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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 23, 2006, 06:00:31 pm
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I made this a few weeks ago. Well, not so much this as these. I suppose the thing as a whole is a this, but the individual things qualify as these.
Anyway, yes. C&C: Red Alert, in Lego.
You may remember I did it ages ago, with some vehicles attacking a power plant. Well now I've made all the rest of the vehicles and buildings.
Well, most of them. Some are all but impossible in Lego.
http://www.gbev.co.uk/LegoRA/
I might do Tiberian Sun next, although it'd be quite a challenge.
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Damn...that's awesome.
The Tesla coil appears to have magic legos. :D
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Wow. Those are extremely well done. Most of the units immediately recognizable from RA.
Try doing some of the units from my mod: :D
http://home.comcast.net/~cp5670/RA0003.GIF
What program did you use to make those and about how long did it take you? I want to make instructions for some of my designs using one of these Lego modeling programs, especially this rocket launcher I built a few years ago, but when I gave it a shot a while ago I was finding that it took forever to construct even simple things.
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I used MLCAD, and then L3P to convert them to POVRay format, and then POVRay itself to render them.
Took me about 3 weeks, on and off. :P
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"Holy Tesla, Batman"
Those models are totally awesome, and instantly recognizable.... :yes:
Legos sure are extremely useful for modelling practice....
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I'm sure Petrarch will agree with me when I say that the plural of Lego Brick is Lego Bricks, there's no such thing as Legos :p
Seriously though, great stuff Petrarch :D
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I used MLCAD, and then L3P to convert them to POVRay format, and then POVRay itself to render them.
Took me about 3 weeks, on and off. :P
hmm, that's not too bad. I have always wanted to make instructions for this model (http://home.comcast.net/~cp5670/image114.jpg), but don't want to spend months with it. :p
Does mlcad support special stuff like pneumatic tubes, rubber bands, fiber optic cables, electric wires and things like that?
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Sort of. There are tools for adding belts, and those segmented hose things, but I don't think there's anything for wires, pneumatics, or those flexible cable things.
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Anychance of a special appearance from a Mammoth ?
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I'm sure Petrarch will agree with me when I say that the plural of Lego Brick is Lego Bricks, there's no such thing as Legos :p
Bull. I've been saying "Legos" since I was five, and I'll be damned if I stop saying it now. :p
Seriously, though, I've never played C&C, but those are some amazing models. :) I wish I had had more creativity when playing with Legos; I always had the most fun following the instructions to the letter. :p
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Bull. I've been saying "Legos" since I was five, and I'll be damned if I stop saying it now. :p
Doesn't make you right though. :p
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Bull. I've been saying "Legos" since I was five, and I'll be damned if I stop saying it now. :p
Doesn't make you right though. :p
Doesn't make me wrong, either. Considering that "Lego" is an amalgamation of two Danish words, who knows what the proper English plural form should be? :p
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If you say "Legos" you can **** off and die, quite frankly.
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Dude, if you ever say "Legos" over at Lugnet, you will instantly get an army of grammar nazis telling you exactly that. :D
I used to call them Legos at one time too. But I wised up. It's either just Lego, Lego bricks or Lego pieces.
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Oooops, really a grammar mess that was accidentaly created....and now its let loose !
:D
But to "**** off and die* because of the (S), I don't think I'm ready for that....
:doubt:
Though I admit it, lego bricks sound better....
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Doesn't make me wrong, either. Considering that "Lego" is an amalgamation of two Danish words, who knows what the proper English plural form should be? :p
The people who invented the damn things perhaps?
One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:
Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
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I have that catalog actually. Came with the 8859 Harvester I got off ebay.
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Hurrah for Kara.
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Indeed....my mistake. Thanks to karajorma for pointing that out
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kara, every company does something like that. I was just reading the Wikipedia article about Spam (don't ask :p), and they're quoted as saying that they'd like people to use all capital letters in referring to their product, so as to preserve their brand name. Obviously, no one does this. (Interestingly enough, Hormel doesn't really mind the use of the term "spam" for the electronic variety, so long as it's lower-case.) At any rate, I happened to read the LEGO Wiki article, and while it had the same quote that you posted, it also noted that most fans really wouldn't care, and that "Legos" is commonly used, no matter what its accuracy. The way I see it, "Lego bricks" is probably the correct term, but I use "Legos" as a shortened version of it. After all, a single brick is a Lego component, or one Lego. Many of them makes many components, or Legos. The term Lego is pretty much synonymous with Xerox, Kleenex, or Band-Aid; it's a brand name that's become synonymous with the actual product, even with the products of competitors. As such, the use of the term "Legos" to refer to multiple Lego-brand building elements seems perfectly natural. Besides, I was probably at my wisest at six years old, so I'm sticking with my judgment back then. :p
At any rate, enough of this half-assed argument. Props to Petrarch for his superior modeling skills, unless he threatens me with death again for perpetuating a pop language phenomenon. :p
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Despite all that.
Doesn't make me wrong, either.
I think you'll now find that it does and that I have proved that it does. :p
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For what it's worth, in Danish we always use "Lego brick" (well, directly translated, we actually use block, but brick is close enough) when talking about Lego components, or even forego the Lego part completely. There simply isn't a Danish form of "Legos" that anyone uses. Lego by itself is really only used when referring to sets of many bricks (whether for a a specific design or not), "I'm off to buy some Lego" or "I'm getting that Lego thingamajig we saw in the ad", and then when opening it "Oohh, look at all these new blocks/bricks I have to play with".
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I think you'll now find that it does and that I have proved that it does. :p
But it isn't like anyone here is particularly respectful of intellectual property-based arguments anyways, now is it? :p
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For what it's worth, in Danish we always use "Lego brick" (well, directly translated, we actually use block, but brick is close enough) when talking about Lego components, or even forego the Lego part completely. There simply isn't a Danish form of "Legos" that anyone uses. Lego by itself is really only used when referring to sets of many bricks (whether for a a specific design or not), "I'm off to buy some Lego" or "I'm getting that Lego thingamajig we saw in the ad", and then when opening it "Oohh, look at all these new blocks/bricks I have to play with".
Yeah, that's how we (as in, people with intelligence) use it as well. It's like bread. No such thing as "one bread" or "many breads" (well, there are, but that tends to refer to collection of different types of bread), just the overall concept of "bread".
But there you are.
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I'll have two toasts please mother.
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o/` "you say po-taet-oe, i say pa-ta-toe" o/`