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Re: A village challenge winner - Bostonian punk;)
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 20:56:11 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
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> > Maybe I missed or forgot this, but is there a reason you're only using
> > tan? I think that yellow plates would work well for a thatched roof, and
> > they'd add a bit of needed color to your town.
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> I thought about yellow briefly, but I never actually used it to try it out...
> maybe I'll give that a go and see how it looks...
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> > Alternately, don't use plates at all - use bricks! After all, a thatched
> > roof is basically made of straw, and they had to put it on pretty darn
> > thick for it to be both waterproof and insulating. (I also think that in
> > older houses they generally just put the new thatch on top of the old
> > stuff when it needed to be replaced) You might even be able to find some
> > 2x3 bricks with the rounded ends - I'm pretty sure those exist - to use
> > for the eaves.
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> The only reason I'm not using tan bricks is actually to save them for
> potential
> future structures and landscaping... eventually the mill will be next to a
> river (with green grass on the side, and slightly raised so the wheel can dip
> into the stream), so I'll use tan and green bricks to fade from tan blend a
> bit
> more from tan to green by the riverside... BUT... I suppose I COULD try using
> the heiroglyphic 1x2x5 and 1x6x5's turned over to hide the writing....
> hmm.....
> maybe I'll play around with that (although I do like the roughness of showing
> studs on the top of the roofs... I'll have to test it out...)
BTW, with all the talk about removing printing from bricks - why not
use "brasso" and take off the heiroglyphic print? I haven't experinmented with
it (yet) but many people said it worked for them...
I might try it too after I get my collection back...
-Shiri
http://www.geocities.com/shiri_lego/
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| (...) Well... I have a tendancy of not disfiguring my Lego no matter how hideous it may be-- I have no idea why... must be a "purity of Lego" complex... Plus one of my other projects that I want to do someday is have a huge Egyptian temple/tomb... (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I thought about yellow briefly, but I never actually used it to try it out... maybe I'll give that a go and see how it looks... (...) The only reason I'm not using tan bricks is actually to save them for potential future structures and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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