That's fucking awesome!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
That is cool as fuck man, but....
'I've got too much time on my hands, and it's ticking away....' Styx....
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
By the way: click on the photo for more.
Posted by The Real Folk Blues (Member # 510) on :
all i can say is DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN.
good find, snay!
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Is that the scale you're going for with Hogwarts?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Roughly -- a bit more rectangular (it's gotta fit atop a bookshelf).
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
As with the other castle, click on the photo for many more pictures.
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
You made these?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
No.
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
Just have a 'thing' for lego castles then?
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
You really DON'T pay attention, do you?
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
You sat behind Spike in class, didn't you Matrix?
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
I sat in the corner taking a nap each day.
Posted by Ultra Magnus Pym (Member # 239) on :
And it shows.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:Is that the scale you're going for with Hogwarts?
Alright, *screw* the bookshelf! It's going to go on an IKEA coffee table about (roughly) 21" by 36". It means I gotta push the dresser back into the closet (so I have a place to put the Castle!), but ... well, okay!!!
I've got about half a notebook filled with sketches and designs. It's being modeled on the movie version of Hogwarts (but loosely). As I plan it, it'll have the Castle, Hogsmeade w/ the Hogwarts Express & the Shrieking Shack, Owl Post Office, Leaky Cauldon, Three Broomsticks, Hog's Head Tavern; Hagrid's hut, the Forbidden Forest (or, at least, a bit of it ...), and the Quidditch Field (with a viewing stand for each of the four houses). The castle itself is going to have both secret passages from Prisoner of Azkhaban into Hogsmeade; the Great Hall (with the kitchen below); the Devil's Snare, Winged Key Room, and Chess Room from Philosopher's Stone; dorms for all four houses; the Chamber of Secrets (accessible by a hidden passage in a girl's bathroom -- don't know if I'll make a Myrtle -- I've even got a toilet designed, ask Shik, he saw it); the Entry Hall from Goblet of Fire ... lots of cool and neat stuff.
I think it's going to have everything but the moving staircases ... but I might figure out a way to do even that ...
*PHEW!*
[ June 29, 2002, 20:52: Message edited by: Snay ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Um... Isn't the "Leaky Cauldron" in London?
And exactly what do you mean when you say you're going to have dorms for each house? You mean you'll have four rooms you'll call the dorms, or you'll have all fifty-six bedrooms (four houses times two genders times seven classes)?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Oh, I just mean I'll have the Common Rooms (Lego don't need to sleep!)
And you're right -- I meant the Three Broomsticks, not the Leaky Cauldron.
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
So, um, seriously, do you really make these or you just find them on sites?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
All of these posted have been made by other people, and found on other websites. As already stated by somebody, I'm sure.
Oh -- all the pictures are LINKS. Click on them for MORE.
Posted by Ed / BWC (Member # 818) on :
Do these people have lives?
[ June 30, 2002, 19:34: Message edited by: Ed / BWC ]
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Apparently this post is not "playing nice." I thought I made my point (that some people create things with Legos, and some people create things with computers, and I don't understand why someone who does one would make the decision that someone who does the other lacks a '[social] life') without insulting anyone or being mean (and I KNOW I did it without attacking anyone's writing skills or their hobbies).
Apparently, I was wrong. So fucking sorry to have bothered anyone.
[ July 04, 2002, 09:14: Message edited by: Snay ]
Posted by Ed / BWC (Member # 818) on :
Yeah, your right. Sorry. Forgive me, Snay.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Yes, it is a link.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Hey, gang, let me tell you all about this game. It's called "Playing Nice." It's this really cool game that I learned way back in elementary school. You know, I think it was probably at the same point my catechism teacher was teaching us about "do unto others as you would have done unto you."
Anyway, you see, the deal with "Playing Nice" is that, get this, you deal with other people with respect and decency! I know, it's, like, totally out there and stuff, but you go to trust me: it's cool!
How it all works is that you don't make unfair and uncalled for attacks on anybody and everybody around you! You don't make baseless accusations against others, and, when the point must be made, you don't result to petty stuff like assaulting writing skills and personal hobbies. It's totally whacked, I know, but you have got to trust me that this is a really cool and great thing!
By all means, give it a try!
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
quote: and the Quidditch Field (with a viewing stand for each of the four houses).
This alone would be pretty cool looking. Especially if you filled it up with little lego dudes in the stands.
Do the books come with maps and such? Or are you just going by descriptions?
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
My computer is a piece of shit. ARGH!
Okay.
quote:There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other, and Harry was sure the coats of armor could walk.
