TTfigs

[Tanotrooper]

I think this particular design hasn't been pulled off yet, so I will use this name for these kind of figures:

As I use brickbuilt legs, the problem was they couldn't move. Even the shoes couldn't turn a bit. I now improved this by making the legs move. This type is the adult male first version, and any updates to this design will be other versions.

back shot:

A standard modern lego torso is used, in wich a minifig hand can be inserted in 3 points in the middle of the torso. The legs are held by a "T" bar, and because they go a lot forward, the hand is placed at the back of the torso:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Tanotroo...ONE/first03.jpg

Make sure the minifig hand is as close to the bar as it can:

Thanks to the minifigs hand design, the hand will force the bar upwards in the front, making it pretty sealed with the torso. The bar can also serve as a belt decoration.

Thanks to this, a minifig can go Kung Fu like:

He can march:

And can walk extreme :P :

The result is a highly flexible minifig, in wich a lot of detail like boots can be put in. The torso can also can also move sideways, and the minifig is able to take lifelike bending forward poses.

Feel free to comment or use the design :D

TT

[PSPguy]

Very nice. I think I will actually have to try this. Looks like theres a new Count Blockula! :-P

[zero1312]

Simple, but effective. *y*

[Starwars4J]

I really wish there was some way to fix the problem of the legs being so far forward but I guess there isn't. Great job on these, but if you're making brick-built legs might as well try to find some knees for them :-P

[iamded]

A nice solution! Looks good, and is quite ingenious!

~Peace

[Tanotrooper]

I really wish there was some way to fix the problem of the legs being so far forward but I guess there isn't. Great job on these, but if you're making brick-built legs might as well try to find some knees for them :-P

Thanks for the great comments! :-D

I think I'll leave the knees, becaus if I would in some wy find a technique for this, it would ruin the look and customisabilty (does that word even exist?) of the legs.

I'll try to make some figures using these legs this week (busy week :-( )

TT

[Greyfox327]

Cool, but, why use Lego if you aren't satisfied with them?

[natelite]

hmm, the connection between the hips and the torso looks filmsy. if you could get it to work with any torso type (new and old) it could be a winner!

[Tanotrooper]

Cool, but, why use Lego if you aren't satisfied with them?

hmm... I don't quite understand your post...

Natelite, why don't you try it out? It might answer your question :-)

TT

[Tanotrooper]

*update*

an English bobbie:

TT

[Lt. Veers]

*update*

an English bobbie:

TT

Very nice! *y*

How did you make the helmat?

[The Penguin]

It's female hair, am I right? )

[Tanotrooper]

Very nice! *y*

How did you make the helmat?

thanks :-D

it's long/female hair in black turned around on 2 1*1 round plates ;-)

TT

[Lt. Veers]

thanks :-D

it's long/female hair in black turned around on 2 1*1 round plates ;-)

TT

Intresting design. I bet it works very well, though.

[Hewman]

Innovative, interesting use of the hand, does it make the fig a puppet? The bobbie looks superb, the extra height in the top half makes the proportions look just right.

[SlyOwl]

*y*

I really wish there was some way to fix the problem of the legs being so far forward but I guess there isn't. Great job on these, but if you're making brick-built legs might as well try to find some knees for them :-P

If the T-piece did not have a hand connected and you used a wrapped around elastic band or short length of pnuematic tubing on the pin and then insert it into the torso, this would allow the legs to rotate at the hips but also to be more directly underneath the body ;-)

[Tanotrooper]

*y*

If the T-piece did not have a hand connected and you used a wrapped around elastic band or short length of pnuematic tubing on the pin and then insert it into the torso, this would allow the legs to rotate at the hips but also to be more directly underneath the body ;-)

that won't work. Atleast not with this kind of torso. The type I use started appearing around mid 90's. The earlier ones are able to take a technic pin, but that is way too high (big gap). The really old ones don't have any inside frame at all.

Actually, now I saw I could push the hand all the way in, up to the fingers. This way the hand is able to take the T-bar way closer, and now there really isn't that much of a difference between torso and legs.

TT

[SlyOwl]

that won't work. Atleast not with this kind of torso. The type I use started appearing around mid 90's. The earlier ones are able to take a technic pin, but that is way too high (big gap). The really old ones don't have any inside frame at all.

Oh, I see now, you're using the modern torsos - I was using the older ones :-$