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I don't really care about the lego-ness of the cloth, because even without it, it's stylish and creative. The whole thing has a lot of neat and thoughtful details, especially on the pagoda (?). Its the sort of thing I would be sorely tempted to play with if I saw it in person.
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In other news, the founder of Bricklink has died at the age of 33. http://www.bricklink.com/danjezek/
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Oct 28, 2010 16:25
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Dame Cook posted:In other news, the founder of Bricklink has died at the age of 33. Ugh, that sucks.  They don't say how he died.
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Oct 28, 2010 16:30
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Oct 28, 2010 16:31
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My girlfriend is making a halloween costume for herself of a giant Minifig. It's official; I'm in love. 
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Oct 28, 2010 18:57
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Sockser posted:The fuzzy brown shoulder thingies are totally non-Lego Duplo Bearskins (which, admittedly, I didn't know existed either) http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=x1870 Jordan is one of the best out there, particularly for creature design. I knew he didn't cheat because, afaik, he never does and also this MOC was an entry for this year's You Control the Action Contest, which doesn't allow any modification or non-Lego parts. AstroZamboni posted:My girlfriend is making a halloween costume for herself of a giant Minifig. Glad to see that's working out for you. Just make sure she doesn't bend at the knees when she's sitting down. That would ruin the effect.
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Oct 28, 2010 20:05
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Sockser posted:The fuzzy brown shoulder thingies are totally non-Lego Dame Cook posted:In other news, the founder of Bricklink has died at the age of 33. gently caress you 2010 you lovely loving year, first taking Nnenn and now the Bricklink dude.
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Oct 28, 2010 23:30
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Captain Invictus posted:I believe I've seen those wedge pieces in Mars Mission sets, on the alien fighters. Maybe try checking Bricklink's inventories on sets with Martian craft in them to find the part, then what sets had gray versions of them. There're two in the Assassin Droid Battle Pack.
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Oct 28, 2010 23:45
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totally awesome... http://www.break.com/index/functioning-automatic-transmission-made-of-legos
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Oct 29, 2010 01:46
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Mascot posted:totally awesome... JESUS CHRIST
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Oct 29, 2010 02:17
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Wow that transmission makes me want to go buy some technic stuff. Awesome.
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Oct 29, 2010 02:37
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For those of us with more ambition than money, LDD 4 is out. The new shader effects are a little disappointing, it doesn't look right on large models, but the color pallet has been expanded quite a bit. And the flex tool is awesome and easy-to-use:
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Oct 29, 2010 11:38
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Mascot posted:totally awesome... Banner over that video for me:  NO KIDDING.
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afflictionwisp posted:For those of us with more ambition than money, LDD 4 is out. The new shader effects are a little disappointing, it doesn't look right on large models, but the color pallet has been expanded quite a bit. And the flex tool is awesome and easy-to-use: About time! I've always wondered what the point was of having all these bendy shapes like tubes, chains, ropes, etc. and not even being able to bend them. I've been following this thread since day one, and I should probably post some of the tons of things I've been making in LDD, even though most of them aren't even half-finished.
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afflictionwisp posted:For those of us with more ambition than money, LDD 4 is out. The new shader effects are a little disappointing, it doesn't look right on large models, but the color pallet has been expanded quite a bit. And the flex tool is awesome and easy-to-use: loving goddamn finally EDIT: holy poo poo ambient occlusion, this update loving owns 3 fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Oct 29, 2010 |
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I keep messing around with LDD about once or twice a month, because I want to like it, but I have no idea how you guys are able to build anything in that program. I don't mean that in a programming sense - it's fairly easy to use and that sort of thing, and it clearly has far greater options than my personal collection. I mean it in an enjoyment sense - I have about 100x less fun building something in LDD than I do trying to build something with the actual bricks I have. LDD is exactly what I thought I wanted when I was a kid - unlimited bricks, unlimited colors, the option to build anything - but now that it's available, it just sucks all the fun out of actually creating something for me. Anyone else feel that way?
