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Re: Small mountain with train and road tunnels
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Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:33:42 GMT
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> I am not going to allege that the mountain I did avoids that look but some • of
> the things I did to alleviate it have some merit, I think.. for one thing • I have
> extensions of the hill in front of the portals so it looks like they did a
> cutting to avoid tunneling any farther than they had to. Also mine is very
> irregularly shaped.... Those things help somewhat, I think.
That was one thing I liked about my coastal cliff scene. The tunnels really
do travel through something impassible.
> On streams, I sincerely believe that streams need to be inset into the • mountain.
> The action of water over time is to cut away. So a stream should be in a • cleft
> or even the startings of a gorge. The deeper the better. Doing that also • makes
> the edge detail a bit harder to see and the water a bit more shadowy. Both • of
> those aid in my view.
Definitely. I like the use of trans light blue, it gives the water some
depth, and makes it look less like a solid wall of blue like some waterfalls
I've seen.
Try SNOT for waterfalls though...
> On burps, you yourself know that too many burps means regular patterns. • Rock is
> nothing if not irregular. It takes a lot more bricks to not use burps • though. I
> had the luxury (or so I thought, I ended up running out of earth tone • basic
> bricks anyway) of having a lot of bricks so I used burps for less than 5% • of my
> surface area and they are not very noticable, at least not to mundanes. • (we can
> spot them easily because we know what to look for)
On my cliff scene, I was really worried about the regularity of the BURPs.
In talking with several mundanes who attended our shows, I realized that
they just don't see the regularity. On a big enough mountain, everyone
(AFOLS also) tends to just be going oh wow! Another trick is to hide the
regularity of the BURPs with plants and such. Of course I put bricks in
front of the BURPs to hide the regularity some, but I think trees in front
of the cliff, and the small plants on the cliff do the best.
Frank
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| (...) I'd also suggest more trans-clear/blue brick as well. And just so you all know, it took me about 5+ times to get both of the pond fed watter falls the way that I liked them on both of mountains that I have done. It's not an easy thing to do, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) I agree with other posters about the nice things about your mountain, as well as the not so nice things. Here's the biggie... shape and size Railroads avoid mountains like the plague as they are expensive to get over around or through. (for (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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