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    Awesome. Would love to see how the bends are built!
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    A scene from James Cameron's 1986 movie 'Aliens' Vasquez minifigure & smart gun by Blacktron http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57638&st=50 The floor is made from trans-clear bricks overlaid by grill tiles, allowing uplighting from below.
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    Huh, where did all the pics go? Have they moved somewhere else? Anyone got a link? I just wanted to post to say this was my top pick for the contest. Real shame it didn't get a prize. You mentioned you had to rush the pics due to a prior engagement - I was hoping to see some more - maybe a video of the lift in action....
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    Scene from James Camerons 1986 movie 'Aliens'. Vasquez custom headgear by Blacktron http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57638&st=50
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    Please can someone tell me when the voting will end and winners be announced?
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    CatA: 7 - 2 pts 15 - 1 pt 2 - 1 pt Cat B: 8 - 2 pts 5 - 1 pt 3 - 1 pt Good luck everyone.
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    Nice to see you can still grow carrots on Oumoros. Great build. Nice antennae!
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    Really nice. I love the caged blossom tree. House design is superb.
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    Actually, my hinge design is plenty strong enough: I'm using technical bricks pushed sideways onto plates which is a very strong connection (You literally can't pull them off even if you try!) The problem is with the arms when they're in the open position: Because the arms are diagonal, the heavy pods are continually trying to twist the arms off. The left arm is only 7 studs at it narrowest point (due to the flat cut-out needed to let the other pod pass by) and of course it's quite easy to twist off 7 studs. Basically the arms need to be strong both parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the ship. Possible solutions: 1) Use overlapping plates: Tried it. Needed 3 layers plus tiles on top. Difficult to make interlocking flat fold. Studdy underside looks bad when open. 2) Use lift arms like the Imperial Shuttle which can be cross-braced. This might work although the wing edge would be jagged. 3) Somehow angle the bricks so they run diagonally in the same plane as the arm. This would be great but I couldn't figure out how to angle the bricks at each end. 4) Use superglue (Never!) 5) My current solution is to use a regular SNOT construction. This has the advantage of being studless - so looks nice and smooth in both open and closed positions. If I want to display the ship with the arms open I use clear nylon cord to help support the pods from above. If anyone has any other ideas, or knows a way to angle the bricks, please let me know. Otherwise, I will leave it to future generations of dropship builders to ponder the problem.
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    Thanks for the comments all. @emilstorm. Yes that might work, but I wanted it to look good and be studless on all sides. It's always a trade off between strength and looks. Here's some pics of how it works at the moment:
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    Scene from James Cameron's 1986 movie 'Aliens'. "Hey Bishop. Do the thing with the knife." Hudson: "It ain't funny man. It ain't funny" Thanks to Matthias for the custom Aliens minifigs: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57638&st=50
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    Wow. Very nice. Did a Lego lorry full of white bricks and black plates crash into your house or something? ;) Looking forward to seeing the finished ship.
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    Nice job. Looks suitably scary.
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    Wow. This is great. So many cool details. Does the truck elevator actually work? You know I wouldn't fancy living on the planet Mercury, but if I had to live there I'd definately want to live in this awesome base!
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    Thanks everyone! I tried to build on the great work done by Babalas Shipyards, 2x4 and Havoc - but enlarged to full minifig scale. I also spent a long time studying Toromodel's reference photos, trying to get the proportions as accurate as possible. Still alot that could be improved: I'd like to get rid of those holey wedge bricks on the front and replace them with a smooth SNOT panel. And I'm still not happy with my folding missile arms: They fold OK but they're not strong enough to fully support themselves in the open position. (I used some invisible cord to provide extra support for the pics). I should probably study how TLG make the wings of the imperial shuttle and the large X-wing models: maybe I could copy some of those techniques using liftarms. But for now it's beyond my bricks. In 'The Making of Aliens' documentary even the original dropship designer said he wasn't happy with the missile arms - too fragile. It's funny they're simultaneously the coolest and the dumbest part of the design. Anyway, thanks for the comments and stay tuned; I've got some more Aliens mocs in the works.
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    Awesome set. From the still pictures it look fun if a little messy, but it really comes into its own when you see the video. The way it all folds up and packs away onto the trucks is genius. Just wish I was still of the age where I could 'play' with Lego because I could of spent many a happy long school holiday endlessly setting up the ride and stalls and having all the townspeople come to the fair before packing it up and moving on to another town. So much fun. The video highlight for me was when he whipped out the 'high-striker' mallet and bell stall from beneath the truck then showed that it was actually fully functional!! Shut up and take my money!
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    Looks cool. I assume the engines can rotate for VTOL? How many troops can you fit in there? Looks like alot!
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    Thanks to Blacktron for the custom Spunkmeyer and Ferro dropship pilot minifigs and Larry Lars for the APC design.
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    Great MOC. Very realistic looking. Love the plate brickwork on the upper floor. One improvement suggestion: It would look better if you used SNOT to get rid of the row of white studs visible below the glass panel at the top of the entrance arches.
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    Impressive scale model of a cool ship from a cool show. I was wondering if you had considered using SNOT panels for some of the surfaces instead of stepped slopes? For one thing - it's easier to add greebled sections to snot panels - allowing you to control the texture of the surfaces rather than having it dictated by the slope bricks. It could also potentially require fewer bricks making the model cheaper and lighter. Anyway - good luck with the build. Looking forward to seeing the finished ship.
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    An excellent rendition in lego of what looked like a very small polystyrenne set in the movie. (Seriously, what was Peter Jackson thinking? And he replaced the gritty realism of the LOTR orcs with fake looking CGI orcs!!). Great MOC though.
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    Thanks Blacktron. I think the Aliens movie is quite a niche interest: you need to be 46 or over to have seen it at the cinema - and I'm guessing there aren't that many over 40's on here. Also, I think the footfall in this forum is pretty low due to the Star Wars forum hoovering up most of the AFOL sci-fi fans. Plus it's difficult to make Aliens MOCs without custom minifigs so not many people are into it. That's a shame because *every scene* in that movie is ideal for MOCing: Relatively few characters, relatively small scale locations and hardware - it's all very do-able in Lego, unlike say LOTR or Star Wars - in which the locations and action tend to be on a much larger scale. Anyway, I'm working on a dustoff photo-shoot next - with the '01' dropship coming in to land, all weapons deployed, APC on the ramp, LED lights on both the APC and the dropship. Just hoping my support wires hold out. Don't want to drop my dropship!
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    Harton, I can answer some of your questions about the regular house designs you scoff at: 1) Why do regular houses have slopped rooves? Because flat rooves pool water and always leak. ALWAYS. Whereas water runs off slopped rooves meaning they can last for decades without need for expensive maintenance. 2) Why do houses have big windows, bay windows, loft windows etc? Because people like to look out and let light in. 3) Why doesn't everyone have a bungalow? Because in some places land is very expensive so better to build up than out. 4) Why do houses have superfluous decoration: pillars, wall coverings, circular elements? Because man has always sought to make beautiful that which is necessary. Apart from that - nice LDD design. I used to work in an office block that looked similar.
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    I think it's just bot generated spam. I see alot of that on other boards. Someone makes a random first post that appears to reply to a thread but in reality just contains a link they want you to click. Should probably just delete it. Although now we're here - that's a great looking pallet truck by Selander!
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    Thanks for the great review. Seeing the Simpsons figs next to some regular minifigs confirmed my suspicions that they don't mix atall well. I agree with the poster who said there's something very unlegolike about those heads. It would be like starting a collection of Megablocks or Playmobil figures. Think I'll stick to Lego figs and pass on these.
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