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Lego cutting plates in Catalogue Dioramas (Was and part of it still is Re: More on the decline of LEGO quality... [long])
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lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general, lugnet.town
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:04:04 GMT
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> > Two years later....
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1989/c89nl/c89nl-23.html
> > I start making up stories about the minifigs within 10 seconds of seeing
> > this photo.
> >
> > > Any thoughts?
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> Sorry to have to post again, but what is that car/vehicle lift in that
> picture? Is that a real set, or just a one-time Lego piece to fit in with
> the scene? Does anyone know?
See this page in the same catalogue.
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1988/c88uk/c88uk-12.html
The lift is made using a rack and cog that also came in the big Ice Planet
ship and the Europort Container Base. In all there catalogues, the dioramas
always only used sets that could be purchased (I think) to help underline
the scenes that could be created by purchasing lots of sets.
I really like the Europort theme the best and the image that Tim pointed to
(http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1991/c91eu/c91eu-07.html) is my
favourite. I remember in the UK Lego Club magazine that they explained that
the water effect was achieved using frosted glass.
Tim has an important point here that perhaps Lego is shooting itself in the
foot by not demonstrating the wonderful scenes that can be made. I also
really like this diorama here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85eu/c85eu-17.html. This
demonstrates how you can set up your own town quite easily and also shows
how all the sets are related. The child also helps add a sense of scale as
well.
AndnNow for a slightly different topic (and why I've shifted this back to
lugnet.general)
Did anyone else notice that in some photos Lego cut baseplates to cram more
into a scene? Take a look at the following:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1990/c90nl/c90nl-27.html
Look at the road plates near the police station. You can see a really short
piece of road between the bend the and T-junction and pavement is only one
stud wide! Also the multi-storey car park os also pretty close to road
(another one stud wide pavement).
Then in this scene:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1988/c88eu/c88eu-14.html &
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1988/c88eu/c88eu-15.html (double
page image)
The T-junction that the breakdown car is passing over carrying the small
open top car has no-studs wide pavement. Nevertheless, these are very cool
scenes and I spent hours staring at them and trying to create similar scenes
in my towns.
Nicholas Allan
(also crossposted to .town because I think the dioramas are just very cool
and show the golden era of town)
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