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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:
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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.
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Thanks. I'll see what I can do over the weekend. I've tried going bigger before, but I keep running into structrual issues.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.
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Size Matters Not !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.
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.
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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!MRDOD wrote:Size Matters Not !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.
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.
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.
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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?
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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
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
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You know, I just asked for that in another thread... You're, like, psychic or, like, something, Dalton.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
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*squeals*Dalton wrote:+http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brick/theme/index.htm
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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 digicamSingular Quartet wrote:You know, I just asked for that in another thread... You're, like, psychic or, like, something, Dalton.
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Whoo hoo!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
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!
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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 ).
And now for my D7 Model (Quite bad, but remember that all of these ships are in one piece at the same time ).
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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.
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.
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
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It's also very "swoosh"able, since it's pretty much flat. It's about 1:90,000 Scale (!).
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 (!).