Fox Hound Posted January 7, 2014 Author Posted January 7, 2014 Unbelievable! Fox Hound, that is one amazing LDD MOC. Like others have said, the detail is fantastic. I love the city-scape on the top, and how you painstakingly recreated it from the movie models. Really nice work! Now, don't throw anything at me, but I'm curious as to your choice of design of the bridge tower. I know it would be tough to get the right angles with the current scale, but did you try other bricks besides a couple of inverted slopes? I'm just curious. The bridge needs to be 1 stud wide at this scale, and basically 1 stud high. If you have a better design, post it! I'll use it in the actual build (God willing). Quote
Sharwood1 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 (edited) Wow impressive. I'm in the middle of building the emperor's arrival scene I only used the 10212 imperial shuttle model and adding the floor and the figures. 15000 pieces so far. Just a question LDD keeps shutting down and also is being real slow? Whys that it's so annoying. http://s990.photobucket.com/user/sharwood1/media/legostarwarsscenes.png.html?sort=3&o=0 Edited January 8, 2014 by Sharwood1 Quote
Fox Hound Posted January 8, 2014 Author Posted January 8, 2014 Wow impressive. I'm in the middle of building the emperor's arrival scene I only used the 10212 imperial shuttle model and adding the floor and the figures. 15000 pieces so far. Just a question LDD keeps shutting down and also is being real slow? Whys that it's so annoying. http://s990.photobuc...html?sort=3&o=0 LDD doesn't have a piece limit, but a polygon limit. Those base plates + mini-figs alone have more polygons than half my ship. Quote
Doom2099 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 Wow, that is absolutely stunning! It sounds like people around the forum have some interesting ideas about how it could actually happen, and I wish you the best of luck getting in touch with Lego and hope they can help get it on display someday. The main engine, city, and tiling are outstanding. Thanks for sharing! Quote
Chills Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 The bridge needs to be 1 stud wide at this scale, and basically 1 stud high. If you have a better design, post it! I'll use it in the actual build (God willing). I'll use 1-stud wide and your general dimensions. I'll play around with LDD and see what I can think of. I must admit my MOC skills are in their infancy but this sounds like a good challenge. Quote
Sharwood1 Posted January 8, 2014 Posted January 8, 2014 LDD doesn't have a piece limit, but a polygon limit. Those base plates + mini-figs alone have more polygons than half my ship. I don't get ya? Lol Quote
Fox Hound Posted January 8, 2014 Author Posted January 8, 2014 EB Forums' Blakbird did some beautiful test renders with the LDraw file I just had to show. Quote
Blakbird Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 They got better: Much bigger versions at my Bricksafe. Quote
HanShotFirst Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Insane. I would love to see this in brick form. Nice work! Quote
obiwan1011 Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Apologies to all the other great Star Wars MOCs out there, but this is by FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR the best Star Wars MOC. EVER. Lord Vader will be very pleased. Quote
Fox Hound Posted January 9, 2014 Author Posted January 9, 2014 Blakbird is the best! I'm going to make the actual build (God willing) light up as well. It would be awesome to see the 3000+ blue tiles on the city aglow. Quote
DraikNova Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) You must be insane for doing this . Completely and utterly insane. With that point made, even so it's impressive. It's horrifyingly detailed and mind-crashingly large. I may have to steal that engine technique sometime. Edited January 9, 2014 by DraikNova Quote
Godtshep Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 Amazing! I've tried making a few SDs on LDD, yet none of them are THIS fantastic! Quote
Blakbird Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 I'm going to make the actual build (God willing) light up as well. It would be awesome to see the 3000+ blue tiles on the city aglow. Long ago I had a plastic ISD model that came with about a mile of fiber optic cable and a micro drill. The idea was to drill tiny holes all over, stuff in the fiber, and route them all to a little light bulb. It looked amazing in the dark. Lighting this one with LEDs would also be incredible. Quote
Alasdair Ryan Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 Amazing model,with a ton of great detail. Quote
Fox Hound Posted January 11, 2014 Author Posted January 11, 2014 Long ago I had a plastic ISD model that came with about a mile of fiber optic cable and a micro drill. The idea was to drill tiny holes all over, stuff in the fiber, and route them all to a little light bulb. It looked amazing in the dark. Lighting this one with LEDs would also be incredible. I too had a fiber optic ISD. But I was too young / dumb at the time to build it. Would it be possible to add light sources to the blue tiles as well? Maybe we can see the city lit-up after all :) Quote
CCOOK Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 This is awesome - we should chip in and have this thing built for real. Quote
modsbytweek Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 I love this and the renders look great. Thank you for sharing this. Your work is amazing and I look forward to your future adventures. Quote
BrickieB Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 This is really insane - and excellent! Quote
Blakbird Posted January 12, 2014 Posted January 12, 2014 Would it be possible to add light sources to the blue tiles as well? Maybe we can see the city lit-up after all :) I gave it a try. Adding 2000+ light sources to a model certainly does increase the render time! I am not particularly happy with the result. The window lights are probably too bright, so it would be better to make them dim and you would only see them if zoomed in very far or if the image was otherwise very dark. Quote
calculon Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 (edited) you MUST be the devil himself. I have no other explanation for this. Your design is far away from being man-made. You'll just catch the poor souls of all the Eurobrickers 'round here. SHAME on you! Evil! GO AWAY! :D Edited January 13, 2014 by calculon Quote
timura Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 Really impressive creation: Blogged by tilesorstuds.com: Quote
Blakbird Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 By popular request, here is a view with a couple of Imperial Star Destroyers. This is an image that rewards clicking through to the full size 1920x1080 version. Quote
Brickmasta Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 We should get it build all together... everyone spend some bricks and lets go :D Quote
Anio Posted January 14, 2014 Posted January 14, 2014 By popular request, here is a view with a couple of Imperial Star Destroyers. This is an image that rewards clicking through to the full size 1920x1080 version. I want to change the wallpaper on my computer screen for some time now. This render will be perfect for that purpose ! Quote
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