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Subject: 
A wasted weekend...
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:34:35 GMT
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Lest DaveK be the only person who actually posts creations here...

http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/nglcl/eastmodule.jpg

I spent a good part of the weekend building my east module which interfaces with
Jeremy.  (I should have been working on my literature review for my
thesis/reading course.)  This is no big deal to the other LTCs who do stuff like
this all the time, but it was new to me:

-Building terrain is very difficult.  It's hard to make it look organic.  It's
also hard to judge where you need to place things.  I used a number of green
10xwhatever brick-plates, but it's tough to know how much distance you need to
space to gain the height required in sloping.

-Underneath is a large infrastructure of multicoloured bricks.  I chose to use a
lattice of 2x wide bricks, which is very heavy.

-I've never really used green before for any construction.  I kept it all in a
bin marked "Evil Carcinogenic Green" for all these years.

-I spent a lot of time making sure I minimized the use of green and tan, but
didn't let any contrasting colours seep out, at least until the very end when I
ran out of white and black.  While I wouldn't go so far as JeffE with double
depth to seal joints of green, I did use the trick Jeremy and Derek mentioned of
using black or blue on green, and yellow or white on tan.

-I've left a number spacers and identations in the hillside for future
buildings.

Anyways, there's at least another weekend of building in this module, but for
now, at least I got a chunk of work done on it.  (Instead of doing the work I
NEEDED to do)

Calum



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(...) <snip> Very nice Calum. I like the way you and others made the white foundations for the track. A weekend building LEGO MOCs is never a wasted weekend in my books. I have this auditing doc due on the 30th and I spent my weekend revamping my (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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