Any articles?

[TheQ]

Since we now have wiki (althought I know that many of you haven't visited it. Try bookmarking if you cannot remember the address ) I guess we should use it. I myself will have lots of free time next week (holiday) and I would like to know what kind of articles people would find interesting?

Here is some things that I could write:

• Texturing (how to make basic parts of the structure more detailed and interesting)
  
• Taking Photos (how, when and why. Do's and Dont's)
  
• Photoediting via Gimp (so that we can get finally rid of those 2000 * 2000 bmp pictures that ruin our life)
  

John also had some articles (SNOT, landscaping) in his mind but I don't know if he has will or time to write them.

Ok, what article seems interesting? (I can do more than one article too)

-Q

PS: I will make a "member list" to the Wiki and add your own wikis (means placeholder for articles) there so that you can make profiles. Sounds good?

[J1A3L5]

I have a partly finished landscaping article. Years ago the C-C admins (Kevoh I think...) asked me to write it. I started but never really got finished. I could maybe finish it sometime.

SNOT is my favourite style, but there's a ton to write about it. It covers a massive range of techniques and ideas, and new ones come out all the time.

Anyone else interested in specific topics?

-Jail.

[ThePlasticJedi]

How about:
'How to avoid using plates'
'How to add shape and greebles to your MOC'
'How to start your MOC'
'Building a MOC to scale'
'Tried and true Lego organizing techniques'
'How to add strength to your MOC'
'Landing gear 101'
'Add special effects to your images'
'Drawing a plan for your MOC'
'CAD and Ldraw 101'
'Abbreviations and other MOC builder's definitions'
'Color coding: Which colors go good together?'
'Why/When should I SNOT?'
'MINI scale techniques'

^These are just a few things that I have needed in the past and I am sure new builders would find them helpful.

TPJ

[TheQ]

Lets see now:

'How to avoid using plates'
-Possible

'How to add shape and greebles to your MOC'
-Possible

'How to start your MOC'
-Hmm.. Rather hard subject so I might pass that to someone else. After all, builder knows best how to make creations.

'Building a MOC to scale'
-Possible, althought I am not so "into" this subject. You might want to check out Unofficial Guide to LEGO book

'Tried and true Lego organizing techniques'
-Again, pretty hard subject but I can write something around that subject. Perhaps having all our members saying their own technique?

'How to add strength to your MOC'
-Possible and pretty good subject

'Landing gear 101'
-Damned, if you ever find this kind of thing, you shout at me, ok? Landing gears are hard, very hard, but I believe I can offer some help.

'Add special effects to your images'
-This incorporated with basic photo-editing (In order to MINIMIZE those MEGABLOKsing big pictures)

'Drawing a plan for your MOC'
-Hard subject and interesting too. I might write some notes about it too.

'CAD and Ldraw 101'
-Possible, altought I would prefer giving links to some already written articles. I just need to find that one missing link I had in my mind.

'Abbreviations and other MOC builder's definitions'
-Erm.. What?

'Color coding: Which colors go good together?'
-There was good article about this in Kepplah site but I think it is lost. Very possible and good subject.

'Why/When should I SNOT?'
-Just for good old James, I will make sure there is some kind of SNOT article here too

'MINI scale techniques'
-Best ask John about this subject, I am not good MINIs.

Expect some articles later this week. I have to spend my holiday for some good