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Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update! 1/3/01
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:54:12 GMT
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in article G6MGJC.6sA@lugnet.com, Mladen Pejic wrote:

> 
> Sorry to interrupt, Mark maybe you should read this:
> 
> This is what the O-great Sproaticus once told me when I asked him what he
> thought of one of my really boring models...
> 
> Jeremy Sproat:
> 
> Would you believe me if I told you that I have a couple unpublished models
> in this vein?  I discovered that it's less impressive (again, for MYSELF
> only; don't let this affect your judgement of your models) to show an
> everyday model, than it is to discuss it.  Which is also why I don't do town
> models very often.
> 
> An example: your average bread truck.  Bread trucks are awesome.  Bread
> trucks are fun to ride in, and they have lots of tasty goodies in the
> back.  Bread trucks make sure that many people get the food they need to
> survive.  Society owes a lot to the bread truck.  I love bread trucks.
> But to me they look boring, like, well, a bread truck.  Now Barbara, on
> the other hand, she'll put tons of effort into making sure her bread truck
> looks authentic and fun to play with.  (No, I'm not announcing a new
> model!  :-) She'd get incredibly jealous of someone else's bread
> truck-building talents.  Many other folks are the same way.  But not me.
> 
> Original Post: http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=1325

Heh. Yeah I suppose that's kind of how this freighter looks next to some of
my other stuff. I guess I was just in the mood to make something very
functional and corporate-looking.

Like I told Jonathan, I'm not offended if people think it's boring, but it
really is *supposed* to be boring.

So I guess on that count, it's a success?

:^)

~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



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  Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update! 1/3/01
 
(...) ... (...) Heh. It's good to see someone not overreact to criticism (especially if it's in an attempt to be constructive) and even better to see him laugh at himself ;) Oh, yeah, the colour scheme is a little odd (one of those times that a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
  Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update! 1/3/01
 
Mark Sandlin wrote in message ... (...) If you don't mind my saying so (in good humour, of course), "whoopee doo!" I don't know about other people, but when I go to look at a space MOC, the last thing I want to see is something that looks boring - (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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  Re: Mark's Lego Creations Update! 1/3/01
 
(...) Sorry to interrupt, Mark maybe you should read this: This is what the O-great Sproaticus once told me when I asked him what he thought of one of my really boring models... Jeremy Sproat: Would you believe me if I told you that I have a couple (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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