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Re: ACME Industries Factory
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lugnet.town, lugnet.trains
Date: 
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.


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.


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.


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!


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...

Al


Thanks for the comments, they will be very useful in improving the building
before the next show.
-Jim



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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 (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)

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