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I'm googling for Homeworld Lego Mocs at the moment and I'm slowly being filled with an intense excitement at the thought of making my own Mothership MOC or something from the game series. Problem is I've never done a serious moc before and have no idea where to start. Obviously a minifig scale Mothership is out of the question...
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My first set was this dumper truck and it's Moustachioed dustbin man.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:05
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Jut posted:Why in the world are mods wanting to move this thread?! and where too? Ongoing niche megathreads are not the best fit for GBS for several reasons. Over time they tend to reach a critical mass (mostly because they never die) and start to dominate a forum that is supposed to be more fast moving and have broader appeal. At that point there will be a bit of a culling when they are moved to more appropriate subforums more suitable for megathreads. Everyone thinks this is the end of the world because their particular niche is special and should be an exception to the rule and we get lots of hate mail until everyone gets over it a day later when they realise that this is exactly what subforums are for. This thread has escaped the cull by the skin of it's teeth several times now. One day it will be moved though, probably to DIY/Hobbies. Part of the reason is that I don't move it because I wouldn't be able to change the title any more. So there you have it. Not something to be discussed in the thread. Just filling the curious in.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:09
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Every single megathread that's been moved out of GBS has had a serious decrease in activity. 
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Jan 3, 2012 18:19
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Gravy Jones posted:Part of the reason is that I don't move it because I wouldn't be able to change the title any more. Aha!
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Jan 3, 2012 18:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Every single megathread that's been moved out of GBS has had a serious decrease in activity. And every single megathread that is already outside of GBS would have a serious increase in activity if it was moved into GBS. However that would not make them better threads as "level of activity" is not a particularly good metric for quality. But it's not a derail for this thread. So that'll do.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:31
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jp82729 posted:Had this too! And yes, if you looked at it sideways it would fall apart. I have a request: at some point there was a forrest / Robin Hood / archer adventure style set, and one of the units was a sort of tree fort. I can't seem to find it. Anyone remember it?
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Jan 3, 2012 18:32
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One set I've kept mostly intact is this badass set. Back before we had Indiana Jones, there was Johnny Thunder. He gave no fucks, from exploring Egyptian ruins to climbing mountains to tearing through the Orient. Just in this set alone, he as to deal with Mr. Sinister, some rear end in a top hat skeletons and an undead pharoah. As a kid, this set owned so hard and even though I'm missing some pieces, I still have it on display in my Lego closet.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:33
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lord funk posted:I have a request: at some point there was a forrest / Robin Hood / archer adventure style set, and one of the units was a sort of tree fort. I can't seem to find it. Anyone remember it? There were a couple like this, which you can find on this page My favorite was always this one. What a dreamy baseplate!  But you're possibly thinking of this:  The black feather/arms guy was hard to find
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Jan 3, 2012 18:38
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Or the Forestmen's Hideout, which was just a big tree that opened up, and had a kind of housey thing on the top of one side. (That cave/tree one also split in half in the middle so you could play inside.) I loved the forestmen stuff as a kid. Or now. If only my parents would let me take my Lego back. drat nephews who like playing with it, ruining my manchild fun.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:44
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Kazy posted:Was anyone else addicted to Lego catalogs when they were kids? I had this, and despite being 9 I had to replace that stupid jet turbine chainsaw spinny arm with a gun or something because seriously it's a jet turbine chainsaw spinny arm.
