Retro
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Intriguing story and lovely photograph. I think the cat wants to get onto the chair. Is he allowed to? And what are the red things poking out of the chest - tentacles?
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Thanks guys.
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Modifications to the 7965 set released 2011. More pictures in the Flickr album. By no means master builder standard, but it was a lot of fun to do.
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Number 15: The Endless River These are all natural, only sunlight, no filters or other trickery (apart from the last one!) I couldn't decide which version of the light I liked best so I've included several... The Endless Photoshoot.
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Nice work. Looks like just the sort of odd bat-vehicle he has hidden away somewhere in the cave. Is there any way to extend the controls somehow using something like droid arms so that they actually reach his hands?
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Well, these are just great. I don't know how I missed them. And it's spooky that I've been doing something similar in parallel. I can see the same thought process. 'How can I simplify this? What elements do I need to include?' It also forces you to build new challenges. A bed. An elephant. A banana. Jack White is brilliant. As is Thurston Moore - the hair is perfect! Numbers 20 and 21...I haven't the slightest idea what they are, but they're my favourites.
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I have to say, I had never paid a lot of attention to the early Pink Floyd albums or artwork before. But the music is good and the designs are interesting. A bit of research shows that the main background image is a conflict between Doctor Strange and The Living Tribunal. The other elements I was able to identify and use were the green bottles, the wizard in the garden, the band members in a bowl and the zodiac-like circle thing in the middle.
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Number 14: A Saucerful of Secrets "Set the controls for the heart of the sun..."
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We only sort by colour (apart from a few specialist pieces like tiles). I suppose I'm mostly inspired to build by colours in the first place, and when I want to do this... ...I need to scrounge absolutely every brick we have in a particular colour...!!
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I would guess not, but that's just my opinion. The 2.4 million people is a red herring. There are 8.1 million people in London but most of them don't want to buy a Lego set of London. Tesco has millions of customers but not many of them want to buy a Lego model of a Tesco shop. People buy Lego because of an emotional attachment to something. And (some) people go home dreaming of Radiohead or The Rolling Stones or whatever, but not of an empty black stage. I would put 4 famous minifigures in it. It doesn't have to be to scale. The system scale Millennium Falcon is not to scale etc. etc .
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Maybe it's just nostalgia, having seen it when it came out, but my memory is of BTTF being a really brilliant film. I regret missing out on the Ideas set, even if the Delorean was not perfect. On the other hand, I never saw Ghostbuaters when it came out, only watching it for the first time recently and I didn't think it was very good. The Ideas car is also too big, I feel.
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Hmmm. Good work. If nothing else, it prompted me to go away and read up on the history of the Pyramid Stage construction. It might be a hard sell as a Lego set, though, without an anchoring tenant like Radiohead minifigures for example.
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[MOC] Lunar Roving Vehicle (Micro version for Saturn V)
Retro replied to Sven J's topic in Special LEGO Themes
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Honestly, I don't know how/why anyone maintains a permanent Lego layout out in the open. I live in a normal suburban house and the dust is such an enemy, I only keep a few models actually intact. Some in an Ikea Fabrikor, and some out in the open that I wash under the tap a couple of times a year. A few more in plastic boxes under the sofa. The rest are taken apart for moc'cing .
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Yes, I suppose I had that in mind. (Although I'm joking, obviously. And if the real wall in the stage show had been made of marble I think it would have been a bit dangerous - for example if a brick fell on you.)
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Thank you Henk61. It was very interesting - I had to go and research what the other three pictures that you can see in the picture frame should look like, and then photograph the model three times and so on. Yes, well spotted. I spent truly ages planning The Wall, including many hours of computer design, and creating a 20m high test model made out of carrara marble in my garden...
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Number 13: Ummagumma
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Number 12: More Eek, this one was difficult. I wanted to use actual minifigures and that made the scale pretty massive. So many bricks! There's no instructions to follow in terms of details and perspective so you just have to make it up. I experimented with adding more details like different coloured rocks and adding sails to the windmill blades but it made it look too fussy. Better to leave it impressionistic. Here is the unfiltered version, taken in glorious sunshine... Thank you. I really enjoyed the trickery of making Piper. I find that most intelligent, decent people like both Pink Floyd and Lego, so in my opinion it is not that radical a combination!
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I mean, this is brilliant. The effect of that gyroscope/engine thing is just dazzling. And I suppose you can fly up with your own ship and dock there on the ship's edges? It feels like a story waiting to be written, if it hasn't already been.
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Number 11: The Final Cut All natural photography; And with a filter applied afterwards to reduce the glare; Sometimes when I am working on these I feel like Pink Floyd when they were working on 'Household Objects'. Putting every effort into making the Lego version as close to the original as possible, without resorting to things like, you know, using actual pigs or poppies or using markers or airbrushes. Anyway, it's all fun. https://www.instagram.com/retro__chip/
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Yes, you're welcome to use the picture! Obviously I snipped the lettering from a picture of the actual album cover. But I don't suppose that's a copyright issue at this stage... I have the next one finished too, I just need daylight to photograph it. We are now heading into 'the long dark tunnel of the winter', as my grandmother used to say, which is not so good for photographing Lego.
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@jimmynick @Henk61 And indeed anyone else; Number 10: The Piper at The Gates of Dawn And without the text...
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Good work! It's fun to work with constraints. As to the ship, while it looks beautiful and alien, I don't think it would be much fun to fly in. Imagine working under that green canopy all day. I think it would freak me out a bit.
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Hi Henk61, thanks. I have been fortunate that in most cases the first idea I had for how to build a scene has turned out to work quite well. Also my family has been supportive! I am not using a computer to plan the designs. (I just use an app sometimes to modify the colour afterwards). If you look at the 'behind the scenes' view of Wish You Were Here below, you will see that is it just a matter of deciding how little I can get away with building to fill the photo frame when I come to take the pictures. A bit like building a real film set, I suppose. Anyway, next one coming up... Number 9: Obscured By Clouds I was reminded of several quotes while trying to do this, one of which was from Samuel Johnson, about a dog walking on its hind legs. 'It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.' I made two mosaics and experimented with light and blurring as much as possible, both natural and artificial. There are, as before, many shades of this cover available and I am aiming at the more orange-y one. And here are the two mosaics in sharp focus;
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Really beautiful. It gives me a bittersweet feeling though, as someone who likes technology! It reminds me of reading Hot House by Brian Aldiss. A descent back into primitive life. Nice gekko and primitive carving. I wonder what minifigure head you used.