mattman

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  1. mattman

    [MOC][UCS Scale] TIE/D Automated Starfighter

    Cheers, your defender is stunning by the way too! My.
  2. mattman

    [MOC][UCS Scale] TIE/D Automated Starfighter

    A bomber would be cool, it was definitely on my shortlist, but it didn't end up using a whole lot from the 75095 set I had as a parts donor. If doing one I'd just build it all from scratch and order what I need. I've seen a couple of decent UCS Scale moc so will have to check those out :-) M.
  3. Howdy All, I've been on a bit of a run of late with the TIE's. I have had the original 75095 for a while, and recently built one of the amazing Interceptor MOC's that have been posted around the place. I happened upon yet another cheapish copy of the set, so figured I have to make a third! The goal was to make something nice and neat, but with efficient use of the parts in the set. I had a play around with designs for TIE Advanced x1 and TIE Bomber, the wings are large and needed quite a lot of parts, but that alone was OK. The cockpits however are very very difficult to design around the stock 75095 ball cockpit and I came to the realisation there's almost no point using 75095 as a base for these designs - it just deviates too much. Also they are hard to design :P All credit to people who've MOC'ed these before! So I did some more digging about for other TIE variants, and stumbled across the TIE/D Droid/Done/Automated Starfighter (depending on which bit of legends you read apparently). Classic ball cockpit, smaller angled wings. The shape of the panels themselves present no real problem, a few extra parts for the grey trim on the edges and a few black plates but <$20 overall in parts. The angle posed a challenge - but I think it came off really well and in the end actually a pretty simple adaptation of the standard fitment of the panels (rotate 90 degrees, offset one pair of connectors by one stud). Of course no longer needing a cockpit "window" I needed to fix that too. A common representation seems to be a red "eye" of similar size, so I've just fixed in a 6x6 dark red inverted radar behind the standard window, using just a small mod to the normal cockpit attachment. Anyway - on to pictures! And with the others! Hope you all enjoy :) M.
  4. mattman

    [MOC][UCS?] TIE/D Defender

    Looks like regular stand from 75095. M.
  5. mattman

    Bricklinking More UCS Sets?

    Got bitten by the UCS bug after TFA (like many others I guess) and always keen to save some $$. The posts above re cockpit mods are great, could also be applied to the squint too I imagine. I've seen a couple of cheap 7181 recently but always seem to just miss out, just ordered a 6206 today to keep me happy :p Regarding bricklinking a set in general, I've done any number of larger sets now, it really only makes sense if a) you have a significant portion of it already in your inventory or b) you can make sensible subs to bring the cost down. If you're just buying loose parts, unless you stumble on some random super cheap seller, a used/complete set is often slightly cheaper (and much much easier) than bricklinking all the individual parts. Many guides on 10179 with sensible subs, note a few others in here too (funny I did a colour swapped 10187 had to swap the same yellow technic corner as in the SSD, to black). Have a play with Brickstock as it makes it easy to import inventory from BL, set to average price and see where all the $$ are going. sort by price per part/lot, see what can be changed out. If there's not much to change then just grab a used set somewhere.. M.
  6. I know it's probably far too late for this project at this point (still love the software though!), my only comment for improvement would be if when you get the results page up, if it could add the total weight of the bricks from each store with each store result? IE - store a, 300 parts, $35.27, 254.3gm store b, 256 parts, $21, 404gm Would make estimating postage costs about a million times easier :) Otherwise, love it.
  7. Yeah I know :-) haven't tested yet but I have a bad feeling current hair will be too heavy at full height.
  8. Whoops forgot the album, there is indeed a closer pic of the top, as well as a couple more not posted above. https://www.flickr.com/photos/64693712@N05/sets/72157645490264747/with/14551511938/
  9. I know, it's fairytales not castle... but if you take off the minifigs it stands very happily as a castle moc in it's own right ;) For a while we've had a tower for rapunzel on our display, it was nice, but it wasn't a centrepiece... you can safely say that has changed now! In standard form: Even at this point, (in my opinion at least) its a very nice tower just as is! But you know, that's just not enough sometimes... Starting to make sense? This tower can grow! And being that it gets carted around to displays, it's easy to move as well. Only the top and bottom hold form, the rest packs flat. You can easily get the whole tower in a pretty standard box. This is what it's all about though! At the moment it stands 1.35m / 4.6" tall and that can very easily be added to as well, our only limit right now is the parts we have on hand. Stability is still good even at this point, though you probably don't want to bump the table too hard ;) Hope you all enjoy our latest creation :) mattman & lorax (who really, did most of the work)
  10. Alrighty silly question time. Most of my stuff is for trains and buildings with motors running for effect. NOT the technic vehicle remote control stuff that's been pushed so far. Are there any control faces planned to emulate the lego train IR controller? Just so I can set a speed, stop, start etc without having to hold the control all day at a given speed. For now it'd just be basic control replacing multiple IR boxes, but down the road it may just inspire some fancier MOC's that make full use of it :) M.
  11. mattman

    MOC - 9V Pumpkin Carriage

    No problems with that. Look at 2nd pic again and you'll notice that there's a small platform with wheels under the horses.
  12. Thanks all - I expect this is only going to get better. Will probably be doing the rounds for a while yet. Too much work to junk it after one show :-P M.
  13. mattman

    MOC - 9V Pumpkin Carriage

    No they don't. It's not impossible to do, but they would have to be a fair bit higher off the ground. The reason I went with the small wheels up front was to keep it closer to the ground and more realistic. Maybe something to explore for future versions :-) M.
  14. Show has been open for about an hour and seems to be going down a treat :-D glad you guys are liking it too!
  15. mattman

    MOC - 9V Pumpkin Carriage

    Thanks guys, glad you both like it!