Articles DiyFamily ArticlesDiy PenguinPreschool Penguin CraftPenquins PreschoolPenguin ActivitiesWaddling FriendIgnorereferer TrueLego Penguin InstructionsForwardPenguins are amazing! And can help brighten up a grey November day - why not help your toddler create their very own waddling friend? Welcome @ BrickFever -Orders placed and paid for at night and on the (business) day before 12:00 Amsterdam time, will be shipped the same business day. *IF YOU ENCOUNTER PARTS WITHOUT DIMENSIONS OUR SHIPPING CALCULATOR WILL BE OFF, PLEASE ASK FOR A QUOTE IF THIS IS THE CASE, WE WILL MAKE SURE TO COMPLETE ALL DIMENSIONS*A few guidelines of our store policies:-We started by diffirentiate the sub-types of certain parts, for example: 3794(without groove) and 3794b(with groove)-Some colours, parts, have already been checked and seperatly uploaded, not all yet!-If you encounter a part with message: we do not diffirientiate...... we didnt come to this part yet (we usualy check them if new stock of this part comes in now)-If you are in need of a certain sub-type, wich we didnt checked yet, send us a message and we will check them for your order!-When we didnt receive a message on such a part
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, nor do we refund the occasional extra euro paid for shipping!-As we are a commercial company, we work between monday and friday, from 0900 till 1730, Amsterdam Time!-We do check emails and questions in the weekends, but not always :)-Received orders will be picked, packed (invoiced or partly refunded) and shipped after receiving payment, paypal payments are instant, so fast shipping!-Each working day, PostNL comes at 1700 to collect our shipments, all orders paid on that day before 1600 will ship the same day!-Weekend sales, in the weekends we receive almost 50% of our weekly orders, so on monday's our response to emails is slow, as we want to ship all paid orders!Have fun looking in our store!Though, I can’t imagine what it’s transporting, the cockpit is large enough for a single occupant and the cargo space is about big enough for his luggage. The X1 Patrol Craft (though, I wouldn’t want to patrol space in an open cockpit. ;)) The X1 was partly built in PCLinuxOS in my compiled version of LeoCad while I was installing some other software. 😀
More Space Legos, the Space Dart and the ATV. I decided to put together a few of the “smaller” sets in the classic space series. These 3 are from 1979, which is a very good year, I might add. 😉 The only major import issue with these LeoCad models is the faces. trueSpace doesn’t like the geometry on the faces, so those were coming out bad. To fix this, I’ve been giving my spacemen plain heads and textured them in trueSpace with a smiley face texture I made last night in Inkscape. (I guess they all work in a space Walmart ;)) It looks just like the classic smiley head, but without the mesh errors. Once I go back to the SW stuff, I’ll have to make some more face textures for those heads, because none of them use the classic smiley. Also, I tried to export one of my models to POV-Ray, but it keeps messing up on me. I point it to where the LGEO stuff is installed, but it keeps telling me that it can’t find LGEO. So, I’ve given up for now. I’ll try to figure that out when I’m not sick.
Yes, it’s more Legos. If you were hoping to see something else, too bad. For some reason, this is the only 3D I’ve been in the mood to do lately. I wasn’t in the mood to do any work on the Death Star today. That’s a huge project that’s going to take a while and I’m going to have to work on it bits at a time so that I don’t get burned out on it. So, in lieu of working on that, I decided to do one of the old space sets, the Star Cruiser. Now, for some reason, from time to time, Lego released the same kit twice with a different number. This one was released as set #487 and set #924. They’re identical (even the instructions) and both were released in 1978, so it makes no sense to me. Anywho, I went with 924 because the instructions were in better shape. Anywho, it turned out really well: LeoCad had all of the parts for this though, for some reason, they only had the small bricks and minifig chest with the emblem with a black planet. Since the planet in this set and most of the others from back then is yellow, I recolored it in trueSpace. I p
lan to do more stuff from the classic space series. 🙂On a side note: these are Legos. They’re bricks, you put them together normally. It’s all basic construction, which can easily be achieved in LeoCad. I was looking at instructions from some of the newer kits and I was shocked at how complex they’ve become. They have all of these odd bricks, cams and pins and whatnot. LeoCad doesn’t like the irregular stuff, it won’t line up correctly with the grid snap turned on. You have to do it manually. It can be done, but it’s a PITA. I prefer the classic Legos with simple construction. I decided I hated my first turret. Technically, it was pretty accurate to the one in the movie. However, the one in the movie had little greeble bits and painted details, neither of which is an option when one is working with Legos. So, I took some artistic license and made a new turret. After all, it’s not like my Death Star surface details are going to match what was in the movie anyway (neither do the ones in the Lego Star Wars games.)
Anywho, I’m happy now. Or at least happier, anyway. I’m getting sick, so that’s not a happy thing. 😦 ork has started on the bottom of the Death Star Trench. Obviously, this is going to be a much longer build than those Lego sets were. I’m getting into uncharted territory here. To my knowledge, there’s no Lego kit for this. I built a turret that’s similar to the ones on the Death Star’s surface and in the trench. It’s pretty basic but, without being able to really greeble it, that’s how it’s going to stay. I’m building at least part of the surface and trench, so there will be several of these on there. Even though it’s not necessary because this is CGI, the turret is built like it actually would be out of Legos. The parts that should move are built so that they actually would if it was made in the real world. The top is on a 2×2 turntable brick and the guns are on bricks with hinges on them. The parts rotate as they should. I rigged it in trueSpace so that the top and guns rotate as they should, on their respective moving parts. To il
lustrate this, I rendered a short animation of it in motion. Lego Death Star Turret Animation Test from Chris Martin on Vimeo. It’s in 720p, so advise watching it in HD on Vimeo. This rendered very quickly, mostly due to the fact that the Legos aren’t textured, which means it’s looking like a good possibility that I might do some Lego SW animations. 🙂 e TIE Advanced X1 (Vader’s TIE.) And the Dark Lord himself. One of my favorite scenes from Star Wars, recreated in Legos. Yes, I know it’s been done before, but not by me. 😉 These ships were taking a lot longer to render than they should after I imported them from LeoCad, but then I changed the materials to make them look better in an art render and now, aside from looking better, they also render a lot faster (who knew? ;)) Anywho, this is just one of several Lego scenes I have planned from Star Wars. The rest involve me building the TIE Advanced X1 (Vader’s TIE) and at least part of the Death Star trench and surface in LeoCad. Also, i
f I feel up to making the Death Star in LeoCad, I might do the rear perspective of this scene. So, stay tuned for more. A note about the planet: it’s intentionally “under detailed.” Since the Legos present a kind of cartoon-ish look, I decided that Yavin should also be cartoon-ish. So, I didn’t go to any great lengths to create it. It’s just a low(ish) poly sphere with a simple 4k texture map and a glow added to the background to simulate the atmosphere. Since the Legos aren’t that detailed and also look pretty low poly themselves, (even though they’re not) I figure it works. The Y-wing (the original one, that came packed with the TIE Advanced X1.) It came out OK. The biggest problem I see is that the round parts on the engines could use to be higher poly, but that’s not my fault. It’s how they’re made. The newer Y-Wing kit is more detailed, but this one will do nicely. I wanted to do kits I’ve owned, plus this one is from the same series as the others.