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Re: LEGO meeting the engraver
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 10 May 2002 18:26:47 GMT
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John@TCLTC.+stopspam+org
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Steve Barile wrote:
> Hi All,
> After long consideration I decided to mutilate bricks. I have resorted to
> only de-facing then so far. One might say its more like a 3D decal, others
> my scoff.
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> This is what LEGO designers do, so why not. We have directly influenced them
> on the current train/set designs (esp Dan Siskind's work), why not
> individual elements. Not to mention MegaBlocs blows LEGO away with textured
> elements (yeah, yeah, yeah, I could have stopped after blows...). Recently I
> was building a MegaBloc Mech (b-day present) with Phil, my 6 yr old son, and
> found an awesome selection of textured elements, it really got me thinking.
> This coupled with the BricksWest name badges and here's what I came up with.
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> www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=167958
> www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=167957
What is that, a *push* train?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=167957 (no sense in *all* of
us cutting and pasting:-)
I like the idea, Steve-- very innovative. The possibilities and applications
are endless. And perhaps mutilation is *the* way to go, because even if TLC
were to produce a particular texture such as this, they certainly wouldn't do
it in all of the colors and shapes we would want anyway...
BTW, we need much better photo documentation-- perhaps Phil could take some
pics for us this time>;-D
-John
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