I look forward... The best is yet to come. As the days go by, I get
> more and more ideas for new and better MOCs to place upon my website, and
> perhaps even another, new website. Perhaps in the years to come I will have
> another world for people to gaze upon and enjoy, at least for a few hours of
> their life.
>
> And thats all I have to say about that.
>
> --Anthony
>
> http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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