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I built this TIE a couple years ago as part of a Christmas contest, so I went back, recolored it, and made a hangar diorama for it. Enjoy!
This build just stems from wanting to try and imitate a wooden wall feature I've seen numerous times recently in brick form, with the rest of the build coming together to form the presentation. Essentially it's some kind of corporate lobby/waiting room.
What do you do when you find a giant's stash of enormous doubloons? If you're these Pirates, you strap some giant balloons to the doubloons and make douballoons!
Originally I wasn't planning to enter the Ideas Pirates contest, but I came up with this word pun and had to execute it. Thanks for looking!
3D View: mecabricks.com/en/models/kOjLZO7dax6
My first build for the Speed Champions 2323 collab.
The McLaren Solus from the Speed Champions set 76918 has such a crazy look that it almost looks more like a spaceship than a car. That's what inspired the Speed Champions 2323 collab.
The goal is to reuse some of the new Speed Champions pieces in a racing ship, so I took some parts from the Solus (the windscreen, the new wedges 3388 and 3389, the new modified plate 3386 (in the engines)) to build this spaceship.
I had a rough idea of what the model would look like, but didn't have the parts, so, as often, I first designed the engines with Mecabricks (thankfully they were strong enough once built physically). Then I've built a cockpit prototype with some parts I had and used stud.io to finish the cockpit and design the stand. I knew I wanted to link the cockpit and the engine with a truss structure, but my first idea was a bit more simple, with only three links on each side of the cockpit, and more fragile.
1383: Curse of the Pharaoh (revamp)
Continuing with the Studios monster movie sets here is a revamp of set 1383: Curse of the Pharaoh.
I made a few changes here and there. Swapping the original lion design with a jackal instead (a bit more accurate I guess?). Additional details were added to the crypt as well just to help make it look more interesting.
I added a more sinister tone to the set. Where the original comic/story for this set had a skeleton stealing the Pharaoh's crypt to sleep in. This one has the skeleton as an unfortunate victim of the Pharaoh's curse.
Sadly, Mecabricks doesn't have a scorpion, so I had to improvise with my own build
"Go anywhere, do anything in a L4-P1N AllTrak 'Thumper' " said the marketing spiel.
They weren't lying!
Here's their first one - a shakedown evaluation mule being escorted back to the base testing grounds.
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Another resurrection from an older table scrap—this time the tracks. We all like Built Wheels in Febrov, so why not Built Treads™️?
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Hello! Here's a render I made for my good friend, KnightofElabor (AKA Nate Silverstone).
Rendered with: Mecabricks
Edited with: Pixlr E
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Some animation with this model on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5yqaPGu0BE
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I've been looking at nothing but piping diagrams for the past month...
Beyond that, these are proof-of-concept chunks for what will hopefully become my shiptember build. The large engine in the back was really fun to make but I think I'll be going in a different direction. It does fit two of the heavy lego motors in it along with step-down gearboxes.
The pallettes were the most enjoyable parts of these builds. I was expecting dark torquise to limit my part options but it turns out that lego has made some very interesting part-color choices over the years!
Having access to the minion heads is also nice. I don't know exactly how the part is dimensioned but I think the goggles are a mm too high for the connection I used. Check out the model here and decide for yourself.
Bonus points if you can correctly identify all of the different widgets here...
My first entry for the Unleash your own genetically modified hybrid dinosaur! contest on LEGO IDEAS.
It's (obviously), an hybrid between the ankylosaurus (actually my ankylosaurus) and the triceratops. You can see the 3D model on Mecabricks.
The base was inspired by the Irregular SNOT Base Tutorial by -soccerkid6.
With regular volcanic events grounding air power, and jagged terrain besting wheel and tread, Earth turned to unorthodox machines for subduing the Arkanin hold on Hurink. Combat frames like the Rugops provided a constant armored presence to escort the beleaguered infantry, and were prized for their versatility in the harsh alien environment.
Inspired by Ted Zhang
An articulated radar rover, handy for steering around tight crater corners. This rover was used on the planet Fflint, which was covered in spikey stones. These often caused punctures and so a spare tyre was always carried.
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People who have been speculating wildly about some form correlation between the date and number of tyres on the vehicle will note that there are only 6 tyres on this vehicle.
Good morning guys! Today is a big day because finally we reveal you our Lego® Ideas project we worked on since January! 🌟🌟🌟
Help us to make this idea real, supporting this project here! 😍
This project features a highly detailed replica of the iconic 1968 Fiat 500 F! Produced from 1957 to 1975 the Cinquecento is considered one of the first real city cars.
