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Re: Lego Space System
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Wed, 28 Jul 1999 14:29:13 GMT
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I feel that Space Lego would benefit greatly from realism-oriented "Model
Team" colouring, whereby parts of a spaceship (say) that represented hull
plates would be coloured with a colour scheme (not containing grey) to
indicate that the space ship it represented had been given a "paint job",
and those parts of the spaceship that represented things that wouldn't be
painted in reality(1) would be made from "machinery"-coloured bricks (i.e.
containing mostly grey with black/white/silver bits here and there). The
Naboo fighter is, I guess, a simple example of this, although its "paint
job" is just yellow.
Basically I could see some really nice designs with good "paint-job" schemes
enhanced visually by the underlying "machinery" bits. My personal choice
would be a blue-orange paint-job with lots of two-tone-grey/silver machinery
bits, and pale blue as the transparent colour. Trans-blue or Ice Planet
trans-red would probably look OK as long as they're placed with the
appropriate colour in the model.
I'm not a big fan of colour schemes with black-and-something anymore. That
is, unless it's black-and-black. And it should be black-and-black for a good
reason, like it's a stealth vehicle or it's Blacktron.
Oh, and no more flouro transparent colours! They just don't go with enough
solid colours properly! Just look at non-fluoro yellow canopies - they
looked good with blue (Classic), black (Blacktron) and red (M-Tron)! I wish
they'd never done the fluoro version sometimes.
Paul
(1) Sci-fi imaginary reality, I mean. Like they probably wouldn't paint gun
barrels, fuel lines or engine nozzles (although I guess they might, who
knows).
Tom McDonald wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.general, James Jackson writes:
> > Is there anyone out there who thinks black and purple (w/silver) would • make
> > good colors for a LegoSystem Space group?
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> Actually, any colors properly matched can be good. Black and purple is good
> though you need a third color which would be used much less frequently. • Space
> Police I was black and blue, with red windows.
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> Personally I want green and dark grey with black in a space theme.
>
> -Tom McD.
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| (...) Paul, doesn't M:Tron have trans-chartreuse windows & elements (as does Unitron Exploriens, UFO, etc...)? (...) Actually, the black & purple concept was based off of Sci-Fi's greatest menace, the Decepticons. Cyclonus provides a better example (...) (25 years ago, 4-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, any colors properly matched can be good. Black and purple is good though you need a third color which would be used much less frequently. Space Police I was black and blue, with red windows. Personally I want green and dark grey with (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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