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Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:52:05 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> Bringing this back to a LEGO oriented discussion... My sincerest
> apologies if it's still a bit nerd-oriented.
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> ... a brief discussion on clone brand proportions and how they could be
> used to recreate the Monolith from the 2001 and 2010 films.
I'm not sure I agree. A 1x1 brick is 20 LDU wide and 24 LDU high, ne?
> Doing some quick math in my head here, it appears to me that the
> smallest Monolith that you can make with LEGO that has the same physical
> proportions as the Monolith would be 7 studs wide,
7x20 ldu or 140 ldu wide
> 28 studs across, and
28x20 ldu or 560 ldu across
> 54 brick-heights high
54 x 24 or 1296 ldu high
1296 isn't 9 times 140... or is my math wrong here? I get 1260 as 9*140
I think you can do it with 2 studs wide, 8 across and 15 bricks high.
that's 40 ldu x 160 ldu x 360 ldu
> (not including the height of the studs themselves
> that would stick out the top).
Presumably you'd do the top with tiles?
> WOW! At minifig scale, that's pretty
> darn tall! Even if I were to make it mostly hollow, I wouldn't have
> enough LEGO in total (let alone black pieces or even any other single
> color) to try this.
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> Has anyone else ever done one of these in LEGO?
I am almost certain someone did one for a stop motion animation but might be
mistaken. It may have been not quite perfectly proportioned as it was a lot
smaller than yours
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> Has anyone else ever done one of these that was smooth on all *SIX* sides?
Using tiles on the top gets you 5 sides, For all 6 you need to do something
SNOTty, certainly. Rev Smith did a cloud that's studfree on all sides.
Someone check my math... I gotta go to the airport!
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| <snip> (...) Dunno about checking--my brain is a little fried today (long week of checking numbers and cross references here). If I recall correctly from reading the book, the 1 x 4 x 9 dimension comes from the squares of "the first three numbers": (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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| (...) DOH! You are right... I was going on the ratio of the brick being 6x6x7, but it's actually 5x5x6. Serves me right for posting something like that without checking first. So...at the *PROPER* LEGO dimensions, the Monolith would then be... (drum (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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| (...) Ed Toton made a lunar Monolith scene, but the dimensions weren't listed (it's way too small to be 2x8x15, though): (URL) Thomas did make a LEGO-based movie version of 2001, and according to the responses, it did include a Monolith that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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| Bringing this back to a LEGO oriented discussion... My sincerest apologies if it's still a bit nerd-oriented. In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek wrote: ... a brief discussion on clone brand proportions and how they could be used to recreate (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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