Consisting of 1157 pieces (all add-ons included) this model would be the ultimate for any fan of the Italian legend and definitely a great addition to any Lego collection.
This is a collaboration between saabfan and me
© 2016 - saabfan2013 - Gabriele Zannotti
An idea I've been contemplating for a while now based on a question I asked myself:
What if Anakin modified an Eta 2 interceptor in a similar fashion to Azure Angel 1 and 2?
The end product is this: Azure Angel 3. A Jedi interceptor capable of travelling through hyperspace without the usage of a booster ring. the Starfighter also includes modified laser cannons and augmented s-foils.
The base model for this design comes from the amazing Maelven, who has shared a step by step guide on building his ETA interceptor design.
www.flickr.com/photos/sydag/albums/72157651810842758/
I changed the position of the s-foils to match the design of the previous Azure Angels, it also vaguely echoes an X wing profile too.
The cockpit was a bit of a headscratcher I needed he exterior to be dark blue to match the paint scheme of the previous Azure Angels, as I'm not skilled with making custom decals on Mecabricks, I decided to make my own brick built cockpit that should be build able in real life. The only merged element being the clear canopy.
The brick built cockpit was inspired by Imgur user lazyguineapig's Lego ETA interceptor design m.imgur.com/gallery/akIUY0o
A team finishes assembly of GR7-b Single-Operator Repair Pod. Component pallettes were brought directly off of elevator cars at Geo1 and into the assembly bays. When construction is complete, the doors comprising the outer-facing half of the bay will be opened and the GR7-b will be towed out.
I had a blast making this particular scene. I have several types of wall panels in here that I wanted to contrast in style but still flow together and I am very happy with the result. I tried to fill up the non-door walls of the bay with equipment and I found a couple cool parts and techniques in my efforts.
For the most part, the bay is actually fully finished and I may post slightly different angles without the GR7 in the way as there are a couple of things hiding behind it. Also, I will post more renders with the GR7 but I have to find a reasonable angle for it as the front canopy would look a lot better with some custom stickers.
And the Guadalupe is basically complete save for a bow operations room and a few other details.
This one has been a long time coming, but I thought I'd have a stab at making the league in mecabricks.
Left to right:
Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
Allan Quartermain
Mina Murray
Captain Nemo
Hawley Griffin
Many people were expecting a nice rover, with 8 wheels on each side today. Sadly Blacktron commissioned today's build and they said, "Screw that!" in typically grumpy Blacktron style. After viewing several technical films, Llwyngwril Systems came up with this vehicle.
I began working on a diorama inspired by the city of Morthal, fom Skyrim, and more particularly the Thaumaturgist's Hut in 2020, so about two years ago. I like the idea of having buildings built over the water, like Lake-town in The Hobbit, or, here Morthal. But I eventually got stuck when I got to build the roof, so I left the model aside for a while, and ended up losing interest in the model, until the end of the last year, when I thought I could rework it a bit and submit it as a Product Idea (Medieval stuff seems to be popular, so why don't I give it a try ?), and here we are !
See the 3D model on Mecabricks, if you want to know how it's built : www.mecabricks.com/en/models/1k2qyEWX2E0
Support the project on Lego IDEAS, if you want it to become a real Lego set : ideas.lego.com/projects/97200535-7c6b-40dc-8c58-dca72a5cf5b5
my first car YEAH!
Made in Mecabricks and rendered with Blender.
view the model here: www.mecabricks.com/en/models/mWRaZ4NMjpZ
The windshield is cheated with model clipping and the wheels are also but I do not care.
Do you have a favourite? Let me know in the comments!
So I didn't quite manage one a day, but 21 / 75% ain't bad...
I'll take it.
(A plus is I'm not quite so spent this year, requiring 2 weeks of R&R like last time lol) ;)
It's been another fabulous year from everyone that's been building, commenting, cheerleading from the sides. Vintage!
So many great builds in a vast swathe of styles and moods. Comedic, Whimsical, Serious, Irreverent. All so good and More Fun Than Any Other Lego Event I can think of.
Thanks to everyone that's rented their eyes for a moment to look at my Pixel Creations and the warm welcome I continue to receive despite being a virtual-only builder.
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The streets of Ishida\'s Town are always busy during shift change. The bars, clubs, and shops at the entrance to Pier 3 prepare for the inevitable onslaught of miners looking for one last stop before returning to their beds. People of all trades crowd the streets. Some are prospectors, praying to their gods for a ripe find. Some are tourists who came looking for adventure on a new world.
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Oofda this is a big build. Sitting in at a hair under 12000 parts, it is by far the largest I have ever made--and likely will ever make.
