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Brickworkz LEGO mosaics : Clientz : The Pollards: Shopping: The Point of No Return. Shopping: The Point of No Return.This project entered the point of no return today as I started making purchases on bricks. I went ahead and shopped around tonight. I did a LOT of price shopping, because buying in bulk gets very expensive. I made a discovery late last night that while I was on the phone, I shouldn't have been ordering anything. See, every mosaic site out there talks about "bricks" when they discuss mosaic designs. LEGO bricks with a 1 x 1 size are normally the ones that look like the brick on the right. So, when I came up with this idea, I was thinking bricks. I was thinking about how heavy this might be with little 1 x 1's up in the thousands, and actually did the math: 9,856 bricks in the image x .4 grams (weight of one 1 x 1 brick) = 8.02 pounds. -- and that's not counting the weight of the frame pieces or base plates. It was going to be bulky for sure. Well, it hit me at about 2am that I didn't need to do 1 x 1 bricks.
A plate is shaped like the brick on the right. And, from the front view (which is the only view that matters), it's indistinguishable from the 1 x 1 bricks. So really, all I'm doing is saving weight, time (as keeping the bigger ones straight is more of a challenge) and most of all, cost. (Dark gray bricks alone were going to run me $84 before shipping.) Plates are slightly lower in cost and of course are lighter to ship too. So, I immediately cancelled a few of my orders for 1 x 1 bricks. Feeling sheepish that I hadn't planned enough in that respect, I ordered the plates I needed from other stores and finally called it a night. Fortunately, no one gave me bad feedback for cancelling. Posted by Brian Korte on September 18, 2004 Previous: « Doing some Math... | Home | Next: Paid and Accounted For! » |