Kristof
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@simplethinker Right. Just a hint which helps not to clutter threads - unless you really want to quote something, don't quote in response. If you want to target someone, just type @ followed by the name and it will let you tag the person like that :) And if you want to quote something specifically, take time to delete the rest of the long post (if that's the case). Just a courtesy to other readers.
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I beg to differ on the wording here! Taking inspiration doesn't equal stealing :D Nor do I own the license on using corner tiles :D I am glad there is more people doing Venator mocs lately. And if my own rendition can inspire, that's only great! sticker sheet 75038stk01a (or 75038stk01b) gives you sticker I used that fits 2x2 tile perfectly. Alternatively you can use 75135stk01a (or b) which has larger sticker with the same design - originally the sticker fits 3x4 flat part of the 4x4 modified tile with 4 studs, but the OCF graphics has the same size and background than the former one, so you can easily cut it and have essentially the same sticker. That I respect them... :D Mind you, the note on distorted proportions was targeted on brickdoctors version mainly, which is chubby and he knows that, it's the beauty of design liberty :D I don't think I had much complaints about yours, though I would have to check back to know for sure ;)
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@K_W Well the original Varszegis build (the one with almost your DBY size) was likely built before or very close to the cross section book release. But even then, there is no reason to put the cross section as 'THE' one that have it correct. In fact, as far as I can tell, their Venator looks slightly distorted compared to the movie. Nonetheless, i really like their version of DBY :) Anyway, what I was referring is the bigger version of the canon (approx twice as big in each dimension) built by Sylvain Balivet as a part of his truly giant 16 ft Venator project, which sadly seems to have been put aside or scrapped completely. I am not sure about the exact dimensions either, but I think educated guess based of some proportions math from references should direct you well enough. Safe to say that the size to scale well with fighter like you mention will give you very substantial build! :D I would love to see that. In fact I would swear I saw a big canon build which even had some minifig interior, probably not minifig scale but BIG for sure, which basically represented the whole section cutout from the cross sec. book. But I can't find it now even after putting some time into it, so I start to question myself on that :D
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^ Looks good, both of them! The DBY seems slightly larger than the Varszegi-sized Venator scale. Have you ever seen this? It is not very true to the reference from the cross sections book, which I personally also like. I wonder what this guy used, or if its just a creative liberty. Anyway, I think that bigger scale detailed version would make for a great standalone moc!
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I better check these parts of the forum more often not to miss things like this! Excellent design. I spent good amount of time just looking at your pictures.
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^ shows alright for me.
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@Neodaemmerung I think this weekend should do it. I havent managed to complete it before my semester started so again I only have weekends somewhat free to work on it, which I didn't really anticipated when I said its few days from completion a week ago. This time, though, there seem to be nothing to hold me back. @K_W Yeah, it would be ginormous project. In fact I used to have a WIP project for Lucrehulk in similar scale to Jorstad's, which I postponed and later canceled because of working on Venator instead. I really like this design except for the fact that it needs a lot of supports to stand like this. I would love to have a design where the semi ring would be self supporting, so you could easily handle it. But thats, of course, not considering the scale to go with my Venator. As such it would be hardly a desktop monstrosity requiring several people to move :D Not really fond of that thought myself.
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^ You can import LDD, you gotta expect some issues if you have fishy (read complex) geometries in your model. I heard that imports got more buggy after releasing alpha version of studio 2.0, but I don't have my own experience. I like the updates very much and I also like the version on gun steroids :D The proportions look really good from all the angles! I am not a fan of the 1 stud connection of the 1x3 tile holding the trans plate for command bridges. I would usggest using just 1x1 trans for the windows and then 1x3 plate underneath the rest of the tile to connect everything more securely.
