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I don't get it. We've got "without men, but we've got hats" so Safety Dance is out, but just barely. But then there's no bird, no blurry obfuscation. So what are we left with? Could be a raw street cap in trendy black and white. Plus some grain that that cows can't eat because of the whole grass fed thing. Weak, but will it sell? Only if we play hip and act too cool. That's a lovely piecing on your tat. SOLD #igerseastbay #instagramhub #blackandwhite #grayscale #bw #unitedbyedit @unitedbyedit #streetportrait #iphonestreetportrait #mobileart #streetphotography #iphonestreetphotography #statigram #wearejuxt #streetphoto_bw
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xenophaedja: @lalou2 most generous thank you ✨✨✨
ramster8: The hats are awesome! Haha!
xenophaedja: @ramster8 thank you. In deference to @koci.
charlottecx: Interesting perspective. Great shot.
xenophaedja: @charlottecx thank you so much. ✨✨✨
gabriel_hernandez: Beautiful!
xenophaedja: #the_iphone_arts
xenophaedja: #stolenportraits
Built in 1906 and renovated circa 1930, this Renaissance Revival-style theater was designed by Claude and Starck, and features an Art Deco-style marquee and first floor front facade, and originally served as a vaudeville theater before becoming a movie theater. The building is clad in Art Moderne-style enameled metal panels on the first floor with a marquee featuring neon lights above the entrance, an Art Moderne-style ticket booth with curved corners and curved glass, and four entrance doors flanked by poster display cases. The upper portion of the building displays the original style of the facade, with painted brick cladding, limestone trim, a large five-part arched window on the second floor of the front facade above the marquee, flanked by pilasters, a cornice at the top of the second floor, blind bays on the fourth floor framed by stone trim with a large decorative cornice above, and a cornice with dentils and modillions at the top of the parapet, which obfuscates the building’s low-slope roof. The building has a footprint that bends from King Street to the stage, which sits adjacent to Doty Street, with this being very evident inside the building. The building today serves as a live performance venue, with the original wall paneling, vaulted ceiling, proscenium arch, box seats, and plaster trim on the second floor of the space being intact. The theater primarily hosts live musical acts, occasionally being used to screen televised events or movies, or being used as an event venue.
obfuscate - to make obscure or unclear; to confuse; to darken - September 11, 2009
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Compare this photo with those on the seller's listing. Note in the seller's 2nd photo how Legos precisely cover all exposed and missing electronics on the broken unit shown here on the right. Also the plastic housing is missing from the top of the unit on the right, which is also hidden in the photo. The other unit (at left) has missing plastic housing and exposed electronics and is also worthless. These defects are effectively obfuscated in the seller's 3rd photo.
Note that the seller's comments did not disclose any defects, only that, "You will be delighted to explore this LEGO Mindstorms 15." Clearly, my delight was VERY short-lived.
Simple repost in black and white from my #ces2012 trip. Can't help it, I really like the simple image. No attempted artful obfuscation. #igerseastbay #instagramhub #blackandwhite #grayscale #bw #unitedbyedit @unitedbyedit #streetportrait #iphonestreetportrait #mobileart #streetphotography #iphonestreetphotography #statigram #wearejuxt #streetphoto_bw
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xenophaedja: @quietshaman thank you Charles. You are very kind to share so much. I make images using just a few tools I've grown comfortable with over a few months. There are real limitations, not just with my own abilities, but that's OK with me. It's a place I'm happy being a clueless amateur, never an ugly dilettante, hopefully. IG is a fun escape for me. An unexpected and welcome reward for my frivolity has been the community and meeting folks like yourself. People I'd gladly share a bottle of good wine with and enjoy time chatting with I have no doubt. Cheers to you
dangsiam: Great shot.
xenophaedja: @dangsiam thank you
leethatch: I really like the hard lines in this image. Great work.
xenophaedja: #bw_lover #gcs
xenophaedja: @raec2 thank you very much Cheri. Im sure to enjoy this. ✨✨✨
naomi2210: This is so good !!
xenophaedja: @naomi2210 wow, really? Thank you so much ✨✨✨
At least three layers of visual obfuscation. When I think about their all existing in such close and anonymous proximity, I'm staggered. Maybe that's why we don't think about it all that much or take note. But there is a price to pay, no?
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Expose the corporate Iunde RSS ta~ade .
Fight the Fascist ABVP!.
of anti corruption! .
Down with degenerate politics otliberation/AISA!! .
Ever since the inception of this current sham against corruption, taking place in the name of 'people' and 'nation', DSU has .
been laying bare its real essence, namely its corporate funded and RSS mobilized core character. Thi.s real character of the anti-.
