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Flyinglemur posted:Working on my first studio project, my progress so far: The best way to get lighting it to lop off the top and render. Or make your interiors into subassemblies. and render just them
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HootTheOwl posted:The best way to get lighting it to lop off the top and render. Thank you!
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Anyone up for helping me recreate these small vehicles? My kid really wants to build them with whatever pieces we have laying around Jango/Boba ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGZBpkTtak&t=258s death star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGZBpkTtak&t=86s Captain marvel skycycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tt6QgDdd8g&t=89s I can put up more detailed vids if needed
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mastershakeman posted:Anyone up for helping me recreate these small vehicles? My kid really wants to build them with whatever pieces we have laying around https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-109088/Droptima/skywalker-saga-micro-fighters/#parts This should get you the starwars pair
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HootTheOwl posted:https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-109088/Droptima/skywalker-saga-micro-fighters/#parts This should get you the starwars pair I had just finished figuring out Boba's ship, I think I'll go ahead and make some instructions for it anyway.
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HootTheOwl posted:https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-109088/Droptima/skywalker-saga-micro-fighters/#parts This should get you the starwars pair Awesome! We don't have many spare wedge pieces (due to the xwing mini) but it looks pretty cool to my kid  Time for him to put a million translucent shooter pieces on it. Also the rangefinder pieces on knockoff minifigs are horrible mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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Here's some instructions for my best bet on the mini Boba ship. I took some liberties with the bottom dark gray layer to add the engines and upper roundy bit. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8TQdV5Kr6cqin0DAKlVcjtQAWApn-Ro/view?usp=sharing 
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It looks like the same Slave I that I've had sitting on my work desk for years: I can't find instructions for it, but here's the brickset link for the set: https://brickset.com/sets/CELEBVI-1/Mini-Slave-I Jehde fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Here's some instructions for my best bet on the mini Boba ship. I took some liberties with the bottom dark gray layer to add the engines and upper roundy bit. You guys are so drat talented at this stuff
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Jehde posted:It looks like the same Slave I that I've had sitting on my work desk for years: Good call, it probably is exactly that promo set.
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mastershakeman posted:You guys are so drat talented at this stuff I stared at a few videos of the Captain Marvel speeder, but all I can find is pretty much the same setup of someone unlocking the achievement and swooping it for a moment, nothing high quality enough to get a feel for how it's made, and no good rotation. Edit: I've been swooping this silly thing around the house since Thursday: 
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Prophet of Nixon posted:I stared at a few videos of the Captain Marvel speeder, but all I can find is pretty much the same setup of someone unlocking the achievement and swooping it for a moment, nothing high quality enough to get a feel for how it's made, and no good rotation. I'll put up a vid tomorrow. I'm trying to work up a big spreadsheet of all of these vehicles from the games, because stuff like that existing exclusive mini ship blow my mind - I don't know how to properly search for them I guess. I think it's really terrible they don't sell those sets for kids. We've been giving my kid motivator check marks for behavior we want (bath, brush teeth, hands to self etc) and a minifig reward, I got a ton of knockoffs from China and he gets 1-2 a week. So he now has like 30 of them but wants little vehicles for each of them. The really rough thing is looking up stuff like symbiote suit spiderman on bricklink and it's minimum $100 because it was an exclusive at some convention
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mastershakeman posted:I think it's really terrible they don't sell those sets for kids. I feel like Lego doesn't make nearly enough small $10-$15 sets and polybags. I mean, there's a few every year, but they're clearly not the focus of any line, which at this point are all $40 to $70 sets primarily. "Play features" on larger builds are neat, but the best play feature is just being able to swoop the whole set around without breaking a 500 piece thing, and that's just lacking lately. It also bugs me how many of their sets are the price point they are due to lot of smaller side builds - take those away, price the set lower, beef the former side builds up a little to where they're not junk, and make those into polybags and smaller products.
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The midscale version of the Falcon is great and I want more stuff like it.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:I feel like Lego doesn't make nearly enough small $10-$15 sets and polybags. I mean, there's a few every year, but they're clearly not the focus of any line, which at this point are all $40 to $70 sets primarily. "Play features" on larger builds are neat, but the best play feature is just being able to swoop the whole set around without breaking a 500 piece thing, and that's just lacking lately. It also bugs me how many of their sets are the price point they are due to lot of smaller side builds - take those away, price the set lower, beef the former side builds up a little to where they're not junk, and make those into polybags and smaller products. The sets between $5-20 are what me and the kid typically pickup to build and play with together. Maybe it's just what my retailer carries but I actually find there's a pretty good selection in that price range. Particularly the 3-in-1 and City stuff.
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Literally A Person posted:The sets between $5-20 are what me and the kid typically pickup to build and play with together. Maybe it's just what my retailer carries but I actually find there's a pretty good selection in that price range. Particularly the 3-in-1 and City stuff. The current wave of 3-in-1 is totally great and more of what I'd like to see. I just wish there was 2-3x more of that kind of stuff.
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3-in-1 Deep Sea Creatures is a GOAT set and still available at Target (mine, at least) for 12 bucks.
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Carbohydrates posted:3-in-1 Deep Sea Creatures is a GOAT set and still available at Target (mine, at least) for 12 bucks. Seconding this, fantastic set.
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Carbohydrates posted:3-in-1 Deep Sea Creatures is a GOAT set and still available at Target (mine, at least) for 12 bucks. I got that set for my wife about a year or so ago since I saw it at the grocery store here and she loves sharks. She had never played with Lego as a kid and I thought it would be nice for us to do together. I was wrong, she hated the process and doesn't have the patience for it, but she does love her shark. Plus that let me know that I DID like the process and here I am now, telling you all about it and boring the poo poo out of you. But yeah, that was a fun set.
