Now, call me childish, but LEGO® were always a fascinating thing to me, and I loved them ever since I was a kid. Of course, living in a less-than-average economic situation, I can't afford thousands upon millions of LEGO® pieces I would like to, I resorted to a pretty nifty solution: LDD(Lego Digital Designer). It is basically a virtual space where you get to piece together anything you want, using most of the LEGO® pieces that are available(new released pieces usually aren't around, but you can color the model in colors that don't exist for certain pieces in LEGO®). And so I did. I create a bunch of stuff, but I always wanted to try and make SupCom models using LEGO®. When I build my models(even though you can in theory have unlimited amount of pieces) I like to keep it simple and down to ground. This means, I build small models, trying to get as close to the original, but still keeping it's function as a model, and as a toy(for example, I'd never build a car, that has wheels that can't rotate to make wheels look closer to the real thing, and you can technically build my models out of real pieces and they would function properly and generally not fall apart) - function over form in short.
Keeping this in mind, I present you
UEF T1 Land Scout: The Snoop LEGO® version
The LEGO® model is quite as functional as the in-game one: the wheels can rotate, the turret can turn 360°, and even the gun can move slightly up and down. You will notice some things aren't exactly right, like colors or sizes, but that is simply my artistic freedom(a.k.a. I'm restricted by the amount of different parts that are available in LDD - take a note of the rear wheel being way out of proportion, also I added a brighter blue here and there to make it more interesting), a way to add some visual interest, since I can't have as detailed textures as the original thing. Also, I make a map marker for every unit I recreate(visible in first picture, on the left).
More units on their way, though don't expect I'll be spitting them out like crazy. Creating one unit can take from 30 minutes, up to several hours, or days(and I'm not exactly swimming in free time). Also, my model pictures aren't direct screenshot from LDD, but are rendered to look like the real thing!
Tools and materials used:
Lego Digital Designer(free software, you can find it here)
LDDtoPOV-Ray converter(free software, used to turn LDD models into POV models for rendering)
POV-Ray(free software, renders the images so you get nice, real-like looking LEGO® models)
You can download the LDD model here if you want to check it out(you will have to get LDD as well)
Statistics: Posted by Fichom — 12 Feb 2016, 17:49
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but at least it's something!
