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[LDD + Lego Ideas] Star Wars Arena of Geonosis
dulsi replied to LegoAcklay's topic in LEGO Star Wars
I see this is on rebrickable. I'd suggest cleaning up the parts list there. Instead of listing the lever small and lever small base separately, list them as 298c02 - lever small base with black lever. Same with minifigure pieces. Have you considered replacing the non existing parts with what is available? I'd be curious how much it affects the look. This appears to be your seventh attempt at this ideas project (or a variation of it). I don't want to sound negative but given the iconic nature of this scene to episode 2, I would assume Lego has already prototyped this and decided not to make a set on this subject. -
My wife like unicorns so every year I would find a different unicorn calendar. Unfortunately I've run out of different calendars. I can't draw/paint 12 unicorn pictures but I thought I could make some unicorn scenes in Lego. This was done rather hastily and before I bought a large collection of legos. Some scenes are not as good as they should be. (Yes there is one technological version but I figured I'd post it here anyway.)
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I did get it printed. She refused to look through it because she wants to be surprised each month.
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It's not the suit or the powers that makes someone a superhero. It's their personality and their self-sacrifice. As such even dressed as Steve Rogers, he is still a superhero. As for what name you would give him when the costume but not the mask/helmet, I'd agree with the others. He is still Captain America.
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When I was getting back into Legos, I bought one of the Ideas books. I felt I needed more information on modern design. One of the spaceships in the book was inspired by a lighter. (I sometimes wonder if Rey's Speeder had the same inspiration.) I think a lot of creative ideas just come from observing the world and trying different things. The book also suggested that just looking at lego piece and trying to figure out how to use them can inspire. It's very hard to be original and interesting from the start. There is no shame in starting with recreations and then iterating the design until it is very different. Don't be afraid of ugly creations. Sometimes limiting your bricks can inspire new solutions to problems. For my son's birthday party, we gave out a brick built tauntaun as party favor. My youngest was just playing with the pieces afterward because he like to build his own thing. I looked at one of his creations and saw the core of a boat in the design. So I grabbed another set of the tauntaun pieces and built a boat.
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Cool things to build from sets you didn't necessarily want to buy as a whole
dulsi replied to BubbaFit45531's topic in General LEGO Discussion
Of official lego builds, I'd probably go with the four armed mech from Titan Mech Battle or Cyrus Borg from Overborg Attack. However, I'd probably just build my own thing. Have you checked out rebrickable.com. The site has lots of MOCs with instructions. -
This started with me creating a partial Jedi council chamber. Leo met with Yoda and went off to get Don to make new weapons/vehicles to ensure the Republic would beat the Seperatists. Don had already been captured by the Seperatists. I didn't have a plan for continuing. Later I was thinking about the Jedi Interceptor and wondered what it would look like in turtle van colors. Since I had a ship, I figured I needed a space battle. Initially my plan was a ship for Spiderbite but my son pointed out that my wife has Fishface. I don't know enough about vehicles for Fishface to match that theme if any. Instead I used a blue/gray that seemed to dominate Seperatist designs. For general shape I looked at the modified Belbullab-22 piloted by General Grievous.
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I generally start with what I consider the tricky parts of the build. For my raccoon car, I started with the spinning tail and the face at the front of the car. For a four armed ape, I started with the center body because I knew I didn't have a lot of ball joints so I needed to use "Technic Axle Connector 2 x 3 with Ball Socket, Open Lower Axle Holes" pieces to connect to the body. For that ship, I would probably do the areas you want to fit minifigures. That drives the size of the rest of the ship. Also I recommend looking online at other people's designs. You may not have the pieces to do the same but they can give you inspiration. Plenty of people have made ships that don't appear blocky to me. My designs are still rather blocky but I think I'm getting better. A lot of the time I don't worry about color initially. That's less of an issue now that I bought a big collection. In the past I'd build a prototype, build it digitally, recolor, and order parts. For sorting, I sort by type.
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Mostly I've had a relatively small collection of pieces compared to many people here. And my collection was mostly older pieces. For my recent beholder I prototyped with the pieces I had and built a digital model. With that I can play around with colors. Rebrickable is used to verify pieces exist and order the missing pieces. My largest build has been my M:Tron Enterprise but it still isn't that big. It was designed in phases. I played around with a saucer section and then a nacelle. I wish I could build with leocad more but I'm not comfortable with what goes together well. I often fall back to testing with physical bricks. My carrion crawler I designed solely in leocad. When I tried to put it together my design for the head didn't work because some pieces were bigger than I thought. LDD wouldn't have that problem but I don't have Windows and prefer open source software.
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Yes but they also are a significant amount of work to maintain. Everything is moderated. I think that is a problem with the forums as well. It's hard to have a conversation when the lag of posting is high. Additionally the restriction of no links means you can't even link to images you post on their site.
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Decided to try building an eye of the deep. My intention was to make it smaller but it didn't really work out.
