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Re: Pics from the weekend!
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Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:40:04 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
yes, maybe something like you suggest would work. If you have no table saw, or
other way to cut plywood, I have used 1" thick corragated cardboard. It's nice
and light, yet strong as plywood and very flat.

Do we know, when is the projected date for our setup at TCS?

That might work-- I wonder how many cubes they have to support it....

[snip]
yup.  :-)
I think the pictured army scene could be up front and center, while models
like mine may get spread around in background on slightly different levels.
But we'll see when the time comes. Any models of mine you don't need, I still
enjoyed making.

That's actually something I was thinking of last night-- perhaps something
like:

                                          This area is kinda
                                          "outside" the city,
                                          but away from battle
     ______________________________________________________
    |                                                      |
    |   Raised bit                   Raised "mountain/hill"|
    |    of town                                           |
    |   (on cubes)       Fade from                         |
    |                   tan to green                       |
    |                   (houses, etc)                      |
    |                                  More flat           |
    |   "Flat" part                    town/farmland, etc  |
    |     of town            ______________________________|
    |        ___            |
    |=======[___]===========|  <-- The wall & gate
    |                       |
    |      Moo Army         |
    |_______________________|


The only structures that really NEED to be somewhere flat are probably the Inn
and the church-- and they could go right by the front of the town (kinda makes
sense anyway)... all of my houses can pretty much go anywhere...

The more I think about it the more I think we should probably go for store
display style rather than "realistic"-- and maybe we can do the "realistic"
display for Castle World pics or something-- that way we're also not limited by
space requirements, etc...

Hmm.. I wonder how it would look for the store window's back wall to carry a
few poster-size close-up pictures from minifig perspective. that'd be fun if
TCS would spring for the printing. hmmm (thinking)

That might look pretty cool! How much do printings like that run, ballpark? (I
have NO idea)-- I might consider paying for one myself! (much better than those
Aquazone posters, etc that TLC came out with :)

One thing we were thinking was that we wanted to use at least a few of the
current sets so that they would have something to point to and say "you can
buy that".  Our thought was that most of the sets (especially the castle)
were out of scale with everything we had done.

good point.

Hmmm... Available sets:
Axe Cart - definitely usable
Defense Archer - POSSIBLY... he could be doing target practice or something
Catapult Crusher - definitely
Guarded Treasury - probably not-- not the right scale, etc
Royal Joust - Another maybe.. depends on how we do the scene
Bull's Attack - definitely
King Leo's Castle - probably not

Did I miss any?

I still have an embarrassingly huge number of BURPs and gray bricks here,
unused. Tree parts too. So if you need more boundary walls or a cliff or
something, we have those materials available.

Perhaps for use as "covers" for the front of cubes? A 16"x16" BURP square so we
can cover the front of cubes with ABS rather than a bedspread or something? (No
offense to Shaun's spread, of course! :)

Just some thoughts,
DaveE



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  Re: Pics from the weekend!
 
Well now the ideas seem to be flowing... :-) (...) I think they have a ton of them. I doubt we have to worry about running out of them. (...) I like this a lot. With your layout we don't waste a lot of space with the Battle/Army. The only concern I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
  Re: Pics from the weekend!
 
In lugnet.org.us.nelug, David Eaton writes: Clipity-clip! (...) those (...) SNIPPPP! (...) I know i'm not nelug, but i've been reading your thread. How about putting the boxes of the sets you use and some you don't up on the wall, thus it is more (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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  Re: Pics from the weekend!
 
(...) Wow, Really?! Congrats. :-) (Eric's LEGO time goes down, but his PRIMO time goes up) ;-) (...) yes, maybe something like you suggest would work. If you have no table saw, or other way to cut plywood, I have used 1" thick corragated cardboard. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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