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Re: Last night's Effort
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Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:54:40 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Elliott writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> I snapped some shots of my half module last night (The one that was an
> empty soccer field at Train2). As usual, never enough time to do
> everything I want to do, but there's some chance I'll get to sleep
> tonight :)
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> First shot is from the track end of the module. The town is being
> engulfed by a Lego avalanche - my desk gets progressively messier as I
> get faster and more careless and the show looms closer. In the
> foreground is the blue cinema.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104723
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> A close-up of one of my facade buildings. I was struggling with how to
> deal with the 8-wide margin between the road and the module edge; this
> is my solution: It looks like a brownstone, but it's dimesions are
> 16x4. Yes, 4. This leaves room for it to be set back from the road, a
> luxury I wouldn't have with a real building.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104724
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> The other facade building, an 18x6 apartment building. It's yellow; but
> I was shooting without flash at this point, and the incandescent filter
> flattened the yellow. This building is an attempt at a facade AND
> height compression - it sort of looks like 4 floors, but it's only 20
> bricks tall - first two floors are 6, top two are 4. I inserted a black
> wall inside so it wouldn't look so shallow, and to make the staircase
> 'disappear' as it went inside.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104725
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> A close-up of the 2-level parking garage. It can hold about 9 or 10 full
> sized-cars, but mostly it livens up the blank back wall of the office
> building. An alleyway leads out to the street.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104726
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> A 3/4 left angle street scene. Here you can see the marquee and box
> office of the cinema. The marquee is wired with fibre optics, but
> they're disappointingly dim. The office building has a curved front
> which was a nightmare to countour the roof to. It has support poiints
> for a floor if I get brave tonight. I'm SURE I'd fill it with office
> furniture, if only I owned more Ice-Cream Girl sets. In the centre of
> the pic is the bus stop - sorry Jeff VW, but I had to take liberties
> with your design since it was larger than several of my buildings. This
> one is 5x4x6 bricks tall. Looks more or less the same.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104727
Ohhh... I Like it!
And I REALLY like the rounded office building.....
Jeff VW
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