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Someone pointed me to this image. I liked it and wanted to recreate it. I had no idea what the back looked like or even if it had a back or was physically created. I initially tried creating it with leocad but without trying the pieces I didn't have the confidence to assemble it. So I built a prototype with pieces I had in wrong colors. Since I didn't have all the pieces used my the original creation, I was forced to forge my own path. It worked out well. I then created a digital model to try different coloring. I used rebrickable to determine if some pieces didn't exist. A couple orders later I have this creation. I didn't entirely wait until the parts arrived. After building the prototype I decided I should be able to do better. I went through my bricks and built the best version I could with what I had at that time.
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I often look at the creations of others and try to recreate them. I'm bad at it. Even given a parts list I sometimes can't figure out what they did. I can create something that looks similar. Granted I've stuck mostly to fantasy and science fiction. Recently I've built lots of unicorns. I'm attempting to build a unicorn calendar for my wife. It won't be as good as the creations found here. Partially due to how quickly I'm trying to put it together. Partially due to the fact that I don't have enough skill and bricks to make really good scenes.
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New England LUG is in Massachusetts. I've yet to join but have thought about it. I met some of the people at Brickfair NE last year. I highly recommend that convention.
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I agree that I'm not fond of my setup. I've wondered if tiles and/or cured pieces would make it look better. With the original pic, I don't feel they look like they move as all are coming out the same way. This version is good but you have limited colors then.
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I have a few sets put together but mostly I use my legos to build MOCs. I use bricklink to get a lot of pieces. Often I prototype with a mix of colors and build a digital model to select proper colors. Then I order the pieces from bricklink.
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I watched some of it. It seems like someone playing minecraft. The animation is good but story wise it isn't very interesting.
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Will Chima return to the world of LEGO
dulsi replied to brickmerchant114's topic in LEGO Action and Adventure Themes
I enjoyed Chima and would like to see it continued. I created Roon's Raccoon Sprintladder on ideas for that explicit purpose. Alas it will probably expire soon. I still like the line and need to post up my minotaur vehicle and design a penguin vehicle. The animal suit guys allow people to continue the theme on there on. I wanted to do a stop-animation video for the Sprintladder but alas my attempt didn't come out well. Maybe I'll improve the Sprintladder and try again. -
I thought rebrickable had a comparison of pieces used in an official ideas set vs. the fan ideas model. However, I don't remember which set it was and can't find it on the site. For the Exo-Suit, I've seen one person's complaint that the original model fell apart easily and that he was pleased that the official set was sturdy.
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Finding common colours for a list of parts
dulsi replied to Legotom's topic in General LEGO Discussion
Another possibility if you build the model in digitally (or just plop the pieces down), you can upload the model to a private moc on rebrickable. Then recolor the model and repeat. -
Guess this means I don't have as much time to make the stop motion video to support my project. I actually like the idea of 60 days to get 100 despite the fact that it will knock out mine probably. Just means before posting a project you will need a promotion plan to have a chance at succeeding.
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The design is now up on rebrickable. It's just the mpd file instead of a nice pdf or series of pictures. I see too many flaws in the current design to build better instructions. I've been thinking of rebuilding it at double the size. That might allow the large windshield piece to be used without the saucer section being so bulbous. Ideally I'd like the top of saucer removable instead of opening up like the current design. Been wondering how many M:Tron magnets would be needed to secure the top like that. Littleworlds: Thanks for the suggestion on the grey floor plating on the bridge. I'll have to give that a try.
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After I saw Octus Deborge's Classic Space Star Trek ships on mocpages, I wanted to use my M-Tron pieces to do something similar. I really should do a different group than Federation but I wanted to build an Enterprise. Unfortunately I've run out of pieces in the right color at the moment. It's not as big as I would like. I have the Kre-O Enterprise and I wanted my M-Tron version to be as big but it isn't currently. I thought the big transparent piece from the M-Tron Mega Core Magnetizer would be good for the saucer section. Right now it is using the exact same connection method as that Lego set. I simple wasn't sure how to attach the thing. I may redesign it latter. This is the first nacelle. I don't have the pieces to build the second. It has an opening like the Kre-O ship mainly because I wanted to use the hinge piece.
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Some time ago I made an alternate build of the AT-AT micro fighter into an AT-ST. It doesn't have any flick fire missiles. I've never cared for them but wanted to include them since the micro fighters have them but couldn't find a satisfactory design. The instructions can be found here.
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For the past two years, we have included a small moc as a party favor for my son's birthday. Because it is being given away the price needs to be low (under $5 each). Last year my son requested an x-wing which can have a minifigure sit on it. This year he has requested a Star Wars land vehicle. Ideally I should probably use something from the new movie but I can't think of a land vehicle from the movie that I really like. I debated trying a creature from the arena in the prequels but the price limits the available articulation and I didn't feel any of them would be satisfactory. The tauntaun has the advantage of walking upright and not really needing articulate arms. A google search discovered Dave Eaton's Echo Base. I'm not 100% sure how his tauntauns are implemented but mine needed a reduced piece count anyway. This is my current attempt. I've tried to come up with better horns but haven't found anything as cheap. I've built a prototype in colors I have available to test it's strength. The current version holds together very well.