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Re: Helfire - a microfig scale castle town
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.general
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Date:
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:07:44 GMT
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Shiri Dori wrote:
> > One comment, and I'll quit
> > buggin' you. ;) You should do a NANOfig scale city (1x1x3 skyscapers, small
> > buildings as 1x1 plates, etc. Just an idea, I don't know how it'd look.
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> That'd be cool, but it would be really hard to convey what it is, I guess...
In junior high, we had a classroom project which was built to such a
scale. It was a study of Seattle WA, and different color bricks
represented different types of buildings. I'd love to get the baseplate
(it had the harbor and lake printed on it). I think the baseplate may
also have had contours printed on it (it was a flat baseplate, I think
48x48).
If anyone else has any information on this educational kit, I'd love to
hear from you. I'm pretty sure it was LEGO, and I'm also pretty sure it
was a commercial product (but could have been put together by a small
company, and not be a Dacta product). The kit came with all sorts of
study materials, and the city layout was done at three different stages
in history.
Another interesting part of the study was that they didn't tell you it
was Seattle, they just told the story of how it was settled and roughly
where it was. I figured it out by studying rail lines on maps (I think I
was the first in the class to figure it out). It left enough of an
impression that when we were approaching Seattle a few years later on a
cross country vacation, I recognized that we were real close when we
started crossing the lake.
--
Frank Filz
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