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PriorMarcus posted:So I picked up the ADU HQ set in the end and it's amazing. I've only just completed the 2nd bag, with the human fighter jet in it (the cockpit doesn't close properly, I'm pretty sad about that) and today I'm going to do another couple of bags. I can't tell you how pissed off I am that Lego didn't create a single minifigure for the alien third gender. WAY TO PERPETUATE THE SLAXIARCHY, LEGO.
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What we need is more androgynous sets. Marilyn Manson's Friends, or The Blocky Horror Picture Theme.
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Revener posted:What we need is more androgynous sets. Marilyn Manson's Friends, or The Blocky Horror Picture Theme. I'd buy the poo poo out of a Rocky Horror themed Lego set.
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Apr 18, 2012 18:51
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Revener posted:What we need is more androgynous sets. Marilyn Manson's Friends, or The Blocky Horror Picture Theme. me too, if only for a bigass castle with a pool and a zen room.
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Apr 18, 2012 18:55
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Oh hai there! quote:Lego 10226 Sopwith Camel
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Apr 18, 2012 19:04
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djfooboo posted:Oh hai there! It had drat well better come with a white dog mini-fig.
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Apr 18, 2012 19:36
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djfooboo posted:Sopwith Camel Dammit, another day one purchase even though there is no need to rush out and buy it. In lego/non lego news May 1st I move out of my apartment into a house. It is a small bungalow but has a finished basement that I plan to turn into a dungeon of lego. My UCS Falcon will finally get out of its box after such a long wait. If anyone has any advice on what to do for a buildspace and storage system for parts I am more then open to it.
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Apr 18, 2012 21:17
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Holy poo poo that Camel model is amazing. So gonna buy that to get my free minifigs in May.
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Apr 18, 2012 21:25
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djfooboo posted:Oh hai there!
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Merchant of Death posted:Dammit, another day one purchase even though there is no need to rush out and buy it. For buildspace, it goes without saying that the biggest table or desk you can find is the best. I have one of those glass-topped metal frame desks, and I actually removed the glass off of one leg of it and replaced it with a 5' long extension. As a bonus, its got a lip so stuff doesn't roll off the edge. When I have a house, I plan to build something similar but stand-alone, and in addition to being 6' (or so) long, I'll go ahead and make it more like 3' deep instead of the desk-standard 18-24". As for storage...everyone's got their own system, but this is what I do.  In the middle, the sort of parts bins you see for nails and screws. Top & sides are the smaller sterilite drawers, the 8.5x7.25x6 7/8" ones that come in stacks of three or five. Off to the left outside the picture, larger drawers, the three-stacks that are sized to hold 8.5x11" paper. Also a couple sets of the really big ones, the 14.5x12.5x25 drawers. poo poo is basically sorted by block type, sometimes more strictly than not...for example, 1x3 flats are their own, cheese wedges get their own drawer and so on, but there's another drawer designated "spinny things" (any brick that facilitates rotation), "computers" (any printed brick that's a computer panel) and "clicky hinges" which is obviously any sort of part that utilizes the, uh, clicking hinge attachment. Similar parts get combined in other ways, too...while 2x4 and 2x6 get their own bin, I combined 2x8 and 2x12 and 2x10 and 2x(long), for example. But, as I said, everyone's got their own system. I would venture to guess that everyone in the thread has at least a slightly different sorting method. And n'thing the sopwith camel love. I really need to get what I have sorted so my wife will let me buy more...
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I bought a house and renovated it last summer. Yesterday I went there to move all my Lego and stuff there so I could move in....I found the house broken into and everything inside gone. Am I glad I waited a few extra days before moving all my Lego there.
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Thanks, having a lip is a really good idea that I haven't thought of. I have a ruberized mat that I put on the coffee table when I build now and plan to use that on part of the desk. I have around 600 square feet thats L shaped and I plan to put up shelves on the walls so one of my first plans is to try build all my sets and put them up and see if I can fill the walls. I only have half a bookshelf and half of my dresser that I can put stuff on right now. I hit that stage on the lego hobby list where I moved because I had no more space for lego.
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Apr 18, 2012 23:40
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Sean OFarrell posted:I bought a house and renovated it last summer. Yesterday I went there to move all my Lego and stuff there so I could move in....I found the house broken into and everything inside gone. Am I glad I waited a few extra days before moving all my Lego there.  Well that sucks, but...if you were "moving all your lego and stuff there", what was already there to have been taken?
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Apr 19, 2012 00:32
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djfooboo posted:Oh hai there! How different is this from the early 00's Camel?
