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  1. Anio
    Yes, especially if the arm is horizontal (which in reality you are not supposed to do ; you must raise it first, and then extend the arm or use the cable). Maybe you can rebuild it. During the building process, try not to tighten the parts too much. They have to rotate as freely as possible.
  2. Anio
    The thing is that simple half stud offsets are not SNIR. At least not in the idea of what I think SNIR is. You can find good examples of SNIR on the nose of 7191/10240 and on the side of 10248.
  3. Anio
    I like it a lot. Anyone to do the same thing with 10240 ?? :D
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    Sadly, I didn't. :( But we are on the same boat when it comes to MOCing and designing a Lego model. ;) I noticed this for quite a while with your MOCs. And I love that. So few builders care about that kind of things. Yes, I know. My point is that maybe ignoring this very slight slope enables to capture another aspect better ? Red area for the SNIR. Green for the slope. :)
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    Very nice model. Just like your other trucks. I like how every details is carefully designed. Even things we do not see on the final model, but only during the building process. A nice chassis, a nice building experience, this is as important as the final model itself, and you nailed it. Bravo ! I miss some studs though. To bring some character and texture to the vehicle. Like this one for example : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6232974 One question on the brown truck : The very slight slope (with "stair effect") on the hood does not add much visually speaking. I am pretty sure you could have made that part totally flat. From there, with a simplified construction on the top, couldn't you have use SNIR on the sides ? On the very top, dark red 4x1 curved slopes would also be welcome. :)
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    You have to be colorblind dude. It is light grey even on the pic you posted.
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    Parts availability and colors palette has nothing to do with that... No matters how many colors and bricks will ever be available for designers, it is necessary to reinterpret the real model to turn it into a nice Lego model. Nothing to do with Star Wars, but as I am used to say with modular buildings, the key is not to take a nice building and turn it into a Lego set, but to take a building and turn it into a nice Lego set. This may sound futile to you, yet it is essential.
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    No, this is not how Lego works (by "Lego" here, I do not mean "TLG" but "designing a model with Lego elements"). I know many people can not understand it, but believe me, if you absolutety stick to how the model is IRL, it won't give a nice result in Lego. Both regarding shape and colors.
  9. Anio
    Yep. What matters is to catch the spirit of the ship and to reinterpret it into Lego Bricks. A Lego set has to look good, which does not mean that it has to be correct. :)
  10. Anio
    It looks very good... I miss those kind of vehicle so much in official Technic sets... :( Today, sets are focused on realism. Something like 8462 or your truck would be awesome.
  11. Anio
    This set is crap. Very poorly engineered. Buy a 8292 and forget that 8289 forever. For your information, the 2 functions are not totally independant because of the worm gear going through the turntable. When the turntable rotates, the worm gear rotates too, so the arm may go up/down. And vice versa, if you rise or lower the arm, it may rotate the turntable. Same problem with many sets : 8446, 8071 but not as problematic as 8289. You can also see a very similar problem with sets such as 8271.
  12. Anio
    Having tubes outside is something very normal for any part of a build that need some stiffness and that is not very thick. "Smoothing" the underside of a wing requires some SNOT technique which is not very stable, and it adds an extra thickness which not welcome at all. There are plenty of example where the underside (or the inner side) is not covered, and it doesn't detract the final result. Look at the wings of 10215, 7181, 7191, 10240, 10175, 10129, 75060, 75095, bottom of 10212 and 10179. Same for the models I do. The wings of my UCS A-Wing aren't covered on the inner side, and that's fine. This is Lego. When you build something where the outside is also used to structure the build, you have studs on the top, and tubes on the bottom. However, when the model has a structure inside, you can use some techniques to put the construction upside down and have some nice fairing elements on all the outside. 10227 is a good example. On the body, there are fairing elements in 6 directions to give a nice result. 10019 is very interesting as well. On the contrary, 10221 is the perfect example of a poor looking model. It is huge, has a huge structure, and the bottom is poorly stacked like it where a boring 250 part model... Pictures speak for themself...
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    Not that much to do with building techniques. Wings are very heavy. Big and 3 plates thick. And the pylons (arms, if you will), are only 5 plates thick to support those big wings. Technically speaking, the arms supporting the wings are even only 1 brick thick (3 plates). Indeed, the upper and lower plates and brackets do not bring much support as they do not go deep in the cockpit (for example, the SNOTed ring made with curved brick leads the designer to use only a 4L plate on the underside of the arm). I do not understand how no one at TLG saw this. Or maybe they saw it but didn't care... (which is much more likely IMO). Slave 1 UCS after 7 months : (don't ask me if I did a mistake when I built the model. I built the model exactly as shown in the instruction).
  14. Anio
    This model follow the trend of other recent UCS : it bends with time... It is built for 5 months, and : - space between the top of the wings : 28,8 cm - space between the botom of the wings : 27,6 cm Technically there are some nice tricks, but the model is not that impressive for a 1,700 part model. 10240 is much, much more interesting technically speaking. And it doesn't bent. :O
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    [MOC] UCS A-Wing

    Anio replied to Anio's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    Thank you for the pics. :)
  16. Anio
    This handle on the dish is convenient for some applications. But still, it make the part with a 7L dimension (odd length, in other words). And that is a pain to deal with studful...
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    The first version looks very good. I like it. 2 minor suggestions : - on the "arms", use slopes 4x1 Light Bluish Gray instead of slope 3x1. Slope 4x1 LBG is available since the Speed Champion Mercedes set is released. - you may shorten each arm by 2 studs (not on the wedge side, but on the side where you used tile 1x3, brackets etc)
  18. Anio
    When it comes to "minifig scale", many people fail to understand the concept... And sorry to say it this way, but it seems you are among them. :/ I mean, add a LDD minifig on this image (on your 4 stud seat) and see how ridiculous the result would be... Don't get me wrong. You did a nice little speeder. But it is just not minifig scale. Minifig scale is a deeper concept than just a poor calculation based on the size of a minifig.
  19. Anio
    I am not only talking about those wedges. I am talking about to entire nose, from the very front to the windscreen. Hum... better ?
  20. Anio
    This appears to be a good and reasonnable suggestion to me. It is not even necessary to buy the model (well, the windscreen maybe...), but just to look how it is built (or how 9493 is built, as it is basically identical).
  21. Anio
    If you use instead of in the corners, you can : - have a more round shape - can probably add an extra plate thickness to make a better join with parts around (plates 3 x 3 cut corner, wings 4x2). Using in light bluish gray would also look better. Everything you need is in 75095. ;)
  22. Anio
    I don't like the ship very much (espcially those big rotating "wings", and the bridge). But you did a nice job. Your model looks clean, and accurate. You have good joins between all angled elements, which is something very important to have a nicely executed design. Very good work as well on the textures (stud/tiles balance). edit : I checked your LDD. You could have put only 1 big cone piece on each side of the nose. By rotating it by 90°, you could have achieve a slightly bigger and more detailed cockpit. Some part do not exist in the color you used. Part 14719 has not been produced yet in DBG.
  23. Anio
    You can't count this... This is the most reproduced Star Wars MOC. And maybe the most reproduced MOC in general... Just in TechLUG, At least 10 people own a copy. Some time ago, I even had 2...
  24. Anio
    On September 4th they said ?
  25. Anio
    The thing is that there is already a review of the new Falcon on the internet.
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