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Oct 29, 2010 18:30
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Sloppy posted:Ugh, that sucks. I'm almost positive it was suicide or a terminal illness.
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Here's some of my few finished LDD things. Look out, lots of images here! A car meant to be in a pseudo-adventurers style.  A giant Metal Gear-esque thing. The shoulder missile batteries flip open; I'm particularly proud of that.  The design for this came from a picture I saw of the Star Wars Clone Wars Y-wing sets.  I made this a long time ago. I like the color scheme.  The middle compartment flips open. There's a weapons cache inside, though I can't recall if there's room for the soldiers. Maybe they just walk beside it?  The squids are taking over... and they have giant robots!  You don't want to be staring down this thing on a bad day. The entire body is basically a container for those two cannons.  A cargo hovercraft. The roof flips open, and the entire structure is modular. The sides are detachable from the engine, cockpit, and container, which mean that if this were real, it could be taken apart in a few seconds.  And just to show that I can do other things...  A closer look at the inside. There's also a whole space underneath the water. 
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Oct 29, 2010 20:33
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Well Manicured Man posted:MOCs poo poo, dude, where have you been? These are great. downfall posted:Anyone else feel that way? Exactly the opposite, to the point where I don't enjoy just sitting down with a pile of random bricks nearly as much as I used to.
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afflictionwisp posted:Exactly the opposite, to the point where I don't enjoy just sitting down with a pile of random bricks nearly as much as I used to. That's interesting - I don't think it's bad or anything, and I really wish I had enough fun with LDD to work on ideas in advance of ordering bricks (which is why I keep trying it.) As it is now, I'll think of an idea - sketch it out on paper. Then I go through bricklink and literally look at all the parts available in the colors I need. As I go, I wishlist all the ones I think might work (and this always, always leads me to find new parts that I didn't know about or didn't think of) and order however many of each I think I might need. Then when the pieces come in, I try to put it together based on my sketch/ideas. Half the time it doesn't even work; the pieces don't fit together how I imagined they would or the scale is off - but I have so much more fun that way. I think it's because I have a physical result in front of me - something I can pick up and look at - instead of a model on screen. I think the LDD stuff you guys do is really impressive, btw - don't get me wrong. So far, the software is just not for me.
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Replace 'sketch' with 'rapid prototyping in LDD', and I'm with you right up untildownfall posted:...and order however many of each I think I might need...Half the time it doesn't even work If you have that much disposable income, more power to you, but if I'm spending money I need to know that it's going to work. Your fun comes from the construction, my fun is more about the design work - the challenge of developing a technique to achieve the shape I want. My relatively meager collection renders a lot of things impossible. Freed from that limitation, I can let myself go nuts.
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Oct 29, 2010 22:47
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afflictionwisp posted:poo poo, dude, where have you been? These are great. I didn't want to go through all the effort of uploading them to an imagehosting site ^  ^Weighing in on the LDD vs physical Lego bricks debate, I can say that though the almost-total lack of restrictions of LDD doesn't quite make up for not being able to hold what I build in my hand and play with it, but, as a college student with two roommates, I hardly have room in my dorm--or money in my bank account--for physical Lego sets. LDD is a lifesaver, because I never would have gotten back into Lego without it.
