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and built by optimus prime too... transformers linkage FTW :D
Even the US flag and Cobra symbol was built out of Lego. I'm not too familiar witht he vehicles but these look awesome.
Vector APC
This was an amazing little piece. It really inspired me again. Not that I lost any passion for LEgo but with time at a Premium, Legos dropped off the ladder of priorities (until Space Police arrives anyway) but this makes me want to open my boxes and go nuts again.
War Within Prowl
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5005/dscf4870wp4.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2803/dscf4871yn4.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9793/dscf4869zt0.jpg
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6551/dscf4865te9.jpg
I wasn't that happy with the back end so added a set of boosters.
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5595/dscf4864wi0.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7585/dscf4861of1.jpg
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2396/dscf4860rz3.jpg
The design of it's okay. I've probably got 4 parts of the build that could easily be improved and more efficient. The lazy part is going back, taking it apart and fixing it and then reassembling it. I can see why it takes a lot of time as well as a lot of pieces too.
After this, I wanted to build WW Tracks but I didn't have enough pieces. My next project will be WW Prime. But I don't have enough pieces at the moment so that's a bit away. I never realised how many pieces one needed to build MOCs. I've got a chunk of pieces now but evidently not enough. :(
Now make it transform.
Awesome STL. Strangely enough. Over the weekend I was at a friends place and his sons had a huge amount of Bionicles in a big box loose, so me and his son got to making some creations. Here's two I made:
Excuse the technicoloured nature. Just working with what's available.
Stompy's unnamed 6 legged beast with claw tail, two SRM launchers, buzzsaw and spear arms:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...Bionicle01.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...ionicle01b.jpg
Stompy's also unnamed 15 headed Bionicle Hydra:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...Bionicle02.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...ionicle02b.jpg
Not the greatest at all, but for a quick go and a rather unfamiliar way to build, I did ok.
I recognise the chain-wheel from Exo-Force. Those Bionocle pieces actually look quite useful. And I ran through my library of Lego and I totalled about 21,000 pieces of Lego. It sounds a lot but I guess in the building game that's not very much at all.
With robot modes, I need more space and a lot more pieces. I wanted Prowl to transform but a lack of the correct pieces didn't help. I poured over the Peeron site but a lot of those pieces I need are in sets that arent' easy to get anymore.
The ball joint and ratchet joints can certainly help make transforming MOC's but they are quite bulky. I am starting to get a creative flow happening again and am thinking of making a few transforming ones. I'm pretty sure I will get to a point of missing particular pieces. I guess we have to make do with what we have.
I find that it makes you even more creative because you have an idea of what you want and have to compromise and come up with an even more creative solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stompy
QFT +1Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix
I have always loved restrictions in "custom" stuff. Limited parts can be worked around. It may be awful to be 60% complete only to have to restart as there's no possible way to do it without the proper pieces. But such is the way of MOC's with limited selection of pieces. Hopefully I get to finally start making something to see just how good my creativity is.
I know what you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stompy
I tried making a Bionicle humanoid without using the torso pieces that the canister sets use.
Ended up with this
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ji...ns/MAIX/02.jpg
A while back, I posted some findings of Space "Classics", modern reinventions of some of the old school space sets. Well, Space's 30th anniversary is here or quickly approaching and I stumbled across a great blog which only features these modern space reinventions, specifically this one:
http://lindalane.com/temporary/tf/neoclassicspace1.jpg
http://neoclassicspace.com/
Now those have very little studs exposed jay! Looks ace.
