Pate-keetongu
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Holy Diver, you've been down too long in the midnight sea. Old scuba suits are cool, so I ended up building one, using around 50% Bionicle/TECHNIC and 50% SYSTEM. More photos on the blog. Enjoy. It's pleasing to see that there is plenty of MOCs in the action figure subforum nowadays. The return of Bionicle seems to have an effect on it.
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Thanks for nice comments, everyone! I took a few photos of Howard H. Brundenberg's Rhebok steam trike featured in the diorama. The rest can be found here.
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Middle Earth Contest entry thread.
Pate-keetongu replied to Ecclesiastes's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
My entry for category C (which seems to be the most popular - no surprise), An Unexpected Party. -
Here's my first entry for this great contest. I was on a LUG exhibit (great) and ill (not so) and didn't have that much time to build, but managed to throw a bit of Bag End's hall and pantry together. This is obviously insipired by the book chapter An Unexpected Party as well as the movie. More photos can be found on my blog Cyclopic Bricks.
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Some things in this toy line story make no sense at all and it's better just to ignore it. Mata Nui's The Great War against Rahi beasts lasted 1000 years and no one died. That can't be very great sort of war. But on the other hand, they never told us the lenght of a year - It might be, let's say, fifteen Earth minutes or thirteen Earth days or 120 million Earth years (which would be ridiculous). On cases like this it's best not to think it too much and just enjoy the story.
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Definitely a fake list, I'd say! There's too many town figs - most seem to be just ordinary professionals - , and army man, bartender and hobo are far from what TLG is up to releasing in the sets. Plus we got an animal suit guy on the last series and there isn't a single sci-fi fig.
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Here's a big steampunk townscape MOC I build as a collaboration with Nomadig and InfamousQ for LUG exhibit on "Lelukauppa Pii Poon LEGO-rakennustapahtuma" that took place in Vantaa, Southern Finland last weekend. It features the Town Hall of steampunk city Brasshill with a bit of a lane and a park. There is an underground station under the Hall with the train arriving. A hostage situation is taking place in the hall, but it isn't going to be a very succesful one - There's the police at the doors, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on the roof and one the hostages is wielding a rapier behind her back... The MOC is inhabited by my purist steampunk minifigures. Se more photos and read more babble on Cyclopic Bricks, and above all enjoy your visit in Brasshill!
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I'm not reading the full topic, as I don't believe my hype is near as big as yours guys! But these seem to be quite a cool series of sets, and the reboot story looks interesting and is far enough from the old, overloaded thing. I'd wish to see what's going on with the "villagers" now. The Toa descriptions look quite good, especially Pohatu (who is the leader, what? Surprising and cool.) and Onua. And yes, the sets. Onua will be a buy from me, as he has some sweet parts - the glorious new mask, big black chest armor (Hopefully with stickers! I want it without printing), new steampunk-ish add-ons, and those claw/hammer/shovel pieces. Darn, I might even keep it build for a day or two to remember the times when I was a little lad and Onua was around 30% of the size of this new guy. I have to say that the color scheme is bad though, gold and silver don't look good together and I could live without trans-purple. I might even get Pohatu, the mask looks excellent, and the boomerangs are neat. But in other hand the piece count is not good at all and there's plenty of boring silvery parts... At least trans-yellow is cool, could be used in some odd Classic Space/Blacktron mechs. Is the main color reddish brown or dark orange? Kopaka in nice too, but 25€ price tag will be big enough to keep me far. Wish I could get the mask somewhere though, liking it a lot. Don't like Tahu. Gold and silver are terrible balanced, extra swords look like a joke and body armor as a shin guard never works. Mask is alright I guess, but meh. Lewa has a solid and good color scheme, but is otherwise such a boring figure. There's some nice uses of those claw pieces, but the mask is a bit dull and there's simply no interesting parts. I could say the same thing about Gali. I find the lack of recolors disturbing. I like rahi-esque battle function on LORD OF SKULL SPIDERS, but that doesn't give much for a builder. I have enough angled liftarms and Glatorian neck already.
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(Alright, this might belong to action figures, but most system character are seen on this forum, so I though this was the right one). This is Alice Nautia, an ocean-themed steampunk girl. This was going to be a Bionicle MOC at first, but I made the skirt using Ewok glider's wings and so she turned out to be a steampunk gal. The skirt had a part looking like a fish's tail, so I added some other marine details: an Atlantis key jewellery and an octopus hairdo. More pics and talk on my blog. Enjoy.
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I'm in. Not sure of category (ies) yet, but I'll build something.
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I'd like to know the source too, I remember 500 Iron Hill dwarves (though I'm not sure). Tolkien rarely gave any number of the volumes of the armies.
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Dark red masonary bricks in the kraken set are quite sweet. Otherwise this theme seems to suffer from the same blandness than the latest Castle wave. Blue coats are nice touch too, I'm not a regulat pirate builder but those might have some nice steampunk pieces.
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Great revamp. I always found the original model too random, even though it has some nice ideas (the crown and the tail). You achieved them well in this one. The head is especially good. I also like the talons on the feet. Lighting of the photo could be a bit better though, now it's a bit challengin to see the details of the torso.