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by DSU yesterday, ABVP goons not only tried to disrupt but also indulged in vandalism and hooliganism. This handful of sanghis ' corruption drive was powerfully vindicated last night by ABVP's act of rabid hooliganism. During the public meeting organized .
was led by notorious lumpens such as Sandeep Kr. Singh, Abhinandan Kumar, Sourav, Amba Shankar, Vineet Chaturvedi and .
others. History sheeter Abhinandan Ku~ar-the same lumpen who threw a beer can at a Kashmiri woman student during the .
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cricket World Cup and on another occasion,"was caught harassing a woman student at Ganga dhaba-then resorted to breaking .
the glass pane of the mess. The large number of students present in the meeting resisted this fascist attempt to stall any .
critique of the anti-corruption 'movement' and the meeting was successfully completed. .
Anger~d by DSU's consistent expose of Team Anna's crusade, which is attempting to hide its real aims and character under the .
garb of 'nation' an~ 'people', the right-wing of this campus resorted to the same rhetoric-calling anyone who critiques the .
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movement as ann-national, and attempted the same tactic-a fascist suppression of dissent and opposition. The ABVP, which .
has repeatedly indulged in acts of disruption, violence and hooliganism has been repeatedly shielded by the Administration. We .
.c demand that the Admi\istration punish these goons, otherwise, the student community shall take them to task. .
The right wing today is out to capitalize on the deepening crisis made evident by violent dispossession, loot of resources and .
people's means of livelihood, price rise and topped by the unearthing of a number of massive scams. Team Anna -Anna .
Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi -with its sangh antecedents are serving to this end of the right wing forces; the corporate .
forces and houses such as .Arnbanis, Jindals, Tatas, lehman Brothers and Ford Foundation are facilitating this by their funding. ' .
The main color of the mobilization is to 'clean politics' of corrupt politicians, a clear-cut and age old fascist strategy which .
shrouds its real agenda in the garb of 'aesthetising politics'. Through populist slogans they are obfuscating the structural issues at hand. What is more dangerous here is that a section which calls itself left and progressive has jumped onto the bandwagon. liberation has entered a tunnel whose only exit would be its own undoing. The fact that AISA/ liberation sees great possibilities in a casteist, communal mobilization that purports to bring in greater centralization at a time when genuine .
people's movements are breaking out all over the subcontinent on fundamental questions of land, livelihood and nationhood .
speaks great volumes of their political bankruptcy. This does not come as a surprise to us as AISA/liberation has always seen .
immense possibilities in any mobilization which upholds the status quo, be it their alliance with the social fascist CPM in Bihar, Anna Hazare farce is the same force which refuses to take a clear position on the question of azaadi of Kashmir by branding it or the anti-Mandai agitations. AISA which today is ranting about the need to engage with the religiosity of the people in the .
an 'lslamist' movement. liE the symptoms. When they hail the Anna show as being 11popular" and thereby talk of the necessity to urally with the masses", itBy masquerading opportunist populism in the name of'Marxism-leninism, liberation/AISA is giving credence to a movement .
that seeks to hide the structurally anti-people state apparatus and the systemic crisis, of which corruption happens to be one of .
is imperative to remind them that fascism has had a long history of waging immensely 11popular" and "mass-based" struggles .
whether in fascist Europe or during Advani's Rath-yatra. More importantly, the Nazis did not come to power in Germany only .
riding over the slogan of racial purity and Aryan Blood, but also raising false slogans about the deepening crisis and .
unemployment. And similarly, it is no surprise that the ruling classes today, bogged into a severe crisis with the intensification .
of class struggle, is manufacturing a fac;ade of dissent. The true task ofa communist party is not to get carried away by a crude .
empiricism by merely pointing to the class character of a crowd In a event, but by placing it in the overall context of .
revolutionary class struggle and seeing whether a particular takes the class struggle forward or thwarts it. .
The revolutionary movement is not sitting in cynical isolation as the demagogues of Liberation/AI SA would want us to .
believe. Standing with the most oppressed people of the country, it is fighting one of the most spectacular and resolute battles with the army to defend the rights and livelihood of the people. On the other it is precisely liberation/AISA because of its against the brutal repression of the fascist Indian state. Having fought the vigilante gangs and the paramilitary, it is now faced current frenzy is not difficult to understand. Having lost the support of the basic classes, it is now willing to tag on even to a revisionist politics, which has relinquished the genuine struggles of the people. Rejected all over the country by the people, its right wing, corporate-media backed, hyper-nationalist movement with strong totalitarian and fascist character. It is only by strengthening the ongoing revolutionary movement aimed at a radical transformation and a overhaul ofthe current oppressive .
