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Chugging along, going to bed now. Stupid dome was hard to make a cockpit out of.
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The Rage posted:So is the Venator-class cruiser worth it for the price? It looks incredible. I'd say so, but I already own it. It's awesome looking, and there are some neat features inside. I have it sitting on my desk, and it still looks fantastic whenever I look at it.
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ZarathustraFollower posted:Honestly, Bricklink prices arn't horrible. The thing I noticed was people trying to sell the Spartan as just a fig for $5-6, but you can get it with all the accessories for $2.50-3 I noticed that, it's baffling. And everything else looks to be almost exactly retail price, maybe with 50 cents added tops aside from the Spartan.
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InfinEight posted:Chugging along, going to bed now. Stupid dome was hard to make a cockpit out of. Reminds me of the Outlaw Star. It has arms that pop out, which the front bits look kinda like. But mostly I posted this just so I could post the third image down,   BAT GRAPPLER  
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The Rage posted:So is the Venator-class cruiser worth it for the price? It looks incredible. I have both this and the larger-size Star Destroyer, and I'd give them the same review: How do you feel about Technic pieces? Do you want to build using technic pieces and only technic piece for hours and hours? Do you secretly loathe actual lego bricks, and yearn to never actually touch one ever again? These might be the sets for you!
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Captain Invictus posted:I noticed that, it's baffling. And everything else looks to be almost exactly retail price, maybe with 50 cents added tops aside from the Spartan. I just looked and the cheapest spartan in the USA that isn't part of a super lot will run you $5-6 with all accessories. It used to be $8-10.
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Mr. Kamikaze posted:I just looked and the cheapest spartan in the USA that isn't part of a super lot will run you $5-6 with all accessories. All minifigs at my local Walmart 1.97. They had a full stock so I went hog wild.
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I was chattin' with someone in the thread last night when I remembered I have these old, terrible photos. Well, the MOC's been done for months now, so might as well put SOMETHING up. I'll try to re-shoot this tomorrow. A lot of these photos got absolutely blasted by sunlight because I decided to shoot them right around sundown.      "How the hell do we both have a full house, kings over aces? Again?!"
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Sep 25, 2010 19:24
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^^ That is loving awesome. The little details like the piano and foot rest for the bar really make it fantastic. Truth be told, I actually like the way the pictures are taken, with that little sepia color added to it. Keep up the great work!
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Evek posted:All minifigs at my local Walmart 1.97. They had a full stock so I went hog wild. I meant on bricklink.
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Sep 25, 2010 20:15
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Wow that Saloon is incredible, I never made anything that detailed. You even gave them perfect reaction faces. Is the lettering on the front made of bricks or something else? And yeah, the lighting looks loving great.
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Forum Actuary posted:Wow that Saloon is incredible, I never made anything that detailed. You even gave them perfect reaction faces. Is the lettering on the front made of bricks or something else? And yeah, the lighting looks loving great. http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=10567&colorID=8 Also look how rare those fuckers are. I tracked down 15 of them for this project. There's only one seller (remaining) who has a decent stock of them and he wants $2.35 each for those. Other annoying poo poo to find: 4 brown 1 x 4 x 3 windows, 8 black panes, the red crate (that piece costs 11 dollars iirc), and a lot of those little dark green pieces. edit: http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=356&colorID=5 http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=733&colorID=8 http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=734&colorID=11 gently caress all of those. Red crates were only ever in 1 set, black panes were in 2 sets, and brown windows were in 2 sets. drat my love of rare pieces. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Sep 25, 2010 |
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Carbohydrates posted:Saloon In other news, I finally finished this design:   and the rest 30,000 pieces, I'm never doing anything that big again. The big poo poo sure is fun to look at, but, gently caress me, just designing it was an ordeal, I can't imagine the pain of actually building something that size.
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So what's the ldd price tag come to on that?
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SynthOrange posted:So what's the ldd price tag come to on that? Your firstborn grows up Danish.
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Sep 26, 2010 03:16
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Phy posted:Your firstborn grows up Danish. Pfft. Da Dutch. 
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SynthOrange posted:So what's the ldd price tag come to on that? hahaha, i was going to let it run overnight just to see, but using the buyability tool on that model causes an exception in OpenGL and the program crashes. I just found out that LDD has a safe mode that is so hosed up, I can't even create a new model. 
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Carbohydrates posted:I was chattin' with someone in the thread last night when I remembered I have these old, terrible photos. Well, the MOC's been done for months now, so might as well put SOMETHING up. I'll try to re-shoot this tomorrow. A lot of these photos got absolutely blasted by sunlight because I decided to shoot them right around sundown. afflictionwisp posted:God drat, that's pretty.
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afflictionwisp posted:God drat, that's pretty. What did you use to render that? Last I checked, LDD doesn't show individual bricks as well as in those screenshots.
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Carbohydrates posted:I love the letters on these signs, they make me think of the old old versions of Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
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3 posted:THOR IS HYEAH  do the siege tank next!
