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smackfu posted:One complication is that everyone values the minifigs at much more than their part count. 16 minifigs is not adding only $6 to the price. On the flip side to this, if you ever want a bunch of pieces for pretty cheap, you can buy sets without minifigures on ebay for a pretty huge discount. I got a bunch of star wars ships for like 20-60 dollars off each just because I wasn't really interested in the minifigures and only wanted the ship. Chances are the ewok village without minifigures will probably only run you around 150ish dollars(which is like 7.5 cents a piece). I always end up buying one complete set though and then expanding on that set with the cheaper one without minifigures though.
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FadingChord posted:The presence of Imperial troops and Han being roasted on a spit clearly shows that the second Death Star hasn't blown up, so the ghosts haven't made an appearance. Plus Ghost Anakin wouldn't even exist at that point. The helmet drum set says otherwise! And why wouldn't ghost Anakin exist yet? He's the other old guy in that ghost trio. Those were prequels. You're bad at 
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The Royal Scrub posted:The helmet drum set says otherwise! Because if Darth Vader is still alive then Ghost Anakin wouldn't exist? I missed the helmet drum set though, so I'll just have to live with being bad at somehow.Unrelated, but I picked up the Batcave at a local Wal-Mart for $15 off (I think it as $55?) so wave one DC Lego might be getting cleared out of your Wal-Mart too.
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Guys, guys, what if... what if there were different scenes on the same set? Like, you could have the Ewok intro scene with the floating chair and Han on a spit and the celebration scene with the Trooper helmets and Leia's long hair! Mind boggling! You're all terrible at 
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Jun 3, 2013 16:41
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I just want the scene where you can crush an at-st with two swinging logs.
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Jun 3, 2013 16:43
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xzzy posted:I just want the scene where you can crush an at-st with two swinging logs. You could probably mod the tree that's farthest from the main group. I can't guarantee you'll get enough inertia to squish a LEGO AT-ST though.
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Jun 3, 2013 16:46
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rickiep00h posted:You could probably mod the tree that's farthest from the main group. I can't guarantee you'll get enough inertia to squish a LEGO AT-ST though. Just be loose in the assembly of the AT-ST. Push the pieces together just enough to hold the shape but no more. I should clarify that I never had the Endor bunker set that came with the AT-ST so I'm not familiar with the assembly.
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Jun 3, 2013 21:15
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Lego does break-away walls and stuff all the time. Just mod the AT-ST's side walls to be held on with a single stud that sits on a smooth plate and it'll pop apart with very little force. There's a wall like this in the Vampyre Castle.
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A little over a year ago I left my dark ages, just before I got a job working for LBR, and have been reintroducing myself to the joy of building and modeling with LEGO. I've bought myself several of the Star Wars sets released in the past year, assembled and displayed them, and upon discovering the LDD, turned my attention to working on prototyping MOCs. I started by downloading the PDFs of official sets and following the instructions while building them in the LDD, to get practice with the program (easy enough), and pick up interesting build techniques I'd never thought of using as a child (such as SNOT.) About a week ago, I was playing around with some bricks during break and the chassis of a micro-scale starship began to take shape. I made note of the pieces I used, and when I got home I began playing around with the idea in LDD. A few hours later, I was satisfied with the result of the starship, but I would like some critique from other AFOLs! Here are some of the screenshots I've taken of the frigate... Click here to see the rest of the imgur album. I'm also looking for a little bit of advice on designing small turrets to place along the port and starboard sides of the vessel. Thus far everything I've come up with looks too bulky and oversized for the scale I'm going for (the 1x2 trans plate in the bridge tower is at least 15 meters in height.) (Edited for gross overestimation of the scale of the 1x2 trans piece.) Neurion fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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No comments on the build, but it looks neat and a lot like a cargo ship straight out of X3 Reunion.
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anthraciteDragon posted:A little over a year ago I left my dark ages, just before I got a job working for LBR, and have been reintroducing myself to the joy of building and modeling with LEGO. I've bought myself several of the Star Wars sets released in the past year, assembled and displayed them, and upon discovering the LDD, turned my attention to working on prototyping MOCs. I started by downloading the PDFs of official sets and following the instructions while building them in the LDD, to get practice with the program (easy enough), and pick up interesting build techniques I'd never thought of using as a child (such as SNOT.) About a week ago, I was playing around with some bricks during break and the chassis of a micro-scale starship began to take shape. I made note of the pieces I used, and when I got home I began playing around with the idea in LDD. A few hours later, I was satisfied with the result of the starship, but I would like some critique from other AFOLs! Here are some of the screenshots I've taken of the frigate... Reminds me of the Pillar of Autumn from Halo. Yeah, one of the problems with microscale is finding weapons or other details that aren't obscenely oversized. A 15 meter high plate would translate to something like a 75 meter long barrel if you used a control stick. Maybe just the base of the control stick without the lever could work as a recessed turret, especially if you put it between the 2x3s on the side (replacing those with tiles might make it look better). Binoculars are another commonly used mini turret. Some very tiny pieces came with Star Wars sets, used as antennae for clonetrooper helmets and the like, which may work if you can find a way to fit them in. Then there are tools like the screwdriver or lipstick.