There are no maps of Hogwarts that I've seen. The closest I've found is this which gives the general locations of assorted rooms within the castle and their relation to each other.
I'm not going 100% by that page, either. I'm working with a "spirit" rather then "letter" design concept (if you get my drift).
quote:Or are you just going by descriptions?
The castle is very much going to be modeled on the one seen in the film ... especially the Great Hall! Somethings will be rather true to the book description, but I'm afraid much won't be ... I can't fit a giant statue of Salazzar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets (I might get away with a bust of his head), and I certainly am not going to build a duplicate Great Hall beneath the actual Great Hall!
[ June 30, 2002, 21:26: Message edited by: Snay ]
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Hah-HAH!
Cancel those screencaps. Look what I found!
Posted by Ed / BWC (Member # 818) on :
Cool!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
What's that little building down at the bottom of the picture supposed to be?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
A church?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hm... It does look like a church, doesn't it? Odd...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
A BOATHOUSE. C'mon, people....use the thoughty thingie.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
[ July 01, 2002, 21:00: Message edited by: Snay ]
Posted by Ed / BWC (Member # 818) on :
Dang. Whoever did that didn't do a work-during-the-commercials-watch-the-show job I do with by 'bashes.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
I would think it's a short step (or maybe a short leap) from kit bashes to 100% original designs.
Posted by Ed / BWC (Member # 818) on :
Too bad I get inspiration after I've given up...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hm... That painting can't be right. There can't be a wall separating the forest and Hagrid's hut from the Whomping Willow. The events in book 3 wouldn't work.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Oh for the love of...
It's just a children's book, people!
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Well, the next time I see you commenting on an irregularity within "Star Trek", I shall be sure to remind you that "it's a TV show!" Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :
"The Whomping Willow"
Is that like that old, hypnotizing willow that Tom Bombadil knew, only it tries to rape it's victims, Anime Tentacle style?
WW: "Feel the wrath of my gnarled roots, mortal!" Terminator 2 Biker: "Ow! Oow! Pull it out! Pull it out!"
[ July 02, 2002, 05:45: Message edited by: Nim Pim ]
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Okay.
Wow.
It's still going in the corner where the dresser is now. It gets moved tomorrow (urgh). It's also going on two side-by-side coffee tables, so my previous guesstimate of size is a bit ... off.
It's going to be 112 pegs wide by 128 pegs long. That's a square pegage of 3,136. The Quidditch field is out ... it would have to be shrunk to a very small size. When I move in a year, I might make it.
The Lego Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardy will feature: a Great Hall with a full size kitchen below; Entry Hall; Chamber of Secrets (oooh, ahhh); the Chess Hall/Hiding Place of Mirror of Erised/Devil's Snare Hall/Hall of Winged Keys/Potions Test Room/Troll Room; Forbidden Corridor with trap door; Dumbledore's North Tower office; Snape's Classroom with Office & Stores; Defense Against Dark Arts Classroom (complete with Neville Longbottom hanging from chandalier); McGonagall's Classroom; Flitwik's Classroom; Slytherin Dorm; Hufflepuff Dorm; Ravenclaw Dorm; Gryffindor Dorm; Washroom for Girls and Boys (and complete with Moaning Myrtle & secret passage to CoS); a few empty rooms; Divination Classroom (in tower turrett); Filch's Office; Trophy Room; Dungeon Cells (complete with skeletons?).
Construction to begin sometime in November. I've got help in the design process by my friend Allison who just finished the first four books a week ago. She's also going to help in the construction phase. Sadly, I have to provide all the bricks. So, thank goodness for BrickLink!
Anything else I should add? I think I know how to do the Chamber Pot room ... (the one that Dumbledore wonders can only be accessed by someone with a full bladder ...)
[ July 04, 2002, 20:50: Message edited by: Snay ]
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
I forgot to mention the Hospital Wing and the Library.
Oh -- custom figures for Moaning Myrtle, Professor Binns, and Professor Flitwick have been built.
Myrtle was accomplished with a Lego "ghost" figure topped off with a Dumbledore grey hair piece.
Professor Binns was much the same, but had a beard piece as well, and arms and legs on the ghost figure swapped for an Imperial Officer's darker grey arms and legs to give him a distinctive feature. Binns also got a grey beard.
Flitwick was the body of Boba from the Jango Fett Slave I set (with shortened legs), a "professor" face with glasses and white mustache from the Adventures Theme, a white beard, and a blue wizard's hat atop.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
You could include the prefects' bath from GoF. Should be easy. Just a room w/ a swimming-pool-like tub ringed w/ faucets.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
^ Ah, yes, almost forgot about that ...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Jeff, how the hell do you layer them, so one can see all the effort and all inside those danged things??? Without seeing the insides it seems like a lot of wated effort....
