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Re: Lego Graffiti
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Date: 
Sun, 9 Apr 2006 20:18:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Dean Earley wrote:
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 everyone, and after waiting forever (2 weeks) for a delivery of 1x1
plates, The final product is on brickshelf at:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1719833
(Photo curtosy of Mark Palmer)

Enjoy :)

--
Dean Earley (dean@earlsoft.co.uk)



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Lego Graffiti
 
(...) That's pretty cool! Makes me want to order a bunch of 1x plates in different colors... :-) JohnG, GMLTC (18 years ago, 11-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Lego Graffiti
 
(...) The comment I liked from a, child, spectator was "...where's the can of black paint...", Dean has added "spray-cans" at the feet of the minifig but not a black one. It looked really great on the layout. Mark (18 years ago, 12-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Lego Graffiti
 
(...) Damn! I was SO going to do this! I was probably going to just use decals though, so yours is very impressive. Nicely done. One suggestion for a subtle detail... I made my spray cans the same way you did, but I realized that if you use a 1x1 (...) (18 years ago, 17-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)

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  Lego Graffiti
 
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 (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)

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