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Re: How to make sea-side villages?
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:51:04 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richard Parsons writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Johannes Koehler writes:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > I'm in the process of building a dock-side town and am wondering how to go
> > > about it. You see, I guess one would normally like to have docks which are
> > > 3-4 bricks high, but does that mean the entire village must be elevated by
> > > this much. How do other people handle this problem. Do they simply place
> > > all of the town baseplates on stilts?
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> > In my opinion the land should be higher leveled than the docks. A port
> > usually is founded at a place like a bay where the land is high and getting
> > flatter towards the sea. This means you need bricks to elevate the land.
> >
> > Hrm... when I was younger I used the brown or yellow inner cartons of the
> > LEGO boxes to elevate my seaports. It was after all a pure LEGO solution...
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> Mmmmmm. Sea walls and docks and raising town baseplates are all good uses
> for decently proportioned clones (ie MB). They're cheap, essentially
> unseen, and available in adequate colours for these purposes in truckload
> quantities.
Duplos would be a purer solution, and I always find them at garage sales and
flea markets (unlike Legos, which are rare indeed). Hmm, good use for them
when the 14 month old outgrows them.
George
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| (...) Mmmmmm. Sea walls and docks and raising town baseplates are all good uses for decently proportioned clones (ie MB). They're cheap, essentially unseen, and available in adequate colours for these purposes in truckload quantities. Port Block's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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