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    Half spider, half firefly, the Insectoids Arachnoid Star Base (set 6977 from 1998) has to be one of the weirdest sets Lego ever produced. I found most of it in a bin of used Lego I bought. Although the original design is awkward, there are some nice printed parts and it has a goofy sort of charm, so I decided to modernize it. I've added suspension to the wheels, made the magnet arms retractable and more posable on ball joints, and moved the hover bike and storage compartments to the sides where they won't be blocked by the "firefly" part of the vehicle when it is docked.
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    I like the shaping around the cockpit and the intentional gaps you left between some of the curves and the tiles on top. Just the right greebliness, in my opinion. The folding landing gear looks like it will work great. Maybe you have enough space there to add some skids or pads to the gear? Here is a quick one-up-one-down shot of folding gear on a viper I built. These are based on hinge bricks and the skids are a bit fidly; so not exactly the solution for your excellent shuttle, but some kind of skid/foot that folds into the 1 stud wide layer on the bottom would add a lot, I think. Great work!
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    An addition to Rainbow Bear's pastel arsenal. I really enjoyed building a mech to help Rainbow Bear in the never ending battle against evil and grumpiness, so I decided he probably needs some other vehicles too. I've been thinking of different uses for the Lego gel pens as well as the motorcycle sport fairing (18895) and this just all sort of came together in my head. I'm especially pleased with the connections made to the motorcycle fairing. Definitely illegal, but sturdy. The result has been thoroughly swoosh-tested by my little one. Glittering Viper - Rainbow Bear's Starfighter See more on Flickr
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    This is really outstanding. The textures are rich and every square centimeter is just bursting with detail and color. Even just the section with the tree and riverside alone would be an amazing build on it's own, but the whole thing together is a masterpiece!
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    Thanks! Cuddly and greebly is a good description of what I was going for. I'm working on additional vehicles in Rainbow Bear's arsenal. Congrats on Sonic Mania!
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    I commented on Lego Ideas before, but I'll say it here too: that gumball machinne is _perfect_. Something about the 1x1 cheese wedge perfectly evokes the heavy metal door those things have.
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    After building version one of this mech a couple of months ago, I realized that I needed stronger joints. It would hold a pose, but just felt to fiddly and prone to flopping over at the hips. This new version feels much sturdier, and I've made instructions for it and shared them on Rebrickable. See more on flickr
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    Yep, made me smile. Thanks!
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    Thanks! I've been having a lot of fun playing around in 3d animation tools. I did a bunch of stuff with Blender to create the animations for the airship station project (link in my signature below), and now am applying it to other projects. It's really fun to see these things come to life.
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    Thanks everyone! You're comments made my day. I don't think of it as vengeance so much as making the world a better place through superior love-based firepower.
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    Thanks! I was intentionally going for a sort of chunky and strong vibe, like a bear.
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    Heartmelter Mark I by CJ Hendrix, on Flickr See more on flickr Build in real bricks and instructions coming soon.
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    Thanks for your feedback! When you say the facade, do you mean the back of the elevator tower? It's true that it's quite simple. I didn't have enough space to give it more depth (and it needs to not extend beyond the baseplate in order to adjoin other modulars), but I'm sure I could find a way to do something there. In fact, in the process of building a test version, I have changed part of the structure under the platform, making it more ornate. I'll update the renders with that eventually. Either way, I'm sure you're right that Lego will change it significantly, and for the better. That's assuming I get to 10,000 votes. Right now it's slow going. Any help sharing the link around would be appreciated. https://bit.ly/lego-airship
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    Thanks!
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    Animations, more images, and description are on Lego Ideas. Please support and share! Airship Station Modular Building by CJ Hendrix, on Flickr
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    I like having a white border around callout pointers, but so far the only way I've found to set the pointer attributes is to add the modifiers to each occurrence: 0 !LPUB CALLOUT POINTER_ATTRIBUTE BORDER 1 #f3f3f3 0.015625 1 I tried a few different things like using the GLOBAL keyword in a few spots: 0 !LPUB CALLOUT POINTER_ATTRIBUTE GLOBAL BORDER 1 #ffffff 0.016 --- or --- 0 !LPUB CALLOUT POINTER_ATTRIBUTE BORDER 1 #ffffff 0.016 0 GLOBAL --- or --- 0 !LPUB CALLOUT POINTER_ATTRIBUTE BORDER GLOBAL 1 #ffffff 0.016 These result in a parsing error, "expected ID > 0 and got 0". I also tried having no pointer ID (last value in the line): 0 !LPUB CALLOUT POINTER_ATTRIBUTE BORDER 1 #ffffff 0.016 which doesn't cause an error, but doesn't seem to have any effect. Does anyone know if this is possible in LPub3D? Thanks!
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    This is excellent! The colors and shaping are really pleasing. I especially like the thick snow on the roof.
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    I'll share some photos when I get it set up around the tree!
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    Thanks! That's the second animation project I've done, learning Blender from scratch. The other one is on LEGO Ideas. The learning curve in Blender is tough, I have to say, but there are many tutorials available.
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    I animated the digital model of the Christmas Train I built to go around the tree this year. Instructions are available on Rebrickable (with a video showing the real bricks in action).
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    Really nice compact model. The articulation looks . . . satisfying.
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    The project was picked up by LEGO Ideas as a "Top 5 with under 100 Supporters", which helped boost it well past the 100 supporters for the first milestone, but 10K seems far away . . . If you haven't supported please consider it! https://bit.ly/lego-airship Most awesomely, I can see from the stats on the bit.ly link that Eurobricks is the most frequent source of traffic, beating out twitter, facebook, and youtube. Thank you!
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    Thanks everyone for your support! @cjtonic, I really appreciate your comment. That retro vibe was hard to maintain while designing something that would actually hold together in real bricks. I'm working on the physical build now (albeit in much more festive colors) and so far it feels very sturdy!
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    Our modular town's old gasometer has been repurposed into a modern airship station and park. More animations and images on LEGO Ideas I've been working away on this one for months and months a little at a time, and I learned to animate it in Blender, which probably took longer than designing the model itself. All good fun and a nice distraction from 2020. More animations and images in the works . . .
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    I did a reinstall and reorganization of the library recently and ended up with that nested structure based on my (probably flawed) reading on different forums. It seemed counter-intuitive at the time, so I'm happy to have it on good authority that I can fix that. Thanks Roland.
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