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OK people. Here's how it goes. I've got this wild idea to make the USS Defiant scale to the Lego minifigure. Yall probably think I'm crazy right about now, and rightfully so. This project will eventually cost several thousand dollars and will take years upon years. I've been stocking up on the Legos for a while now, but I've still got nowhere near the amount I'm going to need. Here's the plan so far. It will be built in modules so that it can be taken apart if need be. Each module will have several decks whereas they come apart similar to the fashion of Lego's Millenium Falcon. The model will eventually be about 16 feet long and about 12 feet wide. I believe it will also be about 2 and a half feet high.
Now here's the tricky part. Where do I build such a large model? The idea to use my garage has surfaced on numerous occassions. The only problem with this idea is that it is currently a mess, and I'd have to clean it, which could conceivably take a very long time. Hey, I never said i was the cleanest guy out there, just the laziest. Once the garage is completely clean, I feel I can really get to work. Right now, all I've really been able to do is do some rough mock up models that have actually turned out pretty good.
Anyways, if any of yall have any ideas that I might incorporae into this undertaking, feel free to respond. I know I can use all the encouragement and advice I can get on this project.
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Well, that's not a bad idea, but I'd never ask anyone to volunteer to clean this mess. What I really want to know is if anyone has any tips on how I might be able to bild some areas of the ship. I just want to keep my options open and get as much input on this so that it can be the best that it possibly can be.
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I've done several lego trek Bridges in my time, and they're tough, especially with the circular nature of most bridges. The Defiant's a bit more linear than than the others, but it's still a good challenge.
Mark
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Isn't it true that the larger you build your lego model the more circular you can make it... has anyone here been to any of those lego exhibitions where they make entire animals out of legos?
Andrew
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I've been to Legoland near San Diego, and I've seen how large those suckers are... If you plan to build a Defiant, I suggest you have at least half a million bricks.
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So thats. . . five replies, and no-one's mentioned WHICH size he's gonna make it. Or - what height is your basic Lego man meant to be anyway? Because he looks kinds short. Are we loking at your median starfleet crewman size of 5 foot? Or shall we just say "what the heck" and take it all the way up to 6 foot? In which case, given the waistline you get from that scale, I'd say he'd fail his yearly physical, be declared unfit as an Escort vessel crewman, and reassigned to a Starbase (and ordered to go on many long walks while there).
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I believe each minifig would be 6 feet tall. I'm not sure if I did get the dimensions of the ship correct. It was just a guess based on some measurements I took a while back.
One great idea I recently had for turbolifts was to incorporate the lagre circular pieces from Lego's Droid Escape set. I was never quite sure how I was going to make the turbolifts, but now I've got an idea where I can start from.
Also, I have created the Defiant's bridge before, however do to a slight accident, it was destroyed. That's really not that big of a deal though, because now I can do it again and incorporate a lot of new ideas into it.
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Very interesting. I have built LEGO models of several starships as well as the Ent-D bridge. Although the bridge was in scale with the figures, the starship models were not. (I never had so many bricks.) Still I have built models roughly in scale with the large AMT Ent-D. (Nebula class, Akira class, Sovereign class, Excelsior class and Miranda class; also Vorcha and K'Vort class)
Do you have pictures of your earlier models?
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I did a scale runabout once... Or at least a reasonable facsimile. At the time, I didn't know what went into the middle part, so I built a few custom interiors from a lab, to a sick bay, to a jacuzzi bar and pool table set. *That* was peanuts compared to Scott's proposed Defiant. Wish ya luck, boyo.
Mark
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Now, that's a Runabout I'd like to serve on ... pool rocks.
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Hehe, I liked the pool table module. I used toothpicks as cues for the minifigures to hold, and Nerds candy bits for the balls. Didn't put actual water in the jacuzzi, though.
Mark
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No pics from my previous models as my camera's battery always seems to be dead. I went and picked up about $150 worth of Legos over this past week, not counting what I got for Christmas, so I've got a good deal more Legos to work with now. I've got to get everything organized first before I can actually get back to work on it.
I never did make a Runabout, how large was that? I did however make one of the Defiant's shuttlepods. It came out to about 6 inches long if I remember correctly. If I still have it build I'll have to find a camera around here.
And your microfig scale starships, do you have any pics of those?
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My Lego years are long past, I'm afraid. With luck, my collection is still in use by the childrens' charity they were donated to.
Runabout size? Hmm... It was more than a foot long, as I recall. Not exactly to scale given the materials I had, the removable dorsal section sucked, and it was blue, but it wasn't terrible.
I used to make lots of Lego bridge "sets" though. Nothing as curvy as an E-D bridge, and again it was blue, but I had some nice configurations every now and then. Unfortunately, I've never taken pictures of any of them. However, I assure you that the people who saw them were impressed enough.
Mark
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Are you going to try and actually "crew" the ship with mini-figs? Are you going to custom paint 'em or something, because, last I knew, Lego doesn't do "Trek" uniforms ...
This could be solved if you could get ahold of some yellow, red, and blue solid "shirt" pieces with black-legs. It'd be a TOS style uniform, but I think people could overlook that.
This would be VERY VERY cool, and I'd love to see it. I'd like to see some pics of what you're working on, even if they're nothing but just rough "sketches" (so to speak) of corridors or the sets.
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