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Mos Eisley is supposed to look like a cluster gently caress of light tan. Seriously though, it looks nice. Maybe a couple of tan base plates?
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Thanks. Yeah I was thinking about that. or just doing something to cover the bare shelf with lighter tan. I have foam board for the snow on Hoth.
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Sep 22, 2020 23:19
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Print a desert matte painting background to go from wood shelf to bitchin diorama
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veni veni veni posted:Thanks. Yeah I was thinking about that. or just doing something to cover the bare shelf with lighter tan. I have foam board for the snow on Hoth. Amazon sells 12x24 acrylic sheets in various colors and textures and they’re fairly easy to score and trim to fit. I use those under my dioramas. Also, yeah, print a big matte painting for the background. Looks great already though.
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veni veni veni posted:Comboed the cantina with some other sets to make it look more like a city. Not sure if I like it or if it just looks like a clusterfuck yet. Might pull some of it out to give it some room to breath. Also, have 6 Bith musicians now but couldn't really find a way to display them together so most of them went into the cantina with the rest of the doubles. Very cool! That’s exactly what I’d think Mos Eisley should look like, down to the crowded streets. I wonder if you might get a cool effect by printing background for the rear, and putting mirrors on the left and right sides so it looks like it just continues on in a maze of buildings. Could even put one way glass over the mirror, like an infinity mirror. e: I really want one of them dewback figs now
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bird with big dick posted:I'm making the Volvo 6x6 and after the 1st set of bags I have an extra red gear am I in trouble Yeah I was in trouble, the dump bed doesn't go up and down. Rest of it works okay though.
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OSU_Matthew posted:Very cool! That’s exactly what I’d think Mos Eisley should look like, down to the crowded streets. I’ve been thinking about some sort of background for a while, just haven’t done it yet. Hadn’t thought of the mirrors though. That’s actually a pretty slick idea. I’d honestly love a better shelf system in general, something brighter and mirrored, but I’m sort of saddled with this one since my landlord asked if I could keep it here and I agreed. At least it works pretty well for LEGO but it’s very 90s looking, and sort of limiting, and very dark. Might try “Big Mean Jerks” acrylic sheet idea. They might even sell mirrored ones. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Dogen posted:But are your names Zack? yeah
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I need to start a roofing company on Tatooine, it’s an untapped market! Looks cool though, wish I could do the same but I don’t know where the hell I’m going to put the big cantina, it won’t fit where the small one is now.
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This arm is wild https://twitter.com/uran120/status/1308678636732428288
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Good email, guys. 
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The_Doctor posted:Good email, guys. Hey, we have the same names.
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Ha! No Christmas set ad for you dudes.
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The_Doctor posted:Good email, guys. Got one of those too and wanted to complain that I just spent 10k points a month or so ago. How is it that my remaining points don't have a longer lifespan? I guess it's just a glitch?
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Halloween hayride and a bucket of Classic bricks arrived today! My daughter is ecstatic and I'm losing my mind at some of these alien, futuristic shapes and colors I feel like I stepped out of a bunker and everything is like Back to the Future 2
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 She had so much fun putting this together, and I had no idea how well she'd be able to follow instructions at 3 years old... but there were times she gathered the pieces and put them together just like the picture without any prompting from me, it was fantastic Brawnfire fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Now make the rest of the body.
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Brawnfire posted:
Quit making me want this incredibly cute thing.
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Also this is my first set with a two-face head, smiling on one side and screaming on the other. Very cute!
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Brawnfire posted:Also this is my first set with a two-face head, smiling on one side and screaming on the other. Very cute! 
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Brawnfire posted:
Young kids can build adult lego with supervision, just make sure you don’t let them eat it. My kiddo built the bulk of the Saturn V at 4 y/o. (I helped on the top which is fiddly). She’s looking into the robotics sets now. Shaking fist at the current mind storms debacle. Enjoy! The hayride looks great. E:autocorrect is the worst.
