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A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so i can save more fishes.
~Anonymous
(as told by Amy Tan in 'Saving Fish from Drowning')
Pay attention to your weight
Nikon F2 A (b1978)
HP5+ 400 to 800 ISO
Ilford Microphen Dev,
Scan: 1200 DPI
East Berlin
photographed jan.1991
July 31, 2016
Closeups of purple and white iridescent scales of a Striped Bass. (Morone saxatilis)
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Now that there's the 1/35 Mini (and quite a few other vehicles built in the meantime) I thought it might be a good idea to update the scale system I'm using for vehicle builds.
The "Larger City Scale", as I call it, is an attempt to harmonize the different vehicle widths and scales used in Town/Minifig surroundings into a single system, according to the following requirements:
- It must be possible to build all sorts (quite an important point) of vehicles in a more or less realistic manner, especially regarding proportions.
- The widths used should be able to reflect the different characters of cars (it's obvious that e. g. a full-size car/landyacht must look much more massive than, say, a pony car like a Mustang).
- It should be possible to combine vehicles and figs standing next to them.
- It should be possible to use the typical vehicle stuff in minifig scale/City surrounding like mudguards, windscreens, wheels and roofparts.
- The seating of minifigs is desirable but not a strict requirement. However, it should be possible to seat the figs side by side or - if there's only room for one fig - to avoid placing it in the center of the car which I can't help looks odd.
Using a single scale throughout to fulfill these requirements proved to be quite difficult. Even if the figs are altered to a 1/40 scale (like I do with all the figs) it is a problem to build matching - and at the same time well-proportioned - cars - the more so if you want to place figs into them. Thus for passenger cars a 1/35 scale proved to be a good compromise. (It is quite interesting that there's at least one clone brick manufacturer - which I won't even name - who produces Lego compatible car models in an explicit scale of 1/35 which I regard as a confirmation of my approach nonetheless).
On larger vehicles like buses or semis a 1/40 scale is no problem, trains are a bit smaller in scale (1/43, 9w) because at 1/40 which would mean a width of 10 studs (at least regarding US style) trains become hard to handle and tend to "dwarf" even buildings. Still they look as massive as they should.
The idea of a variable scale according to the absolute size of a structure (the larger the structure the smaller the scale) is not a new idea, of course. An example is the use of 1/43 vehicles on 1/48 model train layouts (especially in the US, if I'm right). A stadium in the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is built in a much smaller scale than its surrounding because otherwise it would take too much room on the layout - yet it's an impressive structure.
Anyhow, it should be mentioned that all this is not an exact science, all categorizations are approximative, some decisions are rather determinations - e. g. for reasons of proportions you find the Ford GT40 in the 2m (7w) class though in reality it only measures 1,78 m. As you may spot there's still a conflict between a 1/40 step van in 7w and a 1/35 Hummer in 8w - step vans should probably be 8w throughout, too (I'm actually trying this).
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Overview of the width classes (with some further information regarding the seating of minifigs and the windscreens used; probably I'll add some info about the wheelsizes used, too).
You may spot that there's a great variety of shapes used, exploiting all the possibilities of City, Speed Champions and even Lego Movie sets. Also, you will notice some differences between this and the earlier version, inter alia the missing "+-system" regarding mudguards - it didn't prove very helpful since the mudguard parts are used for different purposes: On trucks and also on vintage cars they often belong to larger structures and should therefore count regarding width whereas on passenger cars they rather can be understood as (quite disproportionate) wheel arches which in reality are much smaller.