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Pyroclastic posted:Maybe just the base of the control stick without the lever could work as a recessed turret, especially if you put it between the 2x3s on the side (replacing those with tiles might make it look better). Binoculars are another commonly used mini turret. Some very tiny pieces came with Star Wars sets, used as antennae for clonetrooper helmets and the like, which may work if you can find a way to fit them in. Then there are tools like the screwdriver or lipstick. That's my only major complaint about the LDD: it doesn't allow you to delete sub-parts of an element (the lever from the control stick, or a minifigure torso and arms leaving the hands) without deleting the entire element.  I played around with some of the minifig accessory pieces, seeing what might work, and settled on Wolverine's claw braces (element #88811) on being a suitable piece for a turret. I didn't like how it looked on the model, though, so I've settled for not having turret detail at this scale. It's not meant to be a well-armed frigate after all. It's mostly a freighter that's been refitted for light patrol duty.
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Reminds me of an Ion Frigate from Homeworld.  Anyway, I'd second the Binoculars as a twin barrel turret, though ultimately anything you use is going to have a "ridiculously large" feel to it.
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Jun 5, 2013 13:55
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What about leaving a 1x1(or smaller) space in the side, and mounting antenna inside sticking out... Like cannons on a pirate ship.
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Jun 5, 2013 14:24
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How about a 1 x 1 brick with Headlight with a control stick mounted behind it, poking through the hole?
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Jun 5, 2013 14:34
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Torael_7 posted:Reminds me of an Ion Frigate from Homeworld.  RodShaft posted:What about leaving a 1x1(or smaller) space in the side, and mounting antenna inside sticking out... Like cannons on a pirate ship. On second thought  , the interior of the ship needn't be set in stone.. this calls for experimentation!  Patchwork Shaman posted:How about a 1 x 1 brick with Headlight with a control stick mounted behind it, poking through the hole?
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Jun 5, 2013 18:52
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anthraciteDragon posted:Another good idea which I'm going to add to my notes, but a little too tall for the scale I'm going with. Thanks, though! Aren't there 2x3 plates with tecnic holes in them?
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RodShaft posted:Aren't there 2x3 plates with tecnic holes in them? Nope. There is this, but it's a whole different beast really: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3176
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here's some mockups of some ideas I had for turrets.
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Jun 6, 2013 01:35
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RodShaft posted:here's some mockups of some ideas I had for turrets.    
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Shredder's claws might make good micro-scale weapons. They're smaller than Wolverine's, and have that back thing.
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Picked up the Superman: Black Zero Escape set. Holy hell Zod is one bitchin minifig with his armor. So I'm curios, what's ya'lls favourite minifigure licensed or unlicensed?
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I've always liked the shoulder plate from the UFO line and the ice planet head with white bangs. Not that that's any one minifig or anything.
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squarerandom posted:Picked up the Superman: Black Zero Escape set. Holy hell Zod is one bitchin minifig with his armor. So I'm curios, what's ya'lls favourite minifigure licensed or unlicensed? Zod is indeed awesome and that helmet is going to be a favourite with Fallout / etc... fans. I really like the Boushh minifigure, the printing is phenomenal and the helmet is perfect.
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Jun 6, 2013 06:43
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Blacktron II with Jetpack, motherfuckers.
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God drat it. I'm almost done with the Volkswagen T1 Camper Van and I didn't realize that it didn't have any mini-figs in there. I guess I have to make my own from a Lego store when I stop by. I could have SWORN I saw a review showing a surfer or something like that.
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Captain Invictus posted:Blacktron II with Jetpack, motherfuckers. That was my favourite as a kid.
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But minifigs don't fit into my micro/mid-scale builds. That said, Ice planet dudes own. Oh god, i think i know of a way to fit minifigs in a micro build, is there a dinosaur minifig?
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AzMiLion posted:But minifigs don't fit into my micro/mid-scale builds. There's Lizardman. Or maybe those new Chima sets may have a dinosaur looking guy. There's also actual dinosaurs at minifig scale. They're really cool but may be too big for your purposes.
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obi_ant posted:God drat it. I'm almost done with the Volkswagen T1 Camper Van and I didn't realize that it didn't have any mini-figs in there. I guess I have to make my own from a Lego store when I stop by. I could have SWORN I saw a review showing a surfer or something like that. But it's not minifig scale, is it?
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smackfu posted:But it's not minifig scale, is it? Not even remotely. At a push it's Technic figure scale.
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Brick Daddy has a few things to say in regards to the 'best' minifig.
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squarerandom posted:Picked up the Superman: Black Zero Escape set. Holy hell Zod is one bitchin minifig with his armor. So I'm curios, what's ya'lls favourite minifigure licensed or unlicensed? I'm a sucker for the dwarf minifigs myself. Oh! And the Porkins fig.
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Voodoo posted:Brick Daddy has a few things to say in regards to the 'best' minifig. Yeah, he also says it's totally the Blacktron II jetpack. Dude's got good taste.  EDIT: although my personal favorite has always been black-sleeved forestman
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This was a cool story to wake up and read: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/jun/HQ_13-173_Lego_NASA_Competition.html
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This is my favorite licensed minifig. Non-licensed is probably the classic astronaut. 
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Too bad he's wearing the wrong helmet.
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xzzy posted:Too bad he's wearing the wrong helmet. You find a classic helmet with an intact chinstrap and we'll talk. 
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Lizard Combatant posted:There's Lizardman. Or maybe those new Chima sets may have a dinosaur looking guy. There's also actual dinosaurs at minifig scale. They're really cool but may be too big for your purposes.  and 
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Lizardman rules. Umbra Dubium posted:You find a classic helmet with an intact chinstrap and we'll talk. I have about 20 classic space guys in pretty bad shape but the other day I found a black one in mint condition! Badge print is great and the chin strap intact. I was so happy
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