Steven L

I've decided to alter the stern. Now the back panel is made of stages, onto rows of hinges. This way I could make slanted windows. All of the hinges, except from the top stage, are obscured by the balcony and fences. Here is a sideview where you can see the back panel slanting outward. The last picture shows more of the statues. I'm going for mythical animal creatures. For easier and faster working, I've saved a part of the stern. Later I can join the stern to the rest of the ship.

For now I've added lanterns to the stern. I'm not totally happy with it, but it's a start. It's one of those things I can fiddle about with, from time to time. I've also reduced the number of guns and offset them. It looks a lot stronger built this way. Thanks for the tips. I've also looked into the Swedish Royal Vasa. It does look a lot like my creation. But the stern, no matter what, has to be more ornate. More decorations, more gold. More to come soon. Tips and ideas are welcome!

Thanks for your reply, Captain Becker. I have little to no knowledge on ships. What I did for this build is Google "tall ship" and look at the pictures it showed up. It's a mix of a couple of Google hits. I used closeups of various parts of various tall ships to come up with this tall ship. Thanks for mentioning l'Ambitieux. There are a lot of good pictures from all sides of this vessel online. Looking at l' Ambitieux I've noticed a few things. I can see the offset guns, a modification that is not hard to do on my ship. I have to look into that. While I'm at it, I can add little shutters on the gun ports. The shrouds (if that's what they are called) go on the outside of the hull, not on the inside. The white on the hull can be the same color as the rest, no problem. I don't know what your thoughts are on the masts, but I see I have to alter the ropes because they are supposed to go back at an angle rather than straight down. While I'm doing that, I could change the masts if it isn't to much work. Suitable name by the way, l'Ambitieux. Because it's rather abitious to create this huge MOC.

Hi all, For the last couple of weeks I've been working on this tall ship. 126 canons, (so far) 4455 bricks, the midship region consists of 3 32x32 base plates, it's got three levels and a top deck. The size is so out of proportion that I couln't use the regular masts. The shrouds had to be doubled in length to reach all the way to the crowsnests. The sails are a range of round bricks and car panels. Right now I'm putting ropes on the masts and sails. (Forgive me, I'm not used to the proper terminology of ships) It needs a few more things like an anchor, rowing boats, a large crew. A little sidenote: this LDD creation is not made to turn it into a real brick model, just as a 3d digital model. I have no intention to make this for real, so I've used the colors creatively. I know some bricks aren't available in every color.

It's been a while since I've posted here on Eurobricks. No matter with what mindset I start a LDD-model, I almost always end up making motorcycles. Here is another one. Again, not using the real color bricks. Just for looks.

How's this?

Thanks Zblj. I could add a brake disk at the front. I have one bush of room for it. The rear tire doesn't have room for an additional disk. I did find an alternative for the exhaust, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I could use connecting links #6101. The cyclindric shape bricks with two lips one one end and three on the other end. Downside is that it's only bendable in 2 directions. I haven't altered the exhausts, because I'm still looking for a better alternative. What I have been working with is a sidecart. If I get the design the way I want, I will post a pic here.

It's been a while since I've posted here. I've recently re-discovered Lego Digital Designer and this is my new creation. It is not build for turning it into a real working model, but more as a 3d digital design. I know the colors are not all represented in real life, but I went for looks rather than functionallity. Two things I can't seem to pull off is a suitable brick (or combination of bricks) to make fenders. Same goes for the exhaust. I've used the standard exhaust bricks, but I want something flexible, like the tube curves and tube with nob #71076 and #71075. But I can't seem to find a brick that can connect two curves together. Only a lamp holder #4081. But that has a 1x1 plate attached. Does anyone have an idea how to connect two tube curves? I've added the LXF if someone wants to take a closer look. bike tri-engine.lxf

It's been a while since i've been here. Awesome build junkstyleGio! It's cool to see my creation in reality. What where the impossibilities, if I might ask?

Hi. I've made a café racer with LDD. With and without rider. I have no idea how the bionicle should be connected. I just tried out a few things that seems to connect. The brake lines are outer tubes. The one in the back is first threaded through the hole at the gas tank. Then connected to the front and back. The one in the front was made basically the same, only I used scaffolding for placing the tube, than connected the front and back and removed the scaffolding. Hang on, the DLL file didn't get attached. I'll try again. http://sta.sh/download/1401683711147401/caferacer_by_steven6773-d6qa9v0.lxf?token=6bb0184df29475cfd610131ce203e5a9eddddd49&ts=1381658071 http://sta.sh/download/2936493591758888/caferacer_with_robot_by_steven6773-d6qa9uw.lxf?token=fb2c6096c380c999cde8056d74e4729ecf06de2d&ts=1381658105 Does this work?

You have turned putting minifigs on bikes into an art form!!! Thanks for the template.

It would be nice to have an easy way to snap on both minifig's hands to a handlebar. I've asked on two other threads, but we can't figure out how to. Probably something to do with the angle of the hands and the arms. A bit more freedom on the hands might fix it.

If I do that, I can snap the right hand on the left handle or the left hand on the right handle, with the minifig beside the bike. But two hands snapped at ones doesn't seem to work. If I try to do that, I see a transparent minifig with one hand attached while the other is beyond the other handle. That's why I think that the handlebar and hands don't line up. The arms are at an angle on the torso and the hands are at an angle attached to the arm, so there might be a position of both arms and hands that can line up with a handlebar. For learning experience, I tried to snap on a long stick on both hands of a minifig. That doesn't work either. Same problem. In real life you can do it but if you look close, you see one end of the hand closer to the stick than the other end. It's not 100% lined up, but it snaps just good enough to stay.

The minifig on bicycle template looks good, but if I want to replace the bike with a motorcycle, it doesn't fit. It should because the dimensions on a bicycle are the same as on a motorcycle. Just out of curousity I removed the bicycle and added a new one, but that didn't snap on either. Also if I used the same bicycle as in the template. Probably something that can be added to the list of things they should add to LDD. An easy way to add minifigs to vehicles.

Thank you so much, that is very helpfull.