A huge Thank You to mecabricks for sponsoring this scene and for the many suggestions and much render help along the way!
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Ok, so, head-cannon time: Ishida\'s Town is built into the retired mining canyons circling the Ishida Stack. The Stack is one of the older models still in use on Hibernia and only has a useful range of half a kilometer or so (I actually am working on a miniature of the city, stack and all and I don\'t think it looks good when its massive). The canyons were cut years earlier and have since been filled with bridges and tunnels and lined with facades of every shop, bar, and club imaginable.
There are three structures, the Piers, arranged at three cardinal directions on the outer ring. The Piers house control equipment for the Stack, as well as enclosed hangers and elevators to the deepest mines. The depth of the canyons fluctuates but is on average, 5 stories. In the outer ring, embedded buildings tend to only rise to the third level, but the walls of most of the inner rings have been entirely replaced with concrete and neon.
The canyons are open to the Hibernian atmosphere but the Stack provides a reasonable blanket of breathable air to the city surrounding it. The gasses it outputs is mixture of oxygen and inert chemicals that makes it heavier than the majority of the atmosphere, allowing it to fall and fill the canyons. The gas is enough to support the inhabitants but newcomers who are unacustomed to the odd air need to wear masks until they acclimate.
The geothermal generator plant used to power the Stack also heats the city to a livable 5C. However, those wanting to wear more revealing clothing either have to be Canadian or apply layers of a colored compound to their skin. This compound traps escaping heat rather well and, like most things, is rapidly evolving into the new hip fashion trend.
Not everyone is succesful in finding work on Hibernia. The Church of the Holy Sanctum claims debts on new downtrodden souls every day. Miners who lost their limbs in accidents can be seen begging for the credits to purchase cheap prosthetics. And over all of them watches the Baron Ishida himself...
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And now, some fun details of the build:
Nearly 12000 parts, around 400 of them in the ~60 figures. Even though the scene is static and I never planned on showing more beyond the intersection, the build does continue. There are also 4 window-boxes behind the various windows, but only 2 of them are visible here and even then, you would be hard-pressed to make out any details. Even the floor, which was going to be completely obscured by figures from the very beginning is packed with detail. There are many interlocking wedge sections that give it a nice, beaten-earth look.
Rendering this was a pain. The first time I attempted a final render, it was terminated due to the file size. Nicolas attempted to render the file on his personal machine but found that at a file size of 2.5GB, it wouldn\'t even open. I eventually had to tone back my ambitious detail settings :,(
As such, I don\'t think I will be making the model public on Mecabricks as I had planned. Most people couldn\'t even open the Isadora and that only had 2/3 the parts and no lights. Better-lit shots of the facade are visible here.
All-in-all, 7 months of off-and-on work well spent!
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Another day, another stop...
She's with her antics again - who would ever think of smoking near the gas station??? Well, they don't call her "The Hurricane" for nothing. And you better not say a word... unless there is an urgent need to discover why else they call her The Hurricane.
So, you headed to a party with her friend in the cabins... that was the plan, yeah. Until you met The Kid. You'll never forgive yourself if something happened to that innocent girl, so now you must find her parents.. uhhh, somewhere around. So much for party.
At least you met The Mechanic along the way. That guy is fine - probably the best thing that could happen to your hunk of junk. He insists you must take it to the Grand Race, though. What a weird idea.
The Punk? Probably already with punk friends in his mind or whatever. You have a strong feel he'll ditch you at his destination. At least he had some decency to think where his dog would go. With you, duh. And you're scared of dogs - but, weirdly, not The Dog. She's a good girl and that's all.
And what about you? Barely seen in the background, just thinking what else the next ride will bring. Sometimes it's all about destination, sometimes about all the friends you met along the way... But it's not even about you this time, is it?.. All you need is keep driving, and never stop - one day you'll find the road you strive for.
While I thought what else I can do with my Skyline R30, I suddenly felt inspired by an awesome management RPG/road trip simulator - brought to Steam by only two people who also made Post Void (the game name is in the title). And I couldn't resist to throw a self-insert character here. Sorry.
Now THIS is my best render yet. The difference--using blender on my laptop for extra control. It was super easy to set up thanks to the Mecabricks add-on. The biggest benefit was the ability to use Linear ACES color managment. The colors seem much sharper and more in-line with photos of real bricks. The only issue is I couldn't get subsurfs onto the curvier parts, so just don't look too closely at them. (Also, my "studio lighting" setup needs work)
For the build, this is a bit cyberpunky/hibernia-y that I've had sitting around for a bit waiting to be rendered. I used it as a test model because it is a whole lot smaller and simpler than the others I've been posting. The model is based on some concept art from somewhere or someplace. One of those cyberpunk video games maybe, but who's ever heard of those...
