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Re: Steampunk diorama
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:44:20 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Thanks for your comments Kevin.
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That’s a pretty decent rendition, although I think there’s too much gray.
Also, that sign on top with the chinese character looks a bit weak. I’ve
done some kanji
signage myself, and I would have probably done only the bottom half of it.
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It’s not Kanji, it’s Thai :P More seriously though, the writing is only four
bricks wide so I had to decide where to compromise. Because I’d used the Star
Wars tiles for characters on the poster I decided to mimic it on the big
signs.
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You can’t fool me! Thai has all those “n”-looking letters. What you should’ve
done is do the poster up with just the letters in the ad. It says “Milk
Caramel”, and leaves us to wonder why a soldier would be used to advertise
candy...
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The Kanji you’ve got on that looks good. Does it actually say anything?
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Yeah, it says “Heaven’s Kitchen”. When I was putting it together, my brother
(who had taken four years of Japanese) kept nitpicking, so I went through a few
versions. Then after all that, Dan Sabath got a look at it and said “you know
what’s bugging me about your sign?” Harrumph.
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As for the grey, I was a bit worried and maybe should have mixed in some sand
blue. I was trying for a steel look but perhaps went overboard.
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Sand blue would have been welcome. Also, more dark gray and tan and sand red. I
thought the building was concrete, but if you were going for steel maybe a
better idea would be to use those big
tiles for the walls to look like steel
sheets riveted together all patchwork-like. Ooh, now I want to try it!
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This pic comes from a charming little
site with some steampunk-flavored flash videos and art. You should check it
out, and hopefully we’ll make a steampunk convert out of you!
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Cheers. I was asking after steampunk stuff this morning and that site has
some neat stuff. I’ve been a steampunk convert for quite a while, it just
never worked out when I tried it in Lego.
Tim
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Yeah, steampunk is rather difficult to get to look right. Loads of research and
loads of drab colors seem to be the ticket, though.
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| Thanks for your comments Kevin. (...) It's not Kanji, it's Thai :P More seriously though, the writing is only four bricks wide so I had to decide where to compromise. Because I'd used the Star Wars tiles for characters on the poster I decided to (...) (19 years ago, 16-Dec-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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