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  1. Kristof
    Big respect Elis! Back in the days (I like talking like old man :D ) more than a year ago when you first started with your project, I liked your enthusiasm and dedication, but in all honesty, I would have never thought you would make it to such successful finish. Your building skills evolved significantly and the result looks good enough that even me, the eternal nitpicker, doesn't have much to point out and complain about :D Of course, kudos to Martin for pulling out his fantastic LPub skills again. It especially pleases me to know that he is still enjoying making instructions so I can hope for some other great mocs from you getting that treatment (?) :) Looking forward to more!
  2. Kristof
    ^ Whoa, let me grab my Oxford Dictionary and see you in couple hours after I read through your post :D ...after couple hours: Haha more often than not, your posts are like a lecture of English for me. Anyway, after several cycles of drastic simplifications, I guess it says that there are technical limitations and requirements that sort of drive the design of these cams and make the bulkiness unavoidable, whereas the payoff in this case is a better pose-ability...? Well, fair enough :)
  3. Kristof
    ^ +1 The overal coolness was enough to get me blindfolded (well thats exaggeration :D) and distracted from possibly slightly lacking details, but you guys are totally right.
  4. Kristof
    Cmon boys ( @cavegod ), I am a simple creature. Don't confuse me here :D Stunning, LilMe. I am surprised how much different everything is compared to last WIPs I recall. Thats a lot of work.
  5. Kristof
    To my knowledge, there has been only several (single digits) of walking AT-AT models made to date, and I am talkinng any kind of model, not just lego. Most 'motorized' AT-ATs work on similar principle as the past lego set, being able to poorly drag the feet and wobble forward and backward. The only model that actually performs well that I found is this one VIDEO It seems a lot is involved, maybe including active stabilization, or at least the mechanics of the motion has to be tweaked tremendously so it stays upright. That being said, I think that with current (and perhaps ultimate) limitations of Lego, properly walking motorized AT-AT is a dream. That, however, doesn't take away not even a slightest bit from my anticipation of this model! Summer is coming :D
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    Kristof replied to Kevin Yoo's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    Interesting scale and pretty well executed! The light gray striping doesn't look 100% true to the reference but it gives it more definition. Only it makes the wings look quite fragile :)
  7. Kristof
    Any chance you could hide or disguise some of these gaps by a) Using overlap plates/panels to go across the seam, or b) implementing some conduit/hose/bar type greebling in and around those seams? I love the design. It's unique and the proportions look very good to me. I wish you succeed finishing it!
  8. Kristof
    Increasing the size seems like a valid option to me. It does't look terribly off scale does it? How much bigger do you think you would have to go?
  9. Kristof
    ^^ Looks great! :D
  10. Kristof
    There is no file. Yet.
  11. Kristof
    Thank you! I'll love to see you build it!
  12. Kristof
    Nice, my favourite would definitely be the trooper infantry :D How did you line up all the troops in such a perfect square regiments? :O Nah, joking aside. I like the arquintens and consular ships. Everything else is a bit of a stretch of imagination, but I can hardly imagine anything more accurate in such tiny tiny scale.
  13. Kristof
    Tinkering is highly endorsed :) There is now way anything is so perfect that it can't be improved if ever so slightly.
  14. Kristof
    Things like this are sometimes misleading. I based my model of the most Ep3 movie accurate drawinngs I could possibly find at the time. These also matched most of the quality die cast models (i.e. Revell...) so I went witht that. Of course some all dimensions are rounded to the nearest plausible amount and some are distorted by the very nature or this scale, but overall it looks well proportioned to me if I had to say - making it 2 studs longer would, I think, be off. To be honest, I feel that CW sometimes take big liberties when it comes to design. Sometimes they have Venators that look nothing like the ‘real’ one from ep3. Thats also why I never take the animated series source as a reference. You might well be right with your math (I did not check) and consular cruiser simply shouldnt fit in the hangar. I’ll look into that more later but the bottom line is that I am happy with the proportions as they are (and thats with me being diehard perfectionist :D ). EDIT: I did quick sanity check. Consular in this scale would round down to 5 studs and really some reference images festure a bit elongated hangar which extends about 1/11th of the overal length, which would be 5.6 stud for me. In such case, it would squeeze in :D but then again, its reference vs. Reference. Unless I am given official ep3 studio blueprints that mismatch what I followed, I am keeping the thing as it is. Besides it would be nearly impossible to extend the hangar by a stud. Its all crammed in there.
