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Borsche69 posted:i am really glad they brought back midi ships. the tantive is overpriced and the cockpit is a little underscaled, and i'm not a prequel guy so the invisible hand does nothing for me (i only found out recently that its general badman's capital ship) but its a great line. i REALLY hope they redo that medical frigate that was a convention only thing Whereas my hope is that they re-do the midi-scale ISD (set 8099) from 2010 with a better technique.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Whereas my hope is that they re-do the midi-scale ISD (set 8099) from 2010 with a better technique. while we're wishing for the impossible, an attempt at a mon calamari cruiser would be cool
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Borsche69 posted:while we're wishing for the impossible, an attempt at a mon calamari cruiser would be cool Impossible? They just redid the falcon! And unlike an mc80 there's a lot fewer curves
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lol I bet they redo the old midi ISD next year. I'm sure someone's working on it by now.
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With Carbs on hiatus, no one is around to extol the virtues of speed champions so I'll say: The McLaren F1 was a real cool build. Not like the Solus, but still fun. I just started on the Mustang Dark Horse and it's freaking amazing after 2 bags. If the last two bags are as good as the first two, this build will be goated. Just a fantastic build so far. Upon reflection, it seems that the 18+ cars (speed champs is sorta 18+) are consistently among the most interesting builds, year after year. Also, they don't normally do two blocks of speed champs in the same year, right?
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Borsche69 posted:while we're wishing for the impossible, an attempt at a mon calamari cruiser would be cool Here’s my goofball attempt, had another front bridge and a bridge under it but the 3 year old lost em somewhere     Mon Cal Interdictor/Carrier   a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 03:54 on May 4, 2024 |
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I'd buy that.
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I've never been a huge fan of the Mon Cal ships, but they do have something in spades that keeps me from buying the refreshed UCS ISD - I want the damned thing to look war-used with differently-shaded armor colors, and the MC80s definitely have that quality to them. Every large-scale ISD they've made looks "fresh from the yard" and it just feels boring.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've never been a huge fan of the Mon Cal ships, but they do have something in spades that keeps me from buying the refreshed UCS ISD - I want the damned thing to look war-used with differently-shaded armor colors, and the MC80s definitely have that quality to them. I tried switching out some white for light grey and sand blue on one I made, but yeah I should add some sand brown/ tan peaking out here and there. Made it from whatever rounded white pieces I had in the bin haha.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've never been a huge fan of the Mon Cal ships, but they do have something in spades that keeps me from buying the refreshed UCS ISD - I want the damned thing to look war-used with differently-shaded armor colors, and the MC80s definitely have that quality to them. Sorta in that vein, if they ever did a "UCS" large scale Death Star, I'd hope it was the 2nd under construction Death Star.
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a sexual elk posted:I tried switching out some white for light grey and sand blue on one I made, but yeah I should add some sand brown/ tan peaking out here and there. Made it from whatever rounded white pieces I had in the bin haha. Get some old grey from classic space sets, they look fantastically worn up against the modern bluish grey. Smaller part selection though.
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mutata posted:Sorta in that vein, if they ever did a "UCS" large scale Death Star, I'd hope it was the 2nd under construction Death Star. Something bigger than 10143?
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duz posted:Something bigger than 10143? Oh, hmm. Eh, that one's pretty cool, I suppose. Yeah, basically like that, good job, Lego.
