Santa of doom

[gylman]

So, I figured I would make a posable Santa. Easy, right?

NOT! It's hard to make someone fat and posable.

ended up having a musclebound Santa. Have a good laugh!

Hey, you wanna piece of me!

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/s...a/pieceofme.jpg

Welcome to my Xmas display

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/s...nta/welcome.jpg

Yeah bud.... it's over there!

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/s...vertherejpg.jpg

Sorry dudes..... time to disco!

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/s...osanta_2jpg.jpg

Oh yeah, and some Advent calendar stuff

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/A...t2006/tree3.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gylman/A...t2006/tree2.jpg

Merry Xmas.

Cheers.

Gyl

[Sarg_Kulo]

Nice, just give him a gun. :oD

[Darth_Ewok]

*I won't write an infinite "aaahhhhh" anymore because it disturbs the reading of the threads*

Swwweeeeeeeett! :-D

[KimT]

AWESOME |-D

KimT

[Evil Willy]

Wow you made that? How do you build upright like that?

[gylman]

He has an inner core which is very mobile with lots of ball joints and a couple of KK clicky joints

(ball joints are not very strong, but are very mobile).

The knees and elbows are flat hingy pieces. It's a pretty standard design.

Look up "gla gla armature"on Google.

If you want to see how awesome it can be in the hands of a good builder, not me, check this out:

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/2156

There are others.

My guy can't be so flexible because he had to be chubby.

Also, he is very heavy due to the chubbiness, so I had to use a couple of clicky joints rather than ball joints for the shoulders.

Anyway once I have the core, I build his body, arms and legs around it.

Lots of fiddling, and I never seem to have the right part when I need it.

I ran out of red reverse slopes at about 3/4 way though. Also didn't have enough red jumper plate, enough tan for the face,

and a couple of other things. It's true what they say.... "you can never have too much Lego".

The hardest part to get to look nice was the face (well, not really hard,

but I was just tired of it and I didn't have enough tan pieces,

and wanted to be done, so I did a sucky job. Sorry).

There are awesome articles on mecha building in the 2nd issue of Brickjournal.

highly recommend it. But, reading is not enough.

You gotta sit there and fiddle with it to understand what works and what doesn't.

The main problem with mechas is that as they get heavier they need sturdier joints,

but the sturdy joints are less mobile than ball joints, so you gotta balance those two.

Also, the more mobile they are the more the joints show, so you gotta figure out ways

to hide as much of the joint as possible.

Cheers.

Gyl

[crispen]

great job!

[Evil Willy]

Alright thanks for the inlightment, thats cool!

[Monday]

Don't hurt me Santa I've been a good boy this year 8-| Ok so mabye the trash can was my fault, but.........................

[Lost Viking]

Lol, nice job Glyman! I hope he won't come down my chimney!

[Graynar]

Nice design ya got there. All you need now is several robots driving that Santa, and have the Exo force fighting him.

[gylman]

Nice design ya got there. All you need now is several robots driving that Santa, and have the Exo force fighting him.

"I'll crush those puny little buggers! BWHAHAHAHAHA"

Santa rubs his hands with glee.... and then adds in a smaller voice....

"Oh, uh ...... yes..... uh ....Merry Xmas. HO HO HO"