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Re: Lego Space System
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:55:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Baulch writes:
> 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.
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> Paul
Paul, doesn't M:Tron have trans-chartreuse windows & elements (as does Unitron
Exploriens, UFO, etc...)?
> (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).
Actually, the black & purple concept was based off of Sci-Fi's greatest menace,
the Decepticons. Cyclonus provides a better example of your non-machinery
painted color scheme (He is purple in jet mode over all but his outer wings and
engines, as well as his nose mounted incindiary weapons.) However, Skywarp has
his exhaust ports and rudders painted a pink-ish lavender and Starscream's
intake ports are painted bright red.
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> 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?
> >
> > 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 black in a space theme.
> >
> > -Tom McD.
> > when replying, do something worthwhile: adopt a spamcake today.
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