manglegrat
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Finished this beastie this morning. Wow, I love it! It's bigger than my cat. Thanks again, guys, for sharing this amazing MOC for others to build.
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Not loving the movie overall, but I enjoyed the space battle for sure. Were those Star Destroyers white?! Lego thoughts: Still not buying any of the current wave of sets (I'll maybe BL some minifigs) but would seriously consider the following sets if they're ever made (or reasonably-sized MOCs thereof if EB can provide...): Imperial cargo shuttle - looked kinda like a turtle to me, cool design. Hammerhead corvette - never watched the animated series but that plucky wee guy deserves some lego props for his heroics... Death Trooper TIE transporter thingy - looked like an Imperial equivalent of the U-Wing.
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Finally got all the parts in (I messed up a couple of lots and missed them completely so had to do a second round), and have finally built this lovely rendition of the UCS Y-Wing in the brick! Swooshy angle (probably the best shot I took): I got the stickers from an Aussie eBay seller - they're really good quality and I'm very happy with them. Greebly midsection: Side-shot, showing the double-wheel tips of the vanes - the angle of the photo makes it look like there's some droop but I haven't noticed any droopage in-the-brick from a number of different angles: This was a fun project and is a great model that I'm totally in love with at the moment... Thanks again, NathanR!
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I think the black technic pins with friction may be the issue. If I remove the beam, hinges, pins and other internal parts from the middle of the legs the plates go on the outside. I'll need to disassemble the legs from the "inside" and reassemble them with the plates already in place to see if it'll actually work as intended for me in LDD (if you see what I mean)... Gah. This is an excellent example of one of the reasons why it does this to us! And thanks - I did a spares-bin check and have 75% of the parts already...
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Just for fun, I'm building this in LDD (on my Mac) from the instructions and have had some odd collision detection issues where the technic bricks and beams are joined and you are supposed to put plates across the studs from one side to the other. My LDD install seems to be a bit over-sensitive, so I worked around it by adding in a layer of plates on the technic bricks. I'm at p87 now, and that workaround hasn't caused any other problems so far. I'm sure it's not an issue in the brick! I'm not sure I'll go all the way through in LDD, though. It's a bit of a grind doing it all on my lap using just the trackpad on my MBP. Aligning angled parts with the hinge align tool would test a saint's patience... It certainly makes me appreciate all the effort that went into producing those instructions, so major thanks to you guys for sharing this with us! Sometime soon (once I'm done building my BL'd UCS Y-Wing and ordering the parts for this) I'll get onto building it for real. Looking forward to it!
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Thanks! Wow, I never checked the actual weights, but it makes sense with twice the amount of ABS involved. Definitely interesting! I'm sure I read or saw someone had one with two of 'em stacked. I'll give it a go and see if I suffer from nacelle droop or not. Nice! You won't be swooshing this, right? So as long as it holds together under its own weight, you're probably good to go!
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Ooh! Thanks! Thread followed, instructions bookmarked. You, sir, are a splendidly generous gentleman of the highest order.
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No worries! It's an easy thing to miss one outlier amongst the other 1500+ parts! Particularly one that doesn't obviously seem like it should be rare. I did something slightly different, adding a couple of 1x2 tiles, removing one of the clips and shuffling the grilles up into the gap left up-front: I haven't tried any other tweaks to it - more clips in the middle section and short tiles in-between the new clips might be a better look in-the-brick. Some experimenting may be required! You did such a great job I had to change nothing else, except for the motorcycle-wheels I substituted: Because there are two wheels, it may actually be a bit too heavy as well, so that's why I have the original wheels on order in LBG and will be able to compare the effects of both options (plus trying just a single M/C wheel) in-the-brick, before I decide whether to go with them but paint them white. Ooh! Interested in seeing how those work out! It'll be a few weeks until all the parts come in (some coming from Europe), but I'll post up pics once the beastie is built.