· and exploitative system that we can address both the disease and its symptoms, ofwhich corruption is only one. .
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Not really constructive or destructive. More obfuscating than anything else.
Project 365 (14/365)
January 15th, 2008
Canon Powershot S2IS
Edits: levels, cropped
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Day 134
I'm playing a gig, live, on June 22nd. This will be my first solo performance. Here is some paper work I've been using to organise them set. This picture is obfuscated slightly and will be unobfuscated after the gig.
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19.11.05 .
CPI (M) the watchdog of the UPA and SFI the watchdog of the JNU Administration.
AISA .
lfSFI-AISF backed out from its protest against Manmohar. Singh in the JNU campus, their parent parties CPI-CPM have already .
along with SP.JD(S) with astrength ofaround 100 in the Parliament would force the government to change its standon Iran.But .
started scaling down its "opposition· against UPA on the question ofIran as well.Last week in Lucknow CPM "warned'thatthe Lett .
by Nov.16" after meeting PM and Sonia Gandhi, CPI-CPM suddenly decided for a "discussion on the Iran Issue In the Parliament .
underRule 193, which allows onlya short duration discussion butno votlnd'. .
From tribal villages of Rairakholln Orissa to the streets of Iran, November 14th protests by the JNU students against the pro-.
UPA, why the killer laws of AFSPA and the Patent Act,.... the SFI-AISF stood silent in its complete complicity with the UPA government. In.
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Imperialist, pro-US policies of Manmohan Singh government are creating waves! .
While the students peacefully demonstrated, waving black flags and asking "Why vote against Iran, Why the anti-people economic policies ofthe addition,by clapping at Manmohan Singh's speech while student protestors were being beaten up by NSUI and JPF goons,SFI-AISF chose to .
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Fix the protestors, by hook or by crook : SFI-AISF In a witch-hunt mission with the Administration.
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be in the anti-people mahajot(grand alliance) ofthe ruling class parties. .
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In abetrayal ofthis vibrant demonstration ofdissent, the SFI attempted to hide its complicity with the Congress and its refusal to protestthe anti-.
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people policies ofthe UPA government by trying to paint the entire protest as an act of vandalism ILet us look at their shifting position-.
14-11-05 The scuffle that followed between the students in the presence ofthe media and guests has been most unfortunate and .
bottom line being "fix the protestors, by hook or by crook": .
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has put our University in bad light before the outside world." SF/Pamphlet, .
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Note: the SFI makes :to distinction between the political act of protest and the lumpenism of the NSUI and JPF, calling the entire .
rhe. .
incident a 11Scuffle" between anonymous .,students"-no reference to NSUI orJPF's ~indless indulgence in violence against .
15·11-05 " ...we take strong note ofthe manner in which certain organizations disrupted the programme completely... We ulso.
ISSU peaceful protesters! .
condemn the subsequent altercations and violence that ensued between the members ofcertain organisations during the entire .
length ofthe PM's speech which leri to further disruption." JNUSU Pamphlet, Signedby the Vice PresidentandJoint Secretary. .
Note: The ambiguous position was repeated again-no reference to NSUI orJPF's mindless indulgence in violence against peaceful .
protesters! Speaking at the JNUSU Public Meeting ofNov. 15, an ex-JNUSU President from SFI refused toname the perpetrators ofthe .
violence and said that it is difficult to draw the line. .
During the aforesaid meeting, one teacher who had been invited to speak far from condemning the violence actually praisedthe NSUI and JPF .
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for the ..restrainr they showed in perpetrating the violence. The JNUSU Vice President from the SFI, who was chairing the meeting, didnot raise any objection to this shameful white-washing ofthe NSUI and JPF's role in perpetrating the violence against the protesting students,thus .
continuing SFI's attempts to confuse the issue. .
16-11-05 "Unsurprisingly, most ofthese lumpens who indulged in violence belong either to the organization like JPF whose .
parent organization spreads nothing but hatred and violence or to the organization like NSUI which only believes in money and .
muscle power politics...Unfortunately, on 14th Novemberthe ultra-left elements too joined the physical exercises at the stadium .
in the most shameful manner and share the responsibility for creating the ruckus there., SF/ Pamphlet. .
Note: Ittook 48 hours for SFI-AISF to realize that NSUI and JPF were involved in the violence! .
" ...the NSUI activists indulged in the worst form ofretaliatory violence on that day. The SFI-AISF warns the JNU .