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Well Manicured Man posted:almost-total lack of restrictions of LDD On the other hand, you could try building LDD-pure, like me  (no universe mode, only available brick palette)
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So I've been planning on going up to the Bellevue Lego Store today since it's a training day for teachers and classified staff don't have to be there. Yesterday someone posted an ad on craigslist for a bunch of 90s-era Space sets, among others, for $650 for the lot or priced individually. Sets are largely complete, many have instructions, and are priced reasonably from legopriceguide.com, which is pretty accurate (Exploriens Starship for $48, MCM for $51, etc). And he's on the way to Bellevue. I get there, and start picking through until the guy tells me everything in this bin is all the space stuff. I ask him how much, and he checks his computer and says $500. I tell him I have $342 in cash on me, and he sells me the whole bin. I originally offered $300, since I wanted to keep the extra $42 for the Lego store and lunch, but he went to $350 I figured it was worth it. My haul: 6982 Explorien Starship ($50 on BL) 6896 Celestial Forager ($10) 6989 Mega Core Magnetizer (my second) ($80) 6897 Rebel Hunter ($17) 6981 Aerial Intruder ($40) 6889 Recon Robot ($7) 6939 Saucer Centurion ($20) 1822 Sea Claw 7 ($10) 6984 Galactic Mediator (my second) ($50) 6878 Sub-Orbital Guardian ($8) 6983 Ice Station Odyssey (my second) ($55) 1793 Space Station Zenon ($80) 1789 Star Hawk II ($47) 6887 Allied Avenger ($15) 6988 Alpha Centauri Outpost ($100) 6814 Ice Tunnelator ($1.50) 6957 Solar Snooper (my second) ($30) 6956 Stellar Recon Voyager (my second) ($40) 6933 Spectral Starguider ($18) 6923 Particle Ionizer ($25) 6834 Celestial Sled ($3) 6959 Lunar Launch Site ($30) 6938 Scorpion Detector ($14) 6832 Super Nova II ($5) 6833 Beacon Tracer ($3) 6877 Vector Detector ($5) 6879 Blizzard Baron ($5) 6813 Galactic Chief ($2) 6949 Robo Guardian ($25) 6852 Sonar Security ($5) 1787 Crater Cruiser ($20) 1785 Crater Critters (but it looks like only the blue robot is there) ($10 complete, so...$5) 6812 Grid Trekkor ($3) 6835 Saucer Scout ($3) It appears I got approximately $832 worth of 15-year-old sets (going by the cheapest available complete set on Bricklink, so it doesn't include shipping) for less than half their going rate. Go me! Now I just have to assemble them all and see what's missing so I can add to my BL Wanted List. I'll take pics when I have everything assembled. Also, got PaB parts at the Lego Store to experiment with my semi-SHIP MOC--a whole bunch of click hinge bricks and red tiles to see if I can make a better-looking exterior while simultaneously enlarging the interior.
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afflictionwisp posted:Replace 'sketch' with 'rapid prototyping in LDD', and I'm with you right up until Heh, I wish I had that much disposable income - most of the things I build are probably 100 pieces or less, frequently 50 pieces or less. It is a different style of building entirely, which probably has something to do with it as well. Most of the time, I'm ordering quantities of 4 or 5 of a part - so I spend $10 or less at a time.
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So how do you guys learn how to design stuff? I've been messing around with LDD, and well-I suck at figuring things out. It sucks, cause when I was little, I used to be hella good at designing all kinds of poo poo, like I'd just sit down with my tub of legos, or knex or whatever, and after about an hour, I'd have all sorts of awesome poo poo, but now, I sit down and I'll tinker, but...it doesn't come out the same. How do I get that little kid creativity back? And I really want to reopen my credit card...just to get that goddamn taj mahal. That thing is so drat gorgeous. Half my nephew's christmas list is Lego, and I keep waiting for TRU to do the buy-one-get-one on Lego, so that I can get him xmas gifts and get myself xmas gifts to myself. I'll get myself the taj mahal and him the death star. Dr Jankenstein fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Oct 30, 2010 |
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Oct 30, 2010 05:33
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Pyroclastic posted:
Bitchin' haul, pictures!
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Oct 30, 2010 05:57
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I've assembled a few so far. More missing pieces from a couple of the smaller sets than I was hoping so, but maybe they'll turn up in some of the other bags. The entire back half of the Blizzard Baron wasn't in the ziploc. I assembled the Explorien Starship, which was only missing a few small pieces that I already had spares of. But, goddamn, that ship is bizarrely constructed. It's the weirdest drat ship I've ever built.
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AA is for Quitters posted:How do I get that little kid creativity back? Play with real legos! Half the fun is finding a special piece you forgot about and trying to work it into your model. LDD is a serious case of overwhelming possibilities, to the point of if you don't quite know what you want to build and how it's gonna be pretty loving difficult.
