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The_Doctor posted:Guys, I think I've reached the point of Too Much Lego. Just set limits for yourself, like make a list of stuff you wanna buy that's coming out and that's it. No random stuff:)
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Or become one of those evil resellers and build your retirement on an empire of lego!
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Sep 16, 2013 17:39
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I genuinely could open my own bricklink store.
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Sep 16, 2013 18:11
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I've hit a similar point myself. Funnily enough, ALSO having just built the Avengers escape set (which honestly just wasn't too great. I'm not a fan of those types). I think that I have too many sets built right now that I enjoy (all the galaxy squad stuff, second wave Chima, some creator sets), but it's just...sitting there. If I had like a garage, I would go full-on with making some Lego town. As it is, I have a living room drowning in the stuff. Breaking some stuff down and sorting it seemed to help. But yeah, this plastic addiction is not helped at ALL by my other one for Transformers. (Also a few weeks ago I posted a big drop ship I was making and someone gave me advice and people gave compliments. Thanks! I sorry I am terrible about posting.)
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Sep 16, 2013 19:46
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I've probably got more technic pieces than 95% of the bricklink stores out there, I keep telling myself I'll build a huge GBC machine but never end up starting it.
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Sep 16, 2013 20:04
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I went to my folks house on the weekend and sure enough, my old sets were still there in a drawer, complete and in boxes as I'd left them decades ago. I couldn't bring my M-tron recovery centre or Aquanauts base but I brought my smaller ice planets and some other random ones. Ice Planet, your candle burnt out long before your legend ever lived.
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Sep 16, 2013 20:20
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Captain Foo posted:Melee weapons are always impractical but totally look cool Now I want to see a mech with one small arm and one big beefy rocket-powered fist with all these pipes and tubes and poo poo coming off it. The 'Roid Droid.
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Sep 16, 2013 20:25
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Ka0 posted:I went to my folks house on the weekend and sure enough, my old sets were still there in a drawer, complete and in boxes as I'd left them decades ago. I couldn't bring my M-tron recovery centre or Aquanauts base but I brought my smaller ice planets and some other random ones. Ice Planet is the best planet.
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Sep 16, 2013 21:45
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Captain Magic posted:I've hit a similar point myself. Funnily enough, ALSO having just built the Avengers escape set (which honestly just wasn't too great. I'm not a fan of those types). It exists solely to sell the giant hulk figure. I needed him to be riding around on the quinjet, so what can you do?
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Sep 16, 2013 22:27
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Was browsing a Barnes and Noble aimlessly the other night while waiting for a table to open up for dinner, found a Minecraft set casually tossed on top of a display of MLP figures. Score. And now I want the other two so I can put them all together  e: Target's website sells Cuusoo sets and I get 5% off with my Redcard. Looks like I'm dropping $200-5% on Lego tonight Sockser fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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Sep 16, 2013 23:12
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lego store had transparent red cones in the pick a brick section, I am now replacing all the busted ones I have left over from my childhood, so I'm pretty glad I stopped in.
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Sep 16, 2013 23:46
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Scored this for $25 in the Target Clearance Aisle today! http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Seaside-House-7346
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Rathina posted:Scored this for $25 in the Target Clearance Aisle today! http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Seaside-House-7346 See, now that set was totally a fun build. You picked up a great bargain! 
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Sep 17, 2013 00:10
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Went in to Fashion Valley lego, and I snagged the Granny Cat Lady  her cat sweater
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Sep 17, 2013 01:12
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Luminaflare posted:...not consciously. So, a couple hours of design and 23 and a third hours of rendering later...  Flare Carrier (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr part of the reason these things take so long to render is that I do them at 1600x900, so click through for big.
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Sep 17, 2013 04:04
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Have you ever looked into using environment maps? While I do really like the even white backgrounds you use, a using a light map can really crank up the realism on how light hits your model. Maybe povray can use a light map and leave the background the same, I've never used it so couldn't say.
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Sep 17, 2013 04:08
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xzzy posted:Have you ever looked into using environment maps? While I do really like the even white backgrounds you use, a using a light map can really crank up the realism on how light hits your model. I don't even know what an environment map is 
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It's a texture that (conceptually) is wrapped around your scene and used as a source of light. They're a special file format saved as a sphere so you can get a full 360 degrees of input. Since these are photos with lots of color variations, the light they produce tends to make for really natural patterns on the object you're rendering. Some free ones here: http://www.pauldebevec.com/Probes/ I don't know how to integrate them with povray though, so if you want to play around you're on your own! But once you figure it out, you can get some results absurdly close to photo realism.
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Sep 17, 2013 04:19
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xzzy posted:lego store had transparent red cones in the pick a brick section, I am now replacing all the busted ones I have left over from my childhood, so I'm pretty glad I stopped in. My Lego store had both trans red cones and trans red round bricks last time I was there so I ended up with about 50 of each. Somehow I'm already out of new trans red rounds.
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Sep 17, 2013 06:09
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Captain Foo posted:So, a couple hours of design and 23 and a third hours of rendering later... Hah, that's awesome. The rail gun itself took me 38 hours to render but that was due to me forgetting to reduce the quality from maximum more than anything else.
