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Re: My first MOC: Animal Sculptures
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Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:07:24 GMT
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Nice work, Natalia. A promising start.
eric
Natalia Nazarewicz wrote:
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> Hey!
> This is my first post to Lugnet. My brother took some pictures of my two life-
> size LEGO cats and my mini LEGO elephant and we decided to post the pictures on
> Brickshelf.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4086
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> My first creation: a grey elephant. It's minifig size. I made it about three
> months ago, and he's the result of my first attempts to make an animal. He's
> very (very!) simple compared to my cats.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4085
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> My second creation: a yellow cat. It's lifesize and the biggest LEGO sculpture I
> had built to that point. The chain hanging out of it's mouth is supposed to be
> the tail of the mouse he had for lunch. The eyes are compasses because I didn't
> have any ideas. Building this cat gave me some experience in building my third
> creation:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4084
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> ... a white cat. I'm very proud of the cat. I just finished it today. It took me
> 2 days to build: I worked on it some Friday after school and this afternoon.
> It's larger and a lot more elaborate than the yellow cat, and you can see the
> difference on one of the pictures where they stand side-by-side. It's also a lot
> more stable than the yellow cat. It's lifesize. Picture of the two cats
> together:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=40730
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> I got the idea for the eyes after finishing TCAPS. Since there are no thin
> vertical lego pieces that would work as the pupils, I stacked 5 plates and put
> them on their side, so the eyes fall out when you tip the cat over.
> But I still think they look pretty cool.
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> I didn't use many slopes, unlike in my yellow cat. The only slopes I used were
> for the nose (the white bridge of the nose and the grey nose itself). That makes
> 5 slopes. I only used 9 plates,not counting the eyes, of which 5 were used for
> the mouth and 2 on top of the head.
>
> The cat is completely hollow inside, no vertical columns for support. I had to
> make some adjustments so the sides wouldn't cave in, but it turned out well.
> The cat is modeled to look a bit like a Ragdoll cat. That's why it's big and on
> the fat side.
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> The area around the mouth and chin was very complicated and cluttered so I
> didn't want to make it even more complicated by adding whiskers. I might add
> those later.
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> The tail is wrapped around the right side of the cat on the floor. I didn't like
> the tail experiences I had with the yellow cat, so I changed it.
> The two front paws are together, because I would have been left with an odd
> number of studs to work with if I had put a space between them. That would ruin
> the symmetry when I connected them.
>
> I decided to build the cats because I searched the net for LEGO cats but I
> didn't find any. There are hundreds of cat pictures on the net, but none were
> made from bricks.
>
> I build the elephant for one of my brother's ninja houses. It carries the
> important people (and the warriors who guard them) around.
>
> My next project is a red Somali cat. I hope you like these creatures. Please
> give me some feedback on my first animals.
>
> Natalia
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