Kristof
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Not that I would ever consider playing with lego a waste of time, but in this case I think you are not moving forward by fleshing out these random technic grartrains in LDD with next to none insight in whether and how it might actually work. This is not a mean insult, I am just stating the fact with no fancy polite wraparound :) There are two inevitable steps to do before you can successfully design any more serious technic contraption - first go through and study technic sets, learn how different things are achieved. Second get the bricks and actually build the contraptions IN REAL to see how they work. With technic even more than with lego system bricks the experience of real building is super important. I don't think you can just design something worthwile in LDD without any previous technic building experience. In this case if you want to proceed designing this starfighter, I suggest you to use either ratchet joints to make these wings movable or to use some sort of two-position fixture latches so it can be held either up or down. You can always come back and introduce some fancier mechanism when you actually gain some experience.
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^ Are there many decent Sail Barge MOCs? My point was rather that this vessel is rather seldomly selected as a MOCing object :D As for myself I doubt I have seen more than 2 nice Sail Barge MOCs, except maybe for some mini scale ones.
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These textured faces on the sides made it look incredibly cool! Well done and good luck finishing this. There isn't many sail barge mocs around - great that you decided to tackle this one.
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^^ C'mon guys are you really cluttering the thread with discussion about axle pin along with these needlessly huge images and even repeat them and quote them...? :/
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I'd call it a good progress :) I know this is far from being built IRL so maybe too much nitpicking about technicalities is preliminary, but some things need to be right to begin with, otherwise you will run into countless re-derigning issues later. These brick built wings are heavy and long. That means there is a lot of torque needed in the join to lift them up. That implies two necessities you need to cover in order to have a functional design. 1 - sheer and torque strength of your constructions (every moving element, every extra gear usually introduces a weak point) and a gear reduction, that will allow you to operate the wings by applying more revolutions at lower torque. That means you either need to stack different sized wheels or use mechanisms like worm gear transmission which will give you required mechanical advantage. I suggest you to get in touch with EB member Renegade Clone who recently made his cargo shuttle MOC. He has even more heavy duty wings so he will sure be able to give you some tips.
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^ Makes sense. Perhaps its the square tile underlay that's beneath the head at the moment that makes it look a bit to artificial. Have you tried without it?
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That cockpit must have taken a lot of tinkering. It is not ideal but boy I wouldnt dare to say that there is a better way how to pull it off in this scale! Great model, as usual. The only thing I might like to see updated is the R2 head poking out from the wing. Is there any chance you could suggest his 'shoulders' showing through so it somehow suggests that there is whole R2 unit seated in the wing? Right now it looks like just the head unit cut of and mounted onto the surface of the wing, whereas in the movie they (while bending the laws of 3D space) forced the droid to actually fit in the wing :D
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Thats great skill to have. Only when it comes to the pursuit of maximum accuracy w.r.t. given reference, you need bound yourself to being more analytic and exact. By the way it does not alway applys that the closest shape to the actual outline is the best. great models from great builders - often within SW related stuff - have proven that very often there is a certain solution which, while being less accurate in terms of being 100% true to either geometrical shape, color scheme or detail, do actually look better on the lego model. And that's one thing that is hard to generalize or find a formula for. You just need to try building and be confident in whether you like what you have or not :)
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Trully fantastic work! Each and every piece is art. Since you are taking suggestions, I would love to see micro scaled Kashyyk battle from ep3 or something Coruscant based :)
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When talking to your friend, you might use the knowledge that the Lepin fake MF can be tracked down for as low as $100. Typical price according to quitc google search is about $150. Fingers crossed for you so you resolve the issue in peace and hopefully get your money back. Some of your mods are rather nice!
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i gues its the matter of opinion but to me it looks worse :D From an geometry stand point, you are further away from the circular cross section than before.I think the only better option than your original would be using trully round elements. Regarding other inaccuracies - did you check that plastic model I referenced? There is number of rather minor things that I would hate to list down, I am sure you can find yourself what could be improved. Also it't mostly not inaccuracies that would bug me in any way... just depends on how true you want to stay to the actual thing. As it is, sure enough, it represents v19 quite well already. To throw you couple things - middle fin (wing) seem more angular than what you have. Side wings should start rectangular and only then taper down, you carry the taper all the way up. The actuall body around the cockpit is not flat sideways as you have it. The two white poking forky things are more prominent than on your model and carry down beneath the body. The bottom of the hull is actually structuraly different from what you have. The cockpit isn't terribly accurate either but then again, I am not sure about better options. - All minor things though. Plus it's hard to tell since you still show the model from a single angle. Just go through the various refference pics by yourself, match the view angle with your models and decide whether thats close enough for you :D
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I'm not sure about pieces that fit around these gears, what I know for certain is that your geartrains is the first thing you need to completely scrap and redo. Forget the small bevel gears in high torque application like this. 8t gears are also something you would rather avoid as pointed by Anio :D I think you really need to do your research before you spend any more time designing technical guts that have no chance of working IRL. Check out UCS imperial Shuttle or any other similar large winged MOC to see how other guys make this happen. It will most certainly always involve either big technic gears as a pivot sprockets or ratchet joints for non-geared tilt mechanisms.
