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Re: My X-Pod Creations
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lugnet.basic
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Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:33:35 GMT
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In lugnet.basic, Hao-yang Wang wrote:
> If you stack the orange 2x3 wedge on top of the red 2x4 wedge, you can get a
> thicker wing shell with a nice two-color scheme. However, I failed to make a
> good body contour with this design. Maybe I should try again.
I'd think you should be able to just match up the 2x ends, and maybe stick the
other two orange dots in front of the orange wedges.
> I actually like Lego's leg design from the instructions. It may not be
> suitable for a beetle, but if you take a look at <http://tolweb.org/tree?
> group=Arthropoda>, you will see that many critters have that kind of legs,
> for example, mites and lice.
Oh, I'm not saying that the pincer feet don't look cool. I just don't think
it's worth giving up the hinges completely to have four pincer-feet if the other
two legs are 1x3 slopes, which look pretty bad right next to the pincer-feet.
Your design has the advantage of making all six legs look similar to each other.
The only insect-like critters I've ever seen that have dissimilar legs like that
when the dissimilar legs aren't either for feeding or fighting are caterpillars,
but technically, every leg past the six right behind the head isn't really a leg
at all.
> On the other hand, I cannot figure out which end of Lego's bug is the head
> and which is the tail. What do you think?
The antennae are at the head. The "eyes" are spots on its back. I think they
might have been leaning towards a ladybug with the design.
> I discovered that the hinge pieces make a nice pair of stag horns, albeit in
> a wrong color, so I proceeded and made a dragon with them.
Yeah, they're nice and stiff, so they don't flop around. I've never really
understood why the plate and brick versions are so different in that regard.
> Then I ran out of parts to make a good, hinged body, let alone the menacing
> claws. The part selection of the X-Pods can be very frustrating.
Indeed. Based on personal experience (specifically, making a minifig go-cart
from the Auto-Pod without a steering wheel), I think it might make a good
contest to an X+1 MOC, where you can add any single piece of your own choosing
to the parts included in an X-Pod.
> A bunch of mini-figs can staff the dragon on sticks and walk it in a new year
> parade.
Hah! That would look sweet. All you'd need are a few vertical clips and
lightsaber blades staggered on either side. I have a friend who's currently
teaching in Japan, and I bet something like that sitting on his desk would be
really popular with the other teachers.
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| (...) I originally wanted to make a rhinoceros beetle, but then I ran out of parts from 4349 to make a convincing horn for it. If you stack the orange 2x3 wedge on top of the red 2x4 wedge, you can get a thicker wing shell with a nice two-color (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.basic)
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