Bricks Appeal
Right, has anyone got any spare Lego bricks? Because Danny Stephenson wants them. He's making a bloody Lego Red Dwarf! Obviously, red ones would be good, but any old bricks will do for the inside of the model. Danny insists on paying for them, so if you've got any going spare e-mail him at djouroboros@hotmail.com. Ourobo-what?
Of course, this isn't the first Lego model of a RD ship. Oh no. A chap on ATVRD did a Lego Starbug last year, but sadly his website's down at the moment. Cuss. Still, when Danny finishes his Dwarf model, we'll have some lovely pictures on here. Hurrah!
Comments
So will it be any old interior lego pieces to build up the shape with a red facade, or will he actually be building corridors and rooms and things?
Posted by Rocky at June 26, 2004 05:14 PM
he (I) will be building a solid structure, 600 floors is a bit much to ask for a lego model,. it would be huge, If i had a million pounds i'd do that, but we can only hope.
Plus any idea on how to do the Scoop?
(The big shuttlecock thing on the front, for those not in the Know)
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 26, 2004 05:31 PM
I hope to build it with al the complications and things of the CGI model. I will explain why in the report i hope Ian will host on here.
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 26, 2004 05:31 PM
Okay, a solid structure. But I wasn't thinking you'd do 600 floors, maybe only certain interior features. But it would be tricky since we don't actually know where things like the engine room are located in the model. But landing bays, will you be including those?
Posted by Rocky at June 26, 2004 06:29 PM
>Plus any idea on how to do the Scoop?
You could always paint some lolly ice sticks red and glue them on...
Posted by Seb at June 26, 2004 07:46 PM
Well how big will the model be? Surely you can do that thing of making bricks go in a diagonal line by how you arrange them?
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Kind of like that. But in three dimensions.
Posted by Scott at June 26, 2004 09:35 PM
Well not like that. The spaces were removed from the beginning of each line, rendering that post utterly pointless. Sorry, but my secret is clearly destined to remain my own.
Posted by Scott at June 26, 2004 09:36 PM
Basic overview of it guys.
I've emailed Mike Tucker about size and scale of the CGI Red Dwarf. He got back to me saying he's got some drawings and designs he can get to me.
So basically i'm going to work to them, when they get here. But i'm way off target for how much Lego i have in contrast to how much i need anyways.
The Model Is Going to be 6 feet long.
6 feet = 1/2 feet wide and high. I'm guessing, but not sure. Looking behind me at the front view poster, i'm thinking like Rimmer. "Doing this will prove difficult, but not impossible"
And that is the end of the 10 O'clock news.
DJ
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 26, 2004 10:20 PM
Oops forgot to mention the Landing Bay, That's quite an interesting idea. It would be small
could make a really really small Starbug and Blue Midget to go in it. Class idea.
i get what you meant about the Scoop scott. I'll have to try a few things, but that is the only worry i've got about this model really, But i think technic lego can help me with that.
When i start ity i'm writing a Diary of it's progress, and this is a MAMMOTH task. And I'll pass it on to Both Cappsy's and this site. Along with photos, i'm off to shop for a digicam now. BYE BYE
DJ
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 26, 2004 10:25 PM
This is all excellent. Good luck with it, Danny.
Posted by John Hoare at June 26, 2004 10:27 PM
Ta
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 26, 2004 10:35 PM
Hey Danny, as the model has been in pre-production for a fair while (sounds familiar), how far have you got?....I'll raid the attic for some bricks and gladly send them on for free, drop us a line.....
Posted by Cpt-D at June 27, 2004 12:06 AM
By the way, I wouldn't worry about the Scoop, I'm sure Ian,John and Cappsy will come up with something....They are always telling us readers how good they are at 'Scoops' :)
Posted by Cpt-D at June 27, 2004 12:13 AM
Call me a stupid American...but...why can't you just use an actual shuttlecock for the scoop?
I'm not very good at judging scale so I'm assuming a regulation shuttlecock would be too small to accomodate the front of a 6-ft. Dwarf properly...
But it's a suggestion.
Posted by Phil at June 27, 2004 12:24 AM
You stupid American.
Posted by Cappsy at June 27, 2004 12:03 PM
Very stupid American, there. Or perhaps just a standard one!!!!!!!1
Posted by Scott at June 27, 2004 12:41 PM
6 feet long? Ack, that is an insane project! Although I have to admire your effort. I would donate lego but even today I still enjoy playing with it.
Just wondering why the cgi red dwarf? The original (and REAL!) red dwarf would be better suited to lego I would think, what with all it's unevenness and random blocky nature.
The scoop will be tricky but I have thought of a good way you could do it. It will need a fair bit of planning before hand though (which I am sure you will be going!)
Basically, use technic lego pieces to form the frameworf of the scoop, and then thread technic bricks along it. (you know the technic bricks with holes in?)
If you used those long black tubey pieces threaded through bricks it would allow you to have some nice angles and joints, while keeping the solidity of bricks. If you are interested I could make a small scale mockup to show you what I mean? I would quite happily do so since it would give me an excuse to go play with lego for a while!