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Jan 3, 2012 18:46
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Sockser posted:I had this, and despite being 9 I had to replace that stupid jet turbine chainsaw spinny arm with a gun or something because seriously it's a jet turbine chainsaw spinny arm. Obviously that is for his dental practice where the robot assists with cavity repair and you merely ruined his lifelong dream of filling molars on giant space whales 
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Jan 3, 2012 18:58
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Ingram posted:I'm googling for Homeworld Lego Mocs at the moment and I'm slowly being filled with an intense excitement at the thought of making my own Mothership MOC or something from the game series. The best way to start is get a picture of what you want to make from multiple angles. Then go through looking your parts and see what parts can fit and at a scale you can complete. If want to build a tank I take into account that the treads I have are hard to scale outside of what they are unless I double them up, so I use that as my starting reference. I build the skeleton of it first and see how it works together after that I start adding points where I can put studs for the structure and then add plates to give it form. In most cases you won't have the right part for every angle so using SNOT and other technics you can combine multiple parts to make the shape you want for what would be one part on your model. Once its started on its way I will make a siloute of it with just a lamp and piece of paper and compare that to the picture of what I am building. If I am building without a refrence though I just go nuts and keep building modular parts and see how they fit together I have had a half dozen sets of wings for a fighter once until I decided which ones I liked best. Don't be afraid to say scew this I don't like how its looking and dismantle it
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Jan 3, 2012 19:32
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I've got some 3D models of HW ships and now I'm going to try and recreate in LDD. I definitely won't have the pieces I need even if I broke down all my official sets so might as well go straight to LDD and then I can order pieces from there.
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Jan 3, 2012 19:37
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Xenophon posted:There were a couple like this, which you can find on this page Forget about black feather/arms guy, you have what I believe to be one of the rarest minifigs in that top pic (until licensed sets came around): the forest wench. It's just one of those happy accidents that I got that set as a kid. Wait, she got reissued?!? Since when? I'll be damned.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:01
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lord funk posted:I have a request: at some point there was a forrest / Robin Hood / archer adventure style set, and one of the units was a sort of tree fort. I can't seem to find it. Anyone remember it? While I suspect it's one of the Forestmen sets linked above, you could also be thinking of 1996's Dark Forest theme.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:03
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VaultAggie posted:One set I've kept mostly intact is this badass set. You know, that looks like a pretty drat good set. The forest stuff was also fantastic. I'm still relentlessly sorting out my collection. Been out to buy many different containers (it's a shame there isn't a chinese takeaway here, the plastic tubs rice or noodles came in would be perfect), and have been building some big sets as I go. Unfortunately it seems like between moving from the UK to Qatar to Romania I've lost a whole bunch of parts (i.e. pretty much all my 1x8 blocks have gone), fortunately I've ordered a bunch from Bricklink, so hopefully I can get some of the models I'm working on finished. I'm still tossing up on whether to keep my Green Grocer and Cafe Corner once I've finished them or offload them via Bricklink. The retarded prices they are going for at the moment are very very tempting. Jut fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 3, 2012 |
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Jan 3, 2012 20:11
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VaultAggie posted:One set I've kept mostly intact is this badass set. I remember being disappointed in this set when I had it as a kid. I think it was because it was mostly made of 7 big pieces, 4 of them printed in a color/theme that didn't go well with my castles & robots obsession at the time. Forestmen sets on the other hand were some of my all-time favorites. When I got the river fort (the giant hollow tree), it was my favorite christmas gift ever.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:16
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Sexual Lorax posted:Forget about black feather/arms guy, you have what I believe to be one of the rarest minifigs in that top pic (until licensed sets came around): the forest wench. It's just one of those happy accidents that I got that set as a kid. Hey I have an original one of those!
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Jan 3, 2012 20:19
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Man it's really not as easy as it looks this MOC business. Working out the scale and what pieces to use is a real challenge. I bet it must be easy for people who pretty much know every single type of piece there is out there.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:29
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boner meter posted:My first set was this dumper truck and it's Moustachioed dustbin man.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:49
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Xenophon posted:But you're possibly thinking of this: Looks like I'll be digging out the Lego boxes at my Dad's house sooner than expected I loved that set.
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Jan 3, 2012 21:01
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CADPAT posted:Hey I have an original one of those!    beato posted:Looks like I'll be digging out the Lego boxes at my Dad's house sooner than expected I loved that set. Yeah well hope your forestmen have fun at their forest sausage party in their sausage tree fort instead of passing a forest wench around like Smurfette what the gently caress was I talking about again?
