Jerac
-
Posts
497 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Everything posted by Jerac
-
Looks very good! Maybe do a bigger diorama with it? With longer part of track, and the white at-hauler ship?
-
This will be an unpopular opinion, but I hope it helps. You are headed for a costly disaster. The construction you have right now is greatly simplified and has many serious errors compared to the source material. I can help you outline them if you wish. Normally, LEGO being an imperfect medium, it would absolutely be not a problem. In such a big scale, however, making it much more movie-alike is entirely possible and as such will trigger questions, why was it not done so. I strongly recommend returning to square one before you invest more time and money at current stage. Remaking a prototype is nothing bad and I, too, did this in almost every big build I have done. In case of the star destroyer, it went from "seemingly almost done" state to bare frame because angle was wrong. It added a month of total build time, but fixed an error which would not be possible to cover otherwise.
-
[MOC] LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper BARC Speeder, Apr.14 2020 finalized
Jerac replied to JoeChu1980's topic in LEGO Star Wars
Pardon a silly question, but why does one of them come with a sleeping pod? :D -
Well, I consider this unauthorized change in the wing/engine structure and now your warranty is void! :D
-
It looks pretty good - if not all the rendering it would be a contender for fourth version in the instructions ;) Don't you have a problem with axle stops pushing how against wide part of engines, as it sticks out of 2x3 rounded plates?
-
Looks... surprisingly good for what it is! I wouldn't perhaps put it in Star Wars area but hey, is is a nice TIE-like MOC after all.
-
Fast!? It took me more than four months for something relatively small... it was all but fast ;) Building from outside in scales greatly with size. Actually, the bigger the build the better the result because you have more space inside for the structure. This is during construction of the Chimaera. The frame grows with the build, but it is the outer shell which was the most important at this stage. The frame was a temporary filler. Once I had the outside more or less done, I was then able to start doing internal frame, as lightwieght and minimal as possible. The same works for any build and if I ever wanted to do a Falcon I'd do it the same way.
-
Gears you can go with tan. I didn't think of using these because I just did not expect a basic grey gear to be expensive, I apologize. The best way to limit the total price is to reduce amount of lots. If you can get 10 lots less with 20 pieces scavenged from your collection, this might mean one shop less to look in, and one shipping less. I did what I could to limit amount of lots and I couldn't get it under 200 :|
-
I also recommend imgur. Super quick and easy to use.
-
Any chance for bigger photos? It looks really weird on bricksafe, as if the background was cut in half. It is also more convenient to have photos here, along with the link to the source. That said, I downloaded the lxf ;) I like how wings are mostly in one plane, this was awful in the set and some MOCs also get this wrong. Engine intakes look nice, altough they'd be a pain to assemble I guess... On the other hand, I have bad news when it comes to wings. There is no chance these hinges you used would sustain the weight. I am not sure if click hinges would (altough four of them per wing, maybe?), but with these? No way.
-
T/B is entirely legal. Aside from parts noted already by TemjinStrife, it is solid like a brick. Its panels are of most solid construction in any TIE and bodies are built with plenty of SNOT interlocking. X-Wing is a different story, because there is less space inside and there are more angles. Compared to my usual MOCs this is a bit stronger, TIEs are much stronger, but at best this is MOC-level. Stressing is more interesting though. I THINK there is no stress here, because while the nose sides are pulled forcibly together a bit, it is not by much and should only close natural gaps between pieces. The sections being pulled together are over 20-stud long and it is by a half of plate height at best? This is official colour scheme ("Red 5" in instructions), just with one 2x4 dark tan tile replaced by LBG one. Should be pretty easy mod!
-
Thanks! It looks right; you got all the problematic areas exactly as intended. Again I can't stress how relieving this is! Cheers!
-
Thanks! Yes, this is a challenging build. I tried to smooth it as much as possible (which is why each wing core section is different and you can't really assemble them right any other way, for example), but... still, this is a challenging build. Was for me to design, has to be to build, there is no other way. "There were a bunch of really cool/unexpected areas where a small detail in one step became a significant detail in another (particularly the DBG road sign)" - this is particularly interesting! Do you refer to the sign in the cockpit, on top of computers? Like... it just sits there... not interfering with anything... :D There is a trick for short flex hoses. Basically for any flex hoses which need bending, which is: bend them way more than you should. They will quickly return to straighter form and hopefully keep the intended angle. You can also use 1x1 bricks inserted at the ends to have more grip area. We'll check what's up with the triple stand parts list. You can't imagine how relieved I am knowing that the parts list for the ship itself is flawless. This thing has more than double the amount of lots of any other model I have ever made, and three separate variants. Potential for mistakes was *humungous* here. Thankfully investing in the automated process and writing auto-fixing scripts seem to be worth it! You can put the R2 there quite easily: Put him down in an angle, one leg first, then another, then it will slide on the claw hand piece. If the tiles sliightly widen don't worry, you can easily push them back together. There is absolutely no compatibility with 75218, sorry. Build philosophies are far too different. The same story happened before with the TIEs. It would be too much of a compromise to complicate the thing even more just to reuse some pieces from the set. You are right about bevels. I actually have them tan in my ship I have on my desk, and it looks good. You can replace all of them for tan and it's good. Can you take a shot or two of your finished model? I wonder if you got all the angles right. Just curious! Thanks for the feedback, it is SUPER helpful!
