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Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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lugnet.build.military
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Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:55:46 GMT
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Hello,
I can only echo sentiments there are some very nice fighter MOCs here and it's
nice to see build.military get a little more activity of late.
I used to build lots of fighter planes a lot as a teen, and while I don't think
I ever approached the level demonstrated here, I do remember them being quite
cool looking overall. I used to design my own planes rather than take on the
challenge of modelling actual aircraft. I'm guessing the latter is much more
challenging, but for whatever reason, I was always more interested in putting my
own designs to brick. That was over 10 years ago now and it would be interesting
for me to have a go at another modern fighter plane some day, to see if I could
take advantage of some of the new bricks and colors that have been produced over
the last decade. So in other words, I'm not all that bothered with whose F-16 is
better - this stuff is simply all very cool and quite inspirational!
Right now I am concentrating on building armored ground vehicles (mainly tanks
and IFVs), and while I'm building them from my own imagination rather than
trying to replicate actual vehicles, I time and time again come up against the
challenge of balancing functionality, aesthetics, compactness, and scale.
Ideally, you choose which sacrifices to make in such a way that the overall
result is as impressive as possible. There isn't necesarrily a perfect solution.
With the humble admission that I've never seriously tried to model a real
aircraft myself, one thought I'd like to shoot into the discussion here is that
a LEGO MOC/model of an existing fighter plane isn't, and will never be an exact
replica of the real thing. rather IMO, it is a representation of a real
aircraft. You can't get the kind of detail you'd expect from a tradition plastic
1:72 scale model aircraft so what you want to do is to capitalize on the
recognizable features and render them as best as possible.
I do hope to get some pix of my modern armor up soon, and who knows, even try my
hand at some airpower one day too!
cheers all
Magnus
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| (...) Hi Magnus, It wasn't my intention to start a contest on who builds the best figher. As you say, it is always about balancing a number of sometimes conflicting requirements. In many cases, if you want something to be really nicely shaped, (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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| (...) Hi Mattias, Bryce's aircraft models are great and the Tomcat is one of my favorites. It is one of his favorites as well. I had seen your Tomcat based on Bryce's design on Brickshelf before. It looks very neat. Bryce has designed a B-1B bomber (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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