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7151: Sith Infiltrator (revamp)
Kind of felt wrong to not revamp the Sith Infiltrator set as well.
Honestly I loved the scale of the first two iterations of this starship. It was in no way minifigure scale, but it was fun and easy to handle. I owned the 2007 version, sadly not the 1999 version.
The play features are all there, a front hatch to store the probe droids and a rear opening to pop Darth Maul and the Bloodfin into the cockpit.
For this revamp of Pohatu, I wanted to emphasize his speed and his strength, so I made various parts of his intervals and externals be light grey, like a character with cyborg augmentations.
My favourite #Glatorian reimagined more prominently as a #gladiator, with some asymmetry throughout. Wanted to keep the clever horns used on the shoulder armour on one side, which necessitated that the arms be different.
"Sometimes when you have a shot and that its not a great one, you just have to process the heck out of it."
Going on the same lines as Kim's vacation shots. The blue sky phenomenon is really overpowering. She does it way better than me.
Well, the quote says it all. It was really more a paint job in photoshop than anything else. But I did it. I posted a shot from Yellowstone. With a shot using the very non-wide angle lens, the nifty fifty.
Have a great day guys!
Nathan
My favorite part about 2016 is it gives me plenty of opportunity to experiment with new colors, functions, and character designs as I haven't for a long time. That, and some of the lackluster designs leave plenty of room for revamps. Though Ketar had plenty of great pieces, I found his design with its gangly limbs, long sword claws, and messy colors a bit silly. So I built him how he should have been, a big, scary scorpion with a striking/bashing function, snapping claws, and mandibles. Unfortunately, I couldn't find room for the unity function though.
Thanks to Scorpion-Strike on DA and his Ketar Revamp for the inspiration.
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New sofa cushions, made from the Garden Party range by Anna Maria Horner.
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Just one of the final shots of my Tahu and Kopaka revamps, it will probably be the last time I'll build something of the sort.
Check their respective albums for more.
Never got to pick up Stormer XL back in the day. It now gives me great pleasure to unveil my modified version of the Big Daddy Bot, thus completing my standardized BREAKOUT Revamps.
Interesting how this will have good results but they told us it was going to be the end of October or beginning November, but they did not say what year I guess.
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The former leader of the Toa Cordak and everyone’s favorite guilt-ridden Toa of Air, Lesovikk is a character haunted by his past. His self-perceived failure to live up to the standards of the Toa exempts him from the Toa Code, and he is willing to kill his opponents, making him one of the more interesting protagonists to write for.
Made with the same technology as cell. Controls lightning. Not to happy with the upper legs, but i like the rest. And he almost follows the 3 color rule.
Big changes were made to the front, where the point in the middle of the radiator is a it more prominent and the horizontal line running below the headlights sticks out by half a stud instead of by a full plate. It's much tidier. I've also used Ecto-1 license plates from the LEGO Ideas Ecto-1 set.
The International Space Station is a maze of modules filled with racks, cables and experiments running 24/7. Upgrading and shifting units from one place to another becomes a tricky task in space – there is no up or down, and everything is weightless.
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been recently busy with one of the facilities in Europe’s Columbus module. The Fluid Science Laboratory measures fluid dynamics in weightlessness.
Scientists are interested in how foams, emulsions and granular materials – materials easily deformed by thermal fluctuations and external forces – behave without the effects of gravity.
On Earth, buoyancy-driven convection and sedimentation can mask the underlying phenomena that scientists would like to observe. Without gravity, it is possible to study the samples disentangled from theses processes.
After 10 years of service, it was time for the Fluid Science Laboratory to get a revamp. Alexander installed a new video management unit to record experiments for analysis on Earth. He also installed the Soft Matter Dynamics instrument, at the bottom of the unfastened Fluid Science Laboratory in this image.
This new instrument is equipped with cameras and sensors to detect very small changes in the samples with high accuracy. Soft matter is anything that can be deformed by mechanical or thermal means at room temperature.
“The instrument allows us to observe the dynamics of soft matter materials down to the microsecond,” explains Marco Braibanti, complex fluids scientists at ESA.
