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Re: Ideas for Brickswest sessions
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Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:37:01 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Frank Filz writes:
> Why, what better place than the place I saw evidence of TLC employees
> mutilating brick? On the tour of the model shop, we were shown
> models under repair that had mutilated bricks (some not even really
> necessary, like cutting a brick or plate to a smaller available size). The
> Carlsbad model builders indicated though that they were proud that
> they built models without the need for mutilation.
Speaking as a former employee who knows people that work(ed) in the Model
Shop in Enfield, the 'mutilations' are probably to repair a damaged model,
or to undo some incorrect building.
Since the models are glued together, the pieces don't come apart without
some *ahem* "persuation". If a model builder makes a mistake on Tuesday and
doesn't catch it until Wednesday, they have to chisel off a day's work and
completely rebuild it. Obviously, a chisel will "mutilate" some of the
pieces! The idea is that once the model is rebuilt, the mutilations won't show.
If a model that has been on display comes back with something broken,
they'll cut back the broken part to someplace solid. Then, they can rebuild
from there.
They shouldn't be mutilating pieces just to be able to build the model, that
defeats the whole point. We should be able to build anything they have on
display, presuming we have enough pieces.
JohnG, GMLTC
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| <snippage because my post will be small> Speaking as one of those model builders who trained the fellow who eventually was one of the first builders in CA... I can say that you were *never* allowed to mulitate a brick to make it work. Only on (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| (...) Maybe I got something wrong from the Model Shop tour, but the mutilated brick that was pointed out to us didn't look like a repair. The Model Shop builders told us that it came that way from the UK. Now I guess it's possible it was a (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| (...) Why, what better place than the place I saw evidence of TLC employees mutilating brick? On the tour of the model shop, we were shown models under repair that had mutilated bricks (some not even really necessary, like cutting a brick or plate (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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