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Microfig scale (Was Re: future BRICK updated (sorta))
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:04:35 GMT
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Joel Kuester wrote in message ...
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> must...fight...urge to...build in...microfig scale...
I also find myself reluctant to build at microfig scale, but I've found that
it comes in especially handy for design prototypes. One method for inventing
new designs that I've come to like is to give myself a handful of reasonably
generic pieces [1] and build a microfig-scale model to use as a prototype
for a minifig-scale one. Here's a couple of prototypes that I made using
pieces from specific SW sets:
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/droidf-alt.jpg (640x396, 73K)
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/sbikes-alt.jpg (640x480, 93K)
They're not amazing alternate models, of course, but limiting the pieces
available forced me to construct things I wouldn't have come up with
otherwise, and contain some structural ideas that I like enough to bring to
a minifig-scale project. "Necessity is the mother of invention", as a wise
man once said. Piece constraint is the main reason I've never been
interested making CAD models[2]. That, and being able to whoosh it around
:-)
Anyway, I guess it's time I got back to work writing my new web page. While
the digital camera was plugged in I thought I might take a piccy of my room,
a picture being worth a thousand words and all that:
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/room.jpg (800x600, 167K)
Showing what I've got, how I store it, and what'll be on my website when
it's updated.... ;-)
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
[1] A handful of pieces is also reasonably unobtrusive when on your desk at
work ;-)
[2] Of course, I only make MOCs (although I contemplate replicas) and I'm
mainly talking about MOCs here, although it can still apply to replicas
(just less often).
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 | | Re: Microfig scale (Was Re: future BRICK updated (sorta))
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| (...) ...I made a micro-fig scale escort using 1x1 round bricks with a couple round plates on top = 1 minifig. It made for some interesting design delimas but was fun too ((URL) click on the Intuise). I'm wanting to start a micro-fig scale destroyer (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: Microfig scale (Was Re: future BRICK updated (sorta))
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| DUDE! You have GOT to put up pics of that big ol' white ship! I'm waiting for my mom to mail me my Lego collection. It's been in the possession of my li'l bro (actually it's ours mixed together) and he's entering high school, so now it's MINE! (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I can see what you were talking about! Those are super cool. Very anime, and rather cinematic looking... too bad the pages are in Japanese, I'd like to know what he wrote about his stuff. must...fight...urge to...build in...microfig scale... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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