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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Jason J. Railton wrote:
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Damn, I typed a big reply and then my browser crashed.
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Could be worse. I’ve gotten so used to posting in forums that I sometimes close
the window after only hitting the Preview button.
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Those police tiles get everywhere. Windsor did have the little gems in trans
yellow, red, green and purple.
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Ah, that would probably explain why someone in Wisconsin had such huge
quantities of gems, and all but one flavor (I think the clear one was absent).
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They fill up the gaps nicely, and you can mount them along technic beams for
fairground lights.
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I came up with a couple of interesting uses for them in my next Moonbase module,
and I used a pair of trans-light blue ones w/ big bubbles in the middle for the
eyes on Kiki, the ferret from Sluggy Freelance.
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I don’t know about mixing them, but switching over to transparent some way
out from the shore might work.
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Well, you can certainly see the dramatic difference in color tone on my module.
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I did try using a dark patch amongst the tan in one section, with little
black dots to be sea urchins or something. It works quite well, but you’re
right about reducing the number of colour variations. I need to see what
works well, then get more of those specific colours.
There’s even a turtle (off to the left of this picture) under the surface.
She’s done in black on tan.
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You don’t have any shots of that one, do you?
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Huw’s camera here has picked up very vivid colours (‘hues’ - hoho, you see,
oh, never mind...), which is great for most of the Lego, but it has
exagerated what you can see below the tiles. In person, I can’t see as much
as this picture shows.
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Digital? Mine does really funky things to green, as demonstrated by the dead
look of the palm fronds (they’re actually bright grean like the Green Goblin
body).
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The thing is, just like when standing next to a real body of water, 99% of
people won’t even try to look below the surface. And you can only really
make these shapes out by looking straight down. I could lighten the area
around the objects of interest with white, but I think that would be
over-doing it.
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Sometimes it’s nice to have hidden details to reward the people who actually
take the time to really look at stuff instead of walking up, saying “wow, that’s
cool”, and walking away.
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Maybe a single layer of trans-blue plates, then tiles, on top of a blue
baseplate would look good enough. You could use black plates below the ship
for shadow, and tan plates close to the shore.
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Well, maybe not tan, depending on what type of shoreline you have. Jason Spears
has a huge white citadel on a dark-grey rocky island , and tan would look a bit
odd around that (though, granted, there’s not really a beach, per se).
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Since bricks are mostly hollow, they wouldn’t offer much more colour than
using another layer of plates.
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There will be a difference between using 3x plate or 1x brick layers, though you
probably won’t be able to see the difference with darker colors unless you aim
an extremely bright light down on them. My guess is the bricks should allow
some of the base color to bleed through, while the plates will filter a lot more
of it out.
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If you did want to make it a few bricks deep though, you could try adding
trans light blue below the surface for sunlight effects in the water, or
even blinking lights at the very bottom.
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That’s a bit overly ambitious, unless you’re not planning to keep it 100%
LEGO-pure.
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I seem to recall it was still there when it sank. Maybe you’re thinking of
the cheesy fourth one, where the bow gets snapped off then they stab the
shark with it. I don’t normally admit to having seen ‘Jaws: The revenge’
though!
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I know I’ve seen all of the first movie once through, and the second half of it
probably twice more. I also remember watching a sequel set in the same town,
but I know I haven’t seen all of them. I still remember seeing the harpooner’s
nest get ripped off the bow, though. Not the whole bow, mind you, just the
nest. Maybe I’m getting it mixed up with Waterworld...
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Several kids notice that the guy in the back has a deck of cards laid out in
front of him (a printed Wild West tile), so a few adults notice the boat too.
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It’s been so long since I saw the first half, that I can’t even remember any
deck of cards.
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I’ve had a small fin before in a river, going for a fisherman’s line. The
minifig shark here was supplied by someone else on the day of the display. I
was going to do one underwater, but didn’t have the width alongside the boat.
A fin, and maybe part of the back, would be a good way of drawing attention
to the underwater patterns though. Perhaps a 3x3 wedge, if I can find one in
dark grey. I may do a diorama at some point actually...
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You mean the 3x3 plate w/ corner missing? I was thinking more along the lines
of a 1x3 33 slope on top of a 1x2 45 slope and an inverted 1x2 45 slope, but
that might be too thick. Leaving part of the back exposed around the fin would
help prevent the plates from splitting if you wedge a fin plate between the
studs.
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