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Re: Pics from the weekend!
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Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:07:24 GMT
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Well now the ideas seem to be flowing... :-)
In lugnet.org.us.nelug, David Eaton writes:
> 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....
I think they have a ton of them. I doubt we have to worry about running out of
them.
> > [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:
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> 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 |
> |_______________________|
>
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> 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...
I like this a lot. With your layout we don't waste a lot of space with the
Battle/Army. The only concern I might have here is the Gate Blocking the view
of the things behind it. But as you say if we go with more of a window display
type setup things could be staired a bit so that everything is viewable. The
other option would be to put common non-descript buildings close to the wall so
that it does not matter so much that they are partially blocked.
As for the Inn and the Church I would not worry to much. The Church should be
fine my only worry with the Inn is that if it is not level the seams in the
sections start comming apart. I think one thing I could do is strengthen them
with a small piece of the 1/4" plywood cut to fit under the baseplates. That
ought to give them enough strenth. But if they are on floor level that is not
a worry anyway. Like your houses I can remove the Church from the baseplates
and it holds together just fine. The Inn I think is a different story.
I also like the idea of keeping this as somewhat of an ongoing project where we
can get together from time to time to set it up and take pictures. I know for
me at least the Inn and Church will probably stay assembled for a while (The
rest I am not sure about at the moment) and I would love to set up a big town
display from time to time. It is definitely something that has more growth
potential than the Star Wars stuff did. Plus without a lot of Train Heads in
NELUG just yet this seems like something similar we can do to have a big setup.
Plus if we ever do get some train heads at least some of the buildings could
probably cross themes.
<snip>
> > > 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 don't think so. I also think your views on the sets fitting in with our set
up are pretty accurate.
>
> > 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! :)
I think the idea of just covering up the cubes with BURPS might be the way to
go.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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| (...) What great pictures! When I saw these, I was inspired to do a little building myself. I didn't have enough grey to do anything big, so I started working in white brick. Before I knew it, I had an Ivory Tower (two of them, actually) which made (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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