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By 3 cubes you mean 3 columns? Also folks will need to make sure they have good supporting columns between builds. I have depicted builds with a back corner wall support and a front corner column, but that probably isn’t enough support for the builds above. I would test adding weight on top of your build.
WIP but this would is the first of maybe 4-5 Butterflies to be suspended from the top of the case for this display. The aim is to keep it simple and to have some good color mixes going on. Madison’s happy I’m finally doing color. Also my youngest pointed out that the Iguana has never been on display at Cranberry and the Librarians there love him so I’ll see if I can’t craft some kinda space for him in the cube system.
By 3 cubes you mean 3 columns?
Yes, sorry for being imprecise. Unless your cube is on the top of the column, strength and stability will be necessary to hold the cube(s) above you.
I love the butterfly. Can the iguana be modified to a chameleon? That would fit with the color changing motif.
lol I don’t think you realize just how many folks I’d disaapoint if I touch the iguana. If I have the parts I might could build a chameleon but I’m not sure at this point so we’ll see.
Now that Home & Garden is over, I am bumping this thread to move this along. We’ve got just over two months until installation.
It seems like the “cube” idea is floundering so I think we can take that off the table. I think if we have a nice mix of Colorful builds and Black & White/Grayscale builds, it will turn out great. One other thought I had is that we could have rivers/pools of color (i.e. bricks just laid out on the floor in color groups), encircling all of the various builds.
Please post here any space requirements so we have enough floorspace and also post what you are building so we know that we will have enough to fill the case!
I say ditch the black and white if we aren’t going to do the cubes with transition. Let’s just go for bright colorful builds and use your idea of rivers/pools of color between builds for filling gaps. For now I’m just going to commit to building the suspended butterflies. But depending on what others commit to, I may bring/build something else as well.
bright colorful builds
Ok now you have my interest again. I’m currently completing a red / yellow / blue primary color version of the 3D LUG logo. The Pittsburgh graffiti mosaic is also colorful.
I think that some of those new botanical sets ought to be perfect, maybe some of the flower / birds in the Spring display that is currently at the Penn Hills library.
For reference. Both large windows fit about 5 32×32 baseplates. The small one fits 2. The middle can fit another ~3 with a bunch of 16 stud wide spaces filling the gaps. Anything yellow here are irregular gaps in increments smaller that 16 stud so use caution when planning for them. Keep in mind this is best of my ability based one the measurements I took and expect some small about of margin of error in the spacing. Mainly with regards to where regions 3 and 4 meet since there’s no buffer there.
Thus person A could say something like I’m building to fill the space in region 3 and I’m building to a depth of X from the window. That would let person B who claims area in region 4 or 6 to adjust the size they plan to claim to account for the already claimed space in region 3. Also doesn’t have to be 1 person per region or vice versa. Can claim half a region, or more than one region. If you are building high (let’s say in excess of 3′), please note roughly how high as that can affect suspended build placement.
Does anyone have a large(r) botanical set for this display? I have a large white building (it rarely gets display time but it shows up in this picture – https://www.flickr.com/photos/41914153@N03/14940048913/in/dateposted-public/ ) which would make a nice pedestal for flowers and serve as a centerpiece for the entire display.
@joshhall what color bricks does the LUG have in decent quantity?
Madison Brown has almost every single Botanical and would jump at the chance to put them on display. So it really comes down to how much space we are wanting to devote to them.
@joshhall what color bricks does the LUG have in decent quantity?@timf, if these are intended for the “rivers of colors” to fill the spaces between the builds on the floor of the display case, we have over 24,000 1×1 bricks in a variety of colors that we ordered as part of Project Support for Mosaics last year. There are something like 45 different colors in quantities that range from 400 to 600 per color. @knb112 has all of these and can advise further as to what we have and whether anyone has asked or intends to use these during the time period for the Cranberry display (~June thru August).
We got project support for building mosaics? wkr? Was there a designated pattern on which this order was based?
We got project support for building mosaics? wkr? Was there a designated pattern on which this order was based?
@greg, you’ve got to start getting to more meetings!! The is part of the Project Support that the LUG applied for last summer that was broken into 3 parts (MILS, Hoth, and Mosaics), got approved, and that the LUG paid for. We received all of these parts last November. Some of the MILS parts were used in the Locomotion Weekend and Home & Garden displays, and some of the Hoth parts were used in the Winter Trolley display.
For the Mosaics, there was no designated pattern. We decided as a group to order 1×1 bricks (because they’re easier to disassemble than 1×1 plates) in a variety of colors. We ended up ordering approximately 45 colors in quantities of 400-600 per color, for a total of approximately 24,000 bricks.
Madison Brown has almost every single Botanical and would jump at the chance to put them on display. So it really comes down to how much space we are wanting to devote to them.
@tbrown00 my white building is 31×31 studs so we could pack a good amount of flowers on top of that. So I will reserve the blue space to the left of Space #6 on your chart.
There are something like 45 different colors in quantities that range from 400 to 600 per color.
@rcgrier3406 that sounds perfect!
We got project support for building mosaics? wkr? Was there a designated pattern on which this order was based?
This was more for the play activity that we do at Arts Fest and other events, similar to play brick.
has all of these and can advise further as to what we have and whether anyone has asked or intends to use these during the time period for the Cranberry display (~June thru August).
Actually, Josh has them. He asked for them for an event recently. There may be one event over the summer that could use them, but we could make due without too. There’s no children’s festival this year.
I have a ton of white brick from Hoth that we could use in some way…maybe some hills? Or like a tunnel which could “spew” out a rainbow to all the other areas?
ton of white brick
We could also use that to pull everything together – a white base with color exploding out of various areas. @argonvesher plan on bringing the white brick!
It looks like Saturday, May 31 is going to be the Q2 LUG meeting. Does the following Saturday, June 7 a good date for everyone for the installation of the Display?
@timf, June 6-7th is the Mars New Year Festival, so I’m already committed for that on the 7th. What about installing on Saturday morning before the LUG meeting on May 31st?
Though based on the timing, that may not work. Meeting may start at 11 over in Monroeville and the Cranberry Library doesn’t open til 10. I doubt that timing is going to work out. We may need to look at a weeknight install. On my end I can always pre-load stuff and have you arrange the stuff(mainly the flowers) when you fill out the display.
Google Maps says drive time from Cranberry Library to Penn Hills Library is 40 min. if you take the Turnpike, so better allow at least an hour to get there. 11 am to 4 pm is when Marcella had the room reserved, but I don’t think they’ve set the start time yet. If we ask her to hold the start of the meeting until 1 pm, I think we could make it work on the 31st.
I’m also OK with a weeknight install. Monday thru Thursday the library is open until 8 pm, which would give people time to get there after work.
A weeknight could work for me, I just need to know what I’m making ahead of time to help bring everything together. @timf what kind of white base are you thinking of, like a mountain?
OK, I forgot about the Mars festival on June 6-7. We could set up on May 31 before the meeting. But I think doing it during the week will be our best option. The Library is open M-Th until 8 pm and 5 pm on Fridays.
I am not available the week of May 26-30 but would be available the following week June 2-6. We could install over a few evenings as well.
@argonvesher you could build some type of white landscaping (maybe even using some of the Hoth baseplates). Or we could just lay down loose white bricks and then install the individual builds around that (and other colors of loose bricks).
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