[Digital MOC] Modular Forrest

[couchsofa]

To understand the origins of this MOC of 20 299 pieces I should probably explain that I went through a phase where I watched all LOST episodes in reverse order ... that probably accounts for the strange constructions and the plane-crash as well as the "native" buildings in the trees. But then there are still mecha and the choppers, well I guess floating hover cars and bikes, too. But as in LOST, not everything has an obvious reason to be in this weird place.

The Mechs:

Hover Car and Bike:

The Choppers:

The trees are inspired by a MOC of Endor that I saw on youtube, I can't remember the source. The idea is to build a the trunk in a pentagonal shape and from there on I made the trees and houses modular:

Plane Crash:

Indigenous HQ:

Treehouses:

Chopper Landing Site and Border:

More Treehouses:

Indigenous Border:

Check Point:

I'm still trying to render the whole set, so you will have to wait a bit for the composite image. Just as a little appetizer a top-down view:

High Res resources can be found here.

Edited May 29, 2013 by couchsofa

[Kintobor]

Oh wow, that's really neat! Nice build! I like the little details like the plane wreckage and what not, and your ships are excellent. Though I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the Sci-fi. It's borderline both, so perhaps showing to the Sci-fi forums would be beneficial too! Well done!

[DraikNova]

Was your WIP name for this "Project Awesome"? Because every part of this MOC seems stuffed with NPUs and greebles.

[Rom1Kno]

this digital MOC is awesome ! you got so many great ideas, and the basis of the set are cool ! it reminds me a bit of the avatar movie ;)

Hope you'll be able to build it IRL one day, would be awesome to see it in real bricks

[couchsofa]

Was your WIP name for this "Project Awesome"? Because every part of this MOC seems stuffed with NPUs and greebles.

Nope, I don't know "Project Awesome", I probably should take a look at it!

On another subject, what are NPUs and greebles?

it reminds me a bit of the avatar movie ;)

Now that you mentioned it, there's most likely some inspiration from Avatar in there as well.

Here is the rendering of the full set in hd:

Edited May 29, 2013 by couchsofa

[Rom1Kno]

really nice ! could you tell me how many parts are there in this MOC ? i wonder there's around 10k , am i right ?

The cool thing with it is that it's fully playable, i mean there's a lot of scenarii possible, with this border and check point

[couchsofa]

could you tell me how many parts are there in this MOC ? i wonder there's around 10k , am i right ?

I'm afraid you gonna have to double that, 20,299 pieces in total.

[Rom1Kno]

man that's enourmous :D would be a real challenge to build it IRL, i'de love to have such a great amount of parts to build a gigantic MOC like that

[DraikNova]

Nope, I don't know "Project Awesome", I probably should take a look at it!

On another subject, what are NPUs and greebles?

NPU = Nice Part Usage (Usually "Nice" means creative in this context). Greebles are complicated, mechanical-looking details.

[couchsofa]

NPU = Nice Part Usage. Greebles are complicated details.

Well, in this case I would have to lie if I don't admit that I'm flattered :)

Which details did you find interesting? I'm curious because I wouldn't consider myself an advanced builder and I tried a lot of new techniques on this MOC just because it was hard to fit houses on a pentagonal tree and it was my first try on building mechs.

[DraikNova]

Well, off the top of my head, the mech features two: the use of tubing as a windscreen (or whatever the proper word for it is) and the walkie-talkie as part of a weapon.