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Re: ACME Industries Factory
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:44:40 GMT
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Thank you for the input.
I have addressed each of your comments below:
In lugnet.town, Alastair Disley wrote:
> Given the dearth of comments so far I thought I'd add my voice to the
> appreciative few. I love the windows - I too have acquired many
> hundreds of those, but I've only used them in 4x4 configurations as
> many-paned house windows rather than pseudo glass blocks. If anything
> they make the white LEGO windows at the ends look a bit... childish?
I agree. I can either replace the white windows with 2x2 trans-black panels
(but my Penobscot Building had been using all of those up) or I can use more 1x2
clear bricks; If I do the latter, I will have to make the corner section 3
studs wide instead of 2 because of the 1/2 stud window offset (the clear bricks
extend 2.5 studs into the building and would "collide" at the inside corners.
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> One thought is that the dark red brick looks a bit too polished to my
> eye, although I've been unable to find any prototypes on the web to
> compare it with. Red would be too bright, so my thought was that dark
> orange might give a more worn look. Of course they're hard to get in
> quantity - I've tried and failed.
I used up all my dark orange on my David Stott building! I might try using
multiple colors such as dark red plus a few red-brown or dark orange.
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> The near corners look slightly odd in that one of the three rooftop
> protrusions is dissimilar to the others. However if this is
> prototypical, a lower camera angle would sort it.
There are many asymetrical factory buildings but I do not remember why I did
that.
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> Personally if I'd built it I would have been tempted to create a
> run-down variant, perfect for a bit of urbex. But then a lot of my
> recent models have had a bit of decay in them!
Run-down buildings were discussed in my Lego user group but in Detroit the
subject of decayed buildings can be a sore point. One club member and avid
Detroit booster threatened to pull out of NMRA NTS 2007 participation if we
portrayed Detroit as a run-down city!
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> Nonetheless a lovely model. I may divert my supply of 1x2 trans-clear
> bricks to make an English version in tribute, if I get chance...
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> Al
Thanks for the comments, they will be very useful in improving the building
before the next show.
-Jim
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