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Thats why I ultimately bailed on LDD and kept designing IRL. It is more expensive but somewhat more fun. Lately, mainly due to making instructions, I transitioned to stud.io and I feel like it does better than LDD in most aspects. And the part library is more complete (i.e. including the triangular tile ;) ) plus you can quite easily add custom parts provided you have .dat file for it, but since it works with LDRaw library which is very well maintained online, it's easy to find any missing part you need and add it. Btw using plates/tiles for the sides of the bridge is legit. Especially with the new tiles and corner brackets it may work out nice.
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given your smaller scale, i feel like 3 stud wide bridge tower is already pushing the limit of maximum acceptable width w.r.t. reasonable accuracy. Not sure if adding another tiles is even beneficial here. I agree on adding texture but I would go for something embedded in the wall thickness.
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I don't know what to say You made this good looking build from scratch faster than I put together piece of instructions I feel like world might stop turning before I am finished with that. Anyway, I'm glad that my work inspired this, a very well done rendition in even considerably smaller scale. I have just recently put an acknowledgment in the instructions intro, regarding few builders who tackled Venator in this scale, namely @Brickdoctor, @simplethinker and Alexandre Bigeard, but it seems I have to reorganize it now, because yours might just as well be the best looking one! The proportions don't look half as distorted as in some of the aforementioned (yet still respectable) builds and overall, from any kind of distance it would suggest a larger model than it actually is. The only thing I am not super keen on first glance is the corner tile on the side of the bridge tower. Looks slightly outa place. Regarding your improvement list, I suggest using dark grey round barrels for the bigger thruster ends. I don't think a recess for the twin guns is strictly necessary in this scale, unless you find some really elegant way to suggest it without overcomplicating the structure of the hull plating. Last I would rebuild the end of the tail a bit, I think you can do better than having a plate and a tile on top of the slope brick, which creates some extraneous step over there. Love to see this, great work!
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@HamdenKid Idk about 'online' - that might actually be only Mecabricks. I tried it and it didn't feel intuitive enough for me either, although I know lots of people who work in it very smoothly and efficiently. When it comes to other digital tools, I was used to LDD for years and just recently I tried stud.io and it seems to be quite alright.
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@HamdenKid Mind you, I haven't seen it before :D And I think it's a decent take, thanks for bringing it up. Obviously the shape is a bit off still but it has the recess and doesn't look twice bad! EDIT: This reminded me of my old Slave I project that is on hold for quite many years now. I remember I started with a vision of real minifig scale Slave I, and this was some months before this UCS set first emerged on the internet. But exactly because of this arch struggle (and other reasons) I decided to reduce the size and attempt for something smaller, yet reasonably accurate. The cockpit is the problem here, though, and I sort of lost the drive of working on it back then. Things like this for me come down to the fact that sometimes when I notice an inaccuracy in shape, it just stands out and outweighs the positives. In a way I don't think I have ever seen a great solution for these arches on any scale lego model :D
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I do but I realize its very individual personal preference. I happen to agree with the designer on this choice but Im fully aware some people perceive this solution better :)
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@HamdenKid Sadly I don't have a solution either. I have seen a brick built arches using hinged wedge plates or curved slopes and such (i.e. Brick-Customs), which sort of approximate the shape better in some way, but that's always sacrificing the clean arch line. I really feel with the designer of the UCS set and I think his solution is very reasonable given there just weren't better pieces to use. I did think it was a major flaw when I first saw it, the lack of recessed wells, but by the time I did some thinking how better to do it, obviously with no success, I had to give him that the tradeoff for a good outside shape is justified here. Though many people used the double bulge arches the same way you did so it seems it appears acceptable for a lot of people. For me its just a major distortion :D
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:D funny how sometimes quite interesting post gets ignored by most :D I have no clue why that is in this case. The lights look cool, I am not fan of 3rd party mods but lights are somewhat allowed I suppose :D Not a big fan of the modded wing well arches. The double bulge design, despite providing some actual well space, simply doesn't have the right shape. I feel that the minor improvement is for heavy cost of damaging the looks in some other way here. What I really like though are your pictures. I am not sure if you have taken some particular care while taking them, but if not (and even if yes in a way) the result looks amazing. I wish I could photograph my Mocs like this!
