B Rick
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Thanks snaillad!
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I regret sucking up every single piece of Lego into the vacuum when I was a kid everytime Iwanted to help out mum. Little did I know you could open the thing up and the pieces did not really dissapear into hot thin air...
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Thanks guys. Legopanda, If money is an issue (isn't it always...) I got my set at ToysXL (eindhoven). Definately worth a visit if you're looking for bargains. It seems that they have different 'sales' every two weeks. Sometimes even 25% discount on the whole Lego-inventory (including exclusive sets and architecture for instance) , or ...get two sets + one for free, etc. Just visit regularly and draw your wallet when the time is right ;)
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Spoiled Milk Massacre (The Shining inspired Grady-twins)
B Rick replied to B Rick's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Thanks for checking out! I had a grin from ear to ear when I got this idea for the spilled milk. I just HAD to do something with that milk-brick. -
Thanks laigingsxis, It was not the model of the car that was challenging ...it was the small ammount of bricks... ;-)
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GREAT info guys! Thanks a bunch. Really appreciated. The Discoverycenter was what I meant, heheh. Thought it was called 'Legoland Germany'.
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Thanks for the very quick respons Faefrost! Much appreciated. As you live in the USofA, are you speaking about Lego stores in general, or the one in Oberhausen (germany) in particular? (I've stumbled on just a few posts mentioning oberhausen, but ofcourse want to know the details and I don't want to re-animate a dead thread... ;-) ) Nice moc btw! Link to a bigger pic?
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There is this small possibility that I go christmasshopping soon in Oberhauseb Centro. Legostore included. I've always wanted to know what makes a Legostore special. We don't have one in the Netherlands so I'm pretty anxious to see what it's all about. Now what can I expect? Just a toystore filled with most of the legosets we allready know? Do they carry every set? Do they carry minecraft or cuusoo? Do they sell seperate bricks? Are there any amazing discounts? Is legoland germany worth a visit? Anyway... Should I bring my wallet...? I will be going with my girlfriend. Any tips to distract her and getting the most legos I possibly can..? :-p Any other tips? Thanks!
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^ Here's my version of the Monster Fighters Vampyre Hearse... Although I find the original set extremely cool (It IS the one set that got me into lego again since 25 years) but felt it was a bit too grotesk for me. It now has a lot of modifications like: A bigger but more subtle engine; It's lower; The body is given more mass; a different frontend; a longer wheelbase; exaust in the back (one bad thing about the original car was a poorly connected sidepipe); Chopped top; etc. You'll have to set it next to an original set to really appreciate the modifications. Only bad thing is, It's still too big for my haunted house and the other modular or town buildings...
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^ The Hearse I've got parked next to my haunted house. This, ofcourse is the Monster Fighters Hearse that I've modified. Really, I love the grotesk look of the original car and I give Lego a 9,5 out of 10 for it, but at the same time I felt it was a bit childish so I started modifying it till it became a more 'realistic' Hotrod Hearse... In short: The car is lowered; I've stretched the wheelbase, I chopped the roof, I put in a bigger engine, I gave the body more mass, I disabled the playfunction (I believe...), I've altered the front, just to have a different one than my Batmobile which is based on this hearse; I took away all the bony-stuff, and cleaned up the overal lines. But I think I'll create another thread with more pics of it. Bad thing about it is though, ...it's still too big for my haunted house.
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That's cool. True. Expanding a set like this takes indeed a BIG chunck of additional bricks. These are in fact two haunted house sets... But it leaves just a bit more room for really realizing your ideas and trying out stuff with left-over brick. I don't have any other sets with this green so I thought instead of ordering a lot seperate green bricks I got another set. Which means I also got a lot of roofbricks, and windows, and cool interior stuff. Really this set is loaded with very usefull or cool stuff. The minifigs alone are awesome. Never thought I'd say that about minifigs cause I never understood why these silly things were so popular. I was never interested in them till now. It's tricky I'm sure it's possible to make some nice mods without an extra set. Just be creative. But first build it like should. You will enjoy that, believe me... What I really meant was that I don't have a lot of the right bricks to do the mods. From every microbuild mocs you see in my house I couldn't build anotherone any more. All need a few typical bricks that I don't have a lot of. I ran out of round brown 1x1s now, so it'll be hard to make another piece of furniture that'll fit stylewise with the rest of the interior. Ofcearse a hearse! ;-) I got mine parked right next to it. The monsterfighter hearse was the set that really rekindled my love for lego. It's the first new set I bought in over.... Well, it's actually the first set I bought, ever! Every piece of lego I allready had was given to me on birthdays and at chistmasses. I'll post a pic of my modified hearse in a minute.