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I just did a schwack of BL orders for this based on NathanR's LXF file, substituting the motorcycle wheel option for the engine vanes (I also bought LBG versions of the UCS wheel rims for those that I may paint white & compare). I combined that wanted list with the parts I needed to build RenegadeClone/Krispy/ScottishDave's dark red B-Wing MOC from this thread - I've been itching to build that for a while too (I got a DBG wheel rather than light grey for behind the cockpit - too many $$s for one of those!). On top of the parts I had already (about 60% each), it took 8 orders. I added some spares for MODs to my TIE fleet and haven't tried to split it all up to do a cost breakdown. Anyway, let's focus on the Y-Wing! I did have to make a few cost-based substitutions for this one though, even based on NathanR's great model - I tweaked the design requiring the 8x 4L DBG lightsaber blades to replace them with 4x 6.6L DBG bars with stop instead - shortens that greebly feature a little (like by 1.4L ), but it's not visually a concern from how it looked in LDD. Those 4L DBG bars are insanely expensive! I stuck with Orange for the 2540 plates & associated other parts. Now comes the waiting...
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Good advice from the guys above! BrickLink's import does have some issues, and isn't great with the variants, as discussed above. I've recently been using ReBrickable for this, uploading LXF files into a private MOC. The import process maps part IDs from LDD to current BrickLink IDs, and identifies rare parts or ones with colour issues, so you can swap them out, etc. It's not perfect but you can check the ones it has availability concerns about and change or keep them. When I've found major issues (several parts unavailable in my selected colour), I rework the LXF, check what it looks like there with the available colours, then re-upload and check again. You can export to BrickLink (or BrickStore) wanted/parts lists from there once you've validated the parts & colours. I also print off the parts list to help me visually track & identify what I need for each MOC. My last Bricklink binge had 3 MOCs bundled together over 8-10 orders... I still missed a few things, though that may have been pilot error! I just uploaded NathanR's LXF file to Rebrickable and it shows 3 part/colour combinations it thinks are "unused" in official sets, but two of those are 30359 variants you can swap-in without any material visual impact (30359/30359a/30359b - check which variant is more available) and the third is the R2 head, which I'm sure most folks aren't too concerned about... all are easy enough to correct with some research, I'm sure. Good job, NathanR!
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Thanks for sharing the file! Much appreciated.
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At the moment I just use the (small) webspace my ISP provides - the only thing on it is LXF files. But I've only shared 3! If I was a more prolific MOCer I'd probably look into using BrickShelf or Bricksafe to share more.
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Nice project - looks very good in digital form! Well done. Everything looks great - particularly the struts & pylons. The weight of the engine rings in-the-brick would be the only possible problem, though as others have said there are some decent options using motorcycle wheels on the forum if those don't work out. I haven't had the guts to take on a project this size myself yet, so I'm super impressed with you and the other guys' ideas and execution. I'll certainly be one of the folks who'll happily grab an LDD file if/when you get round to sharing it.
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Recently I've been using Rebrickable's private MOCs functionality as a verification & Wanted List generation tool. It does a pretty good job of part translation from LDD parts to Bricklink-aware part IDs. Better than exporting to LDraw first, and much better than the new Bricklink function... I upload LXFs for my MOCs and check what parts are & aren't available in what colours, then export to Bricklink wanted lists from there once I've verified it or modified it to fit - I'll go back to LDD and modify the file, re-save, re-import and cycle through versions, swapping parts and colours until it all works. Occasionally you still have to double-check a part it thinks isn't available in that colour against Bricklink, where it actually is... It's not perfect but *much* better than the Bricklink "nope, try again - and guess what's wrong" response, though!
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Thanks for the quick review! Funnily enough, I'm mostly just interested in the microfighter rather than the book itself (waiting to get an inventory on Bricklink before I decide whether to get the book or BL the parts and download instructions), but appreciate the info around the minibuilds, etc. Might be worth getting the book after all... Anyway - cool info, thanks!
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I'm with you on that but sadly, I see no signs of any of these or these in LBG from the looks of those pics... Lots of them in black on Krennic's shuttle, though... But I needs me some in LBG dammit! In trying to find new pieces (new to me, anyway!), it looks like the hovertank may have a 2x3 plate with one hole on the back half of the model - two per side (or it may be a 2x2 with one hole and a 1x2 plate, can't tell from the pics). At least, that's the only thing that stands out to me, other than the new print on what looks like the Grievous windshield on Krennic's shuttle... <edit> On second look, it looks like those may just be these parts instead. Would make a lot more sense than a new plate part... </edit> Anyone spot anything that seems new?
