Bricktrix Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 Away from the norm for me again, but finally completed both of these now. Links to both albums with more pics, hope you enjoy :) Quote
rockethead26 Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 Holy smokes, you nailed the design! Quote
L@go Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 Holy smokes indeed. Whatever you turn to, Carl, I swear it ends up as art. Brilliant builds again! Quote
eurotrash Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 /The sound of my Jaw crashing to the floor/ Incredible. Someone please front page this. Quote
Moebius118 Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 I did not know Lego was even remotely capable of representing the designs of aircraft to this level. Inconceivable construction. Unmistakably an F-4 in all its appearance. I have no doubts this MOC will make its rounds not only on the front page but across LEGO related internet. Quote
deraven Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 I think I ran across your F4-B on another site a couple days ago but looking at the galleries for both of these has me even more impressed! They're just spectacular with the parts usage and level of detail you've captured. The decals of course really seal the deal (even though I despise STAMPS in general, you really can't argue with the results on something like this!)- can you tell us how you produced them? Quote
grum64 Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 Fantastic! I think the Hall of Fame awaits Quote
robuko Posted September 19, 2014 Posted September 19, 2014 Absolutely amazing. Your models are some of the best I've ever seen. Quote
Slurpifier Posted September 20, 2014 Posted September 20, 2014 So much detail! Possibly the best aircraft creation I have honestly ever seen! Quote
Bricktrix Posted September 20, 2014 Author Posted September 20, 2014 Thank you all for the great comments, its appreciated :) These will be on display at the STEAM show in Swindon,U.K on Oct 4th and 5th, along with the F1 cars I did, Caterham 7 and of course my complete running train display. I think I ran across your F4-B on another site a couple days ago but looking at the galleries for both of these has me even more impressed! They're just spectacular with the parts usage and level of detail you've captured. The decals of course really seal the deal (even though I despise STAMPS in general, you really can't argue with the results on something like this!)- can you tell us how you produced them? Yeah, the grey one got blogged by a few sites before I managed to get the camo version out there! I'm not totally sure what stickers your reffering to for how they are produced? Some are just scaled and printed onto labels and cut out by hand, some are PC cut vinyl decals (things like the logos and any lettering larger than 2.5mm high), using a sign making friend of mine, and the main STAMP stuff is sheets of sign making self adhesive vinyl, applied and cut by hand. Its a winner to me, as the stuff can be easily peeled off some 10 years later leaving the LEGO bricks unharmed. The down side is trying to obtain the vinyl in spot on colour matches to LEGO. For instance, the dark green I use is almost spot on to one of the 6 or so very slightly different shades of TLG dark green. The lighting in my photos tends to throw things off and make it more noticable, but "in the brick" to the naked eye its a good match. However, the green I use for TLG standard green is slightly off, which IS noticable to the naked eye. Its okay if you have a 90 degree transition from say the side of a plate to the top of a plate, you can get away with only covering the top side and you dont notice the difference in colours. But on a camo model like one of these, where I'm using vinyl for a more natural transition between 2 tiles stepped to each other, where one small corner of a different coloured tile would have to have the green vinyl, it was too noticable, so I had to cover all the standard green with the green vinyl. Not something I like to do, but in this case, I think it was worth doing. Its a shame I never got pics of it before the stickers went on, as even the blockiness of the standard build looked pretty kewl, but I was covering black bricks in coloured vinyl to save me ordering the green or dark green legit versions to try and keep the cost down a little with bricks I already had.....I still had to order a load of stuff though, even with being able to build it to 60% correct colours / parts,so this hasnt been cheap Quote
militaryfreak Posted September 22, 2014 Posted September 22, 2014 Oh my god thats amazing! I assume you used custom decals/stickers? Quote
goalieboy82 Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 nice would also like to see from the royal navy (UK) sea vixen, buccaneer, royal navy version of the phantom. Quote
Feuer Zug Posted September 27, 2014 Posted September 27, 2014 Great renditions of the Phantom. Can't wait to see what you build next. Quote
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