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Re: Five mini-MOCs: Dutch style shops
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Thu, 10 Apr 2003 01:36:47 GMT
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Twan,
The shops look great. The color schemes work very well. The decorations on
the roofs add a great touch. I also really like the effect of the wall
extending up next to the roof. I think my favorite parts of the buildings
are the way you've set some of the door and windows 1 stud in from the main
wall.
One slight criticism. I don't like some of the modern looking doors and
windows. Did you try using shuttered windows like the Blacksmith Shop, and
older looking doors?
Thanks for posting the pics!
-Aaron
"Twan" <Twanneman@planet.nl> wrote in message news:HD1syr.16MB@lugnet.com...
> Hello,
>
> On my brickshelf you can find pictures of five small
> MOCs all based on the same format, but with
> differences in the details such as color, doors,
> windows, chimneys etc.:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=39493
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> These are supposed to look like small shops in a
> Dutch 17th or 18th century style. Probably not exactly
> true to the style but I hope to catch its 'look and feel'
> in ABS bricks.
>
> Please pay special notice to this one:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=368194
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> Depicted is csar Peter the Great of Russia drinking a
> glass of jenever. When Peter the Great visisted the
> Netherlands to learn about shipbuilding he was
> offered jenever, a spirit common in Flanders and the
> Netherlands. Appreciating the beverage he asked his
> hosts for the recipe and upon his return in
> St. Petersburg summoned his distillers and told them
> to make the same stuff for him. Someway or the other
> they goofed up and the resulting beverage was not
> really jenever, but still a good enough drink, so the
> Russians continued to distill this spirit we know
> nowadays as wodka.
>
> Cheers, Twan.
> --
> Twanneman@planet.nl
>
>
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| Hi Aaron, Thanks for commenting. (...) That's a unique feature of this style of building, serving no purpose except aestatics. (...) A flat surface wall with door and windows tends to get boring IMO. To overcome this I like to build 2 stud thick (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hello, On my brickshelf you can find pictures of five small MOCs all based on the same format, but with differences in the details such as color, doors, windows, chimneys etc.: (URL) are supposed to look like small shops in a Dutch 17th or 18th (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.castle)
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