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Jan 3, 2012 21:09
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I have a poo poo ton of legos I saved from when I was a kid. My mom always told me that was the one toy to never get rid of so that I could give them to my kids one day. I have a problem. I now have kids and this absolute poo poo ton of legos I saved from when I was a kid. I have so goddam many I cannot find any pieces to build any of my old sets (well I can find the pieces, it just takes for-loving-ever). Like the forest one from above, king's castle, galaxy commander, etc. When I dump the bin out it entirely covers my living room floor and then some. What do you guys do to sort all these out? I have a 35 gallon storage bin that is so full you can hardly closet the lid. Also a myriad assortment of other lego sets that the kids got new in the past couple years in a variety of bins in their bedrooms.
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Jan 3, 2012 21:18
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InfinEight posted:Obviously that is for his dental practice where the robot assists with cavity repair and you merely ruined his lifelong dream of filling molars on giant space whales I have a bizarre urge to build this now.
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Jan 3, 2012 21:20
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Begby posted:I have a poo poo ton of legos I saved from when I was a kid. My mom always told me that was the one toy to never get rid of so that I could give them to my kids one day. I've spent to more time sorting than I care to think about so far. My 'system' evolved through necessity. Originally I wanted to simply stack similar plates and bricks in lattice arrangements to make getting them easy, and allowing storage without a dedicated container. I wanted to back this up with some small cases with dividers for the technic and small pieces. Unfortunatly you end up with weird pieces that don't like stacking (i.e. all the slopes) and you have so many other pieces that don't stack well like 1x2 plates and bricks that you have to buy more smaller containers. try this http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/efficientlego
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Jan 3, 2012 21:58
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Dr. Benway posted:I have a bizarre urge to build this now. I'll allow it if you give the robot a quaint nursing cap.
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Jan 3, 2012 22:14
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Jut posted:try this I use this for a lot of stuff, and stack bricks by shape, then by colour and put them in drawers of those big plastic drawer/storage units. Bricks that don't stack (especially slopes and stuff) have found their way into a tackle box. I've been scouring the net and reading tons of opinions on storage and sorting systems so I can sort and store more effectively, and so far the best advice that I've gotten is to group things that you usually use together with each other. This has helped me to figure out what to do with my "misc" pile, build a lot more effectively and just generally arrange things smarter. A big problem I've found is categorizing things like technic bricks with holes in them. Do I put them with my 1x# bricks or with my other technic stuff? I usually use technic bricks with other technic stuff such as pins and axles, so they so I put them together. I have some "misc" weird shaped slope-y pieces that go well with slopes, and I have a lot of misc clippy bits and such that go together because sometimes I have to pick the best clippy bit.
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Jan 3, 2012 22:31
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The new Legos for girls are being called "Sexist" by feminist. Just can't do anything to please these chicks I guess eh fellas?  http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/moms/content/lego-launches-toy-line-girls-smart-or-sexist
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Jan 3, 2012 23:51
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The one about Lego being racist because they have Police was the best. That the woman that wrote it posted it like immediately after midnight on New Years goes to show just how much she hated fun.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:11
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Atmus posted:The one about Lego being racist because they have Police was the best. That article was pretty dumb but no Lego Friends are totally sexist. Read this article for a concise breakdown as well as a fantastic vintage Lego ad that really underscores the problem with the entire situation.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:41
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Travis343 posted:That article was pretty dumb but no Lego Friends are totally sexist. Read this article for a concise breakdown as well as a fantastic vintage Lego ad that really underscores the problem with the entire situation. At least they had the forethought to include an "Inventor's Lab" set in the Friends line. Still, that doesn't make up for the generic "oh tee hee you're a girl go play in the kitchen with your pink and purple bullshit" crap. Really our entire culture around how little girls are raised is completely hosed and this is just one more symptom of it.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:46
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UUUGGH, All these arguments against LEGO friends never ask the most important question: "Does the target audience like the toy?" These toys are no less happyfuntimesugarandrainbows from any other toys you see in the "girl" section of a Toystore.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:48
