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CADPAT posted:Seconding how do I do this? This guide was posted back on page 146. InfinEight posted:Let me see if I can help you a little:
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God, this thread is making me nostalgic. I used to be really into lego up until a few years ago, when it started becoming too much of a hassle to keep up with all the new sets with interesting parts and actually get out the fuckton of lego bricks I had. Last thing I built was this, back in 2008. I think I'm going to download LDD again. Also, M-Tron and Ice Planet were the best.
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beato posted:^^ found a sweet MOC version of Eldorado Fortress. Is this a thing? People doing more detailed MOCs based on actual sets?
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ivantod posted:Idea books here: Sweet thanks!
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Fooley posted:Is this a thing? People doing more detailed MOCs based on actual sets? If it's not, I hope it becomes a thing.
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Fooley posted:Is this a thing? People doing more detailed MOCs based on actual sets? Well, yeah, it's fun to remake an official set and lots of people do it, even me.  And here's others:    I wish I could remember where I've seen more, but you get the idea.
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Fooley posted:Is this a thing? People doing more detailed MOCs based on actual sets? I got you covered:        And of course they need something to land on:  From here. And:   From here. I made one too a coupe years back, based on my favorite set. It could stand some improvements (and some better photography) at this point, but oh well: 
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kopiko posted:I'm not sure about space though, but I think the first female space minifig is from the Ice Planet series in 1993. Space babe = Best babe http://www.brickset.com/minifigs/?m=sp017 edit - And yes, that's the first female space minifig. Though I thought I recalled a Space Police II female, brickset is telling me otherwise. The Shep fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Phy posted:I'm surprised they don't count the Mars minifigs. But, Mars Needs Women!
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Shuppiluliumas posted:I made one too a coupe years back, based on my favorite set. It could stand some improvements (and some better photography) at this point, but oh well: That is... incredible! I wish LEGO could come up with new Space sets along the lines of all those you pictured. This thread got me out of my long dark age, but only in fits and starts. I don't have a lot of space in my little apartment so I went to the extreme and started collecting the Star Wars UCS. Putting together those monsters after 15 years of inactivity was some of the most fun I've had in ages. I'd find room for more if they made Space sets like yours there. Speaking of UCS - I felt like a thief when I found the ISD and the Death Star II for $500 each on ebay last year. I got the UCS Falcon when it came out for retail and the damned things are all going for $1500+ on ebay now.
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favorite sets from when we were younger?  When I was a kid my parents built this thing for me no less than 7 times and it sat taken apart for years until this thread got me building my old sets and I built it once more only to find that alot of it was missing, namely, the car wash brush parts.
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My wall mart has 6 cases of series 5 mini figs... How do I tell whats in the packages? Other than feel.
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Testro posted:^ I think some of them are on Peeron.  I have this exact set assembled in my babies nursery right now, I remember getting it at a church flea market for $5 in the early 90s and it having all the pieces and instruction booklet. I was also able to obtain this set too for $5 with all the pieces and intake instruction booklet. This is also sitting in the nursery, hoping to get the kid addicted to Lego's before he is even able to talk yet.   Those two set started my addiction to Lego, I remember also getting a real floating fishing boat set that came with some cool sharks which I believe is this.  Also airplane set that had a black jet and vehicles but I can not find the pictures for it. I have most of the pieces still laying around in a huge tub, might have to re-assemble them if I can scrounge up the booklets. Rythe fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Rythe posted:I have this exact set assembled in my babies nursery right now, I remember getting it at a church flea market for $5 in the early 90s and it having all the pieces and instruction booklet. I was also able to obtain this set too for $5 with all the pieces and intake instruction booklet. This is also sitting in the nursery, hoping to get the kid addicted to Lego's before he is even able to talk yet. For some reason I was always a big Wolf Pack fan, I was pro-Wolf Pack. Something about those hoods and those mustaches. They weren't bad guys, they were... chaotic good at worst.
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RodShaft posted:My wall mart has 6 cases of series 5 mini figs... How do I tell whats in the packages? Other than feel. That's pretty much the only way these days. They have 'bump codes' on the bottom rear of the packaging, but they're different for every batch and can be difficult to see, let alone read ("Is that just a tool mark or a bump? Is it a low area in the crimper or a bump?" "Fold or bump?" "Strange reflection or bump?"). What you need to do is look at the pictures of the figs, find a signature piece, and feel for it. Learn to manipulate the bag so you move the stand and the collection sheet in one corner while you squeeze the rest of the pieces to another corner. Try and single out that one signature piece. Try to go for the larger signature pieces--skirts, hats, hair; small pieces like syringes or shafts or pistols can get hidden inside other pieces or the sheet. Use your fingernail to feel small contours (make sure you're feeling smooth ridges for your Gladiator helmet and not the rippled ridges of the eskimo hood).