Oh, and share those plans around when you get them will you? :)
Posted by Adam Bailey at June 27, 2004 07:22 PM
Just edited to add something else.
I would heartily recommend that you do NOT make this model solid...it will eat up a lot of unneccesary bricks.
I think a better idea would be to make a rough massing model of Red Dwarf out of styrofoam, build a solid block of bricks surrounding that, and use it as the core of your model. It will make the thing a LOT lighter, and save you an absolute ton of bricks!
Posted by Adam Bailey at June 27, 2004 07:27 PM
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=starbug+lego
^^After trawling the web that is the only images of the lego starbug I can find, and only thumbnails are available...
Posted by Adam Bailey at June 27, 2004 07:39 PM
I'd much prefer a model of the original; but he's said he'll say why he's doing the CGI version in his report.
Posted by John Hoare at June 27, 2004 07:40 PM
NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN IT LATER IN A REPORT. HE HATES TEH ORIGINAL RED DWARF.
Clearly he has been given money by Corgi to perpetuate a horrendous quest to obliterate the original version of Red Dwarf from memory.
Posted by Duckworth at June 27, 2004 09:20 PM
Maybe he prefers that design?
Posted by Cappsy at June 27, 2004 09:26 PM
You're suggesting he's wrong then, rather than evil?
Posted by Duckworth at June 27, 2004 09:47 PM
*imagines Danny cackling like a super villian while contructing the model*
No, I think he's evil. Arn't you Dan?
Posted by Cappsy at June 27, 2004 09:53 PM
*constructing
*Aren't
Hah I bet you all thought I couldn't spell, didn't you?! Well you're wrong.
Posted by Cappsy at June 27, 2004 09:56 PM
WOW what a response. Thank you for the input.
No i'm not being paid by corgi, lol, wouldn't be bad mind.
well i only need red and Black bricks, it seems lookign at the picture i've got, but it does seem easier to do the CGI one, and maybe when i've got enough photos and possibly a video Diary of it to show. then i'll probably have learned enough on this one to do the original. I look forward to this project.
And thankyou, Darling . As for development, i'm not got funds to afford people to send me their lego. How much have you got, how much do you want for it all? I'll send you an email if you dont read this anyways. lol
Thank you guys for your Support.
And i was thinking the same thing abotu the scoop using Technic Lego, lord knows i've got a lot of it. But a load more wouldn't kill me. (hint hint)
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 27, 2004 10:55 PM
if you do have any lego you want to Submit to this Fine Project, send ti me at Djouroboros@hotmail.com with the SUbject having Lego in the title, anything else i'll delete unless it's from a certain Tucker of the Mike variety.
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 27, 2004 11:00 PM
i have got FUNDS , sorry massive typing error there that would've made this thread a bit shite and pointless.
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 27, 2004 11:16 PM
I dunno about the new dwarf being easier, I actually think that it would be a lot easier to create the original Dwarf design. Making the new cgi dwarf you will have more worries about getting the surface smooth, which means you have to be more specific with brick choices, however the original would have room for not needing exactly the right size bricks on the surface.
Posted by Adam Bailey at June 28, 2004 11:55 AM
Shuttlecocks?
Posted by Phil at June 28, 2004 10:02 PM
Used in badminton(sp?)
It's a game similar to tennis except that the thing you bat backwards and forwards is a small rubber half-sphere connected to a laticework cone.
Posted by Adam Bailey at June 29, 2004 08:20 PM
Oh, I'm well familiar. I mean...see my earlier post. Why not use a shuttlecock for the scoop?
Posted by Phil at June 29, 2004 10:10 PM
Because you're a stupid American.
Posted by Duckworth at June 29, 2004 10:21 PM
Right ok. The design for Red Dwarf was described as "a clenched fist of metal holding a massive shuttlecock". a 6 foot model with a Badminton shuttlecock is going to look very stupid indeed. it'll look like those Corgi Models, which have cut the scoop more or less completely off. Which i still dont understand. It's just laziness.
Anyways to hell with shuttlecocks. if you've got lego guys and you want to alleviate it with monetary substitution. Then email me at either djthegoldfish@hotmail.com or Djouroboros@hotmail.com, with the word "Lego" soemwhere in the Subject line.
Danke.
Posted by Daniel Stephenson at June 30, 2004 12:35 AM
Well quite apart from the fact that a) a shuttlecock isn't made of Lego and b) Lego isn't made from the same stuff as shuttlecocks and c) as was mentioned, a shuttlecock on a 6 foot model would be fucking tiny, I have the following suggestion:
Use those little folding hinge things (you know, each half of the hinge is 1x1x2 and has either two or three 'teeth') on the front of the ship and then lots of 1x1x12 lengths of Lego to build the framework of the scoop? It would be rather fragile but would look good and would be Lego and could easily be made to whatever scale your little Lego heart desired.
Posted by Jason Togneri at July 5, 2004 09:55 AM
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