-
Perhaps it would be better to just watch the video :) About 5:00 minute mark (the link should already work like this).
-
Well my fault for this being not clear enough. I have updated instructions, will be rolled to all buyers shortly. Should be less confusing.
-
Uh.... you get 5 16L tubes from XML file. You cut one of them into pieces (which is why is it labelled "X1"). You end up with: 4x 16L pieces (these will be gun shafts) 4x 3L pieces (these will be barrel tips) 2x 2L pieces (these go in the nose) Should I update the instructions to make this more clear?
-
Extending the back is very simple. Trivial I'd say. Just pick longer pieces instead of current ones, it is things like 1x3 instead of 1x2 and so on. Making it as current dimension was difficult because in little space I had to match gearbox/wings rear mounting point and four bracing points for the hull sections. Moving the wings forward, on the other hand, is absolutely impossible in this design. It was not any detail or single piece causing trouble, it was joining them all together so they don't block the wings, are durable, have joints for all the parts coming from the front and leave enough space for rear greebling. I forgot about this: "Are all of the laser shaft options partially flex tubing, or does one of the variants use a solid bar for the length of it? " All variants in instructions use flex tubing. The one variant I had with solid bars was too thick in the middle section, and there is no rigid bar long enough by itself.
-
Thanks! But don't worry, I am jealous of your engine detail on the inward-facing part of the wing, your nose cone seem to fit better and while your landing gear design is not retractable, it does look better. You have nothing to be ashamed for and it is your design which I drawn most inspiration from, even if in the end I went for something different. I did I all could. Yes, it is not perfect at some places (notably cockpit is too short but in this scale I couldn't do better, and overall the engine diameter is a big too big. It is a tradeoff; if I did the ship any bigger to match engine diameter, the cockpit would be too small, and making it scaled to the cockpit would push me closer to 3-wide engines which I wanted to avoid too. But you are right: rear fuselage could be one stud longer. Dang I got this one wrong. And it would be so much easier for me if I had that one more stud length. Sorry! Must have lost this somewhere during "translation"!
-
The torpedo tubes sadly *slightly* intersect the fuselage. However if you imagine the torpedoes being launched a tiny bit angled away from it, it is pretty okay. In the one I have on my desk I switched some of the cheese slopes to black and it works even better, but this feature was made after rendering all instructions and didn't make it. It is worth it though if you will attempt to make one for yourself. You can do what you suggest in the engines. I am not a fan of transparent pieces for engines which is why I picked this solution, but the engine being a stack of various 2-wide round pieces means you can use whatever you wish. I used this shot as a reference for various dimensions of the ship. Unless I made some stupid mistake during calculations, it should match it to about half of stud precision. That box behind R2 unit puzzled me too. It is as you noticed visible only on the close-up model, and not on the miniature one. This is not the only difference though, in hangar the ship's stripe gets repainted whole before Luke even gets out of the cockpit :D Since I was basing the model off the miniature one - because reasons - this box is also missing. As for laser cannon pieces situation, yes, it is flex tube sometimes and "lightsaber blade 4L" element. There are four physical x-wings built now, one by me, three by BrickVault, and they differ a bit. I believe they have one in spec 6, one spec 8, one spec 8b and mine is spec 7. In instructions you will get one with flex tubing used for both the shaft and the barrel tip. Thanks! This model being an X-Wing means it has all the protruding elements - cannons and thrusters - which do like to bend or pop off. Nose tip, the darker piece is attached on a ball joint and by itself it also is not attached too sturdily to the body. Everything else though should hold well. You can pick the ship by the nose, even though it doesn't like it and squeaks a bit), by the wings without any issue, and any other part of fuselage also no problem.
-
Yes! Popular, made by everyone, but actually very hard ;) As for canopy: this was actually a request from BrickVault guys, to have it consistent with other ships. I originally intended to go for brick-built cockpit, however... now seeing the result, I am not sure brick-built one would be any better!
-
This exactly is why we have outsourced this question to you. Please tell us afterwards - or show, even! - which one you made!
-
Thanks! Indeed these were tradeoffs for making the model both easier to make and more sturdy. The guns are what irks me most. Your solution is quite good, but only "quite", because of the wheels being not smooth themselves. The one I got is at best "passable", it won because of simplicity and passing squint test well enoguh. As for cockpit piece, I have no idea why did LEGO insist of making it wrong. I am wondering if they simply care at all about accuracy. The latest 2018 X-wing for example has a very odd flaw: engines flush with wings' leading edge. Usually you can say a set is made in this or another way because it should be simple enough, but in this case, it was a conscious decision which complicated the design and made it less accurate. Similar story is unfolding with their TIEs. The design is evolving and is more smooth and uses more interesting pieces, yes... but every time slightly departs from original TIE fighter look. As if the only reference they got was the previous line of sets. Very odd.
-
The Lambda is ever-evolving, isn't it? I don't like writing comments like "cool" without any kind of precise feedback, but here I can only say: "cool!" because there is almost nothing to improve left.
-
Like others said, the otherwise good build is hampered by the extra thicc nose. I would also recommend making the surfaces behind the cockpit a bit more unified, as they seem a bit random now. I do like general flow of the rear end of the ship, with flat engines and delicate looking guns, which match the engines' style.
-
Body end-to-end is 42 studs long, with thrusters extending past that a bit. Piece count varies depending on color variant, but it is 1050 +/- 20.