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[-DoNe-]

So here is my first Rock raiders MOC! And some of you may ask how the heck I did come up with the ide of building Rock Raiders, the answer is pretty easy. You, I´m going to move on the 7 of September so we where cleaning the attic and my mum found my old RR game, and after some fixing I got it running on my Vista, and I was stuck. I knew from that moment that I just would have to make a RR dio and here is the first in a little series of RR dios I will make (they will not come very quick after each other due to lack of parts, and money...).







Hope you like it!

Edited by -DoNe-, 29 August 2012 - 06:22 AM.

[purpleparadox]

The cave is fantastic. I love the blending of shapes and colours. Can't wait for more!

[-DoNe-]

purpleparadox, on 27 August 2012 - 07:24 PM, said:

The cave is fantastic. I love the blending of shapes and colours. Can't wait for more!

Thanks a ton for the kind words Purple!

[soccerkid6]

Excellent cave! Great way to show off some rock raider sets  

[-DoNe-]

soccerkid6, on 28 August 2012 - 01:49 AM, said:

Excellent cave! Great way to show off some rock raider sets  

Thank you very much!

[alienorb]

Awesome work! If have enough parts, you should definitely make a multi-level cave.

[Jacob Nion]

ah, childhood memories. Excellent cave. It's good to see some rockraiders again.

[LuxorV]

Could you please reduce the first pic's size to 800 pixels maximum, as per our Member Guidelines? Thank you.

[JoshThunder]

I never liked Rock Raiders but this is crazy cool!!!!!      (I miss Power Miners though ).

[Wedge09]

Good MOC, the cave is perfect     

It's nice to see Rock Raiders again  

[TheLegoNinja]

This is an interesting MOC. I LOVE the cave ! What minifigs did you use to make the characters?

[DraikNova]

Two things:

1: Doesn't this belong in the SciFi forum?
2: I've just built some Rock Raider MOCs myself, nice to know I'm not the only one building with RR.

Overall, I love the MOC, although the cave seems to be a little too low for the vehicle (probably the Chrome Crusher by the looks of it) to pas through.

[-DoNe-]

alienorb, on 28 August 2012 - 07:36 AM, said:

Awesome work! If have enough parts, you should definitely make a multi-level cave.

I have plans on somewhat a two leveld caven

Jacob Nion, on 28 August 2012 - 12:00 PM, said:

ah, childhood memories. Excellent cave. It's good to see some rockraiders again.

Thanks!

LuxorV, on 28 August 2012 - 01:35 PM, said:

Could you please reduce the first pic's size to 800 pixels maximum, as per our Member Guidelines? Thank you.

Sorry for the misstake, fixed it!

JoshThunder, on 28 August 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

I never liked Rock Raiders but this is crazy cool!!!!!      (I miss Power Miners though ).

You didn´t? I thought everybody liked them But yea, Power miners was pretty cool, atleast the first batch.

Wedge09, on 28 August 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

Good MOC, the cave is perfect     

Many thanks!

It's nice to see Rock Raiders again  

TheLegoNinja, on 29 August 2012 - 07:00 PM, said:

This is an interesting MOC. I LOVE the cave ! What minifigs did you use to make the characters?

Thank you! And the minifigs are the basic Rock Raiders figs

DraikNova, on 31 August 2012 - 12:17 AM, said:

Two things:

1: Doesn't this belong in the SciFi forum?
2: I've just built some Rock Raider MOCs myself, nice to know I'm not the only one building with RR.

Overall, I love the MOC, although the cave seems to be a little too low for the vehicle (probably the Chrome Crusher by the looks of it) to pas through.

1: I wasen´t sure myself but after looking throught the themes I discovered that this was counted as an action theme so I guess it belong here.
2: Will you be posting any of them here?
The cave is a bit higher in the middle and it is pssobile to get the Chrome Chrusher in rom the back, but I got a bit tired of it so after 15 mintues
of failing I simply took of the laser

[DraikNova]

Yes, probably within two weeks.

[-DoNe-]

DraikNova, on 01 September 2012 - 11:57 AM, said:

Yes, probably within two weeks.

Sounds great!

[DraikNova]

I just wish I had the parts to make a rock background for it like you did. Any suggestions for low-part alternatives?

[Richie]

The idea of Rock Raiders was great, but I think the theme suffered of the juniorization (big pieces, less detail), something very common that time. I think the colours were great, and I like the minifigs. As far as my knowledge goes, none of the sets contained stickers, all were printed pieces. A big advantage to me.

Nice idea to use official sets in a diorama you designed by yourself. Nice pictures as well. I think the mix of old and new gray adds realism.  

Edited by Richie, 01 September 2012 - 06:33 PM.

[DraikNova]

It's remarkable how the big pieces argument, while true, contrasts with the amount of small parts used for detail.

[-DoNe-]

DraikNova, on 01 September 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:

I just wish I had the parts to make a rock background for it like you did. Any suggestions for low-part alternatives?

Hmm, I think you would use the big finished mountin-parts, and just cover the visible studs up with for example cheese slopes and some 1x2 slopes.

Richie, on 01 September 2012 - 06:32 PM, said:

The idea of Rock Raiders was great, but I think the theme suffered of the juniorization (big pieces, less detail), something very common that time. I think the colours were great, and I like the minifigs. As far as my knowledge goes, none of the sets contained stickers, all were printed pieces. A big advantage to me.

Nice idea to use official sets in a diorama you designed by yourself. Nice pictures as well. I think the mix of old and new gray adds realism.  

Yes, they where all printed

And thank you for your kind words!

[DraikNova]

Thanks for the advice! I might decide to do a variation, as I have a lot of the lava-version of that piece.

[-DoNe-]

DraikNova, on 05 September 2012 - 05:08 PM, said:

Thanks for the advice! I might decide to do a variation, as I have a lot of the lava-version of that piece.

A combo with ordinary 75 degreese slopes and pre-fab mountain pieces sounds awesome!
You deffently have to try that out!

[Sebeus I]

Very nice, I dreamt of something like that when I had my first Rock Raiders set  
only it was brown (to match the builders and rock monster). Great job  

[-DoNe-]

Sebeus I, on 10 September 2012 - 07:40 AM, said:

Very nice, I dreamt of something like that when I had my first Rock Raiders set  
only it was brown (to match the builders and rock monster). Great job  

Thanks Sebeus mate!

[Multiverse]

Wow, impressive! There was a time a few years ago when I rediscovered the RR game, too, and all I could think of for the next couple of months was how sad I was to have missed out on that line; Power Miners, like any remake theme, was of little consolation to me. =J

I'd still have liked to have had some Rock Raiders sets, though. =)

[Dannylonglegs]

Ah! I love this! You, sir, are Awesome! This a great Dio for the Rock Raider, one of my favorite themes, and you display them very well too! Keep bricking!

~Insectoid Aristocrat