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I support a bulk purchase as well using LUG money to replenish our supply given Lego support’s current situation. Prob best to discuss tomorrow though.
Just amazing. Congrats on that accomplishment.
5 mile radius from Upper Saint Clair puts most of us outside your range unfortunately. We are all over the greater Pittsburgh area and beyond.
Now to throw a wrench in your noble attempt to make things very organized….. the Snake is not fixed in size. It’s poseable and thus can fit spaces from ~5″ x 9′ down to maybe 2’x2′ it can also overlap other mocs and other mocs can overlap it. Rather than trying to cover all those possibliities I’d still like to see the option to claim table space as we have been doing and not have this moc/mils inventory replace that completely. In a pinch my guess would be to create a “moc” entitled Tim Brown’s creations that is the size I expect to cover in that particular event and that can then be added. Not to mention some folks like myself know they are going to cover a space but don’t always know what they are going to cover that space with up until the night before(or even day of).
Glad to hear you are doing well. Rest up.
Love it
Point of clarity. The build challenge thread on discord (I believe the aim is monthly on that) does not replace the quarterly build challenges for meetings as discussed here. It is in addition too. The key here is that at least half our active members don’t use discord. And those that do don’t necessarily do it regularly. These forums are the main source of information for the LUG with discord acting as a secondary resource for members should they choose to take advantage of it. That is what the LUG decided when Discord was set up (until/unless further LUG discussion changes that). So we do still need to lock in a challenge for Q2 on here whether it’s one of my suggestions above or another (possibly inspired by discord discussion).
So I’m going to put this out there as a proposed challenge. Doesn’t have to be for Q2 but I think it would be cool to do a color pop challenge. The most famous example is probably the girl in the red coat from “Schindler’s List”. However, if you google “Color Pop Photography” you’ll see many examples of this technique in practice. The main gist of this is to create a mostly black&white/grayscale scene and then select something to focus on in that scene that will be in a very bold color. i.e. a Red Rose against a grayscale field of flowers. A butterfly picked out against a grayscale flower. The idea is to create a strong contrast between the subject and the rest of the scene. The main questions you’d be asking yourself (and probably detailing for the judge) is why did you pick the subject that you picked and why the color(s) that you picked for it.
Another possible challenge would be to have a build that starts in black and white on one side/corner(doesn’t matter which) and then gradually pulls in colors as you move through the build until you get to the other side/corner which is full color. This effect would be more akin to the movie “Pleasantville” Where the show starts out in Grayscale and slowly gets ‘colored in’ as the movie progresses. The aim being an “explosion” of color in the build.
Both of these are inspired by the color your world library theme. Neither will work for what we are probably going to be doing in Cranberry (Basically a case wide version of the 2nd challenge), but they might work for the other libraries especially those with less display space.
bringing us back to Q2, do we have any dates in mind yet? That might determine what we do for the challenge. As if it’s prior to Summer reading set ups, we might leverage it for that purpose.
It’s usually just comes down to someone suggesting something and a few others concurring with them. If we already have a next challenge, then the new idea gets pushed out to the next open meeting. i.e. there really isn’t any actual procedure per se. I am not sure, but I don’t think we had a challenge in place yet for Q2.
I must me missing something. What exactly did I use? lol glad I could unwittingly help out though.
Bob was 1st and I was 2nd and we both opted for the cup credits so the set went to 3rd place. I believe that was Kristin’s Potty cause it had the poo in it.
I also won’t be able to attend in person. Will catch at least some of the meeting on discord. Here’s my submission of Iceburgh’s room (Penguins’ mascot).
Bumping this since the meeting is coming up.
A new Scorpion MOC for my collection…
Built for winter display. Not an animal but get to show off some of the versatility of 1*2 round plates.
Why clear out free pest control? House centipiedes are completely harmless to people and houses and completely lethal to all the other pests. Good luck catching them anyways. If you see one just poke it and it’ll run to the nearest dark space it can find and go back to work hunting the real pests. Spiders also play their part. Apart from a few notable exceptions (Widows and Brown recluces mainly around here) I let spiders be as long as they stay out of the way. Anything else deserves a quick death and the house centipedes get a chastisement for not doing their jobs 😄
Other pic
Newest addition built for Northland
Just got back from Belize. Wife works and we’re catching up on things, so I doubt I’ll be able to make it over this weekend.
I doubt folks would want to want their private information posted to what is essentially a publicly facing site. All it takes to access this information is to register for the site. The real name bit isn’t that big a deal especially if it’s just first name and a last initial, but address/phone ect. should really be kept out of the public view. Perhaps an intermediate solution might be to have an opt in google sheet set up with this information and the only way you get access to it is if your information is on the sheet.
Food truck scene…awesome.
Welcome. Glad you could join us. Small world with you and Johnny running into each other outside of a LUG Activity.
So we were discussing this on Discord and the consensus seems to be that it’s a bad idea. However after further thought, I think in most cases I would be ok with it as long as the variations are listed on the main page of the element. Many elements already had this. It really comes down to whether it’s a functional or cosmetic difference. If the piece is functionally different to where swapping the part throws off distances/measurements or makes your proposed build unworkable, I am opposed, but something like torso ribs or sprue marks, I don’t think will make much a difference.
It’s Star Wars Adjacent. I think it should count…at least the more Star Wars-y parts should.
