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Re: New House
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Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:05:42 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> In lugnet.announce, Brian Kasprzyk writes:
> > I know how much everyone loves those gray droid escape 1/4 round pieces.
> > Here's a new house that uses them as a central tower. I didn't get time to
> > furnish it yet, but will do that soon! (Need brown pieces) Click on the
> > link under the picture to get a list of thumbnail images of the house.
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> > http://legobuilders.com/Buildings/country_mansion.htm
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> > Thanks for looking!
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> > BK>
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> BK,
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> This is awesome! This is one of the few instances where the baseplates are
> not at 90 degree angles to one another. By the way - how many Droid
> Escape sets did you have to purchase to pull this one off?
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> This is one expensive set :) I noticed the blue door and what appeared to
> be 1x1 black windows ... or was it something else?
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> Very cool.
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> -- Pawel
I'm glad you liked the model! It took 8 escape droid pods for this set.
There are several plane and train windows in this moc, but the 1x1 are just
standard 1x1 black headlight bricks reversed. I did it on my Lofty Ridge
model for the top windows and it looked really great. A little history is
in order: during the middle ages, glass was quite expensive for large
pieces. So most windows were made up of smaller "square" sections so as to
keep the cost down. I am trying to imitate some of that style with those
1x1 sectioned windows and lattice pieces in the big windows. This house uses:
8 brown 1x4x8 1/4 circle top doors(6105)
2 black 1x4x8 1/4 circle top doors(6105)
2 blue 1x4x6 (3644)
1 white 1x4x6 (3644)
1 black 1x4x6 (3644)
20 black hinge bricks for the doors
around 300 1x1 black bricks
around 60 1x1 black plates
5 1x2x2 black plane windows
2 1x2x3 black plane windows
18 black 1x4x2 spindled fences
20 black 45 degree 2x2 double concave bricks (3046)
6 black double convex 2x2 bricks (3676)(around the deck/balcony)
12 black 45 degree 3x1 double inverted slope bricks (2341)
and loads of other pieces!
Lots of special pieces and plates were needed to 'build' around the central
tower. It was a fun project that took about 6-8 hours to build. I like
furnishing the houses for my Land of SparrowHawk. It is probably the most
difficult part of completing a house; that can take up to 4 hours to do all
by itself! (Trying to find just the right pieces that work)
BK>
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| (...) Yeah - that's the problem with a big project like Dave Eaton's Village or any large castle. You build a few houses and put a lot of resources into them, and then you are stuck and start trying to build stuff out of very standard elements :) (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) BK, This is awesome! This is one of the few instances where the baseplates are not at 90 degree angles to one another. By the way - how many Droid Escape sets did you have to purchase to pull this one off? This is one expensive set :) I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)
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