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Re: Lego cutting plates in Catalogue Dioramas (Was and part of it still is Re: More on the decline of LEGO quality... [long])
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:11:39 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Nicholas Allan writes:

Did anyone else notice that in some photos Lego cut baseplates to cram more
into a scene?  Take a look at the following:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1990/c90nl/c90nl-27.html
Look at the road plates near the police station.  You can see a really short
piece of road between the bend the and T-junction and pavement is only one
stud wide!  Also the multi-storey car park os also pretty close to road
(another one stud wide pavement).

Then in this scene:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1988/c88eu/c88eu-14.html &
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1988/c88eu/c88eu-15.html (double
page image)
The T-junction that the breakdown car is passing over carrying the small
open top car has no-studs wide pavement.  Nevertheless, these are very cool
scenes and I spent hours staring at them and trying to create similar scenes
in my towns.

Top marks Nicholas!  No I didn't know this, but suddenly one of my heretical
pursuits is considerably less heretical.  Admittedly I don't tend to cut up
roadplates (haven't got enough of those), I cut up grey baseplates to make
ship decks, but its the principle, is it not :-)

This also explains one of the reasons why my attempts at town planning (when
I was a boy) never seemed to match Lego's chaotic realism.....

Richard
Still baldly wielding a Stanley knife (AKA Exacto knife)...



Message is in Reply To:
  More on the decline of LEGO quality.... [long]
 
----Note: FUT: lugnet.year.2001 (I figure this is probably the best place but feel free to change :)---- ...Sorry if this has been discussed but I was pondering today on the subject of the LEGO catalogs. We've all yakked lots about how LEGO designs (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001)

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