Nice work GP. I like the use of axles with the ball pieces for the arm and wrist joints. Loving the work done for the torso though. And what is the purpose of the rubber band hidden in the groin area? Exposed g-string? ;)
'Tis the same dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stompy
The rubber band was actually holding the hips in. If you look, the ball-joints on the hips are these parts. There is a rod going through the top of that and the corner of the Slizer foot I used as a base, but it doesn't keep it still. The rubber band keeps it together, while also letting it go out a bit if needed. Kind of cheating, but the rubber band is one of the Lego ones they give you for some sets, so it technically counts :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Stompy
Agreed. Although it kind of freaks me out because it doesn't look like Lego. Looks like an actual model made with other things. I prefer the studs being there, looks like it is Lego. But it is still very impressive when they manage to hide most, if not all, of themQuote:
Originally Posted by Stompy
Cool new Tumbler, with a motor and two speed transmission!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/...783a9a.jpg?v=0
Go here and be amazed everyday. Yes, I've been drawn back into Lego... arrggh, I'm gonna be so poor. :o:D
Those guys are the guys I started on too, and then added these guys, and probably a few more from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Firecracker
I'm crazy about neoclassicspace.com which is currently doing their mad MOC of the day for March. There's at least 4 or 5 NENN pieces which never cease to amaze me with how he exposes virtually no pegs.
found this while going through Brickshelf
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/ar...dphones_01.jpg
has some other cool things in the folder
Those are great!
That's gold! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered
A perfect example of Rule 34Quote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered
What's rule 34?
Rule 34 of the internet: There is Porn of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaydisc
If you can think of something, there will be porn of it somewhere out there on the internet
No Exceptions
I know this thread is close to 5 years old... but what the hell? It's time to bring this zombie thread back to life for MOC ol' fashioned Hot Rod! :D
What started as a bunch of pieces...
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps2lzgh1bm.jpg
& following a fair bit of planning, I ended up with this little beast! I've got to say I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! :D
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psztoc34y2.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps0zyxnoll.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...pslpz9ximn.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psmeev0xuj.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psueydexci.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psyrt5gptg.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psb08w4fup.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps3mfem9ou.jpg
& I even had enough left over pieces to put together a toolbox for all his tools.
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps7qeralgq.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...pssbx0ucp9.jpg
Rubber tyres.... im sold!!!
Aha, I knew there'd be a MOC thread somewhere. So here's the Defender:
https://i.imgur.com/eoxuuKA.jpg
Made out of the current TIE Fighter, the 2010 TIE Defender, and a bunch of random spares (and some of those newish 1x1 brackets I pulled out of the microfighter T-16 and advent calendar A-Wing, because I needed them to hold the wingtips together and those were the only ones I could find). It's not accurate to most of the art I could find of the TIE-D, or how they appeared in Rebels, but I was going for how I remember them being back in the old TIE Fighter game where I fell in love with them (mainly because the tractor beam made chasing down those damned TIE-As a breeze), where I'm pretty sure all the warhead launchers were packed into the body rather than the wings, and the pylons didn't flare out around the base (not sure those are all entirely legal, there's a few pretty stressed parts stuck in there holding all that forward weight of the wings in place). Plus a custom pilot, because the only reason I went through all those campaigns as Maarek Stele was that I didn't have a choice.
And this I just finished last night (been meaning to get around to it for ages) - Blue Leader Tara's Y-Wing:
https://i.imgur.com/bfBarjV.jpg
...based on a fanfic from years ago, long story, but basically it's been stripped down and rebuilt so many times Ship of Theseus-style that it's gone from nondescript outdated bomber to ultimate TIE-killer. I did build one a while back out of the 2007 Y-Wing when the Rogue One version replaced it, but I always wanted to come back to it with a complete build from scratch and really make it into a one-of-a-kind hotrod. I did discover (the hard way) that at some point during the five times I took the engines apart and reassembled them to make them bigger I'd left the nacelles holding together solely on the friction from about 1mm of a smooth rod, but that's fixed now.
