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  1. Ulrik Hansen
    I just experienced this a week ago. I was building up a large order on online pick a brick, and one day 2/3 of the deal was wiped from my card. If the cart is allowed to stay open across visits, their system should at least give an explanation as to why certain pieces may disappear. Note that they are still available in the shop but were just randomly gone from my cart. At least I had most of the pieces noted in a dedicated Bricklink wishlist, so at least I didn't loose track of what I need for my big order.
  2. Ulrik Hansen
    Very cool. I just got a new job driving forklifts and couldn't help looking for LEGO iterations :)
  3. Ulrik Hansen
    Great little big subject. It seems coincidential how both the LEGO Group and Piet Mondrian are known for something they took from someone else and popularized. According to different biographies like the wikipedia article Piet Mondrian was inspired to use primary colors from Bart Van Der Leck early last century. No less noteworthy is the name of his exhibition back then: 'The New Plastic in Painting' 😅 Regarding the exclusion of green in the brick sortiment (from when they revived thier colors away from the kiddi-palette) could be that green is not a (modern) natural color for houses and other structures. You want to reserve green for the ground and other vegetation. It took the Classic Space line for TLG to give in to introducing gray for bricks etc. Before that gray was not considered vibrant enough for children to be interested in them. I suspect TLG thought the same of black around the time of the redesign and patenting. White was a given or else the Christiansen family would not be able to recreate churches in the quintessence colors of that locality of Denmark that was very important to them 🙂 So, when simplifying into a system you don't want things to be up for misinterpretation. In my own microscale MOC experience I exclude certain colors from buildings/structures because I need them elsewhere. No less in the upcoming revision of my Copenhagen-model. I don't use green (28 and 37) for structures because it's reserved for vegetation (grass, trees and bushes). I don't use red (21), orange (25) and other plasticy colors for structures because it works way better for vehicles (cars, trucks and busses). Blue (23) used to be strictly for water but I have switched water to Dark Blue (149) so now Blue has become available for vehicles. I don't use Dark Green (141) for vegetation because it quite frankly doesn't mix well with Green and Bright Green and like Dark Brown (308) often appears almost black in certain lighting conditions. Instead Dark Green and Dark Brown works quite well as toned blacks for roofing of different nature. Tan (5) and Dark Tan (138) are examples of colors that are "cought in the middle" as they can be used both for ground, buildings, roofs and vehicles. Thus a building standing next to a beach will never be Tan (unless the sand is then bright light yellow or something). Overall I am refining and modifying my model to become more photorealistic by mostly doing buildings/roofs in earthy colors while vehicles are allowed to stand out on the streets with vibrant colors. Part of this is switching all Orange rooftops to Dark Orange (38) and Medium Nougat (312). I'm sorry if this became a little off-topic. It's peculiar how limitations can create posibilities 😎
  4. Ulrik Hansen
    Good idea, asking their legal team that should clear things up.
  5. Ulrik Hansen
    Those different sellers are probably some of the ones I've stumpled upon. Since I'm from small Danmark and don't want to hide my activity from the LEGO Group, my plan now is to focus on artistic interpretations that do not infringe. Thank you for your feedback
  6. Ulrik Hansen
    Ok, thanks. I realize it's a dead end to go down that road.
  7. Ulrik Hansen
    Are the figure decorations copyrighted? Many variations are sold online. That is what I'm getting at.
  8. Ulrik Hansen
    I need som help here. What are the legal implications of selling t-shirts with replicated minifig-decorations printed on them? I know I'm not allowed to print the LEGO logo. Thanks!
  9. Ulrik Hansen
    Mange tak
  10. Ulrik Hansen
    'Dannebrog falling from the sky'. According to legend that's what finally happened after the Danes had long been praying for victory during the Battle of Lyndanisse, Estonia in 1219. It also holds the record as the oldest continuously used national flag. Religion and nationalism aside it's my birthday tomorrow and since we Danes fancy to display our flag on such occasions I thought I'd give one of my older LEGO building techniques another run with a bit more context. As most of you already have gathered, it mainly consists of the piece 'Technic, Axle 2 Notched' in red and white, framed by SNOTed slopes, both inverted and not.
  11. Ulrik Hansen
    As I was sorting and replanning my brick stash (again) I got the idea to create a small Ludo game. The thought occured when I talked to friends about the fun of playing this childhood favourite again, but non of us had the game itself anymore. First I went online to check out TLGs official version and then what other people might have come up with. I knew I didn't want to built it to include minifigs. I thought I'd rather use the Brick, Round 1 x 1 for the pieces, but instead ended up using the Cone 1 x 1. I did of course consider TLGs own cute microfigs, but chosing the right ones kept dragging and their size seemed a little too dominant compared to the size of the game/the scale of the board. It would of course have greater appeal if it were to be an official LEGO game via LEGO Ideas. This version includes the addition of stars and globes, which are very common in the Danish version of the game.
  12. Ulrik Hansen
    Hey kciR. Thanks a lot for your honest considerations. I'm of course a diligent student of other people's creations myself. This model design must have a will of its own ? I hope you can find some of my improvements, and also notice that there are even less cracks in the snot slope mosaic than before ?
