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Re: Lego Graffiti
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:10:10 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Dean Earley wrote:
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Hi all.
Seeing as a lot of you tend to do large town scenes for layouts (and I
couldn’t find a group any more relevant :), can anyone give any
suggestions on how to do graffiti on a wall?
I have a large (64 studs x 12 bricks) wall in plain grey and I’m trying
to make it slightly more interesting.
I’ve tried getting photos and reducing them in Paint Shop Pro but they
look absolutely rubbish at brick/plate resolution.
Thanks
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I did some very simple graffiti for my NY Subway scene and I can send you the
MPD if you like. The basic principle I worked on was using colours to ‘spray’
out from the letters. I also think that pastel colours (like sand green/blue,
medium blue etc.) tend to make for good effects. Of course this is
practically microscale compared to what you’re talking about but the basic
principle should hold.
Tim
PS Subway scene
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There have been a few good colourful ones in town scenes of various shows, but I
can’t find any on Brickshelf at the moment.
Reducing the resolution of a real image doesn’t work for anything but mosaics.
Try building it up layer by layer.
Start by building some lettering - as abstract as you like - in a bright colour.
Make it free standing.
Then, use another colour either as outline or shading. Try and keep up a steady
thickness (say, 1 stud/2 plates) all around your original lettering (or, make
it consistently thicker at the bottom than the top). This will fill in a lot of
the smaller gaps.
Then pick another colour to fill in all the remaining gaps and form a big patch.
Try shaping the edge roughly or into points. Now fill in around that with your
wall colour, and pad it out to a rectangle that’s easily built into the wall.
For something simpler, just use any of the SNOT lettering styles people have
done before but distort them. Do them in black and pad them out with the same
grey as your wall. It doesn’t ahve to be readable - most quick grafitti tags
aren’t anyway.
Jason R
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