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Re: Non-gray castles or "What I did with all the bulk bricks"
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:48:27 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
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> BUT ... like most people that tried taking pictures of black models - it
> isn't pretty. (Tips on this from anyone by the way?). I would have to try
> something different. That's where the the idea for a red fortress hit me.
> A combination of red and black works very well IMHO (although Craig is
> probably the person to ask about that;). As does blue and black, and I do
> plan on making something yellow and black down the road.
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> So here a little result of what this will be (a small fortress that will be
> joined to a mountain on one side:
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> http://web.utk.edu/~pnazarew/castle/redwalls/
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> The second point are the castle walls. I think that when used spaced out
> they can be pretty effective to conserve bricks. I am not sure how well gray
> with gray looks, but red and black looks a little weird at first. After I
> slept on it it didn't look half bad though.
Excellent effort Pawel,
Who said all castles had to be grey(gray). This is the world of Lego after all
where primary colour towns are standard. The key is to always use combinations
of colours and in appropriate proportions to highlight certain features. About
the only combo I'd rule it so far is an ICE PLANET 2002 castle.
more colours in more volumes NOW ...(please :>0 )
- pete.w.
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| Hey! Well, after buying a few of the blue tubs for the green pieces I decided to mess around with a red castle (far from over). I was mostly down after seeing the creations by Dave and Eric. To me they made the castle wall section obselete. But did (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle) !
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