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Re: Once Again, Legoville...
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:27:05 GMT
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Jonas Marcho wrote:
> As for the buildings I have created, they all resemble boxes. Each is jagged
> and squared off; there is barely ANY room within, and the exteriors are so
> poorly desgined that it makes me sick. Worst of all is the new Grocery Store
> that resembles a sanitarium much less a place where food is sold.
First of all, Jonas, don't despair. This is a learning process! The gret
thing with Lego is that you can undo and rebuild so easily.
Here's some ideas of where the problems you're having might be coming
from...
You may be trying to make your buildings too small. Most Lego set
buildings (especially the more recent ones) are ridiculously small in
scale with the minifigs. The smaller the building, the harder it is to
make it look realistic and teh less space you have to add realistic
detail. You're better off making fewer and larger buildings, IMO.
Modern buildings often are very boxy and boring looking. The trick is to
add lots of small details to add interest. This also allows you to make
it more obvious what the building you're making actually is supposed to
be (after all, there's no structural difference between, say, a florist
and a bicycle shop!). Lego sets are very good for getting ideas for
details.
One handicap with Lego is the lack of signage. Real towns are PLASTERED
with signs, adverts, etc and if you took them all away the place would
look quite different. Adding lots of detail helps to replace the signs.
Although all of us live in real places with real buildings, it's amazing
when I come to sit down and make amodel how little I remember of what
the buildings really look like! Get out and really *look* at the
buildings around you: ideally, sketch them (no-one else needs to see the
pics, you don't have to be a great artist: the idea is more to make
yourself really *look*) or next best, take photos. Roofs are an area
where real buildings have lots of character which we almost never look
at, but roofs are very obvious in a model (because we often look at it
from overhead) and they really need details.
Hope some of these ideas help! There are a couple of towns on my
personal web page (below) which you are welcome to take a look at.
Kevin
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| (...) Well, depending on how much of a purist you are, you could use stickers (yes, I said the S word). I'm not certain, but I think that you should be able to find some at either model or train shops. I've not really had the chance to look around (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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| I'm sure that quite a few of you fellow adult fans of Lego were eager to see how Legoville turned out, but looking over it this morning, it seems to me as if my 'Town' has turned into a 'Town, Jr'. Why? As it would appear, I have no sense of modern (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.town)
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