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Old and new Lego Twilights
I've been building ponies based on Andrew Harvey's pony design for over a year now, and while I like it a lot (enough to have built seven of them IRL), I've always wanted to try and create my own original Lego pony design, and after months of experimentation this is what I've finally come up with!
I took a lot of inspiration from Mike Nieve's awesome Pokemon models, since they do a great job of capturing cartoon character cuteness, although mine is significantly smaller than his due to ponies having enormous eyes.
One of my priorities with this new design was potential for different poses. As much as I like Andrew Harvey's pony design, it can't be easily rebuilt into different poses without looking weird. These new ones however, I can rebuild to my heart's content! The only limitation is whatever 2D shapes can be built with plates and slopes.
My favorite part is the wings, which are just some minifigure shield pieces mounted on skeleton arms :) They just happen to be exactly the shape of folded wings, and the right size no less! If only they came in more than 4 colors IRL...
Old and new Lego Twilights
I've been building ponies based on Andrew Harvey's pony design for over a year now, and while I like it a lot (enough to have built seven of them IRL), I've always wanted to try and create my own original Lego pony design, and after months of experimentation this is what I've finally come up with!
I took a lot of inspiration from Mike Nieve's awesome Pokemon models, since they do a great job of capturing cartoon character cuteness, although mine is significantly smaller than his due to ponies having enormous eyes.
One of my priorities with this new design was potential for different poses. As much as I like Andrew Harvey's pony design, it can't be easily rebuilt into different poses without looking weird. These new ones however, I can rebuild to my heart's content! The only limitation is whatever 2D shapes can be built with plates and slopes.
My favorite part is the wings, which are just some minifigure shield pieces mounted on skeleton arms :) They just happen to be exactly the shape of folded wings, and the right size no less! If only they came in more than 4 colors IRL...