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Here is the M:Tron Magnetic Detector. 31 parts without the fig.
In fact, I’m happy enough with it that I plan to keep all the parts intact for the time being. If Covid ever ends, I am hoping that Walter @whitesidewjw will once again invite us all over for a build day like he did twice before. If he does, I would be interested in using all his fancy stuff again – the backdrop, the tan mat, the powerful lights, just like I did for the Perfume-Tron build a year ago – so that I can get some quality photos of this build that I can post to Flickr. Obviously the ones I came up with today aren’t cutting it. I would be willing to come up with some better space plant background landscaping (hopefully without going overboard) for such a photo session.
I can’t wait to have another space build!
Since I was late I went over the part count too.
Paula indicated that the next AFOL day is January 18 and that would be a good day to remove the winter display, partly because the store will open early. Of course, the new display installment does not depend on the removal of the current display because the new display will be using a different display case.
I chatted with Paula a couple days ago. The hangar display will be going in the back display on AFOL day. I will be dropping off the hangar part and Rich’s fighters with Tom Frost. I cannot be there that weekend since I will need to be out of town. I think there is still some room for a few small mechs and some minifigs. This is a small display measuring approximately 20” wide by 19.5” tall by 15” deep. The size limits how much can go in it.
@whitesidewjw has suggested that it would be cool to have a maintenance & refueling mech “pit crew”. However, it’s best to know the color blocking first so that crew can be quickly visually connected to the craft they’re working on. I’m leaning in a black-white-LBG direction, but that may change as I start putting other elements together and determine the best color “splash” on the starfighters. Therefore, the figs might be better determined after the craft are built.
I totally agree. – If you do end up going black & White in the craft, what do you think about green as the major color for the pit crew? Whatever color you decide, I can’t wait to see pics of the fighters.
For the outside “construction crew” What dot you think about M:Tron?
Fighters: my G-Fighter series are all 32×32 studs, which is also 10 inches square. 8 inches square might therefore be pretty tight, even at 24 studs square.
I recommend 16×16 square to 20×20 at most. It’s also reasonable to make this wing of spacefighters narrower and longer in individual footprint.
I’ll take a look tonight to see if I can bash out four cockpit boxes right quick. If I can, the parts selection there in cockpit and common canopy might set the tone. The Ace craft is best festooned in big color splashes over the same general livery. The main problem after that is getting the right figs for pilots and ground crew.
The challenge here is that the fighters will be in front of the inside wall of the hangar, thus creating the front facing stage. when facing forward to the display, the the main door will be on the left side and some architectural/ large greabling con the far right. The three fighters will have larger than minifig size Mechs for craft support. Since the back of the display will be an outside scene (narrower then the inside), there is not a huge amount of space. I cant wait to see the pics of your fighter concepts.
I’m confused.
Which event are you thinking about?
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Thanks everyone for coming over for the space build. I’m excited to do another one.
I think the most important thing we talked about was the ideal house for the Lego Hobby. That is a room for storage, a room for building and a room for display. Now I just need to convince my wife.
I’m down!
I *might* be able to come for this. I want to. Too soon to tell for sure
Oooh, it looks like I’m for this one after all. So I’ll be there at noon.
I’m looking forward to meeting up with everyone for a space build.
Hey, @whitesidewjw, when I come over, I’d like to bring a couple of blue, checkerboard patterned shipping containers for you to look at and potentially improve to add as “yours”, in your style, as part of my eventual Space / shipping container SHIP. Are you interested in evolving these, whether keeping them or just improving them at your place?
This sounds interesting. I can’t wait to see them.
Where will this be located and are you planning to tackle the Cranberry display at all?
I live in the South Hills- Mt. Lebanon, off of Bower Hill Road. I haven’t really thought of the Cranberry display but we can talk about it. I’m up for displaying something.
I’m certainly not an expert on the subject, but I would say they are not Lego. I believe TLG marks every part. @whitesidewjw may have some insight.
Not all Lego parts made have an ID or Lego or Copyrwrite “C”. It’s hard to tell on the windows. I am leaning toward no, but it is really hard to tell from the pics. I don’t recognize this size window with the dot in the middle, however some of Lego’s old windows did have a dot in the middle toward the top/bottom.
For all the people that built entries, thanks for contributing! Here are pics of what was shown at the Q1 meeting:
Art build challenge entries- Q1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/66166063@N07Walter Whiteside Jr.[/url], on Flickr
Art build challenge entries- Q1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/66166063@N07Walter Whiteside Jr.[/url], on Flickr
Art build challenge entries- Q1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/66166063@N07Walter Whiteside Jr.[/url], on Flickr
Art build challenge entries- Q1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/66166063@N07Walter Whiteside Jr.[/url], on FlickrYes, it was meant to be vague… but in fairness there should be judging criteria that should encourage fun builds. I want to leave the door wide open a far as subject matter and techniques. People can make a sculpture or mosaic or anything that is for the sake of art.
Here are the criteria I’ll use:
Quality of build techniques used (how much effort was taken).
Making use of artistic features such as repeating shapes, patterns, contrast, symbolism and symmetry.
Colors, especially colors that complement or enhance each other/ or intentionally contrast
Style and composition that focus the eye and keep the viewers’ attention.
Presentation- for example pedestal or framing.I’m sure we’ll have the typical LUG prizes. I’ll throw in the following prizes to hopefully boost participation from my odd parts collection:
1st place- Transparent Clear Ghost Part (these are pretty collectible)
2nd place- Straight Red RC Train Track
3rd place- Transparent Black umbrella@joshhall Yeah they are cool but each piece of that marbled track sold for 800 euro. A used mr. gold can be bought cheaper right now on BL. There are two pieces that I know of. Those prices are really out of my league.
In case your wondering, I’m trading a some of my rare parts for other rare parts I want more. It get’s a lot more mileage than the money… but the marbled tracks aren’t even close to worth it for me.
@laura They are test molds from over 10 years ago. There’s actually marbled clear/ red but the price is way out of my league. For a while they did a test in those two colors for quality inspections on molds. I have heard their process is different now but I am not sure. I still see a lot of new-ish parts in red that don’t appear in sets so maybe they still do it that way. The marlbed parts came from them flushing out the molds.
@laura The original intent we to attempt to put 9v rails in the clear tracks shown below and run a 9v Ice planet space train. It looks like I will have no trouble running an RC train on it instead.
Ok- I just got home from a business trip and found some 9V track and answered the question. An RC train will work on the track without the rails. Look at me flickr stream. There is enough plastic and and the metal is thin enough that it doesn’t make a world of difference.
The purpose is to take it out of the dark gray ties and put it in trans clear ties for an ice planet MOC I’m working on.
He brought a working version of it to one of the meetings, and I know he specifically told me that he’d love to finish it, but needed people to help him…
Recreating mt washington was supposed to be included in our project support request with LEGO that got put on hold by LEGO for unknown reasons.
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It did work and it is still together. The trouble I had with it was that after a while it lose its connection to the chain. If we used mindstorms, it may work better but it setup would become more involved. I wanted it to work in two steps- plug it in & turn it on. Another idea might be using the kind of mechanism that T Frost created for his self-reversing trolley.
