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In lugnet.space, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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I was thinking more along the lines of hollowed out crystal structures for
most of them, hence the name Crystal Reef. The service habitats are really
the only structures that look more like they’d have forcefield generators
running
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Ok, that makes sense.
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Something else that I just realized is that if they were generated forcefields,
the fleebnork would have long ago eaten the generator and been freed to wreak
havoc on the rest of the community. And the fleebnork-hunting patrols probably
wouldn’t be terribly gentle in waging their war against the pesky little
critters.
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I imagined the vehicles were giant rovers - like perhaps semis or something
with science labs inside.
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After noticing the scale discrepency between what I’d originally seen for the
small hovercars and the Domes, I kind of leaned a bit in that direction myself.
The limo seems excessively large at that point, but hey, when you’re microscale,
excessively large is still pretty dinky.
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Oddly enough, i made out the rovers, etc easily (understanding what they
were).
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Yeah, I figured they’d be the one thing that would most help in selling the
concept. The guns tend to stand out a bit as well, but everything else could be
small electronic gizmos as far as the general attendees at a show would be
concerned.
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As Ashley Glennon has said: worrying a lot about scale when doing microscale
stuff is not a good idea.
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Oh, I wasn’t. I figured it couldn’t hurt to try to think of a way to justify
the scale (I think 1/32” tall does a decent enough job of it, as well as giving
people a real sense of scale from a minifig’s POV), but my biggest concern was
making it look as varied and brightly colorful as possible so it’d really have
that reeflike quality to it. You have no idea how disappointed I was when I
realized how limited I was in terms of what I could fit inside the green service
habitats.
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Actually, your Bionicle stuff is very interesting - i know for a while you
were doing Star Wars bionicle stuff that was a lot of fun to look at. Very
clever.
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I’m still not done with them, you know. I’ve got one more completely built (not
posted yet), another that’s just waiting for the first suitable mask to come
along in the right color, and a few more that I’ve got ideas for, but now that
the bulk of the Imperial troops are done, it’s a lot harder to do anything with
the colors and pieces available. The Kanohi work pretty well as helmets, but
very few of them would pass as actual faces, and the two most common colors in
the line are black and white. I’d be exstatic if they ever got around to
producing the Toa torso in orange so I could finally do an X-Wing pilot.
I’ve actually branched out into a few other IPs as a result of all this, since
it’s easier to find one or two characters from another storyline than it is to
find more SW characters to produce.
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