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ExplodingSquidx2 posted:I loved these sets as a kid the most. This was my dream set as a kid. Some of my earliest memories of life (I'm guessing I was around 3 or so) were walking around the KB Toys, looking at this set mostly, thinking the monkey was pretty cool. I never was able to get this particular one, but now that I'm older and have a job, I was able to buy the Queen Anne's Revenge for myself, which is pretty cool. Not as cool as the regular pirates one, but oh well. I'm not paying ridiculous amounts of money for that set.
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Rythe posted:Those two set started my addiction to Lego, I remember also getting a real floating fishing boat set that came with some cool sharks which I believe is this. Yeah, that set's cool, I guess   Now there's a boat! it's goat an engine in the back and everything. Which I think is pretty weird for mid-90s lego
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Sockser posted:Yeah, that set's cool, I guess The thing I remember about these boats was that they were so heavily advertised about being able to float. You better believe there were a few sink adventures vs some spacemen
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Lordshmee posted:That is... incredible! I wish LEGO could come up with new Space sets along the lines of all those you pictured. This thread got me out of my long dark age, but only in fits and starts. I don't have a lot of space in my little apartment so I went to the extreme and started collecting the Star Wars UCS. Putting together those monsters after 15 years of inactivity was some of the most fun I've had in ages. Well thanks! I'd say you have plenty of Space in your apartment now. Seriously, though, they've made UCS Star Wars. They've basically made UCS Town with the Cafe Corner buildings and UCS Castle with the Market Village and the new Joust. Where's my UCS non-theme Space?
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Nothingman posted:favorite sets from when we were younger? I wanted one of the gas stations so bad for the longest time (especially the one with the motherfucking PARKING GARAGE) but I eventually ended up with this one Christmas and it ruled.
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Sockser posted:Christmas! Okay so there is a serious flaw with this set. It comes with one technic pin  to connect the Raptor's head to its body. Cool. The last part of the build is that boom chicken thing. Fine. However, the instructions skip a step, that is, using a technic pin to connect the crane to the swivel base this in the back of the jeep. And the part list only lists one which is obviously for the raptor. They expect you to just kinda drop this big goofy thing into a hole and it stays there??/ I mean, thanks to the fine people at the Lego group always including extras of small parts there was an extra pin in the bags to use to do this but that's really shoddy work on Lego's part to just miss a big thing like that. e: also a question for Lego dudes who are more familiar with Lego's building rules. There's a bunch of blue pieces in the set that are all buried inside the jeep so you can't see them. Why the hell are they blue? Why not make them grey/yellow/dark red like the rest of it? also the set comes with a few of the flat 1x1 round pieces and the flat headlight bricks. Didn't have any of those before. Cool.
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Sockser posted:Okay so there is a serious flaw with this set. firstly: yes, you do just drop the thing into the hole. it clicks in by itself without needing a technic connector. it's a weird piece, but it makes an excellent large turntable. just push the round crane "base" onto the white turntable thing until it clicks. trust me second: the color variety for the innards is so you aren't stuck with a monochromatic confusing build. see set 7784, the original big batmobile, for our "lesson learned" on color variety for the inner-pieces of sets
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Thought I'd share some 'study' kinda stuff I did a while ago (before the invention of the 1x1 brick with stud on 1 side, so there's a lot of technic brick + half pin instead). Basic SNOT pattern. At the time, I wanted to use this pattern as trim around a pillar. I wanted the pillar to be 4 x 4 studs and have that pattern on each surface. The "brick 1x1 with stud on 1 side" completely trivializes this issue, but at the time, this was my solution:    Just screwing around with patterns and stuff.   This took a lot of playing around with because it has some really bizarre offsets to get that yellow border on it.    Turns out the top and sides of the 1 x 4 x 5 window frame are exactly one plate thick, and the base of it is 1.5 plates thick, so you can fit stuff in there! The two halves are just kinda floating and would need to be held in place from the back.   Trying to make a "perfect" octagon pattern. This was my first attempt - I was overthinking it.   Much better!
