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Re: Several New Buildings added to my Site...
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.arch
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:39:04 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> Hi eric,
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> I'd like to comment on a job well done!
Again thanks for the compliments.
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> I love your city wall and gatehouse, as I mentioned earlier the use of slopes
> gives it a powerful touch.
> Did your first version include the inside slopes too? I didn't notice that
> earlier and like that as well.
I think you mean the inside corners that I have to use? If so then yes they
have always been there. In retrospect I am not sure I should have used so many
inside corners. The reason is not because I don't like them, actually I love
them and that is the problem. Getting these in Gray is expensive. Currently I
think these only come in the X-Wing set and it has 2 (I have 5 of this set).
Thats a $30 set and while it is a great set for parts at that price I have to
wait for a good sale and often times the Star Wars sets are excluded from
sales. My next option is an auction but currently over in AucZilla XII these
parts are going for $2.00 a piece (Ouch!).
Luckly there is a way to "fudge" and inside corner using a 2x2 regular slope
and a Medium slope gable-apex brick. This "fudge" works in my case but it does
not work in all cases. The gable-apex brick is not common either but it is
quite a bit cheaper to get in auctions, currently $0.225 a piece over in
AucZilla.
So the long and short of it is I like the wall design to much to change it so
it is just going to be a slow road to get the pieces to make all the sections I
want. (C'mon LEGO Direct)
> The corner part striked me as a great design,
> when I tried to design my castle I was at total loss as to how the corners
> should work... That's a great way!
Thanks, I like it too and the best part is that it works for any 45 degree
corner so I just need 4 identical corners like this and I can make a square
wall.
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> I also liked the use of unusual colors in the generic building.
Thank was a tough one. I think I tried about 6 different combinations before I
settled on this one. The red is a little bright for my tastes but it passes
for red brick better than anything else. Thats one of the differences between
working on a modern city and a medieval city in LEGO IMO. A modern city is
much more forgiving when it comes to color. Medieval cities just need to be
more drab and earthy otherwise things just look out of place.
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> > 3. This is just another peasant home done in the "Dave Eaton" style. (Check
> > out the link on my page to his peasant homes).
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> I think we coined a new term... a 'Dave Eaton house'... ;-)
Well you have to give credit where credit is due and I thought I would try and
have fun with it while I was at it and call it "The Dave Eaton Style" of
peasant structure.
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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