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Re: Pics from the weekend!
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Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:17:03 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> > Well, as some of you know, we had a "dry-run" for NELUG's upcoming castle
> > display at The Construction Site ( http://www.constructiontoys.com )...
> > Here's my set of pictures (Eric and Dan may be likely to post more later):
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> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/tcsdryrun.html
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> Kudos on the photography! Any plans on making a landscape in front of the
> city out of BURPS? (ha ha - more work;)
Actually yes :-). That was one of the things we talked about. The hardest
thing about this will be making sections that match up between two people that
may or may not get together to work on their sections. Unlike the Wall which
is easy to standardise and mountain cannot be standardised otherwise it won't
look much like a mountain.
> What other additions will be
> made to this before it's ready to be displayed?
Mostly the mountain and more buildings. There are others who could not make
the meeting that are working on buildings so we should be good in that
department. The big thing is the scenery for the outside of the town.
> Your landscape for Mindfest
> was very nice, but I doubt it's as necessary for this. Once again - this is
> only serving as a tantalizer to what we could do during the summer ... (or
> in the future).
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> > After the dry run, though, I decided I liked a lot of things about Eric K's
> > tower & wall sections better than my own, so I went back and on a whim,
> > completely rebuilt my gate... I like it a lot better than the last one I
> > built, but it could still use some work-- I really like the portcullis
> > mechanism, though! I just wish it were accessible 1 level below, rather than
> > exposed on the roof! Take a look:
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> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/gatehouse.html
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> Unbelievable! The blue line is a sweet touch (fire and water?) The
> mechanism is well done and covered up, and the mix of tan elements is also
> very effectively used here. Very nice use of the wall pieces as well - they
> mix in well with your bricks. I guess an equilibrium can be reached between
> using just bricks or just walls. I will be exploring this very soon ...
I think there are places for any LEGO part (although some are limiting) it's
just finding the use that suits you best. As I have said before I havn't used
wall pieces in any creations yet more because I have a very small supply of
them then because I don't want to. I think I have 15 gray walls probably
around 10 or 12 dkGray Walls and some black ones too. All that being said I
really like the "No Castle Wall"/"limited Castle Wall" approach. I just think
there are times when you don't need a window exactly every 4 minifig feet
around an entire structure.
Don't get me wrong because I love all the creations I have seen using mostly
castle walls its just an approach I probably won't take. Plus I like designing
interiors for my structures and using Castle walls a lot can limit what you can
do.
Eric Kingsley,
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) I'm sorry to have missed the gathering. Your pictures look fantastic! Don't forget, Crispin said we can drape cloth over glass cubes to achieve levels of various heights. I might have some ratty burlap around here -- looks a bit like earth. I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) city out of BURPS? (ha ha - more work;) What other additions will be made to this before it's ready to be displayed? Your landscape for Mindfest was very nice, but I doubt it's as necessary for this. Once again - this is only serving as a (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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