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Dress my Exo Suit Mini-challenge - Entry thread
Pate-keetongu replied to Bob De Quatre's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Here's my entry, Borgan Hammerhock's Exo-Dwarfsuit 3.0. The Suit features a new furious weapon: A Dragon flamepipe. Dwarven alchemists spent decades to solve the secrets of articfically creating dragon-flame, and now the guardsdwarves can shoot fiery death into anyone who tries to take down their mines. The suit naturally has also a old good warhammer for close-combat situations. The theme is Castle, Fantasy Era subtheme, dwarves sub-subtheme. More photos here. -
Thanks everyone, glad you liked the little guy! Go ahead and give it a try!
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This MOC appeared pretty much from nowhere, it was not even based on any tablescraps. I just came home yesterday evening (The educatinal period of my civil service had just ended) and I threw some pieces on my Bionicle table together. Womba the Stalwart was born. He might be a frog, wombat, turtle or what. This little guy also gave an opportunity to use some cool parts like Mixel eyes (hadn't use them as eyes before) Laval's shield and feet and KK2 armor pieces. The chest armor is my favorite part of this. I don't know if the techinique is new or used before, but it seems to create an interesting pattern and is surprisingly sturdy, as it's supported by clip plates and a long bar. There's more babble on Cyclopic bricks. Enjoy!
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Company of Thorin Oakenshield project - Compeleted!
Pate-keetongu replied to Pate-keetongu's topic in LEGO Historic Themes
Heh, that's loads of comments, thanks heaps mates! Thanks. I don't think I'll build them digitally because my LDD skills are terrible. But if somebody wants to try to build them, I'll give advise for sure. I'm sure I'll build more characters on the same size... I'm thinking of Saruman and King Thror at the time, and Fellowship project could happen one day (or well, several days)... But I don't promise anything, I'm always having dozens of WIPs and projects. Heh, that I hear a lot! Not with my bricks... And it wouldn't fit my room. Sure! But I quess you will have to come to Finland. There will be a LEGO exhibits on February (Imatra) and April 2015 (Helsinki) where these will be displayed. I'm not going to break these fellows for parts so there'll likely be more shows, who knows if I'll bring them abroad some time. Ecclesiastes, thanks for the frontpaging, you make me a happy... Dwarf? Walrus? AFOL? -
Good evening! I am happy to announce that my project to build the company of Thorin Oakenshield from the Hobbit films. The project began 656 days ago in a land of which kind no longer exist in Middle-Earth when I posted bust of Balin in November 2012. It sort of grew into a full Balin, and got a brother Dwalin, and a cousin Oin, and some random Bifur guy... And well, I decided to build the dwarves, and then somebody asked (probably here on on EB) asked if I'd build Gandalf and Bilbo. And well, I did. You probably remember some of these MOCs (Kili even made it to the front page). The new ones here are Ori, Bilbo and Gandalf. Of course the story of the company doesn't end here. There will be conventions and exhibits to visit with these guys. There's heaps of more photos on my blog. Enjoy. At least I did enjoy building them!
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Here's my newest action figure MOC, fightress Annya. The idea was to use chain pieces as, well, chain mail. I think that worked quite well with the plate armor skirt. I went with dark green as I hadn't built many green MOCs lately but I have lot of dark green pieces (green sets were, I think, popular, and I've got or bought lot of second-hand bionicle sets). There's more photos and babbling on Cyclopic Bricks.
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Made this MOC for Finnish LUG Palikkatakomo's "Traditional Finnish Proverb" building contest. Old geezer is quite stunned when "Roasted bird" on the menu wasn't quite what he expected... But there's no accounting for taste, as the waitress cheekily points out. There's some more babbling about the creation on my blog. Enjoy!
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Nah, dunno. Boromir came in more expensive set and he's around 6 USD currently, and for example Balin, Dwalin, Bombur and Bofur are even cheaper, aroun 5 USD, despite coming in Bag End which is, I guess but am not sure, more expensive than BoFA. Grima Wormtongue, who is probably the rarest Middle-Earth figure that comes in set is around 16 USD, and I doubt Mr. Ironfoots ("Ironfeet!") will be rarer than him. Of course the prices will be higher just after the sets are released but they will definitely drop.
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Look at the right upper corner of this photo, seems like Iron Hill helmets with sort of spike/mohawk/plume (?) on the top, so it still might be possible to use Dain's helmet as decent footsoldier helmet, even if the mohawk thingie is not removable.
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Plus the fact that -if I know something about toy business- that it's lot harder to sell something to kids between 6-11 if it has a very complex story published 14-3 years ago than start everything fresh, as Gregory F noted on LEGO message boards some time ago.
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I sort of agree here. Stone and earth as different elements never made much sense, and lack of air would be really odd. But on the other hand, changing Pohatu's color scheme would be lot more in conflict with the classic-reboot idea than changing Lewa's element without altering his colors. Sure, Pohatu's brown could have someting to do with trees, but it wouldn't work without green.
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Look guys, I made a HF MOC! This fellow is extremely originally named Crab Beast. I wanted to make something to fit the current HF theme... For some reason, I don't know why. Probably because giant humanoid sea monsters are cool? Or because I always wanted to use that cool marbled Carapar head? And the Dinosaur heads as pincers? No when I think it, "The Mollusked Menace" would have been better name. But at least this has HF vibes on it. Some more babbling on Cyclopic Bricks as usual. I like feedback, by the way. Feedback is nice. Anyway, enjoy.