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Re: Increasing a collection
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:30:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Avishai Gebler wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Avishai Gebler wrote:
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- what’s the best and economic way you’ve all found to increase collection
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After building for a while, you’ll get a sense of which pieces you need a
lot of and which you don’t.
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So, my problem is I have a decent quantity (probably in the range of
20-30,000 pieces), plenty of piece variety, but not large quantities of the
same pieces. So now, as I raid Bricklink for my upcoming Space take on the
Roman Legion (Red cloth capes are a bit overpriced, methinks), I also am
trying to gauge the essential bulk elements i need on my obviously limited
student budget.
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I’d say 20k pieces was a medium-small collection. It wasn’t until I hit 50k+
that I could really start planning large projects without really eating into my
parts selection. Now, I’ve got probably more than 100k and I feel safe that I
could build whatever came into my creepy mind.
Keep in mind that 20k pieces doesn’t mean you can build a 20k piece MOC - more
like a 2k piece MOC, or several MOCs that add up to 2k.
For a Roman Legion Space MOC, I’d recommend starting small, like with fighters
or a dropship, before working your way up to larger projects. This will help
you learn the basics of building while also giving you a sense of which pieces
you use and which you don’t.
Buying at Bricklink, even when pieces are expensive, can be a smart way of
buying exactly what you need. Right now I use a lot of pneumatic-T pieces, and
altho they are almost $.50 each (for large quantity), it is still cheaper than
buying a bazillion Fenris Wolf sets and getting a bunch of parts I don’t want.
So, spending $20 (which should be okay in a student’s budget) can result in a
high quantity of highly useful parts.
But really, start small in building and allow your collection to jump up before
getting into something too big.
-Lenny
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| (...) That's really good advice. Everybody has a different style, of course, but having large multiples of parts changes what you can do with them. And you may find that your tastes change as you develop- when I started buying on BrickLink, I didn't (...) (18 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) So, my problem is I have a decent quantity (probably in the range of 20-30,000 pieces), plenty of piece variety, but not large quantities of the same pieces. So now, as I raid Bricklink for my upcoming Space take on the Roman Legion (Red cloth (...) (18 years ago, 26-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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