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Well, I just pulled out the huge cart of legos my brother and I had built up growing up. I went through all the instruction booklets, some are really ragged from overuse and just time in general, but I was able to put together a list of everything I have here. And my god is it going to take a long time to get these all together, which is half the fun. I have no idea what half the "official" titles of the sets are and don't have the patience at the moment to look each individual set up. Aqua Raiders 7771, 7772, 7773, 7774 1822 Sea Claw 7 / Neptune III City 3182 Airport 6442 Diver 6558 Boat with dive cage 1790, 1791, 1792 6679 race boat 6356 hospital plane 1876 front end loader 6593, 7240, 7239 fire/rescue 6506 police car X2 6344 police plane and boat 6381 indy raceway 6699 bike shop 1890 octan racer 6561 hot rod club 6660 tow truck 6590 car and motor home 6646 "american flag" dragster 6538 hot rod X2 6663 truck and speedboat 1710 snowmobile 6513 fanboat 1959 glider 1958 sail boarder 6534 sail boarder and car Pirates 1970 6257 6260 Castle 1596, 6034, 1463 X2 6043 Dragon catapult 6059 black castle 1877 hay cart 1547 dragon longboat 1624 archer target 1971 6042 prison cart 6056 dragon cart 6076 dark dragons den Space 6957, 1969 space police 6939, 1787 X2, 6810, 6848,6836 6814 ice planet 6981 "B" spaceship 6850 6990 Monorail Time Cruisers 6493, 6492/1853 Starwars 7110 land speeder 7151 Sith Infiltrator Technic 8229, 8225, 8216, 8201-1 & 8201-2, 8272, 8825, 8210, 8820, 8408 Lego Creator 4120 Lego Basic 715 Lego Idea book 250 And (lol megabloks) Probuilder FDNY Ladder Truck 9735 Iveliosiudicium fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Oct 30, 2010 |
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So I tooled around a bit with the Lego Digital Designer and made a little Japanese sand garden. Click here for the full 1442x742 image.
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Iveliosiudicium posted:Pirates Your pirate sets are Pirate's Gun Cart, Castaway's Raft and Shipwreck Island. I built Castaway's Raft last night; it's quite a nice little set for what it is. I got hold of Skull Island and Rocky Reef this week, and I'm really pleased with them both. Skull Island is a far better set than I'd imagined it to be and it was well worth the money. The only downside is that now my Pirate faction is considerably bigger than my Imperial Soldiers faction - I'm not sure the Imperials can withstand attack with just Sabre Island, Broadside's Brig and Harbor Sentry to their name. Oh well, it just looks like I'll have to buy some more sets..!
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AA is for Quitters posted:How do I get that little kid creativity back? Try to find inspiration in something instead of just randomly tinkering. I like this site. So, I'm still all giddy over the LDD update (they really improved the handling of large numbers of parts, my courtyard moc took over two minutes to open in 3, takes about 30 seconds in 4). Then I notice this:  loving FINALLY! The list of reasons for me to use MLCAD is now one line item shorter.
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Testro posted:Shipwreck Island. I got that on my birthday cake when I turned 10 :3
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So I made another tank thing. I'm liking the new colors and pieces in LDD 4! The whole thing is in three parts, with the cannon sandwiched beneath the cockpit and the chassis. My favorite part is the underside of the top part.  It started out with the top looking great, but as I went on I can't say I'm happy with the way the whole thing turned out. I like the details I put on it, though. 
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Oct 30, 2010 20:48
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Haha that one's my favorite. What are you rendering these in?
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radbeard posted:Haha that one's my favorite. What are you rendering these in? I just go into "preferences" and turn the graphics detail all the way up. But I don't keep it like that when I'm building, because I don't want too much lag.
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Well Manicured Man posted:I just go into "preferences" and turn the graphics detail all the way up. But I don't keep it like that when I'm building, because I don't want too much lag. 
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