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Re: Star Destroyer (savouring it !)
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Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:16:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> I can relate to this. I have a special tic... eh, trick to savour and expand
> the building experience in such a way that it takes me at least twice as
> long to finish. I carefully inspect every piece to be placed, find out in
> what direction the stud logo's -or when absent the botom logo- points and
> place these in prefered direction orientations *). Here is how it works:
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> - The primary prefered direction is to point the topside of the word LEGO
> towards the botom-left side of the standard isometric projection in the
> building instruction (usually this coincides with the front of the model)
> - If this direction is not possible, for instance when part has to be placed
> horizontaly with its largest length perpedicular to the primary prefered
> direction, I make the topside of the word LEGO point towards the top-left
> side of the standard isometric projection in the building instruction
> (usually this coincides with the 'starboard'-side of the model)
> - If both primary and secondary prefered direction are not possible, for
> instance when a part is to be placed with its largest lenght parallel to the
> vertical axis, i resort to having the topside of the word LEGO point upwards.
Yay, more OCD (obsessive/compulsive) LEGO fans like me! My girlfriend finds
it slightly amusing/slightly disturbing that I tend to build all my SW LEGO
sets with the "LEGO" text facing in certain ways not dissimilar to yours.
Basically, I tend to make the "LEGO"s in readable orientation from the
cockpit of the ship (exception: when I can't, like you've gone into, and
sometimes when it looks better to keep it lined up from front to back), so
towards the front, they're meant to be read from behind, on the left they're
meant to be read from the right and vice versa.
The only times I don't do this are: when I don't feel like it (very rare),
or when I'm building a set with my gf's help (usually a UCS SW set like the
X-Wing or the ISD soon, I expect), and I know she won't be doing it, so I
give her the parts which I don't care about the alignment of as much.
Even I admit it starts to get to be a bit too much when I try to align the
1x1 round plates the same direction, so I let her do that part of the X-Wing
at the back (4 of them per wing for a total of 16).
> I'm looking forward to receiving my Imperial Star Destroyer, and plan to
> keep working on it for more than 2 weeks.
I'm not sure I'll be able to take that long, but I know what you mean about
it almost doubling the time. For me, it's more like an extra 50% than 100%
though.
-Greg "Fox" Cook
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