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Hinges, I'm thinking. Plus, photos. They'll be taken as Hogwarts is built.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
okay, I was curious... Seemed like an awful waste to do all of that, and never see it again...
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Yes, but if I have the power to shrink people to Lego mini-fig size, at least you'll have a lot to keep you busy! Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Shit no, I'll twist my ankle on those damned stepping discs on the floor...
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
I'll use a lot of "smooth" pieces Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
i never had a lot of respect for people that used the smooth pieces on the tops of their Lego structures.. seems to me like they are denying the true nature of lego.
Besides, everyone knows that for this plan to work, you actually have to be changed INTO a Lego minifig.. that way you can hold onto things provided they are round and the right diameter, and your feet (or the back of your legs) wil lstick to things preventing you from sliding around.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
I was going to use the "smooth" pieces on the inside so Ritten can have somewhere to walk Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Just some other views you should look at from the first castle.
Shit, someone beat me to it.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Darn, looks like you'll have to go find something better to do.
Like get a life. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
This thread just won't die! Why!? Why, God, why!?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Because Jeff won't let it...
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
Dude. That's cool.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
A bit late, mayhaps, but better that than never. Or, y'know, not.
The interior detail (most of it, anyway) is out. I'm going for a Takeshi Itou flavor.
At the moment, the only interior detailing will be done on the Great Hall and the Entry Hall. I might try to do a Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom ... but maybe not. We'll see. There will be neither Hagrid's Hut, nor a Whomping Willow, because there isn't space ... the castle itself is set on a 48 peg by 48 peg baseboard.
The light gray baseboard pegs you see exposed will be eventually covered with blue bricks to simulate water. The building is the boathouse/basement entry. While there are doors inside the boathouse, they lead to supports for what can clearly be seen to be the first "floor." Where the pillars currently stand will most likely be the Entry Hall (or the Madame Pomfrey's Hospital Wing, not sure yet). On the left of the image, you can see tan sloped pieces emerging from the dark gray "rock" formation ... these will form the base & support of the Great Hall. The back right will eventually become the home of the Big Tower, which I hope to include with a telescope and owlry.
Time will, of course, tell.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Wow, this thread brings back memories. Memories that I thought all the alcohol had destroyed.
It looks like a good start. Does this mean you've put the Lego spaceship on a much longer hold now, though?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The two on the roof look suicidal- time for a Baker Act intervention on your part.
Lookin' good- should you ever win the lotto, you should devote your life to building the walled city of Illum in Lego with all the Argives and Achilles out front.
That would rock.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Sunday morning ... urgh. This is what I get for working on this until 4:30 in the am. (Tired). The framework for the Entry Hall is done ... need to find another tan hinge for the door at the rear ... fake corridor to the right ... stairs down to the left? Mehby. Notice the greenhouse on the right.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Data could do it faster.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Decided to raise the Entry Hall ... and build a facade ...
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
A bit long since an update ...
Tore it down. And rebuilding it, bigger:
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Holy Crap! Looking really good, Snay.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Er... Snay... it looks great but...um... don't you have time for other things as well?
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Yes, yes, never fear - still plenty of time for me to masturbate.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Just not in the Legos.....right?
please say "right".
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And please don't say "legos".
(Although I'm beginning to suspect that it's fruitless pointing out the continued wrongness of said word.)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Lego knock-offs? What exactly are they if not Legos?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Something pretentious and so intensely nerdy that it doesn't bear thinking about.
TAKE THAT LEGOSSSSSSS FANS.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
So. Let's see. That central tower there (actually, on the corner) will eventually become a clock tower of sorts. See the Harry Potter minifig? He's on a bridge that will lead to a patch of grass in front of the not-yes-built Entry Hall. On the left you can see the lower supports for the Great Hall. Gray Windows are the greenhouse. S'all for now.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Shouldn't the greenhouses be... well, not in the castle?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Looks good...does any company make less...er...queer looking figures to go with the blocks?
I've seen the superhero type figs in that style, but noting remotely proportionaly accurate.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
TSN:
Benefits of being a magic castle ... stuff can go pretty much anywhere because, y'know, "magic" ...
Jason:
Um. Wow. Yeah, Lego. Never been much on proportion, y'know?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
The little LEGO figures made me feel better about my weight back in my youth. 'Cause, you know, proportionally, our waists were the same width.
That's some good work, Jeff. How much more is left before it's finished?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, it will be proportional as long as you build the whole thing at about a 1:44 scale.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: The little LEGO figures made me feel better about my weight back in my youth. 'Cause, you know, proportionally, our waists were the same width.
