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Re: Inn/tavern teaser
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:54:38 GMT
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> > You are off to a good start here and I am flattered that you are using my Inn
> > for some inspiration. Like I have said before my Inn didn't even start as an
> > Inn and it just sort of evolved into what it is.
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> Hmmm... what did it start as? Just a house?
Actually it started out as a barracks, couldn't you tell? :-).
Seriously it did start out as a barracks. It was mostly just an experiment in
finding a use for the new 3x4x5 castle walls. Although I did use 4 of the new
castle walls it is obviously not a barracks.
I would say I made the shift from barracks to inn about a week into the project
when I was just not getting anywhere with the barracks idea. I was just
looking at the front of what I had which was just the right hand side of the
front of the building with the whole first floor and the columns on the second
floor with a different window design between the columns. I also had bars in
the windows instead of mullions and shutters.
I just stared and stared and then it hit me to switch gears and go with an Inn.
I don't know what it was that made me decide it looked more like an Inn but I
am glad that whatever it was did hit me because I really like the Inn. It is
one of a very few of my creations that I like more every time I see it. The
others include my Church, B-Wing, Gonk, and my Space Walker. All of which are
still assembled (only 1 of the B-Wings are still assembled).
Like I said after the NELUG setup at TCS I will probably rework the Inn to make
it more modular to give easier access to the interior but I have no plans right
now to change the exterior.
Just an interesting though on reworking creations. I recently did a quick
study on the number of failed creations I had and the number of creations that
really materialised and I would guess that between 70 to 80% of all the
projects I start never actually get completed (as much as any LEGO project ever
is completed). So I am dealing in Baseball averages hear where I fail 7 of
every 10 times I start a project. OK so fail is a strong word because I almost
always learn something from a project even when I don't finish it but 7 out of
10 projects never get finished and get dismantaled before they ever get
published.
One day I would like to do something like what you are doing and publish every
step of a project just so I have a documented record of all the changes and
missteps I took before the project was finished. (I really wish I had done
this with my Inn because I think it would be extremely interesting).
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 have seen several references to making creations more modular. Are you talking about using technic friction pins? I would love to be able to open up MOC's and show the insides of the structures. If you are using the friction pins, what (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| I'll try to answer a few posts in one. (Don't feel like replying to each one :-) As soon as I read all the posts I went to rebuilding... now some more writing before I hit the books: (...) Hmmm... what did it start as? Just a house? (...) That's a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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