When our Kevoh posted his first mocs in months the other day, what a feeling of surprize we felt! He produced a spaceship, and a modernist one to boot! Now don't take this the wrong way, dear readers: we here at Twee Affect don't blog each other's mocs as a matter of course, only a comment on his photos happened to spark a substantive design conversation between two of us blaggers, and we thought we would share a rare glimpse into this, our secret freemasonry of blaggitude!
The comment on the above photo was as follows:
HppyWeasel: Nice subtle texturing on the black surfaces, dude. I'm a big fan of paneling.
kevoh: ok what is this, 2 people have commented complimenting on the "texture" of the black parts of the spaceship
jonesy: haha
kevoh: what do they mean??
jonesy: i think they mean the seams between individual parts?
kevoh: but that's not a thing!
jonesy: it is to SEBarile, the trainguy
kevoh: but there isn't texture... I mean ideally it's a uniform surface?
kevoh: or I suppose in some orderly panel system
jonesy: but your lighting basically showed off the seams
jonesy: where's miss mattie, he needs to do a poast on this
kevoh: so my lighting is too good
jonesy: lul yes
jonesy: and lego people are coming up with increasingly irrational things to appreciate in mocs
jonesy: "npu" when it isn't
kevoh: I mean this is something I paid zero attention to, the texture/pattern created by the parts?
jonesy: yes haha
jonesy: it just happened to be pleasing to his eye?
kevoh: I like looking at it and appreciating all the zany snot that I know is going on, but other people can't see that
jonesy: like mattie and his plate fraction offsets
kevoh: it can actually be super hard to make uniform surfaces like that
jonesy: yes, but the mocs that result are super boring
kevoh: when you have yellow stripes places and it can't go into the 2-wide core
jonesy: it is like working with rare colors with very small parts palettes
kevoh: no one appreciates it unless they realize that those are the only parts in that color
jonesy: except you are just beating yourself up for no reason
jonesy: you are just making it too difficult and expensive!
kevoh: heh
jonesy: because every project will require multiples of rare parts that need to be cracklinked!
kevoh: yeah I've used every yellow 1x1 technic brick I have
kevoh: granted I only have like 4
kevoh: but it has to be rationed 2 per moc!
jonesy: heh
kevoh: and it's very tempting to use them, because it's a great way to connect a stripe to the rest
jonesy: oh yes that was the first idea i had on that problem
jonesy: still trying to figure out which places are ok to pick your spaceship up from
jonesy: it has to be like two places on the whole ship
kevoh: hah no it's sturdy I mean it rests by itself, the front doesn't droop
jonesy: but don't pick it up on the missile launchers or the cockpit or the drone niche
jonesy: or any of the edges
kevoh: you do have to hold the drone in place it'll slide out
jonesy: did you consider a magnet
jonesy: because that sounds like a satisfying way to connect it
kevoh: that would be nice
jonesy: don't tell me you don't have any lego magnets
kevoh: I was hoping that there would just be enough friction, minor inconsistencies in part size would make it a tiny bit snug
kevoh: but it slides in and out
jonesy: don't tell me you didnt get any m-tron or ice planet sets!!!
kevoh: I have magnets!
jonesy: yes yeah friction connections are hard to predict
kevoh: ok so I've just picked it up from corners, like just holding one corner
kevoh: the 2 front corners are not advisable
jonesy: oh look at you
kevoh: others seem ok
kevoh: I should have made the connection between the 2 halves better
kevoh: it's 4 technic tubes, 2x2 plates stuck in each end
jonesy: scotty was saying why didn't you make the two squares overlap eachother
jonesy: like two chain links kind of
kevoh: I didn't want to?
jonesy: k
kevoh: just, not the design I was going for I guess
jonesy: otherwise they should both rotate in opposite directions
jonesy: and look real wizzardly and bizarre
kevoh: constantly spinning hah
jonesy: just, an unthinkably bizarre design that reflects the impossible system of faster-than-light propulsion required
jonesy: according to mystic principles of physics as yet undiscovered, by science
kevoh: but ah hah look at this! real design decision discussion! recognizing that the 2 halves could interlink, and wondering how that would be better or worse or different...
jonesy: yes! we should just post this up on twee!
kevoh: well that's rather circle jerk-y isn't it?
jonesy: so is the rest of our blog?
kevoh: "in conclusion, our mocs are amazing in ways that only we know, and if anyone else tried they would fail"
jonesy: "our opinions are constantly correct and amazing and we shall never compromise to please other people"
kevoh: high fives all around!
jonesy: heroes
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