Hopefully, you have a neck, fingers and less sickly skin tone though.
Snay, I'm not knocking the Lego style exactly, just pointing out that figs could be made in another style and still function with the leg-peg things....and without those psychotic smiles!
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Just repaint the faces then... my friend did that when she made mini-figs representing the Queer As Folk and the L Word casts. God knows why though... I still am waiting for her to finish her Star Trek ones.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
"How much more is left before it's finished?"
A lot. I haven't even done the ground level yet!
And, honestly, I'm almost tapped out on dark gray bricks and tan bricks. Dark gray isn't a huge deal as I should have enough to finish the mountain ... tan, though, is going to delay me awhile, as I've got insurance due next month and won't be budgeted for a big ($300?) Bricklink order for awhile ...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
(Ignore my comment from before. Siegfried' post wasn't there, and I didn't realize you were talking about Lego people's proportionality within their own bodies. I humbly apologize for my confusion.)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
There are already Trek and Star WArs figures in the Lego style by Kubrik and Art asylum. Cool shit. The Matrix figs are pretty funny- you could have them as castle guards...
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
I am still ... no where near finished.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I'll say- that does not look anything like the Enterprise.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Um. Yeah.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Seriously, do you have a final plan in mind or are you just going untill it looks "finished"?
[ August 06, 2005, 08:21 PM: Message edited by: Jason Abbadon ]
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
I have somewhat of a plan. Sort of. In my head. But then, like, I'll be "Oh, this would look cool" and so I'll build something (see that series of arches supported by pillars?) and have to revise my plan accordingly. That series of arches will support a building, methinks. There is going to be a "Great" tower in that corner where the arches end, and the Great Hall will go behind that Clock Tower. The Entry Hall will be roughly fixated where that bridge terminates.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Sounds like how I build models sometimes...
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
I'm off to bed, but I wanted to share a photo which shows some of the under-supports of the Castle. Also in this image, note an excellent view of the Great Hull support structure, as well as a rough-frame of the Entry Hall.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Okay, that's big.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
64 x 64 pegs.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Hmmmm...kinda has a pre-industrial revolution Borg cube look to it.
But that could just be the nanites talking again....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Hogwarts becomes the Borg! So much makes sense now! No, wait, no, it doesn't.
I will say that I'm mildly piffled that Snay's been taunting his readers with a "secret project" on his blog for weeks now, and it turns out the "secret project" is the LEGO project Jeff's been showing us for days now. I was expecting Snay to announce he was running for Congress or forming a PAC or the like.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
quote:(see that series of arches supported by pillars?)
What, behind the alien Walker? Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Alien Walker? WTF you talking about?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Some day, Pockets... some day!
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Um. Right. As mentioned ... earlier? ... that's actually the "rough in" of the "Entry Hall."
Silly Swede.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Of course, it was a rough in! Now I see, oh curse my national heritage clouding my eyes and wool-gathering my little brain of sorts.
What happened to "take the ball and run with it", Snay?
Long live the Combine. They seem to know how to get things done.
Dear God, I'm entering the magnus-stage.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Except how to kill one man with thick glasses and a crowbar.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
I'll show you my stage with quorn burgers and reviled threats!
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Posted by omi (Member # 1695) on :
hey you're working for legoland? you've got sooo many bricks, it's like a dream Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Snay....you've woken up with a lego stuck to your face, haven't you?
I know you have.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Except how to kill one man with thick glasses and a crowbar.
A rogue physicist can be harder to kill than you'd think.
(I've just found a copy of Hostile Waters in one of my mate's bedrooms. That's killed a few hours.)
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Oh, now I get it.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
"Jacking off to soft Sci-Fi in the bedrooms of friends is not my idea of fun, Dr. Jones!"
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mighty Blogger Snay:
WOWZERS, that's nice. You've done some very excellent rock-work, and the green adds a lot as far as scale. Keep it up!
[ August 12, 2005, 12:40 PM: Message edited by: Balaam Xumucane ]
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Why don't you make a planet-side Starfleet outpost or Starbase 11 after this project?
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Um. Well, one: I'm not tearin' this thing down for awhile, so I'd be a bit low on bricks and two: not really interested in building a Starfleet installation at the moment, y'know?
(I do have an idea for a generic space ship, so, we'll see...)
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
I'm tired and off to bed, so instead of uploading these same photos to Flare Upload, I'm just going to put them to my blog for everyone's convenience. I will, of course, not make a habit of being this lazy in the future. Enjoy.
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