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  1. Kristof
    Uniform color models rarely look that good in Lego form. the color blends and all details kind of loose depth. That's why using different colors to pull out some texture, however seemingly less accurate, can often provide better look. Plus this dark grey / light gray thing is always a matter of discussion, especially with SW models. It hugely depends upon the lighting, the amount of dirt and wear on the prop and it's usually not 100% true to match either of these two colors. For me personally, this would look really good in light-gray with white for the foils and some dark grey accents :) Eventhough I'd agree that the thing appeared a little bit darker in the movie.
  2. Kristof
    I have high hopes for the lego set on this ship. Your rendition is cool, especially given it's the first proper model to the date (to my knowledge). I like the hull, especially the cockpit. Not the biggest fan of the foils - the underside of the plates seem to exposed there. But all in all, great MOC, really great.
  3. Kristof
    yep.
  4. Kristof
    I'd thicken the rear part of the engines, the grey one. It looks to thin now.
  5. Kristof
    I really only saw it in the movie but I guess about 200m :D I hope that someone can find some more substantial info.
  6. Kristof
    Excellent! Hige improvement in all the lacking points!
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    300 ish meters seems to much. I thought it was smaller. Even from what I remember from Rouge One, it looked really tiny next to the destroyers. Nothing like 1/5 of it's length. I believe this might be tomewhere between Tantive and Nebulon B size by Mortesv, which I think this model fits nicely.
  8. Kristof
    I didn't get the statistics but for a naked eye, it looks pretty close! :)
  9. Kristof
    Yep, you got very accurate to these pics. Though this is this anomated style. In Rouge One it was more reminiscent of other rebel ships and much less sleak. Still, excellent model. If you built it IRL, i believe it will look even better.
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    Haha, I agree that the action of this ship against the destroyer was one of those few 'oh, really...?' moments in Rouge One for me :) But nothing I couldn't stomach to be honest. It loooks very nice, perhaps even to nice to me. All these shiny round panels etc - I'd prefer more of the diverse and angular look providing some depth to the texture :) But all in all, very nice!
  11. Kristof
    Oh I'm in love with this ship :) Very nice new pic.
  12. Kristof
    As far as I'm concern, coriolis effect introduced by Earth rotation has no influence on such contraption :) Or very, very, very negligible if you will. The phenomena here are the independent oscillations of the three moving bodies. Ideally, if there was no friction in the joints, it would draw the same curve (although a complex one with many twists perhaps) over and over, repeating the same cycle. Due to the energy losses as all three oscillatory motions are damped, the trajectory converges to the equilibrium point.
  13. Kristof
    I like it! One thing bugs me though - the wings are poorly interconnected. There are many obvious one-stud connections, basically the whole wing structure hangs on single stud from the 1x1 brick with hole... thats nice for LDD but not very realistic for brick built model. If you could improve on this (my suggestion is to use inverted slope bricks instead of standard ones, these inverted have extra connection points on the back side) I think it would be worth building in real :)
  14. Kristof
    When sharing a product of someone elses work, you have to give the appropriate credit to the original author. Your post conceive a false impression that you designed the model, while you just simply rendered a model built and shared by my friend Saabfan. http://www.mecabricks.com/en/models/nKZvmb1QaG6 Not to mention that his model is already built in Mecabrick so I highly doubt you built it in LDD in the first place. Maybe you didn't want to do any harm but people here in comments praise you for something you haven't done, which makes me sick. I also encourage everyone to do at least a quick research before they acknowledge some creation shared here as original. Especially since there is a superb quality model in apparently low quality post from new and unrecognised member. Such instances of disclaimed credits only discourage tallented builders from sharing their designs freely.
  15. Kristof
    Ooh, thats so nice! I wonder if one can work out the math beyond these curves? Looks very complex though... two planar and one spherical oscillators, very interesting.
  16. Kristof
    Very nice! Arguably the best rendition so far. I really like the taper on these wings.
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    Hey Rich, where did you find this image of uwing by the way? Are there other views and angles on the right and left which you trimmed off? Thanks!
  18. Kristof
    Im not into rebels as far as the series go but that doesn't prevent me from being in complete awe of this! I remember seing your first post where you presented your plans and I really didn't have high hopes in how this turns out. Well, luckily I couldnt be more false on that. Magnificent job! And I hope Dave is actually going to build. This would totally deserve real rendition!
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    Oh yes, of course it probably won't be an issue, especially since you are aware of it. Moist air is one thing and possibly wet grass is other :) But I didn't want to be this Mr. Cautious really, I'd probably dare to drive it outside too if I knew it wasnt partucularly wet :) As long as there is no chance for water leaking into and developing shortage or some corrosion in long term, it really shouldnt be an issue. That being said, I still consider lego PF (and in fact Lego in general) to be indoor thing :D Everytime I see some off road action, besides awe I also feel a bit... inpropper :)
  20. Kristof
    Wow, that really outperforms any expectations I have had. Clearly, this is also thanks to many design sacrifices (ground clearance, nimimum weight...) but still I think it is very much worth it. I'd only be cautious driving this outside since the motors have nearly direct contact with the ground, meaning the moisture can easily get into them.
  21. Kristof
    Honestly, isn't this somewhat lazy to let others doo the google search for you? :D On your defense though, there weren't that many lego renditions of this craft. Luckily, this craft as well as most of the prequell trilogy designs have been of my big onterest so I did the research couple times. Besides several huge beasts, such as this one build by Eurobricks member Rook or this one built by Tarjei Moland, there are only two smaller scaled models worth mentioning that I'm currently aware of. First, the mini version dšesigned quite a while ago by current Lego designer Hans - this one inspired several builders to re-iterate (either improve or just re-skin) given design. I really like it and it is very accurate given the size. Last one is my personal top pick! Wonderful design made by Jayden Irwin, which you can currently support on Lego Ideas right here. I think this one is the closest match to what I'd call MIDI scale, or a 'set' scale given the overall size. I wish such product was on shelves :) The greatest thing is, Jayden is kind enough to share the building instructions, I encourage you to check it on his website http://www.jaydenirwin.com/models/c9979/
  22. Kristof
    Thats very nice comparison pic. The biggest obvious flaw I can see is how much are the htrusters offset to the sides. That makes them look even more out-of proportion than they already are on the real thing. Do you think you can move them inwards? at least one stud? That would in my opinion have very positive impact on the overal loom and feel.
  23. Kristof
    Good luck! Myself being rather relaxed technic fan and seldomly interested in cars, you already scored in catching my attention, which is good :D I really think the chasis is worth building on and its not that the whole bodywork was bad - it is just the certain spots :) And yeah, you took a challenging shape to recreate. I'm sure you can pull it off though!
  24. Kristof
    I really like the chasis! Not so much the bodywork though. Maybe I'm missing the point of the car being so low profile but it somewhat looks wird on such SUV. I'd suggest rising that front spoiler (or geting rid of it in the best case) and tapering the hood a little (it looks strange now being flat). from what have been discussed, I agree on Porsche wheels and I aslo agree with Jerome that some color accent would break the monotoneous black, which look good on real car but not so much on lego model :)
  25. Kristof
    The intake techniqe looks very nice and works fine for LDD but I think it's to flimsy for holding nice shape in real. There is not one fixed connections. The individual stripes of the barel can pivot on those octagonal frames, whole frames can wobble around the center bar plus eight of these segments only hold on single 1x1 brick which connects them to the 1x1 plate with clip. Thats simply to many places where things can move and missalign. Hopefully someone can prove me wrong though :)
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