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Re: Murasaki modular corridor system
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Tue, 6 Jul 2004 03:27:34 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Roy Whitford wrote:
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Is it just me, or does the colour scheme of this module very reminiscent
of the same colour scheme used by (nerd alert) Decepticons?
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Er, um...well, if trans-yellow or trans-flourescent yellow Bohrok eyes existed
like I’ve been hoping for, and I’d used sand-purple instead of dark-purple, it’d
be very close to Skywarp’s color scheme. Purely unintentional. I used black
because I didn’t have a choice with certain parts (6x16 plates & 8x8 bricks).
Light-grey was because I felt black would look too dominating for a simple
corridor. I’d planned to use regular purple parts, but the limited variety
really cut down on the ways I could work them in, so I went with dark-purple.
Trans-neon green was the only color of Bohrok eye that would make a
complementary “yardlight” color.
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Anyway, this should prove to be a very handy concoction, especially if
there are a few at-hand at some conventions and displays.
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Well, I don’t know how widely this kit will travel, and I pretty much killed the
available Bricklink stock on a few key parts, but MichLUG will certainly benefit
from them as it did during the last show. I designed the Moonbase layout for
that show, and it seemed that the closer we got to the show, the faster I had to
incorporate new modules. We ended up having to build a pair of I-corridors
on-site for the MCCC last October, and without these corridors we basically
would have needed to do the same if we didn’t want a sucky Monorail loop
squeezed into just one corner of the layout. At this point I don’t care if they
get used in a show or not, but even if they’re not commited to the layout, I’m
bringing them along to any Moonbase display that I participate in. They’re
packed nicely into a locking padded case, along with a bunch of parts that have
proved useful for mounting small ships “in flight”, a brick separator, a dinky
shop knife, and the stuff that I use to mark my items with, so the complete kit
would never go completely unused anyways.
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The lights are a nice touch...
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Corridor filler modules run a huge risk of looking boring, and that’s a
necessary risk when you find you have to build one on-site. My design had been
planned out well in advance, so I really had no excuse not to do something to
liven them up, but I didn’t want to go crazy with tons of greebling that would
get knocked off during travel or interfere with packing them in the case I was
planning to use (they pack tight enough that I couldn’t really add anything to
the sides anyways).
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and the caps for the unused corridor sections leave a lot of room for lil’
additions (like in the “I” configuration, maybe add “aquariums” to the
unused openings). Overall...very handy.
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The hubs actually provide a useful place for minfigs to pass each other,
especially if one of them is hauling something large. It’s 12x12 with chunks of
the corners knocked out, so there’s 3x as much width right in the center as
there is in one of the corridor sections. But yeah, there’s enough room left on
either side that a mini-module could be incorporated if someone was of the mind
to do so.
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| Is it just me, or does the colour scheme of this module very reminiscent of the same colour scheme used by (nerd alert) Decepticons? Anyway, this should prove to be a very handy concoction, especially if there are a few at-hand at some conventions (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, FTX)
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