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LEGO Star Wars 2018 Set Discussion - READ FIRST POST!
Kristof replied to MKJoshA's topic in LEGO Star Wars
How do you guys always spot these things first sight :D ! Anyway, not bad set I say. Lil expensive. it appears larger than it is i think. Oh and I agree that making thread about new releases just because 'noone else did' is somewhat expandable. I do realize that 250 page threads might be daunting but remember, news are always at the very end, so once you first subscribe to that, you can always just check the latest discussion, without having to ever care for what happened on all those previous pages. Unless there is a significant set (ucs/cloud city) I feel like making a thread just needlessly shifts other possibly interesting content away. Remember that it is most likely that every lego (SW) fan will almost certainly notice the release from other source, perhaps directly from lego... -
Decent craftsmanship here. As you said, nothing too crazy, but well done. Btw i never realized until now, how much does the skiff look like a downscaled and stripped Sail Barge :D This model makes the similarities stand out very much since it is comparable to some sail barge models.
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@Neodaemmerung Likely paypal. Yes, pdf file including some build notes and then ~250 pages of very lego-set like instrucrions. Plus part list as a xml file of course.
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@danielwerner I decided to put a fix label of €16 on it. @phaelon I never did the math but thats about the size I was expecting. I believe the biggest models so far (i.e. Thomas Benedikt or Paul Yperman builds) of the Lucrehulk are just over 1m in diameter. And they are ginormous. But who knows, maybe Venator instructions will allow me to buy a golden house and 30k bricks to build it :D Not to speak about ability to devote several thousand hours of work to it :D One bad thing about such build is that it totally suppresses the advantages of this MIDI scale I keep cherishing :D
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^ Insructions 100% complete, boy were there many details to touch up. I had a friend proof build it and together we discovered few more little issues that are now fixed, mostly a wrong part color in the instructions etc. I was working on part lists (there will be one for model and second one for stand) and I took some extra time putting notes to the parts that allows for some color swaps. And I also put together some helpful (hopefully) building notes in the intro to the instructions. Only the frontpage artwork now remains to be done, I am working together with a friend and excellent digital artist on that so I expect it to turn out great :D So I believe we are talking days here.
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[MOC][LDD] Plo and Obi-wan's Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptors
Kristof replied to atlas's topic in LEGO Star Wars
You could put the build up on Rebrickable and upload the file over there. It would be more permanent over there plus people might actually find your cool MOC by browsing over there, and such publicity never hurts :D EDIT: Actually, my bad. They have you use different file share service and you can only link it to Rebrickable. Well in that case I recommend Bricksafe! -
^ I am sure Jerac will go over this better. My super quick two cents to give you something to consider: 1) Get yourself a good reference. I find that over at DevianArt, people share amazing images of very high quality 3d models of... nearly anything you can wish. 2) Pick a suitable scale for some major feature and design the rest to MATCH this element. If I were to do it here, I would possibly select the 'dish' on the front of the cockpit section, which really screams for using one of the lego dishes (or round plates, whatever...) so you have an instant choice of the diameter - 4 studs? Seems too small for your scale. 6 studs? could be great compromise. 8 studs? If you want to build a beast. To give you my answer to the question about a cockpit, there is no such piece. You could theoretically use the cone cockpit from the new UCS MF but it just doesn't have the right taper. I would brick build it. It's big enough for you to be able to do so. To me, this seems like a very MOCable model, although the ginormous scale you decided to work in doesn't necessarily make it easier. As Jerac said, the bigger you go, the less tolerable are any possible discrepancies in accuracy. I'd still say it is well doable with the most challenging part being probably the slowly tapering conical shape of the back of the hull. Good luck!
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looks spot on to me and I haven't even seen Solo yet :D Good job!
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I recognize you are one of the pioneers! Thanks for your patience and continuous support.