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Man, today I stumbled on totally awesome 'Haunted Houses' that had simmilar ideas but went more than just one step beyond... Absolutely beautiful stuff. And it's a good thing I hadnt seen these before otherwise I probably would not have started this project... Try to find em for comparison. It's fun! Just be prepared to have your jaws drop to the floor...
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EX CEL LENT!! My god... Good thing that I didn't stumble upon this post before otherwise I probably wouldn't have build my haunted house... What an amazing build. And I thought that I went overboard with all my scenes referring to horrormovies... Respect.
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Haha, that funny pic with those kids!! Priceless... Lovely build! Great overall design of the building, and I really like all the cherries on top! (the details surounding the building) I love the rotating tentacle(s) best. Very convincing in being creepy. Well done!
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Freakin' AWESOME!
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jaw dropped on floor...
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Another Hot Rod, and more
B Rick replied to drdesignz's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Man, you've build some nice cars. I particular like this one because of the in-between-scale. I think building a convincing hotrod detailed as yours was not easy. I like the front way better than the back though. Think it's a stud (or two) too long because of the use of the arch as a wheelwell. Other than that, you've nailed the traditional american hotrod! I'd like to try and build it patternd after yours but I guess I've run out of usable bricks... Oh, and the engine and garage stuff is awesome and so is your idea of making it a cuusoo project. Good luck! -
What a great post! Well done on the building. I really like the angled floorboards.
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Thanks Leo!
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Go watch! It's classic, and it belongs in many moviefans top 50. Get one, or maybe two sets and start building! I'd love to see different versions of this house. Can't wait to see timmyc. Take your time shooting pics. It's not easy taking good quallity pics of such a large set. I almost did not post mine because of the crappy overexposed exterior shots, but I had spend a lot of time and don't feel like doing that again anytime soon... Hmmz... I've never seen a single episope of Dexter... I agree that the dramatic effect in this scene is way more than I could have wished for. Even without the spotlight. Can't put my finger on it but I guess Lego did a good job on these creepy zombiefaces... That, combined with the clean aesthetics of the room and the simple adding of the blood does work rather well. Funny thing is, to me the bathroom was just an afterthought. Not simple though... The stonebricks don't come in 1x1, or at least I don't have that color bricks. So it was a tough puzzle to solve. And, in the beginning I wanted a victorian styled bathroom, but that would have meant for me ordering seperate bricks. Never done that, and I'm not eager to start... Still got to find a store in Holland that sell seperate bricks... Thanks for watching en commenting on my post!
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Thanks guys!
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Spoiled Milk Massacre (The Shining inspired Grady-twins)
B Rick replied to B Rick's topic in Special LEGO Themes
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Jawdropping awesomeness... I love that interior as much as I love the new outside details. The orange chimney fits perfectly with the green. I really like the original haunted theme but I'm you've made me wondering wheather or not I should un-haunt mine...
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Great job in excorsizing! It fits perfectly with the other modulars. I'm wondering if you've made an interior for it. I did for mine, but I also stayed with the haunted theme...
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Thanks guys! The original is truly a great set and you'll only 'discover the flaws' when you're attempting to build a complete interior. But it was intended to be a 'dollhouse' with easy acces and playability. It took a long time of which I have just a little... I built the original set in three days. Then I purchased another set for making the realisation of my ideas possible. I've made it larger in every direction. Every interior scnene took me one evening each. In the meantime I got this idea of converting the house into seperate modules. That took even longer. Cause with every rebuild you're bound to facing a whole bunch of new problems and puzzles to solve. But that's the fun of Lego. Making it work. Technically ánd visually. Then there were several attemps of building the three scene. So in all, it took me a month and a half of evening playingpleasure. But it's not finished though. As I mentioned before, there are 9 paintings to be printed and stickered. I'm also considdering to build a cellar for some more horrormovie clichés. I'd love to have a necronomicon and a taperecorder below the floorboards (evil dead) or what about an ancient Indian burrial ground..? Now, you might think I'm a horrormoviebuff... Well I'm not, really. I like all good movies. And I like beautiful dioramas. This beautiful lego set happens to be in the horrorgenre and I've just followed to were it took me while I was building it.