There's that E-Wing I was working on:
https://i.imgur.com/VvW3ip8.jpg
It was actually basically done back in January, but I borrowed the silver collar pieces from the wingtip cannons (which are barely visible) when I decided to double Tara's concussion missile launcher from two to four tubes, and I'm a bit OCD so I just had to find some more in the storage bins before it was 'finished'. And then spent an evening trying to work out where the non-canon post-Jedi timeline should fit on shelves where everything's arranged in chronological order, but as you can see it wound up with the sequel trilogy, since the only alternative was knock a wall out to make the shelves fork off in different directions. I'm not that obsessive.
That looks great! I love my Action Fleet E-Wing, and its great to see one come to life in Lego.
The E-Wing is sort of canon now.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/E-wing_escort_fighter
It's not specifically been referred to as "E-Wing", but it's the same ship.
Oh whoops - I've got that set, it's down on the Clone Wars shelf. I'm hazy on a lot of the EU, aside from a few specific bits I've interacted with, I don't think I even knew about the E-Wing back when I got that set, and when I got this project in mind (I think I saw the ship in a youtube video back in December) it never occurred to me I already had one. Still, too late now, I've already named the pilot and droid (Sephie and R7-5E, 'Artsy') so they've got to stay.Quote:
Originally Posted by SharkyMcShark
Took some photo time to cover a few other MOCs I've got on the shelves since I'm cluttering up the thread anyway.
Iron Monger:
https://i.imgur.com/IrfZC3i.jpg
A fair way off-model but I'm pretty happy regardless, I wanted him to be smaller than the Hulkbuster style mechs Lego does and I think the poseability turned out pretty well. Didn't really capture the rounded look of a lot of the suit (and of course I'm cheating by not having the helmet, lucky there was that bit where he opened it up) but I like the pistons on the limbs, and the centre piece of his ARC reactor glows in the dark so that's cool. I did a Whiplash as well just to get caught up to where Lego started doing their own sets, but he's just a minifig version of the Monaco suit so just orange pants and a chestplate over a bare torso, nothing fancy.
Batboat:
https://i.imgur.com/ZVwq4ye.jpg
Okay remember the set with Killer Croc and Captain Boomerang that had that awful Crocmobile and pretty dumb-looking Bat Tank? I just wanted the minifigs really but I made myself feel better by throwing this together out of the parts. This was before the Lego Batman Movie so I didn't already have a Batboat, and I had the stealth boat from the Street Fighter movie in the back of my mind, because I love bad movies.
Droid World:
https://i.imgur.com/CJcG5OG.jpg
I gather it was in a comic as well but I remember it from one of those read-along-with-the-cassette books where R2 bleeps to let you know to turn the page. Quite moving for something aimed at five year olds or whatever. Kligson's had a racelift since I wanted to use the bare head rather than slapping Cyborg's helmet piece on another head, so it's have that smooth look - I really should get a smoother looking torso one of these days but I don't want to sacrifice a silver protocol droid so this is a make-do for now. The red helmet from the Sith Whatevertrooper was good enough that I was willing to give up my red protocol droid to make a proper ZX-3 though, and I feel like the Imperial Warbot turned out okay.
And this one I'm particularly proud of, although for some reason I never thought up a name for it, so it's just 'the truck':
https://i.imgur.com/G8bL6dP.jpg
Made mainly from parts of the larger Ultra Agents sets, since they were pretty cool but I still had the original Agents sets which were bigger and ultimately I kind of liked them being less crazy-hi-tech in their looks - so I had all the parts for a big sci-fi truck lying around, and at the time I'd been watching Burst Angel featuring a big sci-fi truck, I think you can see where this is going. The crew are therefore expies of the Burst Angel cast: Lady Ky (driver and leader), Cray (eccentric tech geek), Sasha (taciturn ninja), Bella (excitable heavy weapons gal) - I ended up doing a full interior, with workspaces and accommodations for each of them, and an underfloor bay containing Sasha's tron bike which she's named Hanzo, instead of a mecha (plus Bella's got her airbike Skygunner built into the top of the truck, which is basically a laser gattling gun with wings, she's a firm believer in quantity of firepower having a quality of its own):
https://i.imgur.com/xqJcsid.jpg
Then I ended up folding an unrelated build I was doing at the same time into the same headcanon (because Lego's just mechanical thinking, the storytelling side of my brain wanders in the meantime) - so this is the Javelin:
https://i.imgur.com/l83gYaA.jpg
custom built by Miss Elaine on the left, and driven by Skylar on the right, together they're kind of the Lady Penelope to the truck team.
