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Re: Why do you love bley?
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lugnet.color
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Wed, 9 May 2007 02:25:04 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Timothy Gould wrote:
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- More attractive hues which better match other LEGO colours
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Are you sure your eyes are working correctly? The vast majority of the LEGO
color palette has a warm tone to it, including “primary” blue, a color which
is traditionally supposed to be the far extreme of the cool palette. The
bleys have a very distinct and unusual (for LEGO parts) cool tone that
actually clashes with all but a handful of colors. The only shades I’ve been
able to find that work well with it are black (black works with everything),
dark-blue, dark-purple, sand blue, sand-purple, sand-green, and
trans-dark-blue (one of the lighter trans-blues has a greyish tone to it, so
that’d probably work as well, but the other trans-blue is almost aqua). Oh,
and with each other. Even dark-green has a warm tone to it that looks a bit
off with dark-bley.
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And Tan. And all the blues. And Dark Red.
And it works fine in Technic models with Yellow, Red, White, etc. Actually, I
like the new Aquaraiders sets, and they use a variety of colors with Bley, and
nothing really clashes.
(I’ve seen lots of posts about bley being a poor choice for rocks, and I have to
say that’s a local preference. Around here- Pike’s Peak region- granite is pink.
PINK! Sometimes greyish pink, sometimes pink with little black flecks. But it
isn’t any flavor of grey, except maybe pinkish grey. What if Lego had decided
that modeling rocks was important?)
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See, I’ve noticed that the only time that the bleys really look good is
when you’re in a store (usually TRU) and you’re looking at the in-store
displays. Under cool-white flourescent lighting. Which no sane person
lights their home with. Because it’s the most obnoxiously irritating light
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More and more people will be using Compact Fluorescents. It may not be as crazy
as you think. I switched recently, and I think I like them.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) They're talking about making incandescents illegal here in Aus (or possibly just in QLD) fairly soon, with subsidies for switching to compact flourescents. Gladly they come in a range of colour temperatures these days, so you're not limited to (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) Nope, it's warm. (...) Sand-blue and dark-blue, yes. Regular blue is warm. I haven't really checked any of the lesser shades of blue, but I doubt it would look good with Maersk-blue, and dark-bley does ugly things to medium-blue (for some odd (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) Are you sure your eyes are working correctly? The vast majority of the LEGO color palette has a warm tone to it, including "primary" blue, a color which is traditionally supposed to be the far extreme of the cool palette. The bleys have a very (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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