Posted June 30, 201311 yr Thought I'd give my Orthanc a Barad-dur makeover: "I see you" Using lighting bricks from the Palantir and Orc Forge and about 70 flame pieces. Edited June 30, 201311 yr by Missing Brick
June 30, 201311 yr Gosh that's awesome, the eye looks great, I like the technique you have used to keep the flame pieces together, all in all a great job and I like the fact that the tower is still the isengard one but yet it looks like Barad Dur. Keep up the great work.
June 30, 201311 yr Author Thanks guys. Those trans orange flame pieces look a bit rubbish in the daylight, but they really come alive when you shine a red LED on them in the dark. Thinking about the design: I should probably attempt to complete the black arc under the eye by adding some more black slopes. That would make it more movie accurate and also help to disguise my prop bar. Edited June 30, 201311 yr by Missing Brick
June 30, 201311 yr Wow! this looks great. I thought the first picture had been through photo shop to get that first picture.
June 30, 201311 yr Congrats this now appears on lord of the bricks http://www.lordofthebrick.com/2013/06/quand-orthanc-devient-barad-dur/
July 1, 201311 yr Wow it looks awesome, when I saw the 1st pic I thought its just photoshop The connecting of the flame pieces is simply clever!
July 1, 201311 yr That looks great! Are those the old flame pieces attached to each other? I wonder if (how) they would do it if they released their own set since that mold doesn't exist anymore. Great job though. Looks great in the dark.
July 2, 201311 yr Wow this is amazing and im definitely doing this when i get my own set. I am wondering though is there is a better way to hide the light up bricks. I guess you can bake the two large spires at the top of the tower hollow and thicker to put the light up bricks in but how to angle the light up brick inside? The other option might me to put the light up brick in the top floor but that wont provide enough light to brighten up the entire eye? Any thoughts?
July 2, 201311 yr Author On 7/1/2013 at 9:04 PM, TheLegoDr said: Are those the old flame pieces attached to each other? I wonder if (how) they would do it if they released their own set since that mold doesn't exist anymore. Yes, this part http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6126 AFAIK it's still in production ( eg. being used as recently as the 2010 Prince of Persia sets) - (1p / 2c on Bricklink). Not to be confused with the useless pin-less version http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=6126b Funny story: First time I saw a pic showing the flame pieces clipped together I thought "that looks cool! I didn't know you could do that!". I then spent the next hour trying in vain to clip my 6126b flames together ( the ones without the base pins! ). It never occurred to me that lego would produce an 'updated' flame piece which is practically usless - having no pins for building larger flames. On 7/2/2013 at 12:43 AM, kermit said: I am wondering though is there is a better way to hide the light up bricks. If you're using the big 2x3 LED bricks they fit quite nicely behind the ears - and have the advantage that they remain hidden even when viewing from a few degrees left/right and above the tower. On 7/1/2013 at 4:33 PM, Csacsa234 said: when I saw the 1st pic I thought its just photoshop No photoshop, it really looks like that. Apart from the LEDs behind the ears, I used an LED headtorch to uplight from below to bring out a few details on the tower surface, that's all. The cool shadows on the wall behind were pure luck. Edited July 2, 201311 yr by Missing Brick
July 12, 201311 yr The eye is stunning! It's an amazing design. It looks as photoshoped, but it's a surprisingly clever build with lightbricks and flames. Really well done!
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