[Killfrenzy]

Thanks!

Note to self: Play around with the grid settings! :D

NOW I can make something really cool!! :devilidea

[CmdKewin]

Another day, another model... This time from a ship I actually built, before modelling it.



[EDIT] I just noticed some parts are not well connected... man... back to work.[EDIT]

[CP5670]

I need to see if I can model that Technic truck of mine in MLCad or LeoCad just for fun. Although it would probably take forever considering the number of pieces involved...

[Corhellion]

Number of pieces?

pffff, the Cerberus (that's my BIG ship) is 108 studs long and has almost 900 pieces. Here is the link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=17330

and it took only about 6 hours tops to finish it all! beat that! or try too

Anyways

Cya

Cor

[Killfrenzy]

Hehe!

Now for my next ship!! The Senshi class Heavy Cruiser!!:D:D



She can take down a Sathanas on her own!

Just wait until the BIG ships show up! :D

[Ace Pace]

now if only I could make this stupid Leocad to work, whats better MClad or leoclad?

[CmdKewin]

MLCad IMO, obviously.

[CP5670]

I like MLCad for Space stuff and LeoCad for Technic stuff due to the piece selections.

Number of pieces?

pffff, the Cerberus (that's my BIG ship) is 108 studs long and has almost 900 pieces.

Let's see what sets I have used so far in the construction of this thing:

8459 Pneumatic Front-End Loader (582 pieces)
8462 Super Tow Truck (773 pieces)
8480 Space Shuttle (1366 pieces)
8485 Control Center II (1063 pieces)
8857 Street Chopper (457 pieces)
8865 Auto Chassis (898 pieces)
8868 Airtech Claw Rig (957 pieces)
8880 Super Car (1343 pieces)

(man I can't believe I have actually memorized those piece counts )

I have not used up all of the pieces obviously, but six or seven other sets were also partially used to make the things, evening out the numbers. That unfortunately amounts to a lot of pieces.

[mikhael]

BAH! Don't model in MLCad! model your legos in Truespace or Lightwave and THEN build your model!

I don't actually recommend this. You wouldn't believe the sort of frustration this will cause you.

[CmdKewin]

Originally posted by mikhael
BAH! Don't model in MLCad! model your legos in Truespace or Lightwave and THEN build your model!
 

yea... sure....

back to work. Here is my latest one

3/4  Front View


3/4 Rear View


Forward Hangar Bay


Rear Hangar Bay


Ships actually land on the rear one and take off in the forward one... clever, eh? I'm really satisfied how it turned out (real model is about 20 cm long...)

next project... my favourite FS ship... GTD Orion Class. Stay tuned

[YodaSean]

So, do the people who work at Lego and design the kits use something like this to help them, or are they just geniuses at lego design?

[mikhael]

Nope. According the Lego book I have, they draw them out on paper, determine what new pieces are needed, prototype the new pieces and then they play with actual bricks to build the model to approximate the drawing.

Has anyone else done any lego modelling in Lightwave or Max?

[CP5670]

I tend to draw lots of schematic diagrams before starting to build a model as well.

[Ace Pace]

okey the cunfusing MClad it is, and now to build by greatest work in RL(tm) made, and then on to new ships!

[CmdKewin]

Originally posted by mikhael

Has anyone else done any lego modelling in Lightwave or Max?

no but before modelling it in MLCad, it build them ( RL(tm) )

[DTP]

IMO. Lego are great to develop your 3d perception of objects. Being able to see the sides you cannot see. Making it symmetric etc. I was astonished to hear people say I was good at making things in Lego because i could make an object symmetric. And the fact that I was able to rebuild anything I saw, if I had the correct bricks.

I even build (before the time of technic) transformers that could actually transform from a robot to some sort of vehicle and was encouraged to send pictures of my LEGO makings and was told that it was awesome work by a LEGO letter and a LEGO representative.

But they could not use my work for a production line it, as it would be not legal since I was actually building transformers that where copyrighted by someone else. Something I did not understand then as I was 10-11 years old.

Back then I was hospitalized because of a Car accident the made me a hospital patient for 4 months.

During that time I build all of these things, so 3d modeling fells natural to me.

The good part is that the LEGO representative donated 1000 kroner (Danish currency). Or (1000/7) = 137 US$, to the hospitals children division, in which I was not, I was to old for that division for some reason.

And me LEGO gave a 500-kr check to spend on what ever I liked.
(can’t remember what I used it for).

That was a lot of money back in 1984-85

So again, in my opinion actually playing with Lego will enhance you 3 dimensional perception,
But playing with it on a screen, I’m not so sure.

[mikhael]

Lego is definately responsible for my love of 3d stuff, and why I have such good spatial perception. Lego is how I learned 3d modelling in the first place. When I wanted to learn to put things together in Truespace, the first thing I modelled was a 1x1 lego brick. From there, I expanded my Truespace lego collection to a very very large array of bits, including many technic pieces.

Something I worked on, but never finished, was a truespace model of my giant mech. Here's a picture of some of the leg stuff, and a picture of the legs in reality. that thing ended up so heavy that I had to use six long technic shocks along the back of the floating 'ankles' to make it stand up.

[DTP]

I would love to have that thing, and put some IK and bones on it in 3d max. never used Truespace for bones and IK. so I would not dare!

[TrashMan]

WOW!:wtf:
Nice, very nice.
I wish I had pics of some of the stufff I made....
I allso made mechs and gigantic robots, and once I made an F-14 with expandable wings and all the extras...

[Anaz]

I never actually did get the concept of walking stuff in legos. I was drawn more towards creating miniatures with them and playing out epic battles...

for example, did you know that if you take the heads and hands off of a lego guy, he looks remarkably like a mech? and you can add some really cool looking stuff to it if you get creative...