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After looking once more at Dan Jassim's latest minifig carrier, a question
came to mind I wanted to ask him but it could also be posed to everyone.
Just to satisfy my curiousity, of course. :)
(To Dan) Did you have to tear down your original carrier to start this one?
(To everyone) Do you keep models built until you have no choice but to tear
them down for parts, or do you treat them like models - they're built and
stay built and work around that to make new creations?
Build, photograph and tear down to build anew.
- or -
Build, photograph and keep it built till the parts are needed?
And if you do tear it down to build new, do you tear it ALL down or just
snitch the parts needed and leave the rest built till the next part is needed?
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I have found myself building till I run out of bricks and then trying to
scrounge up something else that works rather than cannibalize currently
built MOC's.
I think I tend to do this because I remember how much time was put into them.
And usually I find that I tend to try and keep them together as long as
possible, even when stealing bits off of them - if it's not a key piece that
would destroy the whole thing just to get to.
Jus' wonderin'... :)
Joel J
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| (...) I tend to work on Lego ships for weeks and in some cases months until I am completely satisfied with it. Then I rebuild it in MLCAD, will do some experimentation with different color schemes, create picture instructions, rendings in various (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| In lugnet.starwars, Joel Jacobsen writes: (To everyone) Do you keep models built until you have no choice but to tear (...) I try to keep my models together as long as possible. The more models I can have built at the same time the better. : ) Since (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| I guess I fall into the "Build, photograph and tear down to build anew" category. Putting ones MOCs into .DAT file format greatly eases the heartbreak of having to destroy ones models for future creations. Or so I think... ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Good question! (...) You left out: Build, copy with improvements using another set of pieces, cycle till you are happy, then keep the final iteration together "indefinitely" That's me. I have everything I've ever built that was any good (and some (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) That's me. I've got diddly squat for display area, so the vast majority of what I build (especially big stuff) comes apart when I'm done. Currently built is... umm... James Jesiman Memorial Park, and the watertower behind it. (URL) my Colonial (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Good question. I'm of the build, photograph, and disassemble school of thought - most MOCs stay together for a few weeks and then get recylced back into the collection. I don't cannabalize models for the parts I need - once it starts to come (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| I'm in the build, photograph, then put the model up or away somewhere and buy new Lego mode. It's just too much trouble usually for me to take apart and re-sort one of my models. I'm sort of lazy that way too. I hate sorting... Bryce (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Joel Jacobsen <jacobsen@oar.net> wrote in message news:GAxE4G.Bp4@lugnet.com... (...) one? (...) tear (...) needed? (...) them. (...) that (...) I'm in the catagory that builds, photographes, and leaves until I need the parts. Gary (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| In lugnet.starwars, Joel Jacobsen writes: <snip> (...) Well I do one of three things... 1. Build, photograph and keep. These are mostly creations for... a. My son's Shelf Railway b. NELUG Train Layout c. Brikwars stuff that kicks butt d. A few (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| I have a tendency to let the models I build accumulate, until I reach the point where I can't bear to see all the pieces that are unavailable. Then I tear apart practiaclly everything, except a few of my particular favorites... of course I'll even (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Hmm, my building habits are.... Right now I'm primarily in sorting mode. Unfortunately unless something happens to really make me stop buying it may be a while before I get caught up (though I am slowly catching up). I have done some building (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I typically build, photograph, cad, then let the model sit around until I need a piece from it. I put them into cad so that I always have a record of exactly what pieces were used, and how the model was configured. There are some MOCs that I (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| Great question! In part because all of us have to wrestle with this question all the time! (...) For the most part, I'm definitely in the "keep models together" category. I have a table covered with all of my WWII models right now, and another one (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| (...) My habit is to tear 'em down for a rebuild until I get the lowest number of bricks used with the highest level of functional detail and strongest and most efficient design. I've been doing this since I was a kid and I noticed as I returned to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I tend to keep things together for as long as possible before I need the parts or change directions. All but one of my six wide trains are now destroyed as I went over to 8wide. Somethings I can't bear to take apart: I have a trio of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I've come to the conclusion that I'm really a tinkerer. I've also come to the conclusion that having too many Lego is burdensome for me because I want the experience to be relaxing, but it definitely is not when I have to unpack and lug around (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Yes! Actually, the A-Wing Carrier was scrapped just before my in-laws visited in December (it took up so much space in our other bedroom). I usually keep models until I'm satisfied with the photos I've taken. The A-Wing Carrier stayed around (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Ok this is my first post I've done. I have been reading Lugnet for about two years. I am 14 years old and am hoping for the time when I don't have to go to school. I am in the keep category because I tend to have things built for a little (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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