17-11-05 Congress bosses, without looking into the violent activities oftheNSUI activists as well as some JPF lurnpens. "SF/ Pamphlet. .
Administration against any effort to target those responsible for the disruption ofthe PM's speech one-sidedly, to please the .
Note: the SFI-AISFis only justifying the NSUI's violence by calling it "retaliatory", insinuating that it was the protf.::.;tors who, through .
their political act ofshouting slogans and waving black flags, were the original sinners,·responsible for 'provoking' the violence. This .
is reminiscent of patriarchy blaming rape on women's 'provocative' conduct; Narendra Modi blaming the riots on Muslims. .
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activists who had perpetrated the violence in an attempt to sil~nce the peacefully protesting students, the SFI was forced to .
In summary, when the student community refused to be fooled by blatant lies and asserted that it was clearly the NSUI and JPF alter its intentionally ambiguous stand. No longer able to hide behind obfuscation, the SFI was forced to recognise that the .
violence that took place on NoverT'ber 14lh was actually an assault by lumpen elements against a politicalprotest. .
spuriously characterizing the protest as an act ofvandalism, and now having failed to do so, it is encouraging the .
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Nevertheless, the SFI continues to search for any excuse to crackdown on the Left protestors: first itattemptedto do so by .
The NSUI and JPF tried to "punish· the protestors through punches and kicks and anti-women abuses; the SFI is now trying to ensure a .
Administration to clamp down on the protestors simply for holding a protest I .
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dampdown on them through administrative retribution. We appeal to the studentcommunity to .
deTl-·forcethe administration to punish the NSUI-JPF-ABVP lumpens who indulged in violence against the protestors .
·resistthis witch-hunt of the students for their ideological-political act of protest .
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JNI -stand by your right to protest, and .
Am -stand firmly with JNU's best tradition of spirited Left protest against the powers that be. .
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
dang, my integration test failed. It's somebody else's code that I'm fixing, which is somewhat annoying. Why can't all modern programmers from outsource companies be trained in current methodologies?? The individuals can pick it up pretty well, but I think the outsource firms deliberately want stuff obfuscated. Bah humbug. I DO like our contractors; I just wish their company had trained them better.
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Legends abound of the glorious – or infamous – deeds of the Emperor's sons. Yet almost nothing is known of Alpharius, the most mysterious of them all, for the Lord of the Alpha Legion is unparalleled in the art of obfuscation. Such are his gifts of secrecy and deceit that even his rediscovery has remained an enigma – until now. But when the tale comes from the serpent’s mouth, where do the lies end and the truth begin?
The polarizing debate over the MST has tended to obfuscate the individual motivations and dreams of the organization’s members. Leaders speak for them, opponents rail against them, but there are precious few opportunities to hear from them. This photo essay seeks to bring their voices to the fore. The images and interviews that follow were recorded in the fall of 2004, in an encampment built on recently occupied farmland. While the fate of those interviewed is unclear, the MST as an organization continues its fight for agrarian reform.
(Image by Matt Herbert)
Actually, these are not that uncommon, but the opportunity to snag a clear photo from ground level without buildings or trees obfuscating the view is a little more rare. It overlooks the tiny town of Shoja, the final destination on my little bike ride through the Kibi countryside. This was probably my favorite day of the entire trip.
Kibi, Japan
April 06
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
tasting room with conical art piece obfuscating other Americans enjoying Thanksgiving in Valle de Uco
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
in the morning, the mist is so dense and uniform that the horizon line becomes completely obfuscated.
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
AAA cares that they're losing longstanding members due to their hostile lobbying against mass transit, pedestrian and cycling projects. Their letter to me only reinforces that this is an organization that has lost it's mind, and is now using obfuscations and lies to hide their true motivation: Pursue private automobile funding at all costs, without regard to urban sprawl, pollution or public safety.
I bought the instructions for Jerac's Tie Fighter about two years ago, but before I bought the pieces, I wanted to try tweaking the design in Stud.IO to better match its on-screen appearance. I've continued modifying the design even after I built the physical model, with each extra tweak expanding the scope of the project. I currently have a Tie Fighter that, while still sharing the original model's bones, is nonetheless significantly altered.
Wing Struts
The armor panels have been remade for more visual cohesiveness and screen accuracy. The space constraints of the new construction necessitated a new approach to the sloped pieces that lie between the panels. The ones near the central pod are now made using 1x4 Slopes and are held in place with only a 1 stud connection. They maintain their stability by resting on top of the 1x2 30 Degree Slopes I incorporated into the struts to give them a rounder look. The lengths of the long slopes and the wedge plates near the wings were changed to better reflect their positioning and size relative to the other visual elements on the struts. While this decision leaves both elements slightly over and undersized, they come the closest that can be represented in Lego using a plate-based construction for the core of the struts.
