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Dragon Hunters
"Whose idea was this anyways?"
This was originally intended as an entry for the Dragon Attack category of the most recent CCC. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete the entry in time, but with spring break coming up and my spring quarter moved to online instruction, I now had plenty of time to finish this monster of a build, pun intended.
The hot air balloon is ten-sided, which I achieved using 4x4 curved fence pieces. It can also stand on its own, despite the balloon section being quite heavy and despite being supported only by four 1x1 cones at the center.
For the dragon, the main goal was to make brick-built wings – no cloth pieces, that's cheating. :P Brick-built wings are much too rare a sight, in my opinion. In fact, the only builder I know of who has pulled off brick-built wings at a decent scale is Deus (let me know if there are other builders who have done this whom I've somehow missed?). So I wanted to take a shot at it as well. The dragon is quite fragile – the head falls apart if you breathe on it wrong, and the wings often break off at the half-way point, which meant that the last 40% or so of construction had to happen once the dragon was already suspended.
Speaking of, both builds are suspended on a giant technic frame. Don't ask me how I got that to work, because I have no idea. The frame is already starting to bend under the weight, so this moc might not survive long...
Getting additional pictures was quite difficult because I had to keep the frame close to the subjects for stability reasons, so the quality of additional shots is pretty bad, but nevertheless, here are some alternate views:
Front view (yes, the dragon does have legs!)
Next up, possibly some sci-fi, and possibly a lego music video??? No promises.
Dragon Hunters
"Whose idea was this anyways?"
This was originally intended as an entry for the Dragon Attack category of the most recent CCC. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete the entry in time, but with spring break coming up and my spring quarter moved to online instruction, I now had plenty of time to finish this monster of a build, pun intended.
The hot air balloon is ten-sided, which I achieved using 4x4 curved fence pieces. It can also stand on its own, despite the balloon section being quite heavy and despite being supported only by four 1x1 cones at the center.
For the dragon, the main goal was to make brick-built wings – no cloth pieces, that's cheating. :P Brick-built wings are much too rare a sight, in my opinion. In fact, the only builder I know of who has pulled off brick-built wings at a decent scale is Deus (let me know if there are other builders who have done this whom I've somehow missed?). So I wanted to take a shot at it as well. The dragon is quite fragile – the head falls apart if you breathe on it wrong, and the wings often break off at the half-way point, which meant that the last 40% or so of construction had to happen once the dragon was already suspended.
Speaking of, both builds are suspended on a giant technic frame. Don't ask me how I got that to work, because I have no idea. The frame is already starting to bend under the weight, so this moc might not survive long...
Getting additional pictures was quite difficult because I had to keep the frame close to the subjects for stability reasons, so the quality of additional shots is pretty bad, but nevertheless, here are some alternate views:
Front view (yes, the dragon does have legs!)
Next up, possibly some sci-fi, and possibly a lego music video??? No promises.