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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

by Allan Bedford
September 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
376 pages
10h 26m
English
No Starch Press
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Designing a Studs-Up Mosaic

As you saw earlier, a studs-up mosaic offers some subtleties that studs-out mosaics do not. Because you are using plates as seen from their side, rather than full-height bricks, you are obviously dealing with smaller changes in color and shape. Take another look at a studs-out versus a studs-up mosaic in Figure 8-18.

Although there’s nothing wrong with the letters in the studs-out mosaic, it’s also clear that the word LEGO is a little more natural looking in the studs-up version. Being able to incorporate simple shading or highlighting techniques (such as seen above the letters on the studs-up version in Figure 8-18) gives you more control as a builder.

Figure 8-18. A side-by-side comparison of the two basic mosaic techniques. ...

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