Wings
I've redone the visual detailing for the wing hubs while leaving the support structure relatively unchanged. Jerac's construction method emphasized a balance between greebling and overall appearance, but this resulted in noticeable gaps in the hubs and a squished, hexagonal shape. I modified the wing hubs to make a gap-less, regular hexagon that fits in an 8x8 space. The wing panels were slightly modified for more stability using groups of 1x1 Bricks w/ Holes connected by Technic pins. These preserve the vertical panel lining of the original while providing as much stability as longer horizontal bricks. Finally, I unified the construction of all the wing panel struts. They are all now 2 plates tall and capped with a curved slope leading into the wing's outermost border. I tried to go for a smoother appearance since 1 plate thick wing struts are impossible to make while also serving as support for the wing panels.
Central Pod - Front
I covered up a small gap in the upper cockpit flap using 1x3 Jumper Tiles. The cannon assemblies use a modified version of the build method I recently saw on Brickvault's Tie X1, though the cannons themselves require the builder commit the ultimate sin of MOC design: part modification. They are made by cutting a length of flex tube to roughly twice the thickness of a horizontal clip piece. This kind of modification is something Lego has instructed the builder to do in some sets before, so I count it as a “legal” move, if not exactly smiled upon. This method results in the most accurate placement, size, and shape of any method I've seen for representing cannons recessed into a curved surface.
Central Pod – Bottom
A detail of the original model that irked me is that the top hatch sits flush with the top of the central pod and lines up with the slopes on either side of it, while the same area on the bottom of the ship was made with curved slopes. I was able to provide the half-plate recess necessary for a 4x4 Dish on the bottom to mirror the appearance of the top, though this one change required a substantial internal alteration. One of the two connections holding the central pod together stood in the way of creating the recess, but I figured out a compromise. By making the connecting plate 1 stud wide instead of two leaves space under the pilot's chair to run a sort of scaffolding to the 4x4 Dish's correct location. The scaffolding itself isn't very sturdy, but it only has to hold the dish in place; support is provided by all the pieces the dish now rests flush against. Aside from looking good, this construction method is strong enough to support the weight of the entire model resting on its stand. Additionally, the whole pod is now 2 plates thicker to give a more spherical appearance compared to the original model. It's a detail you can't unsee once you spot it, especially when the model is placed next to other Brickvault Ties.
Central Pod – Back
The original construction of the engines used hollow, round studs slid over the vertical arm of modified 1x2 Plates to represent exhaust. While I like the effect, and tried to keep it in my revisions, this method of construction keeps the thrusters from being flush with the central pod's curved surface, as well as either too close or too far apart. I used a modified version of the “bow tie” detailing on the front of the pod to represent the thrusters, a trait shared with the on-screen Tie Fighter models. Regarding the rearmost portion of the ship, the original model uses 1x2 30m Degree Slopes to create the hexagonal rear window. However, the window is shown to be flush with the surface of the central pod in official depictions, meaning a redesign was needed. I wasn't satisfied with any solution I tried that used slope bricks to make the hexagonal window pattern. None of them were flat enough to match the source material, so I had to resort to the second greatest sin of MOC creation: a custom sticker. That said, I think it turned out pretty well. There are two graphical file for the custom sticker: one can be printed on standard letter-sized sticker paper in an inkjet printer, while the other can be used with software for devices like a Cricut sticker printer.
If you’re interested in building this modification yourself, I’ve created a free set of upgrade instructions that can be used alongside the original model’s instructions to create this modified Tie Fighter. Since this is a third-party modification of premium instructions, I’ve taken multiple steps to maintain the need for the original set of instructions. The new instructions (with a few exceptions) only show where to place pieces unique to the upgraded model, meaning you can’t build the full Tie Fighter as shown without also owning a copy of the original instructions from Brickvault. Furthermore, all pieces that are unchanged from the original model are rendered in dark purple and blurred to the point of near-complete obfuscation. I went to all this effort because I feel Jerac’s Tie Fighter is currently the best minifigure scale representation of the ship available, and I want to share my modifications of it with others while still respecting the original creator and owners.
Let me know what you all think!
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Upgrade Instructions: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BLRNudwPExbXnkETsxQVIfZLg...
Original Instructions: www.brickvault.toys/products/tie-fighter-minifig-scale?_p...