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Borsche69 posted:yup. no two ways around it. you are loving hosed. post like these are like when someone would wander into TCC and say 'so i started microdosing and its fantastic. does anyone know where i can get this poo poo in larger quantities?' Listen I’m not posting in TCC these days but that could be me and I’m already in this loving thread and the knife thread I should just bite the bullet and buy a horse and be king of the bad with money thread 
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Hahah I’ll gently caress around with it, good thing cause I ran out of ideas with current shelf rotation. The Tie Droid idea just came outta nowhere. Surprised it came out so well/so quick while having some serious early issues Only problem is my Mon Cal is a solid brick of plastic, someone breaks in I’m using the thing as a club. Gonna be a pain getting it apart again. a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 04:51 on May 4, 2024 |
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Sorry bit buzzed but Veni Veni Veni, if there’s sets you really wanna get rid of for space but aren’t worth the trouble of selling I’ll gladly pay for shipping if you wanna donate to my war chest haha. I’m getting thin on regular rear end pieces and you know I’ll do fun stuff with em. This goes to anyone over flowing with bricks. To me the fun is making things with you got. Ideas and hours of trial and error
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Every large-scale ISD they've made looks "fresh from the yard" and it just feels boring. Hopefully we get a decent model of the Chimera at some point.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Hopefully we get a decent model of the Chimera at some point. I’ve tried building that so many times in my head, only way it could work is painting it like a model
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a sexual elk posted:I’ve tried building that so many times in my head, only way it could work is painting it like a model The most worrisome thing is that Lego's on a BIG sticker kick at present, and I wouldn't put it past them. I mean, something like this would make my wallet jump out of my pocket (it's one of those metal models, but it illustrates what I want):  Break up the monotony with some darker and lighter grays, ffs. I passed on 10221 because it was all the same damned color up top, and jumped at the midi-scale Executor because it 1) was less expensive, and 2) had more than one gray tone. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 05:53 on May 4, 2024 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The most worrisome thing is that Lego's on a BIG sticker kick at present, and I wouldn't put it past them. No bin of extra parts?
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   I forgot I said I'd post group shots of my mocs. been trying to make stuff weekly of varying complexity
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New version of the Detolf shelf I see. How adjustable are the shelves if I had unlimited clips?
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obi_ant posted:New version of the Detolf shelf I see. How adjustable are the shelves if I had unlimited clips? it is and you can pretty much setup up however you want. I'll re-adjust those depending on what's in there
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The kintsugi version of the Chimera from Ahsoka is the one I really want to see.
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Waltzing Along posted:With Carbs on hiatus, no one is around to extol the virtues of speed champions so I'll say: I really liked the rear end of the Dark Horse but the lights in front seemed a bit fragile. All in all, good build. Also agree with the SC McLaren. Very cool
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a sexual elk posted:Sorry bit buzzed but Veni Veni Veni, if there’s sets you really wanna get rid of for space but aren’t worth the trouble of selling I’ll gladly pay for shipping if you wanna donate to my war chest haha. I’m getting thin on regular rear end pieces and you know I’ll do fun stuff with em. This goes to anyone over flowing with bricks. To me the fun is making things with you got. Ideas and hours of trial and error cool moc advice i saw was basically along the lines of 'hey you know those sets you have on display that you dont really care that much about? thats lego too! crazy huh? why dont part it out and make something else with it or combine it with another set you're displaying and not super attached to'
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although i can understand if someone finds disassembling sets to be tedious. when i did it before a move, it was kinda relaxing right up until i got to the statue of liberty and remembered they had you stack like eight 1x1 plates on top of eachother
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Disassembly is much much faster than building. If you aren't sorting by bag, you can fly through it really easily. That's assuming you know how to use a separator.
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Borsche69 posted:cool moc advice i saw was basically along the lines of 'hey you know those sets you have on display that you dont really care that much about? thats lego too! crazy huh? why dont part it out and make something else with it or combine it with another set you're displaying and not super attached to' absolutely, when I rotate things off the shelf they get disassembled and sorted it also helps to remind myself to look at the building techniques as I'm going through the process. gives me ideas for new mocs
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Waltzing Along posted:Disassembly is much much faster than building. If you aren't sorting by bag, you can fly through it really easily. That's assuming you know how to use a separator. 
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THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Her transparent chainsaw is regular orange and not neon orange!
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The neon orange probably has some toxic chemical in it that you can't use anymore, just like everything cool from the 90s.
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Or lego ran out of bins
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HootTheOwl posted:Impossible? its gonna be interesting if they pull a r2d2 but apparently a regular, but smaller scale ISD just got revealed: https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/cal-kestis-debuts-as-a-lego-minifigure-in-75394-imperial-star-destroyer/ 1555 pieces, 170 dolalrs
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i guess kinda on the scale of the current playscale falcon
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I mean it’s way smaller scale than the falcon (or, larger scale in number of pieces I think) but I do have the last iteration of that set and like it quite a bit
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The new ISD fills the same playscale role in the lineup as the previous Star Destroyers and as the Light Cruiser (all roughly 1.5k pieces, 150 USD, 6 minifgures). It just looks small on the box for some reason.
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