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Raystafarian
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Raystafarian replied to Polarlicht's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingThese are nowhere on my radar, but I read the entire review - thanks!
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A bit late, but I think that's pretty cool - good job. I'm sure the solid black faceplates were tricky, I wish Guy-Manuel's faceplate was more uniform, but I imagine you're using the tiles to reinforce the internal bricks. Missing a little bit of black around the "ear" portion too, but overall - great!
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Raystafarian replied to legolijntje's post in a topic in Digital LEGO: Tools, Techniques, and ProjectsIrregular 75969 Hogwarts Astronomy Tower - Theme: Harry Potter LDR File (Studio 2.1.10) Errors: 1x 3062bpb058 Brick, Round 1 x 1 Open Stud with Blue Dragonfly Pattern; Trans-Light Blue Missing 3x 42205 Window 1 x 6 x 6 Flat Front, White Missing 3x 98138pb118 Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Waffle, Nougat Squares with Medium Nougat Edges Pattern; Tan Missing 2x 3069bpb779 Tile 1 x 2 with Groove with Envelope with Red Wax Seal and Gray Highlights Pattern; White Missing 1x 57360 Hinge Cylinder 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers, 7 Teeth and Axle Hole on Ends without Slots; Black Missing 1x 67632pb01 Owl, Spread Wings with Black Beak, Yellow Eyes and Ligh Bluish Gray Rippled Chest Feathers Pattern (HP Hedwig); White Missing 4x 3062bpb065 Brick, Round 1 x 1 Open Stud with Reddish Brown Mandrake Face and Open Mouth Pattern; Medium Nougat Missing 1x 75969stk01 Sticker Sheet Missing All minifigs Missing Sorry, posted this in the LDD thread before.
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nice idea!
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My MOC of a Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua), scale is roughly 1 stud : 1 in of an adult bird, the smallest of adult birds. The model is about 19 studs tall and roughly 13 studs wingtip to wingtip and feet to tail. The axle holder on underside of the bird should be near the center of gravity and a 5L axle into 2L stud holder should support the bird with minimal reinforcement. As with my Laysan Albatross, to say this isn't inspired by the work of Thomas Poulsom would be disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst. The model was first built in Stud.io and then went through several revisions of the physical model. The most time consuming portion of this build was the head - I designed it with sub-models and once I got it mostly together, I ran into a few things. I first needed to have it attach to the body which was actually a few days of brainstorming for me, despite how simply it attaches in this final model. Next was aligning the 4x4 plate for the back of the head properly and then finally adding in the white crescent on the head without the rest of it falling apart. I'm not sure it's the best way to make a head, but it's a good start and I'm sure I'll be experimenting with it more for future birds. Bricksafe gallery with more photos, io file and pdf instructions.
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Bricklink would be my choice. Just find the part and then see what colors are available and put them on a wanted list to buy e.g. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=508#T=P&C=42. Then you can use "easy buy" to source the most cost effective purchase. Just sort by sellers that will ship to you. Sometimes rare colors will be expensive. There also might be a better option in NZ, as I only purchase from US sellers that ship to my US address in Japan, otherwise shipping gets ridiculous.
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It's simply pining for the fjords. Thanks!
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My MOC of a Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), scale is roughly 1 stud : 1 cm of an adult bird, give or take a few cm. The model is about 34 studs bill to feet and 84 studs wingtip to wingtip when not folded at all. There is a vertical round brick with axle hole on the underside of the model near the center of gravity so the bird can be displayed in flight. To say this isn't inspired by the work of Thomas Poulsom would be disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst. The model was first built in Stud.io and then went through several revisions of the physical model. My favorite part of the build was trying to figure out how to keep the bill attached to the head securely - It was also kind of tricky to get the legs to extend out past the tail, which is a defining feature of the albatross. The only part I'm not completely happy about is the eye - the bird should have a dark patch around the eye, but that was near impossible to do with the way the plates are stacked on the face. I also know there under-wings should have some dark pattern on them, but that was simply too difficult to do - adding more (smaller) plates would make the wings too fragile to stay together. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. Bricksafe gallery with more photos, io file and pdf instructions
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Raystafarian replied to Jim's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modelingedited
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Raystafarian replied to damjan97PL's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingFunny story, I was driving back from a hike over the weekend and passed a place that had a bunch of excavators in the yard, with their name on them - learned of Sumitomo-Kenki heavy equipment
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Raystafarian replied to damjan97PL's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingLooks pretty good - the gaps in the blade throw me off a little bit, but I like it.
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Thanks for this! As for 10213 and 10231, they are both modeled on the NASA space shuttle orbiter, but they aren't branded NASA and don't correspond to any of the six actual orbiter names. Nor do they seem to suggest any particular STS mission. The difference of 27 parts, I hear, was to make the model more sturdy, I think with some technic connections. I would say they definitely count.
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Raystafarian replied to Appie's post in a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale ModelingThat's really cool - what wheels/tires did you use?
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Ah, seems I was mistaken on the composition of OxyClean (thanks) - I didn't want to attempt to find it here because.. well it's just hard to come across certain things and I haven't seen it before. I might give it a go with just peroxide if I get any more used bricks that need it. The plates just seem to have the usual "harder to take apart" from the lack of skin oil from use, but they seem to be doing all right, not seeming more brittle or anything -
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I finally found them here (Japan) at a Toys R Us. Sadly they are still outnumbered like 4:1 by the Disney Series 2 CMF, that nobody wants to buy. We went through maybe 60 or 70 bags (all that were out) and didn't come across one dog sitter or one showering guy. I'd say maybe 30% of all the bags were pizza guy and the mummy queen.
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Apologies for the ridiculous bump here, but this is part of the index thread. I heated some baking soda (sodium bicarbonate [NaHCO3]) on the stove until it stopped bubbling, which (simply put) converted it to sodium carbonate [Na2CO3]. This is also known as soda ash, and as far as I can tell it's the active ingredient in OxiClean. After it cooled, I mixed 1/2 tablespoon of that with 1 cup hydrogen peroxide (3%) for a small batch of plates in a clear food-grade plastic container, out in the direct sunlight. Only took maybe a total of 6 hours to de-yellow the plates. I could see the difference in 3 hours and I planned to just go for 7 hours, but I didn't need to. It might have taken only 4 or 5 hours. Just thought I'd add in some specifics for anyone looking through this in the future.
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Ugh, I still can't find them.
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I'm pretty biased I think, I generaly don't like the licensed themes, but I didn't realize how many amazing figs came in series 12, I had only just started collecting at that point and only have 2 of them. It's kind of funny though, looking through the older series and noticing several of the new series being v2 of the figs.
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