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Anyone else find the Optimus build kinda meh? It definitely looks a lot better in person than in pictures but the process itself was pretty straightforward without many “oh cool” moments. I think the only bits that struck me as clever are the feet assemblies and the rifle. The axe is dumb and too heavy for the shoulder joint.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The midscale version of the Falcon is great and I want more stuff like it. Agreed, good mix of size and detail. 
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I just put together the Cosmic Cardboard Adventure GWP last night - https://brickset.com/sets/40533-1/Cosmic-Cardboard-Adventures It is a really nice little set and contains a lot of cute little details, like a teddy bear in a robosuit and small painted, green army men.
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Carbohydrates posted:3-in-1 Deep Sea Creatures is a GOAT set and still available at Target (mine, at least) for 12 bucks. I've gotten two of those for myself and one for the kid. it really is a little magic, all the alternate builds are good
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What is it that makes that 3 in 1 so special? Just looking at it from the outside it looks pretty normal for a 3 in 1. But hearing Carbs say GOAT got my interest.
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Waltzing Along posted:What is it that makes that 3 in 1 so special? Just looking at it from the outside it looks pretty normal for a 3 in 1. But hearing Carbs say GOAT got my interest. The models are all awesome looking and fun to swoosh. How you put them together is fun as hell. When you're done with them you have a whole bunch of cool/kickass pieces. Just everything. And the price....
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Waltzing Along posted:What is it that makes that 3 in 1 so special? Just looking at it from the outside it looks pretty normal for a 3 in 1. But hearing Carbs say GOAT got my interest.
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I got the Father's Day GWP, an Aston Martin that fits my "car only" policy  Pretty cool, not one of my favorite cars but it was fun to put together and a nice difference from the Technics I've been doing.   And staring down the bigger brother McLaren F1 that is in the garage waiting for the right part  I love the exhaust edit: This seems like a lot of leftover pieces for a 90 piece set. I'm not complaining though. I know that sounded like a complaint 
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Carbohydrates posted:It's a great build. Nothing too wild tech-wise, but has some cleverness such as the specific ball joints used to give the space between segments a 1/2 plate gap to keep it tight. The eyes are formed with a ligtsaber blade slid through Technic pins finished with 1L liftarms - clever and it looks great. Also, it looks really complete and detailed for a Creator model - none of the usual aesthetic compromises you tend to get with Creator sets. I don't think the still photos quite do justice to the scale and shaping, honestly. All of the alternate builds are pretty good, and it actually has a 4th digital-only build which is ALSO good. It's really unusual for all of the builds to be so good. It was a good value at release at $15 for 230 pcs, but these days you can reliably get it for $12, which is approaching 5 cents per piece. It's stellar! I think the only thing keeping me from saying something like "it's perfect" is that the build is not the MOST interesting throughout. The head is really cool and fun, but most of the body and tail are regular studs-up stackin'. It's fine, and none of it is bad, but it doesn't have any "oh wow" moments outside of the head/eyes. Thanks for that. I'd sworn off the non-adult sets due to always feeling dissatisfied after the build. But maybe I'll pick this one up.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Anyone else find the Optimus build kinda meh? It definitely looks a lot better in person than in pictures but the process itself was pretty straightforward without many “oh cool” moments. I think the only bits that struck me as clever are the feet assemblies and the rifle. The axe is dumb and too heavy for the shoulder joint. I haven't built mine yet (or witnessed it being built, since it's a bday present for my almost 11yo), but I'm not surprised. Given the design - what with Optimus being a fairly boxy and angle-free truck and robot - and part count, I anticipated that the build itself would be on the "meh" side. When it comes to Lego mechs and robots, the interesting techniques usually crop up in joints or when achieving the curves or angles of something vaguely Anime-ish. Carbohydrates posted:Shark Creator set GOAT words To add to this, it is one of those rare 3-in-1 sets where the alternate builds are at least as interesting, if not more, as the primary one.
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Any goon recommendations for LED back lighting for kalax and similar shelves? I finally got my wicked brick stands and inserts, they're neat. I wanted to get something easy to work with for back lighting for LED stuff, just to illuminate the podiums and then I plan on having Light My Bricks stuff on all my sets independent of the display lighting.
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Waltzing Along posted:What is it that makes that 3 in 1 so special? Just looking at it from the outside it looks pretty normal for a 3 in 1. But hearing Carbs say GOAT got my interest. The real reason you need that set is to build yourself a Krakenator! 
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This isn't a lego is it? It's in with the two enormous tubs of lego I stole from my newly adult nieces when I visited my sister last weekend.
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bird with big dick posted:This isn't a lego is it? It's in with the two enormous tubs of lego I stole from my newly adult nieces when I visited my sister last weekend. YOU STOLE MY SHOWERHEAD!!! 
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bird with big dick posted:This isn't a lego is it? It's in with the two enormous tubs of lego I stole from my newly adult nieces when I visited my sister last weekend. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=10894#T=C
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Appears in Velveeta Promotional Set 4 Absolutely not kidding right now.
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Whoa. Didn't see that coming. Also, I ordered that Shark set based on Carbs recommendation.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:I stared at a few videos of the Captain Marvel speeder, but all I can find is pretty much the same setup of someone unlocking the achievement and swooping it for a moment, nothing high quality enough to get a feel for how it's made, and no good rotation. https://youtu.be/59fjdIm0Qjo Will this vid work for you? I also ordered that shark set. Maybe for me...
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Wtf Literally A Person posted:Appears in Velveeta Promotional Set 4 Wtf
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