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Re: Microfig Creations and Karim Nassar's Pallas Spaceworks
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:30:37 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote in message <38EA1F64.6D7A7A51@io.com>...
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> of the lure of microfig-scale building is trying to capture the essense of
> something in as few pieces as possible. (1) But it's not just the • challenge
> of minimalist design. It's also learning new and innovative ways to use
> pieces that would have never come up with minifig-scale building.
You seem to be implying that minimalism is something that happens especially
in microfig-scale. I don't think that it is. It can be applied at any scale,
and I can just as easily be sloppy and over-extravagant when modelling a
huge microfig-scale mess that uses ten thousand pieces.
Perhaps this association of microfig with minimalism is a result of, say,
the sizes of things we like to try and model, or even the kinds of details
we tend to model. For instance, many of the functions that I love to put in
minifig-scale models are the ones that are virtually always absent on
microfig-scale models. Do I think, therefore, that minifig-scale models are
more functional? No! It's just a result of what details we pay attention to.
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> Agreed. There is no "right" scale. It's simply what the modeller finds • his
> or her skills matching.
I would have thought it was more dictated by what size object you were
modelling, and/or whether you wanted it to be to the same scale as something
else that you'd already modelled for display purposes. I wouldn't bother
trying to make a microfig-scale TIE fighter because I can comfortably build
a minifig-scale one, _unless_ I wanted to display it with my star
destroyer.... that's the sort of thing I mean.
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> 1. Eric Brok put it best: http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?n=1386
He's clearly praising minimalism in general and _not_ microfig scale in
particular. I'm sure that "purity, restriction, simpleness [and] elegance"
can be embodied, say, in a minifig-scale droideka.... ;-)
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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| (...) I disagree. Detail doesn't necessarily entail a 1500-button command display on the bridge. Effectiveness doesn't necessarily require a large scale. Part of the lure of microfig-scale building is trying to capture the essense of something in as (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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