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  1. anothergol
    But you have attached the side panels to the main one, you can only hinge it in 1 direction. The side plates go inside more than the middle one: I think all 3 should simply not be attached together, but instead be attached to the body using ball joint(s). It's always tricky to have 2 ball joints meet somewhere, but even 1 would work if it's at the top and you let the plate fall down naturally, using guiders/blockers. Sure, the middle plate also has a thin slope going towars the middle plates, and that would then be impossible to combine both. But IMHO that angle difference matters more, because of the shadows it casts.
  2. anothergol
    if you attach it to the side plates, how?
  3. anothergol
    Ah, so that's 1 full plate thick slots, I thought you were after something thinner or more 3D. I've used part 4216 here, but you work in another stud direction. Leg is looking very nice. I thought an AT-ST was half the height of an AT-AT, but you're right, it's probably more 1/3. Something that you may pay attention to btw, pretty much everyone connects all 3 side plates of the body using hinges, but in reality they are angled slightly differently, the middle one being less angled. Maybe this would be doable by attaching each plate separately to the body, using ball joints. Sadly I had no room to do that in my micro one. (same goes for La Chupacabra's version)
  4. anothergol
    how exactly?
  5. anothergol
    really? I have many, I just tested 10 of them at random (& random colors), all of them were lifting the parts very slightly. Again, not enough for the parts not to hold together, but the little gap is always there, here.
  6. anothergol
    If you remember my LDD screenshot on page 1, beware that those nasty binoculars (never understood them, they never like to fit on a stud) won't work like on the screenshot. Well, it's more a case of sloppy molding than the LDD being wrong, as they're too big by a tiny fraction of a mm, not enough to be a technical problem, but enough to be visible. The first example with a minifig cape however works pretty well, I'm using on my mini AT-AT (not as panel slots, though).
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    The thing that makes me think that the LDD won't be abandonned: aren't Lego's designers using it? I mean, you can do so much more & so easier using the LDD, the only reason I could imagine Lego ditching it, would be that Lego's own designer switched to one of the other alternatives.
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    in 25 parts I normally needed half this size to go with my micro-AT-AT, but couldn't manage to to smaller.
  9. anothergol
    I don't think any better could possibly be done. I wish Lego was selling that. How "proper" is the build? Aside from the pinched tubes, looks all proper to me. Great pictures as well btw.
  10. anothergol
    thanks I've tried to get the arch there, but the only hope seems to be a large bucket handle which only exists in pear light grey, which is a color I really don't like. But I've continued working on it:
  11. anothergol
    This looks wonderful. Is the final beak the angular one? I kinda prefer the pointy one. Plus, you could use this part to attach the pointy beak, which exists in dark red & might look cool:
  12. anothergol
    (typo in the title, it's a MOC) Edit: Flickr album here: https://www.flickr.c...4519@N08/albums (original msg) I don't think I'm gonna build it, but if anyone wants to build (it was made with part rarity in mind) or improve it, LXF here.
  13. anothergol
    Looks like a followup of Jimmy Fallon getting him dislocate a Han Solo Hot Toys 2 weeks ago I think half of Jordan Schlansky is genuine, though. In in very first appearance I'm not sure he was acting.
  14. anothergol
    semi round plates in black? that sounds useful & precious. Although if you got them in black, it's probably that they're in black in a 2016 set.
  15. anothergol
    Yeah but doing it purely based on the height isn't really ideal, as it would mean that minifigs are very, abnormally wide & fat, and then it's troubles to fit them in normal seats, which is why they don't fit in cars. But of course minifigs aren't supposed to be midgets either, so the truth is more likely in-between. I'd say minifigs are 1m50-tall people, maybe?
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    Your AT-AT will be around 50 bricks tall, right? I was randomly considering doing a nano-fig ("trophee") scaled AT-AT or ST, and for those it's easy, they're 1/4 scaled minifigs. But then if we consider that minifigs aren't any realistic and can be considered very fat or very short, the scale can go from 1/35 to 1/60 ( ). What I didn't know however is that the scale of the AT-AT itself is rather vague as well, ranging from 15m officially up to 25m (http://www.suave.net/~dave/atat.cgi?version=ref). Which means, with these 2 unknowns, that a "minifig-scaled" AT-AT could really range from 25cm to 75cm tall, which is crazy. 50cm is right in the middle (linearly speaking), so you probably made a good choice.
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    they add parts progressively as they are made, there's nothing more special in december
  18. anothergol
    So that means Lego is still not considering merging B&P with PaB?
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    it's like saying that it wasn't a clone anymore after they added "lego" on each stud :) But it doesn't even matter, they did it again later, shamelessly cloning Philiform. Lego shares that with Minecraft, sometimes the clone wins, and some try to rewrite history.
  20. anothergol
    They're mini-legs though, so not an assembly. I thought that maybe someone had input 5 cents instead of 50, but it turns out they're 30 cents. I don't even need mini-legs, but in LBG it's a nice detail part that works as a brick (only it has to be plugged in another, not plate). As a matter of fact, my Visa got charged in Denmark, so yes - but I'm in europe, so I doubt it applies to you. Their shipping prices are very low considering where it's sent from, btw. yeah, looks like it does that for everyone. Basically you have to make a dummy order first, and when it takes you to the lego shop and it's all lost, go back and make your real order. It got me the first time, so for my second order I took screenshots in the case I had to re-fill the order, and I had to.
  21. anothergol
    Really? What's the reason, that they're too busy working on holiday orders?
  22. anothergol
    Bricks&Pieces is/was? an alternative to Pick a Brick that doesn't suck, for those rare parts that would have no chance to be on Pick a Brick (which is never a better deal than BrickLink). I made an order last week (for the hollowed round 1x1 plates in LBG, quite useful & only available in the Dimensions Portal set) and today I notice that it's.. gone? I'm only seeing the first 2 ('part is missing') options here. I seriously hope they're merging it with Pick a Brick, for something more useful. In my last order I had spotted mini-legs in LBG for 5 cents btw. Sounded like a good deal, but not too good to be true - BrickLink prices are purely based on rarity but for Lego mini-legs are just 1 part, not an assembly, so they could exist for 5 cents. Well Lego fixed their prices & billed me the remainder without even asking, that's not nice of them. Lucky I didn't buy 100's - something I can imagine a BL shop owner doing.
  23. anothergol
    yeah, quite probably, although I would expect Lego to have made it as safe as possible (to ingest) But my point is that Lego should have given up with "shiny" bricks, and let's agree that today's "pearl" colors aren't any shiny at all anyway. I quite like pearl dark grey for small parts because they aren't stripey, and it gives a color in-between black and dark grey. So Lego should have done that, and instead of that ugly "pearl light grey", we could have gotten more in the "very light grey", which is really needed IMHO (too big gap between light blueish grey & white). This said, I haven't followed Lego's history too closely, and I suppose that pearl colors came with Bionicles & thus are old & weren't really a replacement for chrome? Also, the very rare parts in "diffuse" colors (copper/silver) aren't too bad IMHO. They still beat weird stripes going through the parts.
  24. anothergol
    amazing motorization
  25. anothergol
    Well, Lego used 2 per leg on the AT-DP and frankly, there was absolutely no reason to do that. Well, I can imagine Lego did have a reason, but it's more to have single beams sandwiched in-between the 2 rotation joints, because a beam on just 1 side might not be kid-proof. But they could as well have used 2 beams on each side and the rotation joint in-between. The thing is that the AT-AT doesn't bend its legs that much, if it was stretching its legs then yes I'd say that it might require 2. But with the typical walking pose of an AT-AT, the weight vector shouldn't be far from vertical.
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