Flying peacefully amongst the clouds, this small city serves as a retreat for those seeking a quieter life.
This has been a gradual WIP for a while, finally finished it recently with landscaping, color, and underside details really bringing it together.
3D View: mecabricks.com/en/models/GVjKmVmranz
Armed with 3 Carrot Cannons, this modern rover is prepared to traverse any hazard on Gardenius VII!
I wasn't trying to make a rabbit-themed rover for Febrovery, it just kind of happened when the rear structures looked like ears and the crate became a head. So here we are!
3D View: mecabricks.com/en/models/0DvYN3Gba9e
This was built for the Iron Forgery contest that Simon started, hence the nonexistent part in the middle. Scaling and angling that thing to correspond with the mecabricks model was a pain.
Lovingly based on the excellent Rogue One concept art. There are too many influences to link here but the main ones were this and this. I have no idea how long those links will remain active...
Many of the concepts that were closest to the final movie design featured this bow-cockpit hanging below the wings and in line with the cabin. I like this shape in general but I can see why the design team moved away from it towards the dorsal cockpit above the wings and cabin. For one things, the final design seems to take closely from the H-19 Chickasaw in that regard and this stays true to the Star Wars design tenets of using existing aircraft. A front mounted cockpit is fun but it kind of gets blended from almost every other helicopter. The dorsal intake was originally going to be smaller but I could not decide how to approach the shape. I finally tried this large shape and thought it looked fantastic. One of the concepts featured a bubble gunner\'s cupula out the back but I thought it looked ugly. I kept the guns though and was going to add a cupula up top but that was replaced with an access hatch. The engine intakes were going to be just the flag/sign parts and the large wheels but then I remembered this WIP by Jake RF and its awesome use of the newish half-cones.
The cabin base is heavily modified (internally at least) off of Inthert\'s U-Wing Instructions. I actually followed them all the way through (digitally of course) and learned a TON. The build employs a number of interesting techniques and highlights the minimum-attachment methods. This would be a fun build for anyone with access to real bricks, but it should be a required build for anyone into digital Lego. It turns out that all aside from 10 or so parts, the entire thing can be built in one section in LDD (i.e. even with all of the crazy shapes, the techniques are within tolerances).
This ship does not feature any large moving sections like the movie version or like the Rebel Transport by -majortom- (also a large source of inspiration although the different sizes made it difficult to "tastefully plagerize" too many details) but still features retractable landing legs, sliding doors, aft guns, and collapsable seating. The colors were the hardest choices to make. Most decent combinations did not offer enough parts to fill gaps. I still think the yellow-on-tan is a bit low on contrast but the original dark red wasn\'t available and normal red looked garish.
Finally, these renders are not the best, I know. However, they took long enough to make so they will suffice. The cockpit interior shows why it is not a good idea to set "scratches" to 40%...
Finally (pt. 2), a big Thank You to mecabricks for helping me with scaling material issues. I had to make the 3x3 quarter-circle brick w/ bow part myself as it wasn\'t in the library of parts. It wasn\'t too difficult to model but I had required some assistance to get the materials working.
This entry on Lego Ideas: ideas.lego.com/challenges/66832bc8-3c92-4b55-8904-9a90344...
is a reimagining of the classic 6276 Eldorado Fortress. I had to rush to finish it, thus some aspects are not as well worked out as I'd like them to be. I may edit it and publish some new images sometime in the future.
A quick render I did of mimizh's model of the Millenium falcon on mecabricks, check it out here: www.mecabricks.com/en/models/VzvM19q5vJp
Lighting systems have greatly improved on Mecabricks. With transparent elements you can now increase or decrease the light intensity in the render window.
I jumped back to my Techno-Gothic console, added a few more elements and tweaked the lighting slightly. Another great feature is that you can now add dirt, fingerprint marks and scratches to your render giving it an almost more realistic look.
Made a higher res render of the Jawa Speeder with some basic lighting effects.
Also can be seen in 3D now: mecabricks.com/en/models/VyvnlJ632l3
Well, this year's SHIPtember was quite hard for me due to lack of time and ideas. Almost 3/4 of work was done last week or something like that. So I couldn't make everything I want and ship is a bit crude and unpolished.
One of standart type drone carriers, designed to assist in construction of orbital port hubs. Ship isn't supposed to have much materials onboard, so she depends on cargo haulers during construction.
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