Soft matter research can lead to industrial applications. Many components found in food, cosmetics and pharmacy products must stay stable for long periods of time. Experiments with the Soft Matter Dynamics can help improve the stability of foams, emulsions, gels and aerosols.
With this latest upgrade the Fluid Science Laboratory is ready to receive yet another unit later in 2019: the Multiscale Boiling experiment. Scientists will study boiling phenomena and the role of various forces acting on vapour bubbles.
The Fluid Science Laboratory is one of many instruments supporting sophisticated research in Europe’s Columbus module. Celebrating its 10th year in operation, the lab is the European hub for research in life and physical sciences, space science, Earth observation and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station.
Alexander is performing many more experiments during his six month Horizons mission. Follow along for all the exciting science he’s performing and on the Horizons mission blog.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Made for Hero February over on Instagram.
Just a fun little build primarily for my own enjoyment, made with the goal of using only pieces I currently have in my collection and of course, finishing before the end of the month.
Nitroblast and the Fire Villains are definitely a soft spot for me in the HF Roster, with some very charming sets and interesting designs from the earliest days of CCBS. With this revamp I wanted to honor the most unique and iconic features from the original, while doing my best to balance a cleaner, sleeker design with the Fire Villain's signature style of spikes, flames and jet engines.
It was a lot of fun to tackle a weirder character and design, without the pressures of more humanoid proportions and techniques.
I hope you all enjoy!
-Stronk
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I have a lot of other projects to get to, but I wanted to get this posted for the BZPower Flickr Contest. Admittedly, Vizuna got a bit of extra love in the details. I can't deny she's my favorite Protector.
Vizuna was a bit of a tricky build, especially in the torso to get all those details right. I thought I'd never find a decent chestplate until I saw those wonderful cleaver pieces that looked exactly like how I've drawn her. Vizuna also got a short skirt, her signature bow, and a bag for carrying supplies or messages. A lot of my Vizuna headcanons were inspired by the Bastion Breakers: fast, dependable, and always there in the knick of time with the help of her future-sensing vines on her legs.
Core Hunter was once a hero built by Hero Factory, after many missions and many dangers faced he defected from Hero Factory entirely, because to Core Hunter, no one cared about him in his eyes.
Novice Toa of Sonics trained by the Order of Mata Nui. The only Toa who has ever made the ireful brows of the Kanohi Hau looks soft.
Been wanting to bring him over to the standardized revamp family for quite some time now. Was very satisfying to just throw him together one night.
Thanks to PlasticBrick for suggesting this. I think this looks a lot better than the hat I used before. Expect some outdoor shots of him and some new stuff coming next week! So let me know what you guys think!
Thanks!!
-ECBuilder-
In the Region of Stone, rare arcs of energy, called "Desert Lightning" by the Villagers, rip through the sand, leaving energized crystals in their wake. It was this phenomenon that Nilkuu gained the materials for his special mask, and yet the same phenomenon took his arm. He was rarely seen in his village after that. However, Skull Spiders were even more rare, thanks to his deadly accuracy with his single-shot crystal cannon.
I was trying hard for a rough and rugged desert wanderer vibe for Nilkuu. His light armor is assembled from scraps and bones, and he is protected from the sand by his large pants and scarf (because of course Nilkuu needed a scarf, it was just a shame Rey's cloth didn't work as well as I hoped). Then there's the rather obvious and noncanon crystallized arm with built in energy claw and stud sniper. Nilkuu's trans-neon yellow bones became the yellow and lime highlights throughout his body, intended to look like he had been partially crystallized himself.
Hey, look! I actually built a Bionicle model!
This was partially inspired by MrBoltTron's amazing Bionicle and Hero Factory builds. I've been meaning to build something using the new Bionicle parts for a while, but didn't have enough of the sets to do it until recently. So here's a Pohatu figure! Yeah!
Another full-body shot. Some limited, 1-point waist articulation allows her to bend her hips a bit, and angle her upper body forward in order to better aim her Rhotuka.
Using the original Hordika feet means that she's *technically* not digitigrade, but oh well. It's better for stability.
This is my entry for the Bio-Cup 2017 Set Revamp.
