LEGO Pokemon [New: Alolan Graveler, Crobat, Flygon, Articuno, Skarmory!]

[Henchmen4Hire]

I switched this to a general LEGO Pokemon topic since I got carried away haha

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Here we go, I edited the post with final pics. Suggestions, comments, hatemail, it's all welcome.

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Features:

•Amazing movement!

•Mouth opening on command!

•Excellent shaping, much fun, beautiful color!

•The only pieces not available in LBG are the 4 wedges along the jaw and the 2 wedges on the tail.

•The head is hollow, maybe 2 minifigs and a small cat can fit in there...

LEGO Steelix by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

LEGO Steelix by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

LEGO Steelix Guts by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

 LEGO Pokemon by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

Edited June 15, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Jurss]

Similar. 

Where's the tail?

[Henchmen4Hire]

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Edited June 2, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

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Edited June 2, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

Updated the first post with final pics.

...It's so cool!

[Vindicare]

This is great. The head is awesome looking & quite menacing. Pretty interesting way you built the body. 

[LegoDakin]

That's quite good

[TheGlynreaper]

truly outstanding a fantastic job , is steelix one of your favourite pokemon

 

[Henchmen4Hire]

Thanks, peeps!

I'm taking steps to brick build this thing, supposedly it'll cost around $150US. What's killing me that all those 1x2 curved slopes with the snipped corner are about 50 cents a piece, and I used about 100 of them...so it's $50 just for those!

This Steelix is about 51cm long, 14cm wide. After giving it a pass to "optimize the build and lots", the total piece count is about 800.

@TheGlynreaper I dont have a favorite but I also like Rotom, and that electric bigfoot Electivire

Edited June 3, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

I got bored so I brickbuilt some little buddies for Steelix

[Henchmen4Hire]

[UPDATE]
I ordered almost all the pieces for this thing and it didn't set my wallet on fire...much. After shipping, it averaged out to about 10 cents a piece.

The problem is all those darn 1x2 curved slopes with the cut corners...I only ordered 24 of those (out of 114!) because one of the sellers I bought from had a handful for "cheap".

Also, are those 1x2 curved slopes ever on the PAB wall?

Here's what's left to buy:

[UPDATE 2]
Whew, one seller had all the joints, they were just a variation.

Edited June 3, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

•Added 3 more pokemon

Magnezone is buildable, sweet

[Henchmen4Hire]

•Added more brickbuilt pokemon to the first post.

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In the interest of making this easier for others to build, I replaced many of the expensive curved slopes.

•Replaced many of the slope pieces with a 3x4 wedge piece.

•Reduced the part count by about 60 pieces!

•Reduced the parts cost by about $40!

•And the sections are now ever-so-slightly more rounded and uniform to boot.

Steelix V2 by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

Edited June 4, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[corasaur]

my god. pokemon were some of the first things i ever tried to MOC when i was like 8, but they were hideous lumps.

these turned out great. even minimalist-faceless-nightmare-pika is great.

[Henchmen4Hire]

Thanks bub!

I think all our first attempts bordered on nightmare fuel because of limited parts, now is a great time to get into Lego MOCs.

Also, I added Scizor to the pic up there! I'm happy that they all look more or less in scale with each other.

[yankeecaleb]

That’s so cool! I’m currently making a custom Riley Pokémon trainer minifigure, great to see another Pokémon fan!

[Henchmen4Hire]

Cool, I might try waterslide decals for some trainers.

And...here's Skarmory!

All the brickbuilt Skarmory I've seen online have used older parts; it was time for an upgrade!

It's completely buildable too...If you have $26 to spend because of those gold wings haha

LEGO Skamory by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

[Henchmen4Hire]

Started another bird:

[Henchmen4Hire]

Added another birb

I know the Pokedex says they're only 4 foot tall, but that's nonsense, they should be giant scary legendary creatures haha

Edited June 7, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

Probs the last one I'll post since there's little interest.

Flygon [LEGO Pokemon] by Henchmen4Hire, on Flickr

[Takanuinuva]

These are amazing. Could we request a specific Pokemon?

 

[Henchmen4Hire]

Sure go ahead, no promises it wont look like an abomination though haha

[Takanuinuva]

How about Crobat Shuckle or Vespiquen?

 

[Henchmen4Hire]

Crobat and Shuckle almost built themselves, there isn't much I can use at this scale that will look okay. (Suggestions welcome for any of these though)
 

Edited June 10, 2019 by Henchmen4Hire

[Henchmen4Hire]

Gave Vespi a try, kinda scary