Building with Lego

[Urban Saboteur]

So I recently decided to stop collecting Lego, at least.. the little guys and the little sets, but i plan to keep the bulk of the Grey lego to build scenery. My first project is a shipping container in scale with Microman/GIJoe figures.

Here are my work in progress pictures. I am currently working on some military customs as well. So when they are finished i'll upload some pictures with the shipping container.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5296/5422443892_906f0a7c98.jpg
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Yesterday I worked out how to build up the side panels to give the container that distinctive corrugated look.
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I've used 1x8 grey plates and 1x1 headlight bricks to build the panel first, then used 1x8 grey tiles vertically to give it that look.

When I get my lego orders in from bricklink i'll post up some more photos of it in progress. Hope you like the photos.

[SIC DETH]

Thats pretty damn cool there buddy!!! Would be expensive and time consuming if you are not into legos thow.

[Rambo]

Looking forward to the finished product. :)

[Urban Saboteur]

Thanks guys!

I should let you know that even if you are into Lego, it will cost quite a fair amount of cashola anyway, the sheer volume of parts involved in making a shipping container this big would mean you'd have to order parts anyway.

I prefer not to look at costs as a negative issue.. besides its not like i have any thorough complete control over my addiction.. :p oops. I meant Hobby! :o

Anyways. I've ordered 40x 1x1 headlight bricks, which you can see being used with 1x1 regular bricks to prop up the side panels. I'm hoping this order arrives today so I can at least finish 1 side of the container and take an updated picture to show you guys.

Please also stop by my other thread titled 'communications room' because I have that project in the works as well.

Rich

[Urban Saboteur]

2 more updated pictures, one showing the complete 1st side and the other showing inside the container.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5465765638_cbe6a8d66c.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5259/5465166797_fd6bef7bd1.jpg

I'm waiting on a couple of parcels from Germany to complete the 2nd side of the container, in the mean time I have been working on designs for the opening doors :-P I will post up the work in progress shots later on when I've finished editing them.

Rich

[Urban Saboteur]

While I have been waiting on some parts to arrive from Germany, yesterday i sat down with some plates,tiles and some other various pieces to construct one side of the opening doors. I've come up with a nice design using the 1x1 modfied plate with clip. Basically as a hinge to the grey bar piece. I'll use 4 of these for each door. My one snag at the moment is that I only have 4 clip-plates and one of those is warped/bent, so it offsets the door in a bad way, it's not so much a big deal but on my next bricklink order i'll get 10 of them to be on the safe side. :-D

Hope you like the updated pictures.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/5470673077_d2040043ba.jpg

In these next 2 shots you can actually see one of the 1x1 headlight bricks slightly off, this is because the 1x1 modified clip plate is bent/warped.
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This is how it will look from the outside, i've removed the side panels for now so I can focus on the door/hinge.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5139/5470693999_f52885e7fc.jpg

I'll have more updates when I get the 2 orders in from Germany :-D

Rich

[Urban Saboteur]

So those 2 parcels arrived! :D from Zimmerman's Spielwaren!

A Very reliable service, and i'll probably order again from the same place for parts in the future. The 2 parcels contained all the small bricks and tiles needed to finish both sides of the container. Now that I have this finished I can concentrate properly on the opening doors as well as look at finishing the back of the container.

I thought I'd post some pictures up here to show you what it looks like now I've finished both sides.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5499747840_57a1d84e02.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5296/5499154001_25e491d269.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5499154535_112bd634a3.jpg

Hope you like the updated pictures. The door that is on at the moment is the right height but its x1 stud wider than I wanted it to be, i'll have to order some modified clip plates and work on the design some more before it's finished.

In friendship
Rich

[Urban Saboteur]

Hi!
I'm pretty much finished with the shipping container, the only remaining feature I am going to add is decorative tiling to roof, so that it matches the corrugated look on the sides.

I've got some pictures here to share with you. I hope you like them, it's not completely finished but aside from the roof as mentioned above its as good as completed. I plan to use this in some action figure shots as well at some stage.

Here are the pictures:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5295/5541899439_b1b289279a.jpg
I am very satisfied with the doors, even if they did take 5 hours build time before I settled on something I was comfortable with.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5541900673_7b937251c7.jpg
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If you want to see all the pictures in one place, theres now a project folder on flickr for it, shows you from scratch and all the WIP pictures. (including mistakes I made on the way).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superiorraw/sets/72157626301268760/

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5541900261_80b82ef0ae.jpg

Statistics:
Height: 15.5cms (6.1')
Length: 34cms (31.4')
Weight: 1.3kilograms
Width: 13cms (5.1')

Features: Plenty of room, fully working doors with interlocked hinge system.
Feedback & Comments welcomed.
Richard

[flint-wo2]

That is epic I could just imagine a cobra trooper opening the doors and seeing a vamp or joes pour out.

[M1General]

Damn that's awesome!