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Re: 40 % Off Train Shed & Our Lady of the Snow Shrine
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Tue, 30 Dec 2003 07:01:54 GMT
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Brian Darrow wrote:
> Couple of qustions if you don't mind? Are all the structures glued together?
The client required that everything be glued. I don't think there were
any pieces that needed the glue for support. . .but then again, I let the
standing sheep stand on its own for maybe 30 seconds before putting the
supports back in and starting gluing. :)
We used three types of glue. White glue for low stress, like coating the
Bethlehem platform in tan. This doesn't really bond--it just increases
clutch power. A plumber's cement (MEK and acetone solution) for high
stress. This disolves the ABS. Finally, we coated the interiors of some
of the larger pieces with a construction adhesive, which saved rebuilding
them (they still had sensitive areas cemented. Each large figure actually
comes apart in three or more pieces for shipping---I think the angel had
the most (lower skirt, mid torso, hands and sign, mid left wing, mid right
wing, shoulders, and head).
Additionally, Joseph and the wise man (the large figures standing on their
feet) have about a foot of steel piping coming through each foot. The
steel pieces have flanges on the bottom which are screwed onto the
platforms, and the internal structures of the figures rest on the steel
instead of their ABS ankles. The palm tree also has a robust (and very
(very) heavy) steel frame, and the stable has a steel and playwood frame
supporting all the ABS.
> How did a group in Washington get involved in building such a LARGE display in
> Southern Illinios?
From what I've heard, the Shrine's marketing firm, Xcentrics Marketing,
had the idea for a Lego display. The contacted TLC, who said they
wouldn't build it but passed on some names. Dan Parker was on the list,
apparently because he's been in business doing shows with Lego for a few
years. He'd never built a big display like this before, but then nobody
outside TLC had. Fortunately, there were (and are) lots of out-of-work
SeaLUG members, so Dan was able to pull together a team to build it. We
also got a nice big space in Sea-Tac Mall[1] (we're a draw to foot
traffic). Then we built it, crated it up, sent it over, and Dan Parker
and Gary McIntire flew over and set it up.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
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[1] Which, for no good reason that I've ever been able to determine, is in
Federal Way, not Sea-Tac.
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