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[Aqizzar]

Spoiler: Cool War Machine (click to show/hide)

Made some time ago.  I don't think all of the bricks are even in the program now.  Why in God's name would you ever remove bricks from the list?  Even if you can't buy them?

[fenrif]

Spoiler: Cool War Machine (click to show/hide)

Made some time ago.  I don't think all of the bricks are even in the program now.  Why in God's name would you ever remove bricks from the list?  Even if you can't buy them?

Thats awesome, especially the engine on the back.

[ein]

I made a few mecha and a scale replica of the Sears Tower a long time ago.
It was on another computer that crashed and burned about 4 years ago though, so no screencaps of that epic achievement.
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Here are some screencaps for roof comparison.

Spoiler: Original/Placeholder (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Popular (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: My Favourite (click to show/hide)

[Aqizzar]

Thats awesome, especially the engine on the back.

If the program is going to give me air-rams and stacks, I'm going to put air-rams and stacks on every goddamn vehicle I design.

Just a thought, shouldn't this thread be one board up in the Creative section?

[Aqizzar]

I'm double posting in protest.  Damn this forum for finding a new way to make me waste my time.

Spoiler: Big and Grey (click to show/hide)

I got the idea while watching The Pacific and thinking about Warhammer conversions.  It's basically a Higgins Boat on land.  Doors and a ramp; pintle mounts; the wheels in the front would be treads if Legos had treads.

All glory to the Grand Army of the Orange Jumpsuits.  The LDD is a little light on martial Lego outfits, so I use them as all-purpose soldiers.  Since my imagination is strictly limited to violence and militancy.

[ein]

I made a utility walker, but Designer froze up while generating a building guide.
I also forgot to save.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay, I did a little digging around and found my old models I mentioned earlier, but most of them were destroyed when they were packed, but I do have enough of them intact enough I could remember roughly what I did to make them. Only one of them (the shredder/crusher-droid thing) is still mostly in one piece.

I'm working on the model before I have to head off to work. Since I have the parts still, I shouldn't have any problem making it in a short time.

EDIT:
It was a little more trouble than I thought. I couldn't find all the exact parts I used, so I had to make do with what I have on display. Alignment was annoying as well.

And here it is:

Spoiler: A Shredder Droid-- Perfect for anti-infantry fun. Impractical, but fun to watch in use. (click to show/hide)

And yes, those gears are supposed to be saw blades. And the pod was supposed to be armed with a suppressant auto-cannon.

[Sean Mirrsen]

LDD needs a physics engine badly. The one it has when you put things onto railcarts is hilarious.

edit: uh, correction? Had. I can't find the rail pieces in 3.1. Also, wth is "DesignByMe"? I thought it had something else instead of that one before. (That something was City, IIRC)

[fenrif]

I wish it wouldnt pitch such a fit every time I try to open a model from an older version >_<

Anyway heres one of my older ones. It's turned out looking like something from one of the star wars prequels, but its completely unintentional, honest.

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Whats this designbyme thing? I cant see it anywhere. :S

[LegoLord]

Cool stuff here, folks.

I don't use the program often, to be honest.  It can be a real pain in the butt to use.

I tried making a Terminator themed chess set, but ran into problems of not being able to make certain characters of certain ethnicities.  Also I couldn't think of something to use for the knight on the human side.

[fenrif]

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Just made that, any idea what it could be? I was thinking some sort of land speeder type thing. Apparently it costs 25 pounds. I really need to stop clicking that price check button... Its depressing.

Yeah, LDD can be annoying sometimes, but I'm too poor to afford enough lego to make anything decent and the Ldraw program is far to complicated for just messing around with when I've got a spare hour.

Out of curiosity, how does everyone else go about building with lego? personally i just try to find a handfull of pieces that make an interesting combination, and then build something around it. Every time i try and plan something out it ends in disaster.

[Itnetlolor]

Looks like some sort of crazy-ass engine. Perfect to put on an airship or spacecraft.

In regards to bloodfist, I was designing it DF-Style, from bottom-Z to top-Z, and to scale. The Infantry-Dicer Deluxe 3000, I built it as I built it IRL, except I broke physics after applying the saw blades after the axle was placed and the wheels applied.

For future/physics will cry projects, I don't know. Maybe similar to how I draw. Think up purpose, function, THEN design. Build it from the inside out, creatively, then actually.

I currently have LDD up and running, so I dunno what I'll make right now. I can always try to reproduce an airship design.

[fenrif]

Hehe, seems like we have exact opposite building styles.  I tend to go for the looks of the model over whatever I was trying to make. If I'm making a mech and I think it'll look better as a tank, I'll switch the whole design around.

Finished working on that engine thing. It ended up being a speeder bike.

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I tried to make it as studless as possible, think it worked pretty well. It was originally meant to have fold-down landing gear, but trying to get something that would look like it could take the weight of the engine on the back was a pain in the arse, so i jibbed it off. Now it probobly hovers or something. Also, if it was made out of real lego it would have no chance of supporting it own weight, as the engine on the back is only attatched at two points.

[Aqizzar]

Shove a Technic rod through the whole thing, that'll keep the engine on.  I have a love hate relationship with studs.  On the one hand, models do look a lot cooler and cleaner with all those bumps and hules all over them, so they get halfway realistic.  On the other hand, I spent so much of my life with Legos that were always made of a random rainbow of colors and parts, that models that aren't covered in studs look like some combination of unrealistic, too professional, too clean, and too complicated.  When I look at a model, I want to mentally reassemble it into other stuff.

As long as we have a thread for talking about Legos, I'll post this wacky link I found.  Niklas Jansson, an artist for Cortex Command also known for his website repository of "If I was in charge" brainfarts and weird fetishes, details his opinions and reimaginings of the entire Lego Space line, related lines, the holy minifig, and everything else under the sun.  As someone who bought every sci-fi Lego set I could afford, I thought it was interesting.

[fenrif]

Some things look alot better with studs all over the place, some look better without. Personally I love the challenge of trying to get everything studless. It creates a whole new set of challenges when you're building. Gonna read that link you posted now.

edit: His new minifig designs are awesome, though he said they have no holes in their legs so they cant clip onto seats and things? He'd need to adress that before they took off.

Also his new mecha joints look extremely usefull. I'm not the kind of person to decry something like that because it removes the challenge of building, any new piece just means you can build more stuff. I do think he's underestimating the ability of the parts that are allready released to build stable mecha though. He talks a few times about how noone can build stable robots with whats out there allready, but I've seen loads of stable builds. The hand designs are awesome though, would love to get some of them.