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Re: Pics from the weekend!
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:44:15 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Chris Phillips writes:
> > In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > > Well now the ideas seem to be flowing... :-)
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> > What great pictures! When I saw these, I was inspired to do a little • building
> > myself.
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> > 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 me wonder if there is room in this medieval town for a school/university
> > building? Or maybe it's just an inventor's workshop... So I built one. The
> > building is about 24 studs square, and should be plenty strong even without a
> > baseplate. It is two stories high, (grande six-brick ceiling heights) with a
> > pair of Ivory Towers at the rear corners of the building. The towers and
> > lower rear roof deck detach to expose the inside of the building for play --
> > ground floor classroom, and a (planned) library on the second floor. There s
> > a rooftop astronomical observatory (well, a telescope, anyway) where the deep
> > thinkers in the town can watch the stars and ponder the greatness of the
> > universe. Too bad they weren't using that telescope to scan the surrounding
> > hills for approaching armies!
> > <snip!!!>
Oops! I realized last night that the reason my ceilings seem so high is that
the rooms are a full seven bricks high, not six!
I'm just curious what the "standard" height of a minifig-scale building is
supposed to be. I had thought that it was five bricks, judging from the few
apparently room-height BURPs that I have, but that seems awfully cramped when
you actually try it. It looks like the doors in the classic bucket are five
bricks tall, so once you add a lintel you're up to six.
Did you discuss/agree upon a standard height for each story of a building for
this display? (Not that it matters all that much, but...)
> Chris,
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> This sounds great. I don't think we will have any problem fitting your
> creation into the setup. Dave Eaton and I have created a lot of just Filler
> type buildings and those will be the first to go. The goal is to get as many
> people participating as possible.
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> I don't think anyone has followed up on the Dragon's Lair idea yet. I have a
> lot of BURP's but I need to use those to create facades for the Glass Cubes we
> will be useing in the display to give it hieght.
Last night I finished up many of the interior details of the university
building, including the classroom and library. I even pulled two Santas out
of my (otherwise unopened) Advent Calendar to get some long white beards for
the professors. (I'll post pictures in a couple weeks when I get my camera
back.)
Meanwhile I have started thinking some more about the Dragon's Lair. I'm
thinking that dragons are misunderstood creatures that are quite a bit more
sophisticated than we humans generally give them credit for. No damp, drafty
cave will do here -- I was thinking about making an ominous castle/keep in
dragon-fig proportions that could loom over the little town from a mountain
peak toward the rear of the display. But I'm not sure if this would be
consistent with what other people think that a Dragon's Lair should look like,
or if that would fit into the planned layout, either physically or
stylistically. Any thoughts on this?
Are there any other outstanding projects that still need to be done for the
display? Do we have a date yet for when the TCS display is going up??
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| In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Chris Phillips writes: <snip> (...) Well I don't think there are any real standards for room hieght just like in the real world although it seems that TLC leans towards 6 bricks high. I guess that is what I use more often (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) Chris, This sounds great. I don't think we will have any problem fitting your creation into the setup. Dave Eaton and I have created a lot of just Filler type buildings and those will be the first to go. The goal is to get as many people (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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