My revamp is on Set 8312 Jens from Galidor.
It's a big nightmare with the head, sense the contest allowed system parts only to a minimum, and with my lack of finding parts to make a good shape of Jens head, I tried using the least amount of system pieces to make the head as possible, however I cannot do anything with the back of the head. (especially sense making custom heads are my worse enemy.)
As with the rest of Jens, I tried to make it look like the set in contraction form, and whiles the torso and right forearm are custom; the rest are just simple limbs, sense there's no need to over think the design for them and there are no need to customize them.
The prophesied 7th Toa, come to stop the Makuta from keeping his own brother in an eternal sleep.
I took some inspiration from Bukkey's Takanuva, mainly how the arms are connected, the legs and the staff.
In 5 windows in the north aisle are the greatest collection of medieval stained glass to be found in situ anywhere in Devon, apart from that in the Great East Window of Exeter Cathedral. The panels, which were installed c1480, were all produced by the same glazing workshop as some of the glass at Exeter Cathedral. These panels left Exeter over 500 years ago transported out of the city on a cart and hauled up and down the precipitous Haldon Hill, before being installed in the church for which they were made. And they remain there today, rare survivals of perhaps the most fragile of medieval art forms. In John Murray’s ‘A Handbook for Travellers in Devonshire’ (1879) he writes about the church being in a ‘sadly neglected state’, but then goes onto describe the window thus:“ That in the East window is the best in the county (except what is in the cathedral). It displays the 7 sacraments of the Roman Church…”
He had obviously visited the church prior to the extensive restoration and rebuilding work that was carried out between 1870-79 and through the kindness of Mr. Clayton of Messrs. Clayton and Bell, who undertook the work at his own expense, the windows were completely restored.
When Murray visited Doddiscombleigh the Seven Sacraments window was lacking the central Christ figure recreated by Clayton and Bell. The old layout was slightly different www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/RH48x2a24e
The central figure of our Lord, from whose feet, hands, and side radiate red lines of blood to each of the sacraments, is modern, and is the work of Messrs. Clayton and Bell. There was a large deficiency in this window, and it was assumed that it originally contained either a similar figure of our Lord, or a representation of the Crucifixion.
Scratched on a pane of blue glass in two places will be found these words:— "Coles, Glaz: done this window March 1764, whom God preserve, Amen." Coles was a well known artist in the 18th century, and was employed a good deal in glazing of the Cathedral windows.
The four figures at the top of the window represent four saints: on the extreme left is St. Stephen; the figure with the gridiron is St. Lawrence. At the top of the left light is a representation of the Eucharist; in the centre, Matrimony; at the bottom, Confirmation; at the bottom of the central light, Penance; in the right light at the top, Ordination; the centre, Baptism; and the bottom, Extreme Unction.
- Church of St. Michael, Doddiscombsleigh Devon
Never expected to like Vastus back in the day but recent years have made him one of my favorite sets!
Removed the Hordika legs and beefed up the torso. Lots of subtle modifications to make Vastus stand out.
One of many Vahki roaming the City, this particular one patrols Ga-metru. Silencing any Matoran that steps out of line.
The roof and the rear door are substantially unchanged. I've made some changes to accommodate new support for the slight bars and added a few curves slopes here and there to improve the shape.
The Leader of Metru Nui, totally trustworthy and is not actually Teridax in disguise after stealing the real Dume, no no.
Went with ibukkey0's revamp of the contest winning Helryx, though with some modifications to the legs. Also used the mace design of Galva_, which was the design I backed until the bitter end of the contest.
Happy to finally have a representation of Helryx in my collection!
A quick revamp of Onua I've built a couple months ago (BTW, I lacked bley 4M A bones at the time, hence the black ones).
Recently I acquired a number of ultrabuild sets and decided to revamp Jango Fett after realizing how bad the original set was, despite some standout parts like the excellent head sculpt. Many of the changes were fixing numerous proportion issues, along with a total redo of the torso/jetpack/blasters.
Given how quick and simple the MOC is, I also took this as an opportunity to experiment a bit with improving photography and more dynamic posing.