Bartybum

This looks interesting

@Ngoc Nguyen In part 2 I just replace the black 4L with a 5L with stop

The only hint we’ve had of PF 2.0 is the controller and receiver in the new City train sets

Looks awesome! I’d make the rear lights protrude out a bit more too

Oh lordy, I’m not sure this is a good idea hahah

Those orange panels at the rear should be one stud lower and flipped upside down I reckon. By doing that you’ll leave a horizontal notch sticking out at the back that you can put rear lights on.

A 1:38 scale minifig means a human is 152cm high. That isn’t right at all. It isn’t really at scale if we go by a minifig being the same height as a human. A Y-Wing is 77ft long and a human is 6ft tall - that’s a ratio of 77:6. If we apply that ratio to the minifig height we get 51.33 cm for the length of the Y-Wing to be in perfect scale. 75181 is 61cm long. That’s 18.83% larger than perfect scale. The 75172 Rogue One Y-Wing is 41cm long, which makes it 79.87% the size of perfect scale, or 20.13% smaller than perfect scale. Both are out of scale by effectively the same amount, just in opposite ways

I assume you have 42054 given the red wheels and Claas tyres. Why didn’t you use the Claas hubs?

Hmm, the nose looks a good length. I’m digging the body shaping. However, the rear window has something that the 42056 Porsche had that I wasn’t really a fan of, which was the straight beams. I think they’d look better if they were bent flex axles, that way you can have a nice curve towards the back. Also, I can’t help but feel the roof is about two studs too high. Other than that, great work!

Aaaahh it’s beautiful ;^) If it’s got four engines, then technically it’s a QIE Advanced hehe

IIRC each UCS set is available for two years. If I want one then there’s really no reason I shouldn’t be able to find one for RRP sometime in those two years. If I can’t afford it at that stage then bad luck, perhaps Lego isn’t the hobby for me. Oh the poor souls, god forbid they have to wait a bit longer to buy some Lego. If I want it on day one then I’d better get there first - simple as that. If I can’t then tough titties, there’s always the not too distant future when the next shipment comes in. If I end up having to wait a year then that’s Lego’s doing by not making enough sets available, not investors’. I’m willing to bet that most scalpers are also fans of Lego too by the way. EDIT: typo

Why? True fans don’t miss out on anything, they’ll still eventually get one for RRP because true fans understand not to buy marked up prices. People who can’t stand waiting and fork out extra cash just to have one early only have themselves to blame for their lack of patience. Using Lego as an investment is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I think you should try design the column with some forward-backward stability so it doesn’t bend

I regret not picking up 42053 when I had the chance. I love the Volvos Lego’s been bombarding us with. Kinda a shame we haven’t gotten any news considering the recent City and Creator leaks.

Exactly! From a design perspective walkers are stupidly over complicated and not practical, but we accept them because they’re awesome as hell.

You could make the columns start halfway and have rollers on the top as well. That way the tracks will have rollers to hit instead of columns.

Because it looks cooler, that’s it. People like to harp on about aerodynamics and design choices in Star Wars, but in reality none of the fighters could fly in atmosphere. The TIE Fighter is a ball with vertical aerodynamic surfaces. The TIE Interceptor is a ball with diagonal aerodynamic surfaces that wouldn’t produce any meaningful amount of lift. The X-Wing couldn’t fly because its wings are too far back and so it’s ridiculously unstable. The wings also don’t have an aerofoil shape that can produce lift. The Snowspeeder is a brick. The Y-Wing is a brick. The U-Wing is a chined brick. The only starfighter that maybe could fly, emphasis on maybe, is the A-Wing, which looks like an aerodynamic lifting body. But even then it would need to fly really fast to generate significant lift. The ships in Star Wars behave like aircraft with flight computers hooked up to impulse drives that push and rotate the aircraft so that it feels like flying a plane. When designing a starfighter, you base its flying characteristics on what role it needs to fullfil, and then you design a shape that looks cool when it performs that role. That’s pretty much it. I’m 90% sure what @Kozikyo86 did was he sat down and looked at a TIE Interceptor and Silencer and said “yeah but what if they pointed outwards”

Looks awesome, but after seeing it built I feel the nose might be a bit too long. Can we get a side shot?

Pls not here lmao.

Because it’d jack up the cost of the DS even more than the rip off it is now.

I’m digging the front. Has this bulky yet smooth feel to it

That difference is tiny and not worth stressing over. You could try contact Lego for replacement hinges but given how tiny the difference is I doubt they’d oblige.

Man this looks awesome, amazing job. I checked out your Flickr page, and I’m loving the FO AT-ST you made too

Treats people like what? The community wasn’t hostile to Bublehead. I found it pretty clear that he’s just too close to the matter and builds for recognition rather than enjoyment, like @nerdsforprez said. You may not care if people are causing drama, but many others and I do, because we don’t want the forum to run itself into the ground. This is something he has to figure out on his own. Many of us have no interest (and shouldn’t be expected to) in supporting his actions, and that’s been expressed multiple times fairly.

I reckon it’d look better if you scrapped the giant diffuser and elongated the back by two to three studs. Giant diffusers don’t really appear on supercars unless they’re GT racers, which this car doesn’t seem to be