9w, 1/43
3 meter class (US trains)
Seating of minifigs: yes (though not in the locos)
Model depicted: GP15-1
8w, 1/40
2,5 meter class (semi trucks, buses)
Windscreens: 2x4w, custom
Seating of minifigs: partially yes (sbs)
Models depicted: Greyhound Bus, Semi Tractor, Seagrave Pumper
7w, 1/40
2,3 m class (step vans)
Windscreens: 6w
Seating of minifigs: no
Model depicted: Ice Cream Truck
8w, 1/35
2.2 m class (oversized utility vehicles)
Windscreens: custom
Seating of minifigs: no
Model depicted: Hummer H1
7w, 1/35
2 meter class (full-size vehicles, pickup trucks, vintage cars, super sports cars)
Windscreens: 6w (mostly)
Seating of minifigs: partially (sbs)
Models depicted: Dodge Ram, Chevy Impala, Rolls-Royce Phantom III, Ford GT40
6.8 w, 1/35
1,9 meter class (muscle cars)
Windscreens: 6w
Seating of minifigs: no
Model depicted: Dodge Charger
6w, 1/35
1,8 meter class (sports cars, convertibles and smaller passenger cars)
Windscreens: 5w
Seating of minifigs: partially yes (sbs)
Models depicted: Mustang, Roadster
5w, 1/35
1,5 meter class (small cars)
Windscreens: 4w
Seating of minifigs: no
Model depicted: Mini
Thanks for reading all this stuff!
LE SCALE
Le scale
questi ansanti tabernacoli bianchi
marmi sui quali gli umani
pavimentano l’anima.
Scale fatte d’aria
dove non ruotano i venti.
Scale adorne
che separano i ferrati dai lenti.
Scale in stile gotico, apostolico
che non portano a Dio
né alla sacralità dell’Essere.
Scale intime, abissali
sotto boschi
dove urlano i corvi.
Le scale
questi penosi tabernacoli bianchi
dalle antiche radici di ferro
che non danno colore
non spargono odore
a chi stringe più in alto lo scettro.
Luciano Nota
Awe's original design was quite close to the 1:40 scale I build most of my minifig-scale models in, so it worked out great. It's for sure one of the best MiG-21 models in Lego, so go check it out on his photostream!
I'm currently working on a Cafe-Corner scale building, and I've been building some furniture for it. Unfortunately, I haven't been thinking clearly about the scale - this furniture takes up half the room. I need to be thinking and building smaller.
L to R: refrigerator, big screen tv, stereo console
The refrigerator doesn't have a back, and it has a piece of tape on top of it. The tape isn't holding it together, it's holding it together better.
So, here's a micro megatron to go witth my Optimus. Contains 41 pieces and completely transforms from robot to tank without removing or adding parts (except the cannon).
I never realized how many interesting buildings and views there are in the town I live in until I seriously started to scout around for backgrounds.
The one thing I have to do is wait until the shops close so there aren't any cars or trucks mixing in with the Elgin Park vibe.
Usually early in the morning or on the weekends is the best time.
The Holidays, though, are great because everyone leaves town so the streets tend to be empty.
When I was young, I would purposely take walks by way of short cuts and back alleys to avoid seeing people. It gave me the impression that I was the only person around.
But I must add here, I liked the fact that I could walk by an open window and hear a radio or a muted conversation, or off in the distance I could hear a train rolling by.
How interesting that decades later I would be photographing such scenes.
I know, I know, perhaps I should see a therapist. Actually I did but there were no inroads made on this particular subject.
Just think, if there were, Elgin Park might not exist!
Now that's a scary thought.
Here is the completed image:
Cappella Bizantina
Chiesa di San Nicola dei Greci, meglio conosciuta come la Chiesetta dello Spedale in quanto pare che, durante il regno borbonico, questa fu trasformata in ospedale per offrire cure ai meno abbienti. Originariamente, la chiesa era parte integrante di un monastero bizantino, ma oggi ne rimangono solo pochi ruderi, all’interno dei quali sono rimasti intatti gli affreschi della cappella principale dell’antica chiesa bizantina, nei quali è ben visibile l’effige di San Nicola.
Having made some miniature original trilogy era ships, I decided to make some sequel era ones to balance out the galaxy ;)
I know lots of people aren't too fond of the Star-Fortresses design/how slowly they move/their lack of shields but I must admit I like it. Its quite rare we get prominently used ships, with sizable interiors that aren't too big to recreate in minifig scale. The U-wing was the same, not too big to be a huge undertaking but big enough to be more challenging than a Starfighter...
But that's all besides the point since this is a microscale model. Enjoy! :D