2.3.19: Why does your ship have a handle?
Dec. 7th, 2021 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jae_buildsThis was a fun one. I added lots of neat deck details, and given that we know there's going to be a funnel eventually, the asymmetry starts to get really interesting in this stage.
Here's the mise-en-place.
Snapping those grates into the window pieces is my all-time favorite Lego action. The first time I encountered it as a kid, I found it incredibly fascinating for no reason at all, and it still brings me great joy (possibly at least partially due to nostalgia). I was not expecting to see them in this set, and the fact that I got to do eleven of them, including nine of the small ones (which I prefer over the larger ones), was a nice bonus.
I started by adding more supports into the internal structure. In the second photo below I fasted that loose brick into place. I didn't realize that the loose brick had become a metaphor in my brain for more generalized anxiety, but as soon as it was more securely locked in place, I did in fact feel less anxious, so that's good.
Then I started building out the deck.
Then it was window time!
Next I added the skylight above the grand staircase. (Apparently the Titanic had a skylight.)
(You can't actually see much through the skylight; there's not actually a grand staircase underneath it in the model. But I took a picture anyway, because I thought folks might be curious. There is one decorative tile in there, that you can really only see half of; it's near the bottom of the skylight in this orientation.)
As you can see from that photo (which I in fact took after I finished the full stage), I wrapped up by adding some railings around the deck.
That curved bit of railing near the top right inspired my spouse to ask the titular question of this post, to which my response was (obviously) to wordlessly turn the railing in its clip so the ends were pointing up, and then put it back to its proper orientation.
So that's stage 19. The big hole is going to get a funnel soon, and I'm really curious to see how the asymmetry is going to play into that. Thanks for reading!
Discussion prompt: What's your favorite architectural feature, and why?
Here's the mise-en-place.
Snapping those grates into the window pieces is my all-time favorite Lego action. The first time I encountered it as a kid, I found it incredibly fascinating for no reason at all, and it still brings me great joy (possibly at least partially due to nostalgia). I was not expecting to see them in this set, and the fact that I got to do eleven of them, including nine of the small ones (which I prefer over the larger ones), was a nice bonus.
I started by adding more supports into the internal structure. In the second photo below I fasted that loose brick into place. I didn't realize that the loose brick had become a metaphor in my brain for more generalized anxiety, but as soon as it was more securely locked in place, I did in fact feel less anxious, so that's good.
Then I started building out the deck.
Then it was window time!
Next I added the skylight above the grand staircase. (Apparently the Titanic had a skylight.)
(You can't actually see much through the skylight; there's not actually a grand staircase underneath it in the model. But I took a picture anyway, because I thought folks might be curious. There is one decorative tile in there, that you can really only see half of; it's near the bottom of the skylight in this orientation.)
As you can see from that photo (which I in fact took after I finished the full stage), I wrapped up by adding some railings around the deck.
That curved bit of railing near the top right inspired my spouse to ask the titular question of this post, to which my response was (obviously) to wordlessly turn the railing in its clip so the ends were pointing up, and then put it back to its proper orientation.
So that's stage 19. The big hole is going to get a funnel soon, and I'm really curious to see how the asymmetry is going to play into that. Thanks for reading!
Discussion prompt: What's your favorite architectural feature, and why?
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Date: 2021-12-08 03:05 pm (UTC)I have a love-hate relationship with dormers - under a certain size and they look super awkward to me, and feel like they're mostly there only to encourage me to whang my head on their interior edges. Once they get above a certain size I love the way(s) they add dimension and nooks and corners to a space.
My absolute favorite feature may be lofts/balconies, though. I love the way they combine and separate spaces.