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Kil
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Hey, kids! Come follow along with my self-imposed Lego Challenge 2014!
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ThorGoLucky
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sailingsoul
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Posted - 01/13/2014 : 18:13:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Hey, kids! Come follow along with my self-imposed Lego Challenge 2014!
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From your link above.| Immediately, some problems present themselves. For example, I’m not going to pay $783.74 for the stickers for the 18 sets that have them. That’s the current going rate for all the new stickers. I don’t like stickers on LEGO sets anyway, and I’m not going to bankrupt myself buying them. |
At that price what's to like? Is it possible you can find them pictured on the internet and print your own, scaling them appropriately to the size you want/need? If examples of them aren't available online, you might find them in real life and get a digital picture of them for the same usage. It's for your own private usage and if your not profiting from doing so, I don't see a foul or legal issue. Good luck with your efforts/fun's successful execution. Printing them with the back ground color of the parts they cover might be the trick to pull it off, if you chose to do so. Just a suggestion. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 01/13/2014 : 22:14:12 [Permalink]
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The more I think about it, the more I think I have a philosophical objection to stickers on LEGO, or even pre-painted bricks. And that objection is this: they are modelling bricks. If you want more detail than the relatively low resolution that LEGO provides, you should either build your model out of some other, higher-resolution medium, or else scale your LEGO model up so that you can get the level of detail that you want with the standard LEGO bricks.
And again, most of the stickers for the UCS sets are just plaques that describe the ships in movie-reality. Since I'm going to be tearing down the models right after I built them, those particular stickers will be wasted. I've still got my Y-Wing plaque sticker, still stuck to the tiles that made up the face of the plaque. Maybe I'll bring it out of storage for the photos I'll take when I rebuild the model, but I won't be buying any of the others.
Which means my favorite is going to be missing a lot of little details, but they aren't anywhere close to worth the money, or the effort in doing what you describe. Hell, I'm going to be paying at least $80 for just four parts for that one, but of all the models I'll be building that's the one I most want to be correct, just not that correct (I've already decided to buy some internal, non-visible parts in cheaper colors for that model, too). Another $175 in stickers crosses my line.
Maybe, someday, I'll get good enough at this that I can scale up the ship even larger, and put those details in without resorting to stickers. But not this year. I've got enough of a challenge. |
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Kil
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Posted - 03/19/2014 : 10:31:29 [Permalink]
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| Wow. He got a mantis shrimp. They are badasses. The shark looked like he was just checking him out, really. |
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Posted - 03/19/2014 : 17:20:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Wow. He got a mantis shrimp. They are badasses. The shark looked like he was just checking him out, really.
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As one who lives in the Caribbean, where this was taken it looks to me like a Lion Fish. Try pausing the clip @1:07 or 1:08 for a closer look and see what you think. They have poisonous spines and eat other reef fish like popcorn. They are very bad news. Not native to the Atlantic they are spreading fast do to no known predators. |
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Kil
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Posted - 03/19/2014 : 18:35:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
Originally posted by Kil
Wow. He got a mantis shrimp. They are badasses. The shark looked like he was just checking him out, really.
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As one who lives in the Caribbean, where this was taken it looks to me like a Lion Fish. Try pausing the clip @1:07 or 1:08 for a closer look and see what you think. They have poisonous spines and eat other reef fish like popcorn. They are very bad news. Not native to the Atlantic they are spreading fast do to no known predators.
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Yeah. Could be. Another badass. |
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