So, I have been building LEGO for longer than I want to admit. I am not very competent with a lot of the newer skills and abilities evidenced by the models I see on the web. Amazing stuff all!
I want to help out with the club's endeavours somehow. This idea came to me. Could some of the better builders take their creations and make some plans using LEGO-cad out of them? These would not me anyone newbies stealing the models as much as stealing the concepts. Does this sound wrong? How many castles use one round stud and a 2x1 to create round towers? Stolen concept, n'est pas?
Or better yet direct the newbs, (as there are always newbs) to a website which offers these plans and let us go wild.
Thanks guys.
Robert
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if you want to see other people's LCAD models, a good place to start might be brickshelf.com - do a search for MLCAD or LDRAW, you can download other people's models, view, dissect, and even edit them...
not sure if any of them will be any good or use any interesting building techniques but still worth checking out.
and yes, building techniques or ideas get borrowed all the time. there is nothing wrong with taking inspiration from other people's work, that is kinda what this whole community is about!
but there is still an unwritten etiquette of crediting someone, maybe if you find them particularly inspiring, or if you think it's appropriate for some reason. it's really just a common sense thing i guess.
personally, i have always found virtual building to be a bit like trying to build with boxing gloves on, so don't expect any 3D models of my creations any time soon!
not sure if any of them will be any good or use any interesting building techniques but still worth checking out.
and yes, building techniques or ideas get borrowed all the time. there is nothing wrong with taking inspiration from other people's work, that is kinda what this whole community is about!
but there is still an unwritten etiquette of crediting someone, maybe if you find them particularly inspiring, or if you think it's appropriate for some reason. it's really just a common sense thing i guess.
personally, i have always found virtual building to be a bit like trying to build with boxing gloves on, so don't expect any 3D models of my creations any time soon!
like Steve said, we all borrow from each other, there's no real patent on techniques. sometimes a technique will be so cool that it might be named after someone like Didier snot, one of my faves. but then it's not really the technique, it's what you do with it 
some other great resources are:
http://uniquebriquetechniques.blogspot.com/
http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/creation.html
http://news.lugnet.com/build/schleim/
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/searc ... type=f&n=6
no one would have any issues of borrowing any techniques we used as pretty much all of them we borrowed as well, the actual model ideas are usually where the creativity is invested
some other great resources are:
http://uniquebriquetechniques.blogspot.com/
http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/creation.html
http://news.lugnet.com/build/schleim/
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/searc ... type=f&n=6
no one would have any issues of borrowing any techniques we used as pretty much all of them we borrowed as well, the actual model ideas are usually where the creativity is invested
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Thanks all for the replies and info. Much cognitation ensues.
Robert
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Thanks all for the replies and info. Much cognitation ensues.
Robert
As Steve said, copying models is usually okay as long as you give the designer credit, but techniques are shared all the time. Sometimes someone comes up with a very unusual connection or style, and people will occassionally credit them for that certain technique but techniques are completely shared.
For example, the round towers using 1x2's and 1x1 rounds was actually my design, but it was inspired by the same technique used to make a wavy pattern in a ghost! I then adapted it and invented a way to make the joints work. After that, a couple other people tried the design and gave me credit for it, and since then it's been a generally accepted technique. I think this is how most of the new and noticeable techniques go.
-John.
For example, the round towers using 1x2's and 1x1 rounds was actually my design, but it was inspired by the same technique used to make a wavy pattern in a ghost! I then adapted it and invented a way to make the joints work. After that, a couple other people tried the design and gave me credit for it, and since then it's been a generally accepted technique. I think this is how most of the new and noticeable techniques go.
-John.