[MOC] Don't climb on trees! Run!

[ranghaal]

This is a rurtle - half rock, half turtle. I made this for the Summer Joust 2018 competition.

 

Rock Tortoise by Ralf Langer, auf Flickr

 

It was kind of an accident. I didn't really wanted to do an animal. But I liked the idea to do a shield and place ruins and trees on it.
So I started to build a turtle head. Well, this is what it became.

The head is not photoshopped or strenghtend. It's pure Lego. I had to attach a massive Lego counter weight on the other side.

Edited August 2, 2018 by ranghaal

[Johnny1360]

Don't know why but I really do like this, the expression on the turtles face is spot on, lazy, lumbering behemoth. Good job, would love to see more pictures. 

[Shiva]

Lovely rurtle!

Would be amazing to see all of it, but that would be a big and expensive build.

[x105Black]

I love the scene, but would really like to see the full creature build.  Or at least a behind the scenes to show how much of it was built.

[ranghaal]

Here's the whole thing :-)

As you can see, I haven't built the shield, only a very large block.
It wasn't intended for display, only a "short" build for the competition.

 

https://roguebricks.de/forum/index.php?thread/1588-niemals-auf-bäume-klettern-rennen/

 

I was asked to display it at a museum in chigaco, but I already disassembled it yesterday.

[x105Black]

Awesome!  Thanks for sharing!  It's a really beautiful model, and the photo looks brilliant.  The other shot gives a lot of insight.

Great work!

[Wout]

That's an awesome turtle.

I would love to see the whole turtle, but that's probably not possible.

[ranghaal]

46 minutes ago, Wout said:

I would love to see the whole turtle, but that's probably not possible.

I didn't manage to do the whole ting in time. The shell would be extremely complex.