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The Punisher! I want that torso!

Check this, it's in italian but the names are clear http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcio_ai_Giochi_della_XXX_Olimpiade Maybe there's an english page on wikipedia, too

Same for me, I didn't think we could even pass the first round, and italy played way better than expected, so it's been a really nice Euro tournament for me...

Well, it's been really heavy... Congratulations to spain...

ITALY ALL THE WAY!

It's been an equilibrated match, with nice shots from both parts, but as Buffon said yesterday after the match, when you score you never know how a match changes, so probably if Balotelli would have made a mistake on the first goal the whole match would have been really different... One thing is clear: without Buffon it would have been REALLY harder than this. (Side note in which no one will be interested: for me as a F.C. Milan supporter is a pain to see how Pirlo is playing right now - They sold him last year because they thought he was finished, he won a Championship with Juventus and now is one of the best players in Euro 2012... :cry_sad:

Thank you, the conversion between differente systems is always a pain...

I agree with you, loew changed in block podolski & gomez. I found the german attitude very strange too: today the first page of the german newspaper Abendzeitung titled "Arrivederci Italia" [goodbye Italy]... this is a thing no one would dare to say here even if we were going to play with the worst team in the world (we really trust in good luck :-) LOL ! It's not over yet...

THIS... IS... UNBELIEVABLE...

I always thought that Kubrick figures were Lego rip-offs and SW did a line of them some time ago

I completely agree with your summary

Well, for Spain it's been harder than we thought...

You're right... And this is more true considering that we've not big names such as cristiano ronaldo and what we did in South Africa

Mine too, even if I'm dreaming of a spain-italy... Anyway I think Germany is doing the best and will win the tournament

ROTFL, you're right, I didn't consider nothern Europe people :-) Anyway to bypass this, I always approximate in excess, scaling all measurements to the next plate (or brick). This can be seen in the last image: when I'm going to build the kitchen it will be 11 studs wide and not 10, even if 10 should be the right number. This is also due to the fact that the first things to be build are the walls (interior and exterior) and they cannot be less than 1 brick wide. (this is not true if you build SNOT, but for standard techniques it is). To kciR: yes it's roughly a 1:44 scale but as Dino pointed out the taller you consider a minifigure to be, the higher is the scale, so I'd say it can be a 1:44 to 1:48 scale, then it depends on how you prefer your model to look. It's a subjective scaling system, different people could end up having different results. To all: Thank you very much for your support!

1 - 6985 Cosmic Fleet Voyager 2 - 497 Galaxy Explorer

I love it! It has a real "Chernobyl atmosphere", that broken window is awesome!

This is simply amazing!

Thanks!

SCALING TUTORIAL FOR BUILDINGS or LEGO ARCHITECTURE MINIFIGURES SCALE Hi all. First of all, I’m an Italian architect / Lego collector, so my English is not so good and it can happen that something is not correctly written. I apologize for this. Second: I don’t know if a similar tutorial already exists. I searched for it because I needed it but I couldn’t find anything, so I started drawing things trying to learn how to scale “real” buildings to rebuild them in minifigures scale. Now that the thing is done I thought that there could have been someone interested in it, so I decided to post it here. If it is a duplicate of another thread any mod feel free to remove it. If not, feel free to edit the post, while correcting the English form. Anyway... I’ve always been in love with Pierre Koening’s Case Study House # 22 (“Stahl House”) – I strongly suggest you to Google it, because it is a real masterpiece of the 20th century – and I wanted to rebuild it with Lego bricks. Unfortunately I don’t really like the “Lego Architecture” theme because minifigures cannot be displayed in those buildings (well, realistically talking it is not possible to make an Eiffel Tower in a minifig scale, but we’re going OT here). I was looking for a way to resize architectural blueprints, making it possible for a moc to be as realistic as possible in terms of sizes. The only tutorial I could find was a very nice tutorial for scaling vehicles, (It’s somewhere in Eurobricks) but it was not what I was looking for. So I started drawing… BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 1 - I used the metrical system for all the calculations. Sorry for British and American people, you need to re-rescale things. 2 – A minifigure with standard legs (not the short ones) stands for a person who is tall 1,80 m (5,91 ft), the medium size for a person. 3 – I use comma for decimal point. 4 – Lego minifigures are largest and flattest than real people, so there’s a noticeable approximation of the whole system. The basic parameter for scaling I used is height and not length. Starting from length you could end up having different results. This is also due to the fact that a 1x1 Lego brick is taller than larger. 5 – The method is used to “read” 1:100 blueprints in “Lego terms”. Considering the scaling methods there’s a lot we could talk about, but I’ll explain only the things I’m interested in. I did this for 1:100 blueprints because here in Italy they are the most common ones. (and I think in the whole Europe, too). HERE IT IS, OUR DOWNLOADED DRAWING We start with a blueprint found on the Internet or in books or whatever. I usually redraw it with a CAD software, it’s plenty of them and there are many that are freeware. Anyway this is not needed. Here it is the basic drawing I used: And this is the one I did starting from that one and comparing it to the many photos I downloaded: For the sake of knowledge, here is a photo of the building: Then we need to scale it in Lego Minifigures Scale: As a general rule, you can consider that a plan 1:100 has to be scaled 2,28 X before being printed. (If you photocopy it you have to do a 228% zoom). Here it is, so simple! You can see in this image the proportions between a regular drawing and a scaled one. Please notice that the height and weight of a 1x1 Lego bricks are different, so this method is not 100% accurate, anyway I find it is one of the best working. THE RULERS I did a UNI A4 sheet (21 x 29,7 cm) with a useful ruler that converts inches to meters to bricks. If you have a drawing in front of you just print it and use it. Be sure you print it in the right scale. I hope you found this guide useful, here is a photo where you can see a real use of all the things I said: Lego Bricks fits perfectly into the printed blue grid, so you can now build in a very accurate way. Side Note. It’s been VERY difficult for me to write this guide, and there are a tons more things to say but I’m not good enough in English to say them (and I think that they are a little too much technical to be interesting for an average reader), so if you have any questions just reply to this topic and I see if I can help you! Comments & flames are strongly welcome!

27 kg (59.4 lbs) of instructions, catalogs, brochures and so on...

Yes... but for me it has been 120 minutes of pain, starting from De Rossi's shot at 3'. And for Thursday the only question is... How many goals is Germany going to do? GO ITALY!!!

I think that they're not going to return to plain classic castle, but if LOTR sells well (and I don't think it can go in other ways) the castle line will be more fantasy-era related than ever. I mean it will be a non licenesed continuation of the LOTR line with less fantasy than LOTR but more than classic castle. For greeks, romans and so on I think they could be released as stand alone lines (as Atlantis was)

The broken stairs are amazing!