  13. Ulrik Hansen
    Thanks. A very big honor indeed. The worst was the first two years (2012-2014) when I hadn't proven my vision yet. I'm glad I kept at it
  14. Ulrik Hansen
    Finally, I present to you a new version of my City of Copenhagen model. This time it's done in a simplified color scheme to resemble a typical scale model of architectural projects. More importantly it needed to be elegant since it has been build for the LEGO House and will be exhibited in the Blue Zone. I continue to evolve my techniques so you may be able to notice some differences here and there. Also, a city is in constant change and thus some details in the model attest to that fact. Here is a link to the gallery. Below are a few samples.
  15. Ulrik Hansen
    Really really nice
  16. Ulrik Hansen
    Another great LEGO World in Bella Center, Copenhagen is behind us, and I thank all the people who were there, and those who came by to visit me and my model.
  17. Ulrik Hansen
    For some time I couldn't get the beta to work in my os x Yosemite instalation but a week ago it finally did show the parts that was missing on startup. I've been using both LDD, LDraw (Bricksmith) and Mecabricks prior to Stud.oi, and also Autodesk Maya. When I started using Stud.io I was soon missing a pan fuction when set origin does not make the right render focus. I finally found out that as you orbit around your build, you can pan by holding down the shift-key :D Edit: After finding the Stud/Manual/keyboard-shortcuts.html, fumbling time is pretty much over I think it looks promissing. I love the render part as I never really got started on that with my builds. I'll be back with more observations.
  18. Ulrik Hansen
    Thanks for the compliment :) I just dug your different builds on Flickr :D very nice! I have more cities with different landscapes in the pipeline, but given the time for planning and creation (and most annoyingly its fragile nature), it's hard to keep the high output rate that is common with many popular builders. Right now I'm looking to upgrade my shelving system to be able to work on many different areas without running out of table space :)
  19. Ulrik Hansen
    Finally I can show you the extension of Copenhagen Microscale that I have been working on for some months. There is a square (Kongens Nytorv) and a canal (Nyhavn) that is popular with both turists and citizens in general. Anyway, I hope you like it. I have lots of close ups in my Flickr gallery. This image is the first one of the extension range of the album:
  20. Ulrik Hansen
    The balance between tan outside and the green house inside, the colors in general, just beautiful. Also there is something about the combination of the pillars, the grille bricks and the 45° nature of the curved sides, it just goes so well together. Those hinged walls, I can imagine they easily go out of shape. Just currous: Have you put something at the bottom to secure them in some way? Maybe you could have a view where one of the curved sides were removed for interior shots. Anyway, thanks for building and sharing :)
  21. Ulrik Hansen
    Amazing. Too much to mention the snow details are stunning. Back to watching the pictures.
  22. Ulrik Hansen
    You and us – I love the polarization. Are you so sure everyone agrees with you? Try reading again. I rest my case and the multiple points I did not comment on. I wonder how I even thought anything good would come of this.
  23. Ulrik Hansen
    I think it does make sense to bring about whether you like it or not. I did not want to start a shit storm. I needed to illustrate my point by linking to an example and I wanted to know if anyone else like myself would prefer a clearer label for non-physical builds with custom part liberties taken. If people have nothing but good intentions they wouldn't mind a clear label. Any third party company or magazine can do fine without LEGO in their name/title, like "brick-something". Don't you ever have discussions about such things? I have no problem understanding that there is endless amounts of fun in having limitless bricks (I was a big fan of the LEGO Creator in the late 90's and then LDraw and LDD) and I am working my way into different 3D software titles which of course offers nearly unlimitless amounts of creative shaping. I started my post by admitting I couldn't find previous discussions about the subject, so I started a new one. I take that you have either not touched upon the subject or find it somehow unpleasant. I'd like to thank those who shared with me how they feel about the subject, one way or the other.
  24. Ulrik Hansen
    It's quite simple. The concept I'm putting foreward, is synonymous with the rules of building competitions in LUGs, which is a way to create equal conditions for all participants. According to some of you a MOC can be anything build from anything. Great, add some clay in there too. It's gonna look really good and hey... it's a MOC. To critizice me for starting this topic, is quite laughable. The outcome was not meant to change the way I build. I was asking your opinion and I appreciate the honesty, but I am a bit surprised by the rhetoric. Then again, it's the internet. Keep them coming, almighty guardians of eurobricks.
  25. Ulrik Hansen
    I could not find a discussion on this already so here goes: I am a professional freelance LEGO artist. My fondness for the LEGO System developed partly because of the challenge and restraint of the system. When ever something is called LEGO, that is what I relate it to. I sometimes see some pretty renderings of so-called digital LEGO builds on places like Flickr, and they are promoted as LEGO builds via LEGO groups. The problem is that these builds are often rendered with parts in colors that those parts have not been released in, and thus the build might as well have clone parts in it. That's when it does not belong in a group sharing things build with the LEGO System anymore. People doing this, could just as easily call it something else (Brick Art or something) and everything will be totally ok with me, but calling it LEGO is just misleading, frankly cheating. What do you guys think? Here is the latest example using a Slope 45 2 x 1 with 2/3 Cutout in Trans-Black for the windshield. I have nothing against the guy, but calling it LEGO just because LDD was used... Perhaps the problem only really lays with the groups accepting these contributions.
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