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I made my first Vic Viper! Oh god I'm not good at Vic Vipers help--  Captain Invictus posted:Reminds me of the Outlaw Star. It might not be a surprise, but I've often thought about how to make a mini-fig sized Outlaw Star. I don't have enough red though, haha. Anyway, you guessed the arms part right, hopefully the rest wasn't too obvious. I might fiddle with it more, but surprisingly, I feel like its already done.
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Well you like never make things that aren't spaceships, robots, or robot spaceships, so it wasn't a far stretch to think you were making a Grappler Ship.
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InfinEight posted:afflictionwisp, does that bad boy have an interior, or are you sick of working on it? I had considered doing the interior, but it is never shown in the show, and I had enough trouble conceptualizing something this big without worrying about that, so no interior. Also, I'm sick of working on it. 3 posted:What did you use to render that? Last I checked, LDD doesn't show individual bricks as well as in those screenshots. LDview. Theres this .XML file that makes LDD a little more capable of exporting parts. It has its own problems with alignment on some pieces, and some of the file names are wrong, but there's enough there to fix certain pieces if you want to edit the original file by hand.
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^^^^ Awesome, I'm pretty sick of the LDD renderer at this point. lDDQD posted:
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3 posted:(I've been cranking out designs for a Viking, though. When I get enough spare time I'm going to try to hammer it out in LDD) I've personally been fixing to build a Banshee. Which is why i was asking about how to make giant rings.
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You should probably take a gander at this then: Should give you a few good ideas and jumping-off points.
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Captain Invictus posted:Well you like never make things that aren't spaceships, robots, or robot spaceships, so it wasn't a far stretch to think you were making a Grappler Ship. What can I say? Gotta stick with what I like 
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3 posted:You should probably take a gander at this then: that's pretty good, but i was thinking at least 3x as big. it's a consequence of liking Technic, i'm sure, everything ends up being huge.
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I'm almost reluctant to post this. This is the sort of thing that led to the thread title change debacle last time. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerac/4949103951/
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Sep 26, 2010 20:26
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That Land Speeder is amazing! Probably costs about the same though.
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That's actually really neat, what are their helmets? Stormtrooper helmets?
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Lord I must have those 40k marines. I have wanted to make a Dreadnought for some time now too.
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Crane posted:That's actually really neat, what are their helmets? Stormtrooper helmets? Looks to be yeah, painted red and black. I see lots of custom decals too, can't tell if the Assault Cannon on the Landspeeder is Lego or not though, seems too small and intricate to be Lego. Dr. Goonstein posted:Lord I must have those 40k marines. I have wanted to make a Dreadnought for some time now too. People have been making'em for a while now.    
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Captain Invictus posted:Looks to be yeah, painted red and black. I see lots of custom decals too, can't tell if the Assault Cannon on the Landspeeder is Lego or not though, seems too small and intricate to be Lego. e: Yeah it's 6 bar pieces wedged into a tire on the back, rubber band around the front, and the bottom support beam is made of a bar, two minifig hands, and some rubber tubing.
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I've been wanting-- needing a good lightbox for a looong time, and I found this recently: http://www.indieicing.com/blog/2009/11/14/part-5-selling-handmade-online-lets-build-a-large-lightbox.html It inspired me to do the same... except I may have gone overboard    Of course it's not quite there yet. Some lighter, thinner fabric would probably diffuse the light more while letting more in. Maybe nylon, or fleece like that guide suggests? Also, after some experimental pictures:   (This is why the lightbox is so big; Infinity is over 3 feet long!)  I can see that a smooth backdrop would be a lot better, like paper. The problem is finding 4-foot wide strips of paper and fabric. I'll check out a few craft stores like Michael's tomorrow. I also need clamps to hold the fabric, and the side lights really need to be mounted above and on the outside of the fabric. Still, I'm pretty excited  Total cost so far is ~$43.
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You could try ironing the sheets? Either that or find a big roll of butchers paper or similar.
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Professional light-boxes are usually made out of paper.
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InfinEight posted:I've been wanting-- needing a good lightbox for a looong time, I bought a massive window shade from Home Depot a long time ago to serve as a projection screen. I never used it for that, but lately I've been using it to take Lego photos with some decent results. Ideally, you should be replacing the background in Photoshop anyway, so a smooth backdrop will only make that easier, but probably shouldn't be seen as an end unto itself. (I'm not trying to be overcritical. I haven't bothered with the background replacement yet myself) At any rate, the shade cost me something like $20, and it's about 6'x5', so I think it should serve your needs as well. As for photo technique, this interview on Brothers Brick lays out some pretty useful ideas: http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/03/10/more-to-the-brick-than-meets-the-eye-an-interview-with-fredo-houben/#more-14083
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That's a great link, and I will most likely end up with paper for the background just because its the easiest to keep smooth. I've managed to get decent pictures with just a roll of white paper and regular overhead lights w/o diffusion:  But there would always be shadows and the light would never seem to be the same from one set to the next. What I'm really looking for is consistency so I can minimize the editing I have to do in Photoshop. I will definitely look into some different colors though, since I'll be out looking for backgrounds anyway.
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