  15. Kristof
    Praise the 2x2 triangle! :D
  16. Kristof
    Hey, to be honest I don't know how would one go around commercializing instructions via Brickvault. I suppose there is some deal you need to negotiate with them? Anyway, it has not crossed my mind. I might ask around once it's relevant, but all will depend on what is the conditions and pricing policy they demand. All in all I think Rebrickable would work just as well. Nice work on the cruisers, looking forward to seeing them. I am afraid you need to be more specific about what hanger (or hangar?) you refer to and what is the scaling mismatch you suggest, I am not sure right now.
  17. Kristof
    I just love it.
  18. Kristof
    Haha, Well I didn't expect to get many votes anyway so it doesn't matter ;) It was more for the sake of joke.
  19. Kristof
    How could you think for a second that... :D :D Good that it's getting fixed! Sorry for undesired flaw exposure :)
  20. Kristof
    Hey everyone! I'm so so sorry for me failing in providing you with a chance to build these. I should have informed you earlier but I forgot - I am currently in the US for univertity studies and obviously, I couldn't take my models with me. They are well packed in boxes back in Czech Republic, waiting for my return, which is scheduled in about 6 months. I honestly can't do anything without having my hands on the models. If you ask me to replicate either of them from scratch, I'd fail badly. Especially Venator, which is the peak of interest of most of you, is just way to complex to pull out of my head. It would be like designing it again from nothing. I was honestly considering having them shipped here but I didn't want to take the risk - they are one of a kind. Also, I was never 100% confident in this LDraw/LPub instruction making process. For once, it is farly difficult to build Venator in LDraw (I did the base of the spine and only that took me several sittings), then there will probably be a fair amount of very tricky assembly steps which has to be shown nicely in the instructions, and I haven't figured how to do that yet. Long story short, using these two robust but quite obsolete pieces of software probably result in very time costly process. There has been, however, nice development in the online building tool Mecabricks, and there is a promise of building guide generating tool coming up in near future, which I'd expect to be comparable regarding the outcome quality and quite more dynamic and user friendly, so that one might play well when I go back and get my hands on it. I am currently trying to learn Mecabricks so when the time comes I can flesh it out easy peasy (read: flesh it out in probably about 2 more years). I appreciate everyone's patience, I really didn't mean to tease you this bad :D BTW, as a master of shameless self promo - if you support my thing HERE I will release the instructions a day sooner*** for each new vote!!! ***Days sooner count from an exact but currenty unknown day in the future. Such day can be determined as a day of me actually relearing the instructions plus 'N' days, where N equals the number of received votes. Lazy Building Instructions s.r.o. reserves the right to (and most likely will) change or disregard this pledge.
  21. Kristof
    I know it's a small details, but we are perfectionists, aren't we? So, the red top hangar bay is supposed to split in half, right? Wouldnt it be nice to have the top tiles/plates such as there is a continuous seam in the middle? Also from some reason I find that second layer 3x3 wedge plate at the very front of the top sides of the hull very (probably my ocd) odd, especially since it is not on the bottom side of the hull. It makes the 'nose' look a bit silly. Similar stands for the 4x4 wedge plate at the front side of hangar bay cutouts - why? Actually the more I am looking at the picture, the more it seems to me that whole bottom hull plating is somehwhat offset fowards the back, by up to 1 stud? Is that possible or that's just some weird LPub sem-perspective illusion? I don't know how helpful am I being now since you are about to finish the instructions, but I couldn't help myself observing these things :D
  22. Kristof
    I know, right!? WIth no intention of hijacking this thread - it stings me too :D But I can't do much - I am in the US and my builds are packed in boxes back in Czech Republic. I will go back in about 6 months :/ If you want to talk more, shoot me a PM please so we keep this about Naboo starfighter ;)
  23. Kristof
    Interesting concept! Good job.
  24. Kristof
    Thank you :D and in fact that was not even the main point haha. i mainlh tried to keep it reasonably simple and minifig looking. Im glad you like it!
  25. Kristof
    Thanks! I am quite glad that I forced myself to flesh this out for the contest - eventhough my actual chances are worse than miserable with this stupid crowd voting madness, I have to admitt I like the model more than I expected I would :D I could definitely see this standing on my desk.
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