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Thus Spake Zarathrustra!
Formeathan - The Stormbringer
For the past two months, I have been working on a project of great importance to
me. I don’t expect the castlers to be too excited about it, but I think the
Mech heads will like it. So without further ado:
Images are here:
Dragon 1
Dragon 2
Dragon 3
Dragon 4
Dragon 5
Dragon 6
Model Notes:
I stood on the shoulders of giants while I built this dragon.
He’s been totally rebuilt. Using worm gears, toggle joints, and 24 toothed
gears, I built him from the ground up. The only things left untouched are his
head and two hands.
Using the ingenious design aspects from Brian Cooper’s original two Dark
Gundam’s design:
And from Eric Sophie’s Rin Tin Tin Din Din:
I took my Red Dragon MOC Formeathan:
And rebuilt him into what you see today. He is fully posable and, unlike
before, can hold up his entire weight.
Beyond his original design, he has a few added features:
- More dynamic foot and ankle
- Added rear leg hip flap and rotation joints
- Cloth and lighter weight wings
- Added point of articulation for wings
- Main spine flex
I’ve done my best to maximize organicness, so I tried very hard to cover up
all gears, axles, everything. Which is ironic, for as complex as he is, I tried
to make him look like I’d not used anything complex to build him with. For the
most part, I feel like I succeeded. Harder places to cover, like the knees and
elbows, could not be easily covered, so instead I created spikes to block them
from view.
He’s also quite a bit larger than his original form, so he’s the biggest of
the four dragons. I do not have any plans to do similar redesigns for any of
the three other dragons.
Further images, including in-progress pictures, will come later after I take a
break. Now all I have to do is decided whether he belongs in the castle or
mecha room at Brickfest.
There are a lot of people who need thanking for the creation of this model:
Brian Cooper and Eric Sophie - for their astounding designs
Troy Cefaratti and Eric Sophie - for their incredibly generous donations
Eric Sophie for his constant guidance in these past two months
And these fine Bricklink shops for the parts I needed:
A LEGO ADDICT’s DREAM
BIODRAGEN’S LAIR
Bricks By Terry
GoB - Troy’s Surplus LEGO
The Lego Heap
And all the other people who helped me through that I haven’t meantioned here,
you know who you are.
PLMKWYT!
--Anthony
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Message has 8 Replies:
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| (...) -snip- Anthony! WOW! To save from the gushing you are sure to recieve from this project, let me say that I'm super happy now that I'm going to Brickfest this year! I'll get to see this badboy in person! Only criticism: his neck seems a bit (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Woah. You really need a pic of you next to that monster. I kind of get the scale, but I need to see a human body next to it to really get the scale. I suspect this thing is really, really big. Woah. So how much mobility do you get out of it? Can he (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Hi Anthony, (...) That'd be an excellent soundtrack to accompany the MOC your showcasting here. (...) You did indeed. However you may not have noticed you've grown to be a giant of sorts yourself. This creation is a vast improvement from an already (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) This really is quite nice! You should be proud of such an accomplishment - not many mecha builders attempt a model on such a large scale, much less do so as skillfully as you have. Congratulations on completing such a wonderful model! (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Well, I must say...leave it to Anthony to generate a wicked draconic project, scales included. (...) Well, that seems to have been accomplished...the only concern now is movement articulation. Can this dragon be set in a variety of poses (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| Excellent Job Anthony, but I do have a bone to pick with you here....what's with the cloth wings?!?! That doesn't look like Lego to me...I was hoping someone else had finally come up with a strong stable reptillian wing design. :( I guess I wait (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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