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djfooboo posted:UUUGGH, All these arguments against LEGO friends never ask the most important question: "Does the target audience like the toy?" These toys are no less happyfuntimesugarandrainbows from any other toys you see in the "girl" section of a Toystore. UUUGGH I wish people wouldn't completely miss the point of the article and then post nonsense. the article you probably didn't read at all but oh well posted:But it’s no accident that girls feel alienated from Lego. I think "infuse it with boyness" is a dumb line but the overall point is sound; Lego basically forgot that girls bought their poo poo too and now they're falling over themselves to claim the demographic.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:55
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The existence of a "girl section" is part of the problem. When you take toys, and put them in pink boxes, and say "These are for girls." you're saying that all the other stuff, in boxes in every other color that isn't pink, is for boys. It says boys are people, but girls are girls. You put a Lego Friends set in front of a bunch of girls and sure, some of them are gonna like it, and some of them are gonna like Alien Conquest. The problem is when something becomes so heavily gendered, parents are going to enforce that. I've got cousins with little girls who won't let their daughters play with "boy toys", and the only reason they know which ones are the "boy toys" is because the manufacturers are marketing them that way. At some point Lego went from being "for kids", as evidenced by that old ad with the girl in the overalls, to being "for boys". Lego's just making it explicit by putting out a bunch of pink boxes with ponies and salons.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:58
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Travis343 posted:I've got cousins with little girls who won't let their daughters play with "boy toys", and the only reason they know which ones are the "boy toys" is because the manufacturers are marketing them that way. Is... is there a :sadsmithicide: smiley? Because  just isn't sad enough for statements this depressing.
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Jan 4, 2012 01:30
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No I didn't miss the point of the article. You just can't convince me that it is LEGO or any other "girl" toymakers fault that they have researched and found that girls like to play certain things. Get a group of girls together and they play house, pretending to have domestic partnerships and everything. Put two boys together and they crash matchbox cars into one another. That isn't to say that there cannot be cross-pollonization, but there is an obvious preference. They bottom line is these are toys. Luxury items. A parent doesn't have to purchase them if they think they are an affront to feminism. edit: That "can't play with boy toys" thing would seriously bug me. I always get my nieces cool toys like RC helicopters and poo poo 
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Jan 4, 2012 01:32
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Yeah you're probably right, girls and boys are just genetically predisposed to want to play in a kitchen and rocketships. It has nothing at all to do with how they're socialized and all the poo poo they and their parents are bombarded by from day one. ~Biotruths~ Please continue to buy your nieces cool poo poo, though. That's a good thing you do.
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Luminaflare posted:Just had this idea for a micro scale space fighter last night. Could I get some feedback on it? I've only really just started messing with lego again. Sexual Lorax posted:Feedback is that little sumbitch is great. I need to do more microscale, and I need to do some BIG microscale capital ships, carriers, etc. to go with it. Further feedback is...how the hell did you attach the binoculars to the sides?  I just have them crammed in there between the guns and the body. If you so much as look at it crosseyed, it falls apart.
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djfooboo posted:No I didn't miss the point of the article. You just can't convince me that it is LEGO or any other "girl" toymakers fault that they have researched and found that girls like to play certain things. Get a group of girls together and they play house, pretending to have domestic partnerships and everything. Put two boys together and they crash matchbox cars into one another. That isn't to say that there cannot be cross-pollonization, but there is an obvious preference. Do you ever stop to think why parents don't let their kids play with toys that are "for" the opposite gender? It's because those parents assume that there are "obvious preferences", just like you did right there. These "obvious preferences" are socialized into you from birth onward. If the idea of a kid being told she can't play with "boy toys" actually does bug you, try thinking beyond the stereotypes you've been sold your entire life. Get any group of kids together and without any outside influence you might be surprised who likes to play cars and who likes to play house. Most kids are gonna want to do both or neither depending on what mood they're in. Like that article said Lego is leaning heavily on the research they did so when Lego Friends inevitably bombs in a year (like every other pink and purple princess Lego line in the past) they can shake their heads and say "GIRLS JUST DON'T LIKE LEGO, I GUESS" and go back to ignoring them entirely.
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