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Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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Sun, 9 Jul 2006 08:32:40 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Ryan Parrish wrote:
> I recently built a very detailed version of the U.S Air Force's famous F-16
> Fighting Falcon. It was built entirely with Lego and I spent about 20 hours
> perfecting the design. No glue was used. I welcome all questions and comments.
> Check it out on my brickshelf page:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=189335
I appreciate everybody's constructive critisism, in reference to my F-16
Fighting Falcon. As I mentioned before, the entire structure was built around
the landing gear and my intent was to make it fully retractable, fully
concealable, and sturdy. The main (or rear) landing gear retract at about a 30
degree angle inside the intake. It was a little difficult to obtain this feature
without having the tires meet in the middle, creating obstruction, which would
have prevented the landing gear panels from closing all the way.
One thing that I want to remind everybody of, is that this F-16 was built with
Lego and not custom sculpted with clay. Lego pieces are "boxy" three-dimentional
shapes with studs and hollow bases, to make them inter-connectable. I don't
believe that true accurate scale or proportion can be achieved on this medium
when you base a Moc off of the scale of a mini-fig. Mini-figs are odd-shaped and
not proportionate to an actual human body. If you take a close look, you will
notice that the legs of a mini-fig are about the same length as the torso and
the arms don't reach beyond the hips. When compared to the human body, the legs
of a human are about twice the length of the torso and the arms reach about half
way down the thighs.
When I built this F-16 and posted it as being "mini-fig scaled", my vision of
scale and proportion was based off of the mini-fig and not off of the proportion
of a human body, therefore the F-16 will not be proportionate either.
To answer the previous question from Mattius, when I build with Lego, I try to
picture the mini-fig as being the average size of an adult human male (about 6
feet tall), but I don't try to scale the entire design of my Mocs off of this
ratio because it's Lego and Legos are going to "boxy" no matter how you use
them.
I am new to this forum eventhough I have been a fan of Lego since I was about 8
years-old. I am truely inspired by everyone's comments and I think it is
absolutely cool to finally meet people with my same love for the medium.
I hope to hear from you soon,
Ryan
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| --SNIP-- (...) I'm not sure I agree that Lego is boxy however you use it. With good sculpting, SNOT and lots of revision it should be possible to get quite a smooth shape at the size you are using for this. This was a fairly (URL) quick build> of (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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