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I downloaded it tonight and it was ~87MB, installed like a charm once I temporarily dropped the security level (always makes me nervous, but hey). Yesterday, I tried downloading it multiple times but only got a 745 byte zipfile and lots of dubious looking popup ads, but tonight it worked fine. Dunno what changed from yesterday to today, but I'm a happy renderer now. Thank you Malou for putting the bundle together, and of course Bublible for the mod! :thumbup: -
+1 Great idea, Lucifer! ...and we didn't even have to sell our souls for it. Schweet!
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[LDD MOC] SA-43 Hammerhead from Space Above and Beyond
manglegrat replied to manglegrat's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Thanks! I'm playing with other screen options to remove the peak and the rim round the existing canopy, but I kinda like the rim and I'm just not satisfied with anything I've come up with yet (new X-Wing canopy, V-Wing canopy). Thanks! And yeah, that'd be sweet, but decals are beyond my talent! I'm sure with some more colour tweaks it's buildable in brick. It's very close as-is if you switch LBG for DBG - according to Rebrickable... only 4 reported colour errors. Curse TLG for not providing all the parts I want in the perfect colours I want... How inconsiderate! Sadly no, I haven't gone back to see if I can redesign the cockpit to be a drop-in yet. I think it's possible in this version (the structure may require a redesign), so that may be a mini-project for me sometime soon... if I succeed I'll do an update! If you want to have a go yourself then give'er and let us see how it works! Here's the updated LXF file. We had a binge-watch recently of the first 10 episodes (I think your signal scene may be in a later one) - I remember being pretty surprised when I saw the pilot the first time and Ermey was involved. He's a bit of an icon but kinda a one-trick pony (though it's an awesome trick). I loved his scenes in Frighteners... Overall, it's still very watchable but the acting was terrible... and the Silicates are such an 80's hair-metal throwback! -
Great news! Thanks, CM4Sci.
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That totally grossed out my wife when I showed her. Well done, that MOCer!
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[LDD MOC] SA-43 Hammerhead from Space Above and Beyond
manglegrat replied to manglegrat's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Thanks, Kwatchi! Yeah, the canopy peak is definitely a divergence but I didn't want to use a 1-piece official one and couldn't find a way to make the shape of the back half blend in to the neck smoothly using any other existing windscreen parts (I did consider using the Grievous canopy as well, but it's far too big and still doesn't do the back half of the cockpit). Let's call it "heavily inspired by" this MOC. I also had some wifely feedback last night suggesting that it needed to be longer (the MOC, guys! ), so I extended the neck by 2 studs and smoothed the top surfaces with tiles not grilles. I also threw in some of the dark blue coloring from one of the pics above along the engine-fronts/wing-edges: -
Hi. Another effort to build ships from old Sci-Fi shows in LDD - this time I've had a go at building an SA-43 Hammerhead from the under-rated 90's show Space, Above and Beyond. This is the attack jet the marines use against the bad guys. Lots of source material to work from but the below were useful reference pics: And here she is: It's built in DBG but looks more like LBG in the images. I think you can just about see the embedded jet engines/fans in that pic - the "natural light" renders were a bit too dark to see the black turbofans hidden in there until I tweaked the levels and monkeyed around with multiple light sources. The top gun turret rotates/elevates, the nose gun rotates, and the cockpit canopy pivots up around some clips at the front for the pilot. Front view: Top-down view: Obligatory 360 spin-o-tron view: With my MOC experience I couldn't get all the angles and curves to work in this minifig-scale, so it's a bit chunkier/stubbier than the reference images but I think it's a fair approximation that captures the spirit. Good enough for version 0.1... I wasn't able to get the cockpit unit to fully separate like in the pre-launch/post-landing sequences they had on the show. I thought that was a cool idea but couldn't make it work smoothly enough in the size I was aiming for while being a self-contained unit, so ditched that concept. I also left out landing gear - still have a lot to learn about building that... It's much better looking in flying mode for display, anyway! And for anyone who's curious, the LDD file is here. No clues how well it'll hold together in bricks, but I think everything should be able to bear the weight... Now to find some other obscure space-junk to build...
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Those look great together! I have to admit to having a soft spot for Red - very well done, that man.
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That looks great! Instantly recognizable, with a great sense of motion (obviously caught mid-burst!). Love the mix of trans-red/red for the blood & gore. Also loving the hot-dog and cherries for various different splashy parts - LOL!