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Re: Town on wheels (was Re: Millennium City)
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lugnet.town
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:37:40 GMT
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I guess I should put my two cents in...
> > I'm not really sure how many roadplates I can fit within 48", (four or five
> > is my guess), but I'd like to build a little bit wider than that. An
> > alternative would be to make the anti-doughnut--the town as an island with a
> > 2'" walkaround--but then I'm not sure if I could reach everything without a
> > _9 to 5_ garage-door opener setup.
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> The baseplates are 10" each, so they would overhang by 2" on a 48" sheet. I
> have ply on the floor of my lego room. The major portion of my city is on the
> floor, with a shelf hung on the walls at about 48" high, with a opening for
the door.>>
You see, this is the beauty of painting the roads and grass for a city instead
of using baseplates. You guys have to worry about creating enough room for
baseplates. If you put baseplates on plywood, those tables HAVE to be custom
made...not your basic dimensions. Baseplates do look great, don't get me
wrong on that, but they take up so much room and cost so much money. I guess
if you have the deep pockets, you can do it. It seems to me you don't have to
worry about where the roads need to go and everything with painted roads
because it will fit so easily. So what happens when you get a building like
the Shell Select Shop? You have to get more smaller baseplates to fit in the
rest of that area to fill the remaining few inches? By painting, all you have
to do is paint, dry, and put the buildings whereever you want and as close as
you want them. Also, the green grass asks for a very green city. If you use
baseplates, one color is definitely the best looking. If you use green plates
and gray plates, it doesn't look the best...especially if you put threes on
the gray plates. That's not what they were intended to be. If you have a
building on a gray baseplate, then I can see where you would use the gray
plates surrounding it (for an open area?). Green roadplates are the things
that people need to work on. I'm able to fit my city into 4 4' x 8' tables.
I'm already out of room. That is why we're cleaning up my Lego room and
putting in custom shelves to make room for one or two more tables to expand
the city (a suburb is in the making). If you look in the background of some
pictures, you can see what is taking up most of the room! :-) Not any more.
Brendan Coughlin
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| (...) The baseplates are 10" each, so they would overhang by 2" on a 48" sheet. I have ply on the floor of my lego room. The major portion of my city is on the floor, with a shelf hung on the walls at about 48" high, with a opening for the door. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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