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Hi, everybody. I'd like to present my first LEGO sculpture, a 4 foot tall Homer Simpson. (2 URLs) Details, pictures, and the story are all here: (URL) Sean (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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| | Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
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Woo hoo! Nice job. What did you use for the hair? Doh! I would have never been able to make something this big, my husband already has issues with my 2 foot tall projects :) Where's my duff? Mmmm.. duff... -Anne (...) -- For SCO to attack IBM using (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Very nice! But I have to agree to te reviewer at MOCPages that the eyes are a tad large. However, having seen the intro sequence frame by frame I know they can be even bigger in the show - so. Nice hair! (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) Very very cool. That's one of those things that I've always wanted to build, but never got around to it. Building large sculptures is a difficult art, and it's great to see others doing it. Adrian (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: 4-foot tall LEGO Homer Simpson sculpture
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Nice work. eric (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Anne: (...) The hairs on the top of his head are two black technic hose pieces... they look sort of like this, but longer: (URL) The hairs on the side of his head are just 1x6 plates joined end-to-end and bent into an M-shaped zig-zag. There's an (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Tobbe: (...) Yes, it was difficult trying to come up with a design that I liked because of two reasons: First, as you mentioned, he doesn't always look the same from season to season or even scene to scene. Sometimes he is unbelievably fat, other (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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I ran into the exact same trouble when building the eyes for my Bart Simpson. Trying to translate from 2-D to 3-D is very difficult, and you must just find the best compromise. eric (...) (21 years ago, 30-Sep-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Awesome! Mmmm ... Legos. -- Pawel (21 years ago, 1-Oct-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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