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Whenever a nice looking model has a meaninfgful interior that is fully integrated, it automatically deems my respect and admiration. While I am not the biggest fan of the shape you ended up with (origonal but somewhat awkward looking - I would have preferred if you stayed closer to your sketch, which, by the way, is very nice!), I really like the model on the whole. And I love the fact that you built a fully developed and functional model instead of just a shell that nobody even knows whether it holds together (pretty much what I did with my entry... shame :D). Safe to say that this is better than all the MF playsets and easily beats the vast majority of the other contest entries. Well done!
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Thanks for a bump on this one :D I would almost miss this feat of small scale perfection. Excellent job Kit!
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I don't have the falcon and I probably never will so give my opinion relevant weight, but as far as I am concerned, the mandible structure and attachment is almost identical to the 2007 model and I don't recall anyone reporting a 'severe' drop - some people said a very slight sag occured over time. I recommend checking the building step on page 470 (and previous) whether you have all the technic pins properly placed within the mandible structure, whether all of the connecting axle pins are in place and whether the support technic connector scructure is properly slid inbewteen these two dark red 1x6 plates on the outer side of the mandible. If its all correct, I can hardly imagine any significant dropping unless someone just leaned on it, which you say is unlikely... :/ Picture would help to get... a better picture :D
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I think its important fot the engine cylinders to be actually round. This angular blockiness envokes lego mocs from 1990s :) There are some shape inaccuracies which may depend on your sourse material though. I suggest this model toy: http://www.rebelscum.com/TCWvehV19Torrent.asp
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^ Nice! And so fast :D I like that you have taken your own shoot on it.
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^ Thanks! Feel free to go, I would like to see how you miniaturize it :D You may credit me if you think it's due, yet I don't necessarily enforce it ;)
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^^ Thanks my friend! You win extra points for that comment about cargo containers inbetween the mandibles - this has in fact initiated this whole build and inspired me to do this mixup. I'm pleasantly surprised that you could decipher that :D I agree that these mandibles stick out proud maybe to much - I have actually considered blending them in more, but then I went with this option as I really tried to incorporate some realism in terms of 'how it could actually be in universe' into this build, hence I imagined that they would actually "slide" the front portion of the ship inbetween the mandibles :) But as you say, maybe a bit pricy tradeoff for having a smidge more believable, yet still completely fabricated story :D
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Hello, Very shortly I thought you might want to check out this virtual build I made for an entry to recent rebrick contest called Freighter Wars. I did not have much time to spend on this and I admitt humbly that the internal structure could use more than just slight improvements. Since I am actually really happy with how it turned out, I may end up re-visiting this and improving its guts to meet my good standards :) You can click on the picture and browse couple more images in my Flickr gallery. If from whatever reason you want to browse the images less conveniently and maybe give me a warm heart like, visit my entry HERE. :D Thanks to Eurobricks member Umbra-Manis for couple of these renders (the fancier three of total five, I am sure you can tell) whcih he made for me in the night, literally couple hours before the contest deadline. Kudos! The design inspired by this badass model built a good decade ago by Mark Kelso, one of the members of my personal hall of awe. The idea is that this Tough Barge (for a lack of better name ideas) was built from a wrecks of Correllian YT-1300 Light Freig... ah scrap it - Millennium Falcon, and another correllian ship. Few welds here and there and this is the result. Hope you like it... nothing to fancy, but I hope not to bad either :D
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Probably a nice WIP but viewing your images is pain. I somewhat can digest a linked flickr gallery but this is simply to difficult to browse so 90% of potential viewers will just pass. Also why would you use so huge font for the post :/ I suggest you try a bit harder to present your work in some meninggul fashion.
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Excellent work! Finally someone made justice to this (from some reason underrated?) great UCS model.
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^^ Hello, well I didnt refer to structural weak spots, rather a design ones maybe. But when it comes down to it, it's almost hard to call them weak spots (which I didnt by the way :D ). It's really just that certain things could use more elaborate desihn techniques, for example the whole underside could be stud-down construction or the 'greebling' on the side arches towards the back engines (with black grille tiles) could have been set more inwards and the 'holes' more covered. But I emphasize what I said before - all these things seem very little importance compared to the overal impression which is very good! :)
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Sure :) Big fan of the blog. Btw I have now a second thought remark on the model - not saying it's for certain but the wings seem a hair to short, can it be? I would maybe prolong them by one or two studs.
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From some reason which I cant really identify this makes incredibly good impression on me. Its one of these models where closer look at pics actually reveals the relative simplicity of the design and perhaps even some weak spots. But the general look is just great.
