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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #40 on: May 26, 2003, 01:56:04 pm
I am reviving this thread, and don't try to stop me. :D
A contest at the PCG forum has rekindled my interest in Lego, and I might just use MLCAD to make something FS-related.

Also, it deserves to be revived, so that all the newcomers can marvel at the skills of Eishtmo, beastpete and corhellion, and the others!
 

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Reply #41 on: May 26, 2003, 02:22:00 pm
*wavers between :wtf: and :yes:*



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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #42 on: May 26, 2003, 03:18:21 pm
Excuse me, but, bloody hell!

And what's more: HOLY ****!

I must get a load of Lego!
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Reply #43 on: May 26, 2003, 05:05:25 pm
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Excuse me, but, bloody hell!

And what's more: HOLY ****!

I must get a load of Lego!


Thank God for those people - I've been disgusted by how LEGO has been just making up new pieces for every little model kit they come out with that doesn't have just the right piece, instead of using their noggins. :rolleyes: Looks like these guys are saving the name of Leog. :D
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #44 on: May 26, 2003, 06:03:40 pm
I have really only been keeping track of the Technic sets recently. There have been some ups and downs for Technic in the last five years; there has been a move from conventional studded beams to studless liftarms which I am personally fine with as long as the functionality in the new models remains unchanged. There are more specialized pieces than before but most of them can be quite useful in many situations. However, both the quality and quantity of new stuff coming out seems to have decreased overall; The Lego people used to have several great things coming out every year, which I don't see so much anymore. The 4x4 off-roader was really nice, but that and the RC buggy have really been the only good things since 1999.

However, it looks like that is about to completely change this year. Has anyone seen the fall 2003 product line? Lots of new stuff coming out this time around, and some of it looks quite impressive. That backhoe in particular is simply incredible; it has ten pneumatic pistons! I'm definitely going to pick up one of those along with that red airport fire truck. The small dumper and front end loader also look nice as does the model team-style pickup.

back to my rocket launcher model for now; I'm almost done with thing, but still need to find a way to mount the decorative fiber optics without having them get in the way while moving the launch platform up and down.
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Reply #45 on: May 26, 2003, 06:23:24 pm
I haven't bought any new lego since 1998.  I'm not really fond of the new stuff - plus i have better things to spend money on, like beer.  Sometimes I think about hauling out my big boxes of lego, but they are full of dust, broken bits, and some rusty motors (as much as they seem waterproof when you first start making lego boats, they wont last long).

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Reply #46 on: May 27, 2003, 05:58:10 am
I haven't bought any lego since about 1995 - But I still have eight small boxes and two large-boxes of the stuff. Most of the pieces I have in "cold storage" so to speak are from my destroyed Star Trek fleets (literally, I built every ship you could possibly conceive of, and threw them, eventually, into a battle on the carpet !). Ofcourse back then I was a mere kid, but given the chance, I'd love to have a LEGO-BATTLEFIELD again. But I could go on for days about my endless lego things - Suffice to say I have enough pieces now to build all the Freespace ships twice over and have enough left for Babylon 5. Pity I don't have enough interest in it anymore.. :(
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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #47 on: May 27, 2003, 06:29:51 am
Well rekindle that interest!
And do it now!:D
 

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Reply #48 on: May 27, 2003, 06:38:27 am
lordy..... that's kinda cool really....


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Reply #49 on: May 27, 2003, 06:57:56 am
I'm going to get into the world of Lego Rendering.
I made this last night:
 

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Reply #50 on: May 27, 2003, 07:53:32 am
Ill think it over. ;)
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Reply #51 on: May 27, 2003, 08:26:56 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
I'm going to get into the world of Lego Rendering.
I made this last night:



wait, did you use a different program for that? it looks ALOT more photorealistic.
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Reply #52 on: May 27, 2003, 08:35:15 am
I used MLCAD, and then converted it to a POV file with L3Lab, then rendered it in POVRay.

Thanks goes to Corhellion for telling me how.:D
 

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Reply #53 on: May 27, 2003, 02:45:48 pm
I've now updated the ship, by putting a twin cannon on the aft deck, thus:

 

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Reply #54 on: May 27, 2003, 05:34:16 pm
:nod: Excellent
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Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #55 on: May 28, 2003, 04:46:50 am
Thankyou.
That's what I've submitted to the PCGF Lego Contest.
Here's the competition's site.
 

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Reply #56 on: May 29, 2003, 01:28:37 pm
Well, I built a couple of "test ships" and also some minitures (hehe). Sadly, I have no way to take pictures of them (since they're real bricks and all). But I'll try and find a way soon. I've put together a "Hyperion Mark II", which is based on the Hyperion from Babylon 5 and also a Dominion Cruiser from DS9. Both are about 40 studs in length with fair width, height and detail.  I need to decide what to work on, since I want to put together a mother-of-all ships - But just one, large one. Im confident I can do it with real pieces, the GTVA Colossus :)
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Reply #57 on: May 29, 2003, 02:19:45 pm
Colossus, eh?

What size?
 

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Reply #58 on: May 29, 2003, 02:30:25 pm
Petrarch, how long did it take you to make that ship? I would like to make computer instructions for some of my models but when I played around with MLCad it took forever to make even simple things. A turntable assembly that I tried building as a test took almost an hour whereas I could build it in five minutes in real life. Just as issue of practice, maybe?
 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #59 on: May 29, 2003, 03:00:39 pm
It did take me quite a while to build the ship, over a few days, but I doubt it took more that two hours overall. Mind you, as you say, it would only take about 20 minutes in real life. The main reason it took so long was the generation of ideas. A lot of the time I was sat thinking, so actualy build time might have been about 90 minutes.

Are you using the latest version of MLCAD? 3.00?
And the latest parts set, even the unofficial ones?
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