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Built quite a bit of LEGO with my 4 year old over the pandemic. Symmetrical / repetitive stuff like the ISS is great because you can build one bit to show them how it's done. Attention span is the main limiting factor I've found. Can get her to focus for 100-200 pieces or so before she starts to wander and I end up doing more of it. Anias posted:Shaking fist at the current mind storms debacle.
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deoju posted:I'll take it if nobody else wants it. You already sent something to me, I don't want to take advantage of your generosity. tomapot posted:I’ll take it, I’m working on a few Mocs and could use some spare parts. Literally A Person posted:I would totally take it if you'd give it!! Since I'm a total shitstain and completely forgot I offered these pieces up I apologize for not replying to you guys; I saw the container and was like "Uhh... didn't I try to get rid of this?" I was going to just send it off to the first person that replied but since deoju wants to pay it forward (deoju still has first dibs if they still want it) it's up to tomapot if they want it and if not, I'll send it to Literally A Person. Sorry again for the delay!
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I'll pass on it. You're a cool person though.
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Anyone want to sell their Town Hall?
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Waltzing Along posted:Anyone want to sell their Town Hall? I know someone who potentially does. You're in Australia yes?
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Lizard Combatant posted:I know someone who potentially does. You're in Australia yes? Nope. California.
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Waltzing Along posted:Nope. California. Apologies, I thought I had you down as an ausgoon.
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Anias posted:Shaking fist at the current mind storms debacle. ?
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Sometime in the fall a new mindstorm home set is coming out with the same intellibrick layout found inside the spike prime kits, but colored differently. Spike prime is not a clear upgrade from ev3, and requests for additional information are being ignored. Meanwhile lego is being coy about what the next mindstorm education core set is going to look like. Essentially what is known at the moment can be summarized thus: spike prime has 6 ports for motors/sensors, but each port is identical and can work for every device. It has built in gyro/speaker and some leds instead of a display. Ev3 has 4 motor, 4 sensor ports, built in lcd, Longer/customizable wiring, and a more robust community of software. Spike prime boots faster but it doesn’t seem to be noticeably more capable on the processing side, the boot loader is just better. The robotics leagues for school are of course splitting the difference. If spike was unambiguously better, this wouldn’t be as irritating.
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Did anyone else get the email for the Lego sneakers today? e:  https://feature.com/products/adidas-originals-x-lego-zx-8000-yellow-brown you have to enter the drawing for a chance to buy them, and they are still $130 Plinkey fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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Those are type of thing You'll be able to sell to sneaker nerds for $2000 though.
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So when I was a kid I had a lot of Lego, a mixture of city and classic space, one or two small forest-people themed sets, and some Technic from the early 90s. The last Lego set I remember getting was a yellow submarine. None of this was especially well cared for - pieces got lost and broken, and everything was stored together in one big bin. At some point maybe 20 years ago 50% or more of this bin was randomly separated and sent to my older brother for his children (including apparently all of the intact minifigures). Last week I dug out what was left of the bin at my Mom's house, and started digging through it, hoping to find a full set of parts for... anything. No luck. Lots and lots of great parts though. While I was looking for set of wheels I started sticking wheels to bricks alternating-like, and ended up with a stick with a lot of wheels. Before I knew what I was doing, the stick had a cockpit, and then I took some of it apart to make all the bricks red. Then this happened:  I think I spent at least 4 hours making sure I got every wheel out of that bin. Cockpits from Futuron:  Weapons and flight functions courtesy of Blacktron:  Power systems and engineering from M-Tron:  These were the only 4 minifigures I could cobble together from parts:  The M-Tron Veteran lost his hands, feet, and scalp in a vicious battle with a space-dog but is still the best pilot in the sector. Star Peasant keeps the engines running. That French Guy handles main weapon systems, and Future Diver mans the 360 degree railgun turret. Here's one last shot of science gone too far: 
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It’s delightfully gratuitous.
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veni veni veni posted:It’s delightfully gratuitous. This is exactly the words. I love it.
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The long lost, unreleased, time cruisers set.
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