Thursday 16 June 2016

Lego Series Minifigures Ribba Framing - Prototype

Rand Bricks 15:59
Hello Readers,

I haven't posted a review for a few days yet. I will be posting more reviews as soon as possible.

In the meantime I really want to get my Lego Series Minifigures framed.

I have custom drawn all of my backgrounds in Illustrator. I have done the following below.
As I have custom drawn the backgrounds in Illustator they are in Vector format. Vector is line art, as opposed to pixels it is instead made up of lines and points. Which means in short, it doesn't matter how big these are enlarged they will never pixelate or loose quality. To get them ready for printing I have had to save them as pixel based .png files. However they are saved in an extremely high resolution. 12000 x 12000 to be precise. This might sound like jargen to you, don't worry. Just think, a Full HD television is 1080p (which means there are 1080 pixels from top to bottom)
What this all comes down to, is the photo prints I recieve should be extremely sharp and of a high quality. Here are some close up pictures for you to see.

These are for my own personal use to mount my Lego Series Minifigures in. They will be mounted into Ribba Frames.

I put together a prototype background and frame yesterday to see exactly how the minifigures are going to fit inside and whether or not any bricks would need to be moved.

I started by taking some old card I didn't need. Drew a square big enough for the background and cut it out.
From there I marked out the measurements and drew a template based on the measurements of my illustrator designs. I then placed white tack where each brick will be. This is just a temporary option, the final frames will have the bricks glued on.
From there I just stuck each inverted slope where they need to go. I have used all 2x3 slopes here however my final frames will use 2x2 inverted slopes for the majority of the minifigures and some 2x3 inverted slopes for those that are too big for the 2x2.
With all that done I just needed to now check that all my minifigures will fit nicely onto the bricks and then into the frame. However I did come across a little problem with Ursula. The bottom part of her is just a teeny tiny bit too big to fit on the 2x3 slope so I had to cut a little bit out of the cardboard backing for her to fit properly. When I my final frames I will be backing the prints onto card so I will do the same for her.
So there we have it. The Disney minifigures fit perfectly. I will however swap Ariel over to the far right where Maleficent currently is. Maleficent will be moved to the left one and the other minifigures (Cheshire Cat, Alice and Stitch) will all be moved to the left one. The reason for this is then I will have one 2x3 inverted slope in the bottom left for Ursula and one in the bottom right for Ariel. The remaining minifigures will all be mounted onto 2x2 slopes.

That's it for now, I just wanted to share this project with you. I just need to check my other minifigure series will fit into the frame properly without the need for moving any of the brick locations, once that is done I will be ordering my photo prints which are ready.



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