I quite like the Iron Monger.
Every few years I get really taken with the idea of making mechs from Lego but its not something I ever developed a knack for.
It took quite a while - he's the second Iron Monger, the first was larger and much clunkier. I can't remember now which set it was, but this new one came from a set with a mech I didn't need, so it got stripped down to its skeleton to provide the basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by SharkyMcShark
Anyway, I finished my Ugly:
https://i.imgur.com/rUuorv9.jpg
Grey-1 (because as always my story brain goes off inventing stuff while my mechanical brain's working on the build), piloted by Tesca, who's an orange twi'lek but that's the closest I've got, just pretend it's not cartoon Ahsoka and the lekku are tucked into the helmet. Born a slave, bit of a engineering prodigy, sold to a scrapper and kept in his cargo bay/junkpile for three years dismantling salvage for valuable components, until her owner brought in a 'dead' Y-TIE she figured could actually be made to work, so she refurbished enough broken parts to put into inventory to make it look like she'd stripped it like she was supposed to, but actually hid the ship away while she got its engines and one laser cannon working enough to take off and blast the cargo bay open from the inside to escape; the deep dark secret she never tells anyone is that she accidentally hit a main power line in the process and just made it clear before the freighter and all forty crew blew up, which is a fair bit to carry when you're twelve and don't know what a therapist is anyway. Besides bottling that all up inside she's gone into salvage by herself, and kept on modifying her ship - it's now got extra engines from a second TIE (but one of them's broken so the quad iron drive is technically a triple for the moment), an X-Wing hyperdrive (it's on the other side of the hull), her own astromech (RX, because she Frankensteined him together from parts of so many junked droids she's got no idea which R model he is), a detachable zero-g sled controlled by an RA-7 protocol droid head to follow her around on spacewalks through the innards of wrecked ships and carry the loot (and crack any locks she finds on Imperial Navy wrecks, because she managed to get into some of the droid's old Imperial Security Bureau programming), and the astromech bay (which wasn't being used since RX had to be wired directly into the ship to get him going) is now a suitlock containing a radiation-hardened exosuit (mainly minifig parts from Power Miners) she can wriggle into directly from the cockpit (hence the tights-and-top outfit instead of a flight suit) to get into damaged reactor cores. I'm not sure whether she's doing this during the Galactic Civil War or after, that kind of depends on where I end up managing to fit this thing on my shelves.
So here's an odd little thing:
https://i.imgur.com/MAzi6KY.jpg
I got the microfighter AT-AT/Tauntaun because the tauntaun's adorable obviously, and my natural thought was to have the cute little AT-AT running along behind the full-size AT-AT (it's the motorised one, I haven't got any newer ones because an AT-AT that can walk is by definition better than one that can't no matter how pretty it is) like the little dog in that cartoon with the little dog and the big dog, but there's stuff on the shelf in front of that bit of Hoth on my shelf so it'd be invisible - but then I remembered I'd been meaning to look into making an AT-IC from The Epic Continues for a while, and a micro version's cheaper, so here we are. Initially I meant to just narrow the microfighter AT-AT to de-cutesy its proportions, but then I started wanting the legs to be more accurate, googled a bunch of images for inspiration, and now here we are a week later where the head's really the only thing (mostly) unchanged. Pretty happy with that really.
This is my take on Marius Hermann's Jehuty from an old Playstation game called Zone of the Enders. It is extremely fragile and is very rarely moved. It does have a lot of articulated parts though.
https://i.imgur.com/XZB7yxc.jpg