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Subject: 
Re: Building habits
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:31:35 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Joel Jacobsen writes:
<snip>

(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?


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 things like by B-Wing that I can't bear to take apart.

2.  Build, photograph and tear down.
    This doesn't happen very often because I usually don't photograph
    something unless I really like it, which means it tends to stay together.

3.  Build and Destroy within days.
    This happens a lot.  My "failures" happen about 10 times as often as my
    successes.  I usually know something doesn't work pretty fast and will
    reconstitute it into the collective pretty quick.

All that being said I have several tubs full of half built or failed projects
that need to be disassembled and reconstituted.  Unfortunately because I am
limited to the back corner of our unheated basement because of our baby in the
house I use what time I have to build, not sort.  As the weather gets nicer I
will probably start into sorting all that stuff but right now it just isn't
worth it to me.  If we ever get around to building that addition my wife and I
talk about she promises me I will be able to keep my LEGO locked up in one of
the smaller bedrooms, I think I could stand not being able to buy LEGO for a
while if I could only have a heated room!


Eric Kingsley

View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/



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  Building habits
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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