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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Use Drybrushing Kinz, if you don't know what that is, you take a paint brush with some, say grey paint here, make sure it's only a VERY tiny amount of half-dried paint that is n that brush, and sort of scratch the corners of the brick. See a tutorial online, because mine is rubbish.
OTHERWISE you could do as Jargon says and scratch the pieces, and then to make it seem even more old, take some gray and black paint add some water to the paint, put it on a sponge, and put it all over the brick, then take another sponge or rag of cloth and dry off the paint again, now the paint should be stuck in all the scratches and dents that came from the sandpaper, it makes it look a bit more aged.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=legogod]I get you want an easy way to do this and many difficult ideas passed through my mind. What was interesting is I have seen a model that was so good I made it the backdrop of my computer screen for awhile. Look [url=http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-story-victorian-with-tree.html#more]here[/url] to see Mike Doyle's burnt three story Victorian house. The building technique in the fifth picture down shows a "stressed" sort of effect. Using the tan flat tiles with the light gray tiles creates the illusion of age. Another technique is in the first picture. Use other types of bricks to show age- the grill pieces look as if the wood is peeling and falling away. And you shouldn't limit yourself to standard sized bricks. Using plates can give you more detail while adding more colors to your stressful needs.[/quote]
While Mike Doyle's work is excellent, it is on a much larger scale than used in most brickfilms - minifigures would look quite out of place.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jargon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I get you want an easy way to do this and many difficult ideas passed through my mind. What was interesting is I have seen a model that was so good I made it the backdrop of my computer screen for awhile. Look [url=http://mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-story-victorian-with-tree.html#more]here[/url] to see Mike Doyle's burnt three story Victorian house. The building technique in the fifth picture down shows a "stressed" sort of effect. Using the tan flat tiles with the light gray tiles creates the illusion of age. Another technique is in the first picture. Use other types of bricks to show age- the grill pieces look as if the wood is peeling and falling away. And you shouldn't limit yourself to standard sized bricks. Using plates can give you more detail while adding more colors to your stressful needs.

Some of the techniques listed above require you to abuse a piece. Have you thought of printing out a stressed image on sticky paper and applying it to your individual bricks? This would tone down the "newness" of each piece and you don't have to put them on correctly, as the aging process tends to move things around. Never tried this before but: Regular old Elmer's glue. Once dry it comes off easy. You could make some detail on your home with glue, wait for it to dry, film, then break it all off and wash your pieces.

My last idea is: Find a Lego lot on eBay that is heavily used from a pet full and smoker home. I have purchased some Lego from my friends when they outgrew them and their white bricks didn't age well as they played outside and beat the crap out of them. 

Good luck,
Jared]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (legogod)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[when the guy is walking inside have darker lighting( or more natural) and have the wooden floor 'CREAK' as they walk.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Cooked Cat)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't own a smoke bomb.

Thanks Jargon, I might try that.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[kinzcove@yahoo.com (KinzCove)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You might take sandpaper to the brick for a more distressed look. Obviously, this would be permanent, so make sure it's what you want.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jargon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Take all of the bricks you want to make "older". Find a box that will cover them without any on top of each other. They have to be flat. Get a white smoke bomb. The [b]smoke[/b] has to be white. Lay out all of the white bricks [b]studs up[/b] with enough room (as I said before) so that the box will cover them. Light the smoke bomb in the middle of the bricks, and make sure the hole where the smoke comes out is facing up, not touching any bricks. This will not work if it is not facing up. Cover it with the box. Wait. When the smoke bomb is finished, lift up the box and the bricks will be colored an old "marshmellow-y" color. Good for old wood, like in the picture. ;)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[nebulaewanderer@yahoo.com (Mighty Wanderer)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hmm, any other solutions, which would be modifying the bricks, not editing the settings, since I want to keep some aspects of the shot the same, but make the set older, without altering the other settings.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[kinzcove@yahoo.com (KinzCove)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You could try changing the white balance. I'm sure that there is a mode on there that will make the house look old, but the rest look like normal, or at least close to normal.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (lego838)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I wanted the film to be in color though, since following the opening, there is a first person scene inside the house, and I want it to look old.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[kinzcove@yahoo.com (KinzCove)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Or you could make the film in sepia or B and W.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[edw.boomer@gmail.com (Eddie)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yeah, that'd be too tough, I want it to look old in-camera.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[kinzcove@yahoo.com (KinzCove)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Or.... You could try making a new black layer in Gimp and screening it. Then select the house. Add a black layer over the house and increase the opacity. Then it makes a black hue over the house. You could use a color other than black though... You would have to do this to each shot so I'm not sure if it's worth it.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (lego838)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is the look i'm sort of going for:

[img]http://www.10-67.com/img/myers_house8.jpg[/img]]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[kinzcove@yahoo.com (KinzCove)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Making bricks duller]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You could let it fly. A 20 or 30 year old house wouldn't look that old anyway, (I should know, my house is 75 years old)

-LASF]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[lasfbrickfilms@gmail.com (LASF)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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