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Torael_7 posted:
Furniture. Kitchen table, fridge, oven, microwave, laptop, bed...yes they even stole my loving bed, closet, vaccum, power tools, etc. Only thing I hadn't moved yet was my Lego, which I was about to do. e: I guess when I said stuff I should have mentioned, small stuff that I wouldn't have brought there till I was ready to move in. Anyway it turns out I'll be living with my parents a bit longer. Sean OFarrell fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Apr 19, 2012 06:19
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Oh god. I must have that plane! Okay with LDD, is there any way to get an orthogonal / isometric view rather than the three point perspective view that it starts with? Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Apr 19, 2012 06:23
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Big Mean Jerk posted:How different is this from the early 00's Camel? Here's the image from Brickset  http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3451-1 and holy poo poo they once made a big Fokker triplane http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=10024-1 Funny this came up just after I started watching Aces High last night
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I finally got around to building a shoot 'em up diorama for my microscale starfighters (well, in LDD anyway). I was gonna export it to LDraw/MLCad and render it in Povray, but many of the bricks I don't exist for LDraw yet. So I touched up in Photoshop a little: And a screenshot of the end-of-level boss, a cyborg squid named KALANOA:  Now I just need Traveller's Tales and Treasure to collaborate on an actual playable version of this and hire me as a designer so I can play with LEGO for a living. 
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Apr 19, 2012 14:01
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I couldn't help it, toys r us had Cad Banes speeder, Battle for Geonosis,General Grevious Fighter for half off. Walked out of there for just a scratch under $100.
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Canis Dufus posted:I finally got around to building a shoot 'em up diorama for my microscale starfighters (well, in LDD anyway). I was gonna export it to LDraw/MLCad and render it in Povray, but many of the bricks I don't exist for LDraw yet. So I touched up in Photoshop a little: If you have a top-down sprite for the squid and alien things i might be able to huck em into the shooter engine i'm currently building in gamemaker, get a bit of a playable version of the thing. WOuld also help me in getting motivated to rebuild the logic and classes in it, wich i still need to do! DOUBLE EDIT// Link thats the engine i was working on. Looks like the last work i did on it was may last year. i really oughta finish it. but 
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Apr 19, 2012 14:24
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Went to Barnes & Noble yesterday to kill some time, and they had S6 minifigs. Ended up buying new Lego for the first time in...must be creeping up on a decade. drat it Lego, just when I think I've gotten out... The clockwork robot is just my favorite thing.
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Want that Sopwith Camel. Can they make a P-51 Mustang next?
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Endless Mike posted:Want that Sopwith Camel. Can they make a P-51 Mustang next? Lego, I will give you all my money for a P-51 or Spitfire set. 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lego, I will give you all my money for a P-51 or Spitfire set. http://www.mechanizedbrick.com/series_one_p51.html I don't think I would be able to restrain myself if they did a big-rear end B-17/Lancaster or other bomber kit. I think there would have to be a high degree of boxiness in the design of the aircraft for Lego to be able to make it properly.
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I would prefer an UCS-style model. Minifig scale aircraft always looks wrong.
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Oh, I don't know. Sometimes they look ok. And yeah, that's all metallic silver. I don't even want to know how much it cost him. Shuppiluliumas fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Apr 19, 2012 19:46
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 Holy poo poo that's beautiful. Where do those silver bits come from? I don't think I've ever seen one before. Are they custom plated or something?
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Some of those pieces were never produce in silver as far as I know, and the ones that were are bloody expensive. That is really a labor of love. I have found 1x2 silver blocks but they ended up being megablocks.
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Apr 19, 2012 20:02
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Spray paint is $3.50/can.
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Wife got me The Cult of Lego and some sort of Lego Ideas Book for my birthday. She said "I couldn't get you actual Lego because you just bought a bunch of it." I have the best wife ever.
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I'm looking to sell my old LEGO and K'Nex stuff and was wondering what would be a fair price. I've got a complete LEGO Mindstorms kit (the original, without the camera) and a complete K'Nex Big Ball Factory kit and a bunch of miscellaneous parts, well over 5000+ total pieces between the two building systems. I was thinking $80+shipping to start with for each system. They're all smoke and pet free if that helps. Goons get first dibs if you're interested. I've transitioned to machined parts, carbon fibre and microcontrollers instead of Lego but I still understand the appeal  Here's some photos too.
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Decoy Badger posted:Big Ball Factory What a fabulous product name
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Merchant of Death posted:Some of those pieces were never produce in silver as far as I know, and the ones that were are bloody expensive. That is really a labor of love. The pieces he uses on the wing appear to be real and not that expensive. Here's one part. Another. Another. A lot of tiles aren't offered in silver, but 1x6's are. Cheese slopes. I think it's legit. einTier fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Apr 19, 2012 21:57
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There are a couple of people who chrome and metalize bricks for sale, but I think all the parts in there are stock Lego.
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Un-loving-Believable. That might be one of the best/most realistic MOCs I've seen, and I'm not even an airplane buff. 
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That's the same guy that made that metallic Delorean that he said was spray painted, so it wouldn't surprise me if the metallic elements were painted (even if official versions are available).
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Shuppiluliumas posted:Oh, I don't know. Sometimes they look ok. I was just about to agree on boxiness of a B-17 in LEGO, but dammit, I forgot SNOT. I always forget SNOT and that is one of the best uses of the concept I've seen.
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djfooboo posted:Oh hai there! I want to kiss this all over with my lips. There's no way I can avoid shelling out the cash for this.
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I'm looking for lots and lots of base plates to attach to a wall. Instead of buying them in bulk from someone for $6-$12 each, does anyone know of a third party that makes large base plates that isn't complete crap? I'm looking to cover a large portion of a hallway with base plates that will have little scenes attached to them. Sort of like this: 
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