By the way, the "bumps" are called studs (this is the official Lego term for them).
As for the debate about the visor on the old helmets, the little dents on the side were for the Knights face shields, space figures did not have visors of any kind that far back. I should know I have so many of these guys it aint funny. My colllection goes back 32 years and contains about $10,000.00 worth of parts.
As I said, this is a very nice duplication of this kit, keep it coming.
Studs - that's the word I was looking for, thank you! I knew they had a real name. It's nice to speak to another collector, I still have most of the pieces and instructions from my very first lego set (received in 1976 when I was 5 ):
Studs - that's the word I was looking for, thank you! I knew they had a real name. It's nice to speak to another collector, I still have most of the pieces and instructions from my very first lego set (received in 1976 when I was 5 ):
Brilliant mesh, Stonky. To say it's photorealistic would be an understatement. It inspired me to have a bash at something LEGO-y myself, and I must say the minifigures are actually surprisingly tricky to model in places. How did you go about modeling the arms?
I started the minifig by taking a bunch of photographs of the real thing and then took a bunch of measurements and made sure that it fit nicely with the lego pieces that I had already created. It's been a while, but for the arms I remember skinning together a bunch of nurbs curves and then converting the result to polygons. The helmet was the most time consuming part, by far.
I guess that the upsde to starting with the Galaxy Explorer is that I will have made most of the pieces for the rest of the classic space lego sets already if I want to keep going.
I'm taking extra care with the transparent yellow pieces, just to make sure that they're behaving properly, but I think that they're going to work out well. I should have something to show soon.
And maybe some big cracks - half of my old transparent pieces from when I was a kid have big cracks in them now (I guess they're more brittle than the normal blocks).
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Maybe the yellow ones are naked.
There was a question about software earlier - I'm using houdini. It's procedural workflow is perfect for this sort of thing.
Thanks for the comments everyone! Update coming soon.
By the way, the "bumps" are called studs (this is the official Lego term for them).
As for the debate about the visor on the old helmets, the little dents on the side were for the Knights face shields, space figures did not have visors of any kind that far back. I should know I have so many of these guys it aint funny. My colllection goes back 32 years and contains about $10,000.00 worth of parts.
As I said, this is a very nice duplication of this kit, keep it coming.
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My Brother-in-law has that, he still got the train set that came out around that time, and it still in perfect working order.
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I don't remember the oil rig though, sorry!
I started the minifig by taking a bunch of photographs of the real thing and then took a bunch of measurements and made sure that it fit nicely with the lego pieces that I had already created. It's been a while, but for the arms I remember skinning together a bunch of nurbs curves and then converting the result to polygons. The helmet was the most time consuming part, by far.
I guess that the upsde to starting with the Galaxy Explorer is that I will have made most of the pieces for the rest of the classic space lego sets already if I want to keep going.
I'm still eagerly awaiting the clear yellow parts.
Biotech would be happy with that window peace.
I love how its making the blue pieces green!
Work continues on the back: