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Re: Poseable Horse Minifig Scale (or close enough)
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:23:03 GMT
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Alan,
My record is less than spotty, as I'm more of a lurker than a poster, but I
liked this one a lot so I thought I'd respond.
As a fan of lego stop-motion-animation, this is desperately needed.
Animating the LEGO horses is tough since they really don't move, especially
their legs. Even having something slightly larger like this is worth it if
you can find the right color parts. Perhaps it would be possible to use the
castle horse trappings to give it a little more form?
Thanks for posting this. I'll be building one pretty soon. :-)
~Mike
At 07:36 AM 9/14/2003, you wrote:
> Well, it isn't pretty.....
>
> Okay, it's down-right ugly....
>
> But I hope you'll agree that has more to do with the riot of colours
> rather than
> the actual design.
>
> I've built a posable horse. It's slightly larger than the standard Lego horse,
> but it is still appropriate for minifigs.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=56666
>
> It has 11 pivot points (not including the minifig in the pictures), as
> compared
> to just one on the standard horse.
>
> The variety of colours is the result of my parts selection and (in)ability to
> find things. They also serve to make it clear just which kinds of parts
> are used
> and where.
>
> It all started when someone posted pictures of their "direwolves". That
> was soon
> followed by pictures of an apparently new Lego transparent "ghost horse", and
> then at least one or more posts of MOC horses. (I can't remember the
> authors of
> these posts -- they know who they are).
>
> All that got me thinking. Hmmm (I thought) hmmm. Is a posable minifig scale
> horse possible?
>
> I spent a lot of time thinking this through. Originally I was on the trail of
> using the new locking hinge parts. Lots of searching on Bricklink. Lots of
> thinking. Recently I abandoned that line as I realized that the colour
> selection
> was just too limited for locking hinge parts.
>
> Over the past couple of days I finally dug into my collection to see what I
> could do with what I've got. One other stipulation was that it had to
> accomodate
> the standard saddle. The hardest part was developing the neck and head. I went
> through at least three variations before settling on the one pictured. In
> time I
> may edit it further. You may have other ideas that would work as well or
> better.
>
> Here's the parts list of the horse pictured. As much as possible (depending on
> availability) all parts except the saddle should be the same colour. Planned
> variations are fine, and some parts may not yet be available in some colours
> (notably brown or tan) so you'd need to substitute as appropriate. In general
> then, you should be able to create a black, white, tan, brown, or lt/dk gray
> horse with the following (in no particular order):
>
> (1) standard saddle -- any colour
> (6) 1x3 plates
> (3) 1x2 plates
> (1) 1x2 plate modified with side bar
> (1) 1x2 tile
> (3) 1x2 tile modified with centre stud
> (1) 1x1 tile modified with top clip
> (1) 2x3 plate
> (1) 2x4 plate
> (2) 1x1 plate modified with vertical clip
> (1) 1x2 plate hinge with 3 side fingers
> (1) 1x2 plate hinge with 2 end fingers
> (2) 1x1 plates round (square also works)
> (1) 1x1 brick
> (1) 2x2 brick
> (2) 1x1 bricks modified with 1 side stud
> (1) 1x2 brick hinge top & bottom (a 2x2 top also works)
> (1) 1x2 slope 45
> (1) 1x3 slope 33
> (1) 1x2 slope inverted 45
>
> 32 pieces in total.
>
> That's about it for the horse.
>
> <shameless-plug-and-plea-for-feedback>
>
> And be sure to take a look at my other recent MOC updates first mentioned
> here:
>
> http://news.lugnet.com/castle/?n=17962
>
> (spoken as one whose record on giving feedback is spotty at best - but I'm
> working on it!)
>
> </shameless-plug-and-plea-for-feedback>
>
> Thanks for reading this far. Hope to hear from you.
>
> Alan
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