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Re: Microfig Creations and Karim Nassar's Pallas Spaceworks
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:26:31 GMT
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I always have enjoyed modeling in both scales. After finishing my largest
microfig ship to date
(DS-4, http://home.austin.rr.com/prj/ds4.html) I got started doing a bunch of
minifig scale blacktron stuff. I'll probably do another large microfig scale
ship afterwards. To tell you the truth I don't often pick which scale the
design will be until I'm about 50% done with the initial builing. A good
example of this is when I created the DS-9
(http://home.austin.rr.com/prj/ds9.html). The DS-9 was meant to be a minifig
scale interceptor. But I was niver happy with cockpit so I ended up using it
as a microfig scale destroyer. I still liked the overall shape as a minifig
scale interceptor, so eventually I made the YG-99
(http://home.austin.rr.com/prj/yg99.html). Anyway, a lot of the best aspects
of the MOCs presented on LUGNET is the overall design of the ship. After this
comes everything else, IMO.
Pat J
In lugnet.space, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Paul Baulch wrote:
> > Sproaticus wrote in message <38EA1F64.6D7A7A51@io.com>...
> > 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. [...]
>
> Wow. I agree with most everything you said, but I disagree at the same time.
> I dunno how to verbalize it just yet. Perhaps it's that I feel "drawn" to
> model in microfig scale, and intimidated (mostly due to cost and number of
> pieces) by minifig scale. But at the same time, I can more appreciate someone
> else's microfig scale model over a similar minifig scale one.
>
> > > 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.... ;-)
>
> Erm, read Eric's message again. :-, He's addressing both microfig scale
> *and* the four attributes you quoted. And Bonsai typically come in small
> packages. But you're absolutely right -- these design principals can be
> applied to any scale.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
> Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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