"Angles" of Light [Legends of the Fall WIP Project]

This, as most of your huge WIPs do, sounds epic. Best wishes to your wife.

That's the plan. I'm hoping for it to the centre piece for ToroLUG this next Con season. If nothing else it'll at least be the center piece for my MOCs.

I have a feeling this is gonna be amazing.

I can't wait. I'd really love to see this in person, but I know I'll never make it to Brickfete.

Frame version 1 aborted! I'm stuck in limbo waiting on a BrickLink order but in the mean time I'm going to see if I can solve one of my other major problems.

I've built elevators before. (See Utapau Play Set) And I have cool one that I have built currently but I'm not going to use due to not enough smoothness in operation. So I'll get pictures up of the aborted frame and the aborted elevator this week.

The biggest problem with the "main" frame, , was that it was too "Empire State" and not enough Sci-Fi Funk. That and even with it being built in 3 sections, the sections weren’t small enough to pack in Rubbermaids, which is going to be the most important part of the build, if it's going to travel at all. But at 6'2" it is the tallest thing I've ever built. Sadly only a technics frame. So I've sketched a few alternate ideas and I'll see what this weekend brings for building time.

EDIT: Updated

RC Friction Based Elevator

Wow, it seems like you jsut finished the Age of Light and now you are starting this...

Is there going to be the community stuff like there was last time?

Yep for sure. I just haven't posted anything because of CABGOIII.

A look at the aborted MainFrame 1.0.

Yep that's a blowgun on the wall don't get distracted now.



Looking up through the planned elevator shaft.



Classic view.

My gosh, Dat is big.

That is also I nice sized colection.. How long did it take you to sort it?

That's only the last three columns. Looking at the short end of the room.

It's been sorted since I was a little kid and I just keep adding and resorting into smaller bins. For example I sorted my black and grey into 2 small 1'x1'x2' bins and shoe boxes for the other colors and all the trans in one shoe box. Then over time it became larger and colors were added by Lego. So grey would have become: Technics, plates, bricks, & other.

Then it would have become light grey and dark grey. Then Technics beams, technics studded pieces, non studded technics pieces, misc molded technics, 1x plates, 2x plates +4x plates, angled plates, bricks, curved and angled bricks (dark brownish grey), curved and angled bricks (dark blue-ish grey), curved and angled bricks (light grey), wall pieces and other BURPS, bricks with texture or studs on the sides, printed and decaled elements, and finally "other". And that's just the grays. So how long did it take? Only about 30 years. XD But for sort a collection this size I'm guessing one person from scratch maybe two weeks for 4-6 hours a day. When I shredded and sorted may last mega MOC the total process about 15 hours; 8-9 shredding and 5-6 sorting.

The MainFrame 2.0 is much more complex and should be much more interesting to look at. You can see the centre is just simple, large but simple, technics boxes.

That's just amazing, Rook! I hope you can keep a beast like that detailed!

I'm going to try. It's going to be mainly white but I'm going to add gray and bley to exterior portions to give it a bit of a transformers kind of effect. See how Bubblebee is "yellow" but when you look at him see details that aren't yellow. Same thing.

Nice. Looks great.

It's technics frame. And I'm not using it because it's too simple.

As suspected, other projects have greatly slowed the work on this one. So I'm still on traget for finishing by late April 2013.

Teaser: Testing first & second series of Power Functions.

Elevator works, check.

Primary external lighting, check.

Oh mah gosh, that still looks epic even though it is just a framework.

The frame work at the top is the simple version. I rebulit it completely to give it the complexity and depth worth of my first "Lego" convention MOC. Brickfete 2013!

OH man... I wish I could go to see this in person......

Same. I love Rook's use of Power Functions on every MOC.

Rook, we require that you post videos of your Power Functions MOCs on a YouTube channel. Seriously.

I'll be sharing more with this MOC soon. I had 4 album covers and a FBTB contest entry that had to be done so everything with this was on hold for a bit.

Inspired!

So got some inspiration on a new design for my elevator in my big WIP project. And now this is the old one. New is much lighter but slower. So I may gear it up a bit, but I'm not worried about that for now.


Inspired! by RΟΟK, on Flickr

I would like to see your prototyped design. I would like to build a elevator someday, but stability and strength are questionable.

jamesuniverse wrote:I would like to see your prototyped design. I would like to build a elevator someday, but stability and strength are questionable.

This. I've tried, and failed....