Legos+Free Time=This Thread

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-06-14 11:09am

I'm not all that great with Star Wars ships, and I know these stink, but I thought I'd post these and get some opinions on how to make them better:

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-06-14 11:46am

Well, if you have the legos for it, just scale up. There's only so much you can do with something that small. They're really not so bad looking for that scale.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-06-14 11:49am

Alan Bolte wrote:Well, if you have the legos for it, just scale up. There's only so much you can do with something that small. They're really not so bad looking for that scale.

Thanks. I'll see what I can do over the weekend. I've tried going bigger before, but I keep running into structrual issues.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-06-14 03:06pm

Alan Bolte wrote:Well, if you have the legos for it, just scale up. There's only so much you can do with something that small. They're really not so bad looking for that scale.

Size Matters Not !

Those four links prove you can do a lot with a little. It's just a matter of how you use it and how you position the studs.

Marius, those are really cool. Better than I could do with limited brickage. Very Star Destroyer-esque (though it must have been a bitch for the Imperial Starfleet to get a few square miles of paint on them

). The "Oreo" ones have a cool colour scheme.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2005-06-14 03:13pm

That color scheme seems a little too festive on one of those for the Imperial Navy's liking.

Seriously though, nice job. Let it never be said that LEGOs are not the be-all end-all of artistic expression.

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-06-14 09:54pm

MRDOD wrote:
Alan Bolte wrote:Well, if you have the legos for it, just scale up. There's only so much you can do with something that small. They're really not so bad looking for that scale.
Size Matters Not !

Those four links prove you can do a lot with a little. It's just a matter of how you use it and how you position the studs.

Marius, those are really cool. Better than I could do with limited brickage. Very Star Destroyer-esque (though it must have been a bitch for the Imperial Starfleet to get a few square miles of paint on them ). The "Oreo" ones have a cool colour scheme.

Thank you again, but I can't see the links for one reason or another. My eventual goal was to make an All-White one, so that might get done this weekend. Please keep the critiques comming!

And to be honest I really don't have all that limited brickage, it's just I don't havve a lot black and white flat peices.

Xero Cool Down · Post by **Xero Cool Down** » 2005-06-15 06:16am

Nice, I wasted away many hours when I was a kid making star trek ships out of legos.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-06-15 06:59am

This is something that I've been meaning to ask for a while, slight hijack in the process I'm afraid, but isn't lego usable as the plural? A model made out of lego, for example?

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-06-15 04:00pm

Lego is actually a brand name, but I suppose colloquially the plural would be legos. That's always how I've referred to it.

Oh yeah! That reminds me. I found this excellent site a while ago. Really brought me back to the old days

+http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brick/theme/index.htm

That's right, scans of the instructions for every Lego set. Really handy when you lose the physical copies

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-06-15 06:52pm

Dalton wrote:Lego is actually a brand name, but I suppose colloquially the plural would be legos. That's always how I've referred to it.

Oh yeah! That reminds me. I found this excellent site a while ago. Really brought me back to the old days

+http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brick/theme/index.htm

That's right, scans of the instructions for every Lego set. Really handy when you lose the physical copies

You know, I just asked for that in another thread... You're, like, psychic or, like, something, Dalton.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-06-15 07:37pm

Dalton wrote:+http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brick/theme/index.htm

*squeals*

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-06-15 10:13pm

Singular Quartet wrote:You know, I just asked for that in another thread... You're, like, psychic or, like, something, Dalton.

Actually, that link is what inspired me to create that other thread. I was about to rebuild my Mega Core Magnetizer and realized I had a digicam

Post by **RogueIce** » 2005-06-16 01:48am

Dalton wrote:Lego is actually a brand name, but I suppose colloquially the plural would be legos. That's always how I've referred to it.

Oh yeah! That reminds me. I found this excellent site a while ago. Really brought me back to the old days

+http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brick/theme/index.htm

That's right, scans of the instructions for every Lego set. Really handy when you lose the physical copies

Whoo hoo!

Anyway, I mostly had some bastardized LEGO creations. Like my sailing ship with the World's Smallest Nuclear Reactor (have the size of a man!), a really small and cramped (but fully enclosed!) bridge (once you were in, you could never get out. I don't think I had a door for that one), and on top of it a "turbolaser" turret that could fight a man and spin 360 (though the "door" was really something that's supposed to be used as a cargo panel, so he was kinda trapped too). And to top it all off, a landing bay with a top door that could fit a one man fighter that looked like a really cheap knock-off of the A-wing fighter.

All of this on a former Police boat (because I still had that sticker on the back). Oh, and it could actually float in my bathtub!

Ah, those were the days...

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-06-16 08:52am

I showed these images on another forum, including one image that had a lego Fed-ship. I got a request for more images so after putting them up on imageshack I'd show them off here as well.

And now for my D7 Model (Quite bad, but remember that all of these ships are in one piece at the same time

).

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-06-16 11:57pm

I should see if my F-22 lego scale model is still intact next time I go home, spent a day doing it, and it looks damn good in the end... I must have more LEGO!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-06-17 11:12am

I need to get back into Lego construction. It's been ages since I built anything. The last one I can remember is the Mars Rover set, the small one with accompanying Delta II and Mars Odyssey.

Here are some older projects, one dismantled:

Image 1. Executor model built to the same scale as the Micro Machines ISD.

Image 2. I've had this in one form or another since 1995. It even had retractable landing gear at one point.

I have a shitload of other sets in storage. My biggest is the Launch and Load Seaport, an old Town set.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-06-17 02:31pm

The multi-colored Lego Executor above inspired me to go dig out one of mine:

This is an alternate model for the Mini ImpStar that Lego sells. I'm pretty sure it uses all the pieces and it's pretty accurate for a set of bricks meant to built something else. The bridge is a little too small and some of the "cityscape" pips are too tall, but when hundreds of meters are represented by a single 1x1 plate it's hard to get it right.

Pic One
Pic Two

It's also very "swoosh"able, since it's pretty much flat. It's about 1:90,000 Scale (!).