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vrunt posted:second: the color variety for the innards is so you aren't stuck with a monochromatic confusing build. see set 7784, the original big batmobile, for our "lesson learned" on color variety for the inner-pieces of sets I was always a bit curious about that. I had assumed it was economics of sorts--that maybe TLG produced so many, say, blue 1x2 plates it was cheaper to use them for hidden structural parts than to do them in the set's primary color. Using different colors for clarity in instructions and building makes more sense, though! I can remember missing so many pieces in steps in earlier sets because I just didn't notice that they added a few medium gray plates to a medium gray base. I'd have these two 1x3 gray plates left and I had to carefully go step by step to figure out where the hell I missed them.
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Carbohydrates posted:
This is pretty cool, but I'm not sure it quite works in the brick. I had to get out some old windows to be sure, but it appears the thin parts of the frame are actually about 3/4 plate thick, which is a little weird.
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Spending lots of time searching for other peoples Homeworld MOC's, found a sweet one here of the Raptor ship, minifig scale. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=392610  Check out all the mocs by that user some pretty awesome stuff.
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vrunt posted:firstly: yes, you do just drop the thing into the hole. it clicks in by itself without needing a technic connector. it's a weird piece, but it makes an excellent large turntable. just push the round crane "base" onto the white turntable thing until it clicks. trust me Without the pin to hold it in place that thing toes not sit at all. It totally needs the pin, man.
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Is there any essential MOC websites out there I should know about? Forums and stuff would be also neat.
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Ingram posted:Is there any essential MOC websites out there I should know about? Forums and stuff would be also neat. Brothers Brick is my favorite aggregator: http://www.brothers-brick.com/
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Ingram posted:Is there any essential MOC websites out there I should know about? Forums and stuff would be also neat. eurobricks.com has a decent forums section and is mostly friendly to sharing help, as the mentioned brothers-brick.com and mocpages.com
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Ingram posted:Man I suck at MOCing. Really getting me down Eh, i started out building stuff in LDD about a year ago, I've gone from boxy horrible cars to working on steampunk fighter drone things. I've gone from this:  [timg] to this(Work in Progress)  Another example of how i improved First attempt at a mech  More recent attempt at a mech  I guess what really helped me is starting on small scale stuff and slowly working my way up to bigger minifig scale type stuff. AzMiLion fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Ingram posted:Man I suck at MOCing. Really getting me down I hear you. I built a hardsuit last week and I was so excited, my first serious MOC aside from the mini modular buildings. The idea of Lego space marines just blows my mind. Woke up the next morning, looked at it and it looked like crap to me. So I spent 3 hours and rebuilt the whole thing and I was pretty happy with it. Came back from work, still thought it sucked. I'm going to spend a dozens of hours on this tiny little MOC before I'm happy with it, I know it. WHY CANT YOU JUST WORK FOR ME.
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Ingram posted:Man I suck at MOCing. Really getting me down You're already on the right track; just keep looking at other people's stuff to get inspiration and insight on techniques. Start small if you want to do something more complex/detailed than you're used to, it will help you get a feel for your own style and preferences. Something that has really helped me is trying to emulate designs through lego; when you're trying to mimic a curve on a mech or a starship from some other fiction, you start to try all kinds of crazy stuff you'd never think to try with your own ideas. If you like Homeworld stuff then don't be afraid to try and make some microscale cruisers or even a minifig-scale fighter. If you have a limited selection of colors, then just try to make patterns that are consistent rather than really detailed. And post some stuff! Others will give you feedback or could help you sort out a tough spot if you need it. Also, ya'll need to stop thinking your stuff sucks, build because YOU enjoy it, not because you're trying to impress others.
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Ingram posted:Man I suck at MOCing. Really getting me down When I got out of my dark ages, a quick glance around the internet showed me I had a whole lot to learn. I started by studying what people whose stuff I really liked were doing. I copied a couple of my favorites, which really helped me learn what new parts were out there since I'd left, and also to figure out more complex building techniques. For me, making models (locomotives, mostly) also helped. Working with the constraint of making something look real forced me to get better. It all just takes time and, like any creative pursuit, I'm always finding people who are light years ahead of me, and it always makes me try and get a little better myself. For your other question, most builders worth their salt post everything on flickr these days. If you don't have one, a basic account (with the ability to share up to 200 photos) is free. I make contacts with anyone I want to see updates from as I find them, and I also join a whole bunch of groups related to Lego. If you search Lego space, castle, mecha, whatever, you're bound to find a group for it.
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