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Re: Standing on the shoulders of Giants
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:38:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Matt Hein wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, Anthony Sava wrote:

   Thus Spake Zarathrustra!

   So without further ado:

<picture snipped>

Well, I must say...leave it to Anthony to generate a wicked draconic project, scales included.

What can I say, I’m obsessed.
  
  
  • 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.

Well, that seems to have been accomplished...the only concern now is movement articulation. Can this dragon be set in a variety of poses without breaking, or it he fully functional with all of the gears and bits included?

I posted a page a day or so after I posted the dragon. Did you happen to see it? There are more pictures with other poses in them. Here’s a link in case you didn’t:

http://www.ozbricks.com/ikros/dragon/BigRed.html

If you did, then, I’m not sure how much articulation you were looking for. He’s fully functional, though his joints are best adjusted with help to take the weight off the joint itself (as opposed to just blindly turning knobs).

  
   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.

Hmm...that would be a pretty ambitious project, though. But anything on that scale must be time consuming, so it’s not too surprising.

Actually it’s a cost thing over a time problem, since I’m unemployed and all. I have all the time I need it seems. It cost me over $200 to get all the parts off Bricklink to build him. It would have been a heck of a lot more had it not been for the donations I recieved. And all of this on top of my existing LEGO collection to work with.
  
Well done...very stunning.

Osprey over and out,
(and just about redy to make a few visits to bricklink to ctach up with the rest of .castle)

M.Aaron Hein http:///www.lugnet.com/~1112/Creations/

Thanks much, I’m glad you liked him.

   Not much in terms of criticism here...it would have been nice to have the dragon’s eyes illuminate (with electrical components) or for the joints to be electronically positionable, but that’s probably more ambitious than realistic.

I’m not even going to touch that with a twenty foot pole. I’ll leave that project to someone else, probably someone with a death wish or masochistic tendancies. ;)

Thanks for the reply!

--Anthony



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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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