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Luminaflare posted:Hah, that's awesome. The rail gun itself took me 38 hours to render but that was due to me forgetting to reduce the quality from maximum more than anything else. rounded transparent parts are BRUTAL at higher settings.
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Call Now posted:When is/was the United Nations Headquarters supposed to release? Because I've seen it in a retail shop, but it's neither on the online Lego store nor on the Architecture website. Guys 
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xzzy posted:Have you ever looked into using environment maps? While I do really like the even white backgrounds you use, a using a light map can really crank up the realism on how light hits your model. Haven't figured out HDR maps in POVRAY yet (though it does support them), I did experiment with background generation a bit.  Sandstorm - Model S1 (POV) by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Call Now posted:Guys Brickset says that Lego 21018 - UN Headquarters - hasn't been released yet. Bricks and Bloks says that it will be the third architecture set released in 2013. So maybe it'll be out before Christmas?
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xzzy posted:It's a texture that (conceptually) is wrapped around your scene and used as a source of light. They're a special file format saved as a sphere so you can get a full 360 degrees of input. Since these are photos with lots of color variations, the light they produce tends to make for really natural patterns on the object you're rendering. I think I need more work here...  Cutler's Mirrored Jays - Model S3 by Captain^Foo, on Flickr
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Sep 18, 2013 00:52
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Captain Foo posted:I think I need more work here... Eject! Eject!
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Sep 18, 2013 02:59
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Captain Foo posted:I think I need more work here...  it's so shiny!Make it even shinier! 
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Neurion posted:
that whole mech is made of metallics, I don't think I could actually get it any shinier without writing custom textures which is really far over my head at this point.
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Captain Foo posted:I think I need more work here... Its like Apollo 1 all over again, except, you know, a mech.
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Sep 18, 2013 07:18
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Adregan, got the pretzel girl, thanks! Now Hansel has found true love! 
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Sep 18, 2013 22:46
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Still intact after all these decades    I'm going back to my folks' place tomorrow and attempt to lug over the Aquanaut base and recovery centre. I didn't see any of my Blacktrons, Futurons, Castle and Space Police sets so I assume they were lost or given away.
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Sep 18, 2013 23:05
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"All these decades?" That's like.. two decades, tops. 
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Sep 18, 2013 23:10
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Ka0 posted:Still intact after all these decades Wow, those are in great shape. Are they even opened? You could probably flip them on Bricklink pretty easily, and buy unboxed versions to play with with a tenth of the profits.
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Pyroclastic posted:Wow, those are in great shape. Are they even opened? You could probably flip them on Bricklink pretty easily, and buy unboxed versions to play with with a tenth of the profits. This
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cyberia posted:Brickset says that Lego 21018 - UN Headquarters - hasn't been released yet. October 1 according to several Dutch Lego stores.
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Ka0 posted:Still intact after all these decades
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A few years ago I was really into Lego and bought a bunch of sets. I have all the directions and most of the sticker sheets (unapplied) but no boxes. Since I last moved, I haven't really taken anything out and I'm not using them anymore. I looked on Bricklink and I don't own anything super rare or valuable (lots of $15 and $20 sets) If I'm just looking to unload them, is it better to break them up into sets (bagged since I have no boxes) and sell them individually, or should I just sell them bulk and include the directions? What's the bulk rate for Lego going these days?
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For some reason, I had really good luck with Bricklink sellers processing and sending my latest orders very quickly. Because of that, I've completed yet another old set. Blacktron Battrax. It's missing one yellow 1x2 flat, a couple of the patterned bricks and strangely 2 black 1x3 bricks but eventually I'll sort that out.  The whole Blacktron crew and for xzzy I have all five minifigures :p  Oh god, the possible combinations! Until you realize that often how you want them connected is impossible without disassembly and switching connections around.  And that is it for my Blacktron collection. Not doing the Meteor Monitor since it's just a crossover between Blacktron I and II and the color scheme is more Blacktron II. Also there is no way I'm paying for all the base building pieces for the Message-Intercept Base, it's just too expensive. Next up, back to my real Lego love, Classic Space.
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The base was kind of poo poo anyways, it just seemed like a few plates on stilts with some huge windows stuck to the sides. I say you cobble together a meteor monitor by swapping the white for yellow. I did that as a kid, but the pieces on the wing tips were black because you couldn't get that 1x2 "gun" bit in yellow back then. Apparently lego did eventually make them, but they're expensive. 70 cents each on bricklink. 
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Shampoo posted:A few years ago I was really into Lego and bought a bunch of sets. I have all the directions and most of the sticker sheets (unapplied) but no boxes. Since I last moved, I haven't really taken anything out and I'm not using them anymore. I looked on Bricklink and I don't own anything super rare or valuable (lots of $15 and $20 sets) If I'm just looking to unload them, is it better to break them up into sets (bagged since I have no boxes) and sell them individually, or should I just sell them bulk and include the directions? What's the bulk rate for Lego going these days? If everything is still fairly organized, you'll probably make more selling them individually as opened sets than just mixing them together into a bulk lot. But I suppose you could always weigh them and then go $5 per pound to get a reasonable bulk estimate (though depending on the sets, it could easily be more than that if you show what's in the lot).
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