...and you thought 3D modeling was hard...

[Bjoern]

I bet trying to find (color) matching bricks for your model aircraft is way harder. Something in between quantum physics and trying to understand women. :costumes:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/866136@N20/pool/


I want my LEGO back. :naturesm:


- Edit: The better looking designs are on pages 4-6.

[Lionheart]

I had a huge trunk full of Legos... I loved them!

I would make towers, space craft, planes, pirate ships, you name it... I wish I was more nicer to some of those electric addon things you could get. They were pretty cool..


Bill

[Kiwikat]

I'm almost 21 and I still mess around with my legos. There's nothing like them. I love building fictional spacecraft like things you'd find in BSG or Star Wars. That's one "toy" that you can never grow too old for.

Cool thread! :ernae:

[An-225]

Bjoern, you ever tried finding a paint match for a Soviet Army T-80?

[TARPSBird]

I'm almost 21 and I still mess around with my legos. There's nothing like them. I love building fictional spacecraft like things you'd find in BSG or Star Wars. That's one "toy" that you can never grow too old for.
Keep messing around with them, Kiwi. As you get older and life stuff takes priority, break 'em out occasionally and build something. I'll be 61 this month and I still enjoy the same electric trains I had as a kid. There's no "adult rule" that says you have to put your toys away for 30-40 years before you're allowed to play with them again. :)

[Panther_99FS]

Anyone remember the HUGE red & white Lego bricks of the 1960s & 1970s :ques:

[grunau_baby]

I remember I once tried to build a He111, off course I failed at the glas-nose:d

Zhanks for the link, never seen that many Lego-aircraft in one spot. Was more into vehicles and ships when I had my Lego-phase.

Alex

[Mr.Mugel]

That reminds me of those days...! I loved to built aircraft, or trucks with up to 7 steered axles, but than I never figured what kind of truck would have 7 axles with, and could be built with the Lego I had... Once I built an aircraft that was too large to fit through a door, was about a meter wingspan!

[BPbobafett1982]

LEGO recently had a Boeing 787 Dreamliner set, unfortunately it's been discontinued now.

In that gallery, the user Brickmania (AKA Dan Siskind) stops at my LEGO shop fairly regularly. He's getting ready to publish a book about making military models out of LEGO and is going to include some instructions for them. I've talked to him about some of his jet designs but for the life of me I can't seem to remember which one's he's going to publish in the book.

[Bomber_12th]

Those are some cool builds! I had all kinds of Legos when I was little, but that was indeed the hardest part-finding the right colors. I really like the Thunderbolt, Spitfire, and Swordfish models - getting the camo right is especially amazing! When I was in sixth grade, I built a 1:18 scale F2G Super Corsair, and, when complete, simply spray-painted the entire thing gloss blue, and actually painted the cockpit with plastic model chromate colors, and used various Lego radios and gauges to build up the cockpit. I still have it somewhere, though it needs some work being put back together. I also still have a 1:24-1:28 scale gunship-nose B-25J somewhere, also in disrepair, that I built around the same time, and painted overall silver - at the time I was just getting involved in working with MS Paint, and I would make my own markings for it, changing them out over time. :d

[Bjoern]

Bjoern, you ever tried finding a paint match for a Soviet Army T-80?

Never tried.

All I've ever built was sports cars, 747-imitations, F-14/15 crossovers, Mi-24-kind of helos and spacecraft.

My biggest project, a WW2-style fighter with retractble undercarriage was never completed due to a lack of bricks.

I also had the GDR-version of LEGO, but it was only good for houses instead of vehicles.

[Odie]

My son is 25 now, but every year since he was four, he has HAD to get some form of LEGOs for Christmas. He will break them out from time to time and rebuild some of the kits (Star Wars stuff, Batman, etc..).

But, he always looks for them at Christmas....gotta love it !

[warchild]

I bet trying to find (color) matching bricks for your model aircraft is way harder. Something in between quantum physics and trying to understand women. :costumes:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/866136@N20/pool/


I want my LEGO back. :naturesm:


- Edit: The better looking designs are on pages 4-6.

heh.. Quantum physics is easier...

[Bjoern]

heh.. Quantum physics is easier...

Actually, from what I've seen of it in school it really *is* easier than some other stuff that physics can throw at you.

[An-225]

Never tried.

As a person who builds Revell model kis, I can say, it (finding T-80 green) is just as difficult as building a LEGO airplane replica. I've looked everywhere, and no one knows the FS Paint reference for that green.

NATO people have it easy with their HMMWVs and Abrams, they can just go desert tan or NATO tricolour.

[Bjoern]

Revell recommends this mixed colour for T-80.BV tanks of the Soviet 211th Armoured Regt, und the Soviet 79th Guard Armoured Division "Saporoschskaja" stationed at GSTD Jena in 1989. The colour consists of 75% Bronze Green RAL (http://www.figuren-modellbau.de/colour-ral-farben.html) 6031 und 25% RAL 8027 Leather Brown.

http://www.figuren-modellbau.de/camouflage-warsaw-pact.html

Any help?

[kilo delta]

Lego....some people have toooooooo much time :amen: :)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-425259/Legoing-overboard-The-300-000-lego-brick-aircraft-carrier.html

http://www.tyresmoke.net/forum/general-cars/16451-lego-volvo-xc90.html

http://gizmodo.com/5060455/buy-a-lego-life+size-replica-of-yourself-for-60000

[An-225]

http://www.figuren-modellbau.de/camouflage-warsaw-pact.html

Any help?

Buggar, I knew it was going to be a mix.

All the NATO people out there get tricolour without having to mix anything, why can't we Warsaw Pact builders get the same treatment?

Either way, thank you for the link, Revell instructions only specify...Revell paints, which are horrendous. The RAL colours specified in that link will be helpful. ;)

[Bjoern]

All the NATO people out there get tricolour without having to mix anything, why can't we Warsaw Pact builders get the same treatment?

Because WP armor blows? :whistle: :d