-Pate-keetongu
Post Scriptum: By the way, I am now officially an AFOL as I turned 18 yesterday. Jippi-kay-jee or something!
-Pate-keetongu
Post Scriptum: By the way, I am now officially an AFOL as I turned 18 yesterday. Jippi-kay-jee or something!
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MOC: Rivendell at dawn
-Pate-keetongu
Post Scriptum: By the way, I am now officially an AFOL as I turned 18 yesterday. Jippi-kay-jee or something!
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MOC: MK45-Toad
Yep, I began with those binocular tracks a long time ago, and evolved into a small tank, and then met a mortar-helmet soldier and they lived happily ever after.
-Pate-keetongu
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A couple of Suits
On left one I tried to achieve somewhat Megaman-like leg design with those helmets. I'm not completely happy with it, as the angle is quite odd, but I still like the shape of the helmet part . The upper torso is rather basic stuff with the always-so-useful 1x1 SNOT brick with five studs.
The right one is basic Zeessi-style suit. It is somewhat based on my old Dieselpunk Suit's frame. The main idea was to use that windscreen dish as a shield. As the Boba Fett helmet/jetpack (only Boba part I own) came in, I added some green to mach. I think the color scheme has quite a good forest camouflage pattern.
-Pate-keetongu
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MOC: Dori
Dori, an elder brother of Nori and Ori, portrayed by talented Kiwi actor Mark Hadlow, is a fuzzy guy who is very keen oh his style.
I built the head a few weeks ago when waiting a BL order which came two days ago. The ornamental beard and hair was fun to build with all those greebles. I tried many different jaw options but chose the design which uses that strange but very useful pin hole piece and couple of minifig arms. It's not the stablest one, but stays together on display, and is easily the best looking.
I couldn't achieve the reddish-salmon-lavender color scheme f the apparel but went with the beautiful dark red bricks as LEGO did with their minifigure. I still managed to add some salmon on the camisole with three 4x4 plates I picked up from Chaos Pick-a-brick few years ago. There is also a twisted cord near the neck, but it's unfortunately mostly covered by the beard case. On the torso, I'm especially happy with the shoulder area. I picked the shoulder pieces for this mere use and the 3x3x3 cones worked surprisingly well as a upper arms.
Dori also has the most poseable arms of my dwarf crew so far. They have three 360 degree joints and three hinge joints, not counting the fingers. That allows surprisingly dynamic poses on a SYSTEM-build figure without any ball joints.
Dori also has his weapon array of a strong shortsword and bolas, a South American native hunting weapon. Both hand on his belt, but I also built a hand-held equivalents (see the last photo). I'm glad of the natural feel that the freely hanging chains give to this MOC. I also quite like the scabbard of the sword. The broad design was easy to achieve with LEGO bricks.
With six finished dwarfs and Bombur-in-progress (Still waiting the LUGBULK order to get 1x2 olive green plates) I'm now on the middle of dwarf project. But I have already a strong plans on Bofur, and I believe you can wait for a couple of others during the summer. Smaug be prepared! Hopefully on the form that includes fr actioning the dragon into small pieces. -Pate-keetongu
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MOC: Steampunk Qwena: The new outfit
Before buying those sails from Bricklink I looked up their sizes and proportions and made a paper copies of them so I could plan the MOC beforehand. Later I realized that the copies were a bit too small, but well, MOCing and life are full of surprises...
I ordered the sails along ofter stuff from Bricklink shop De lütte Steene Deel which seems to get closed right now. It's a very well working store and excellent package, I would recommend this seller to anyone when the store opens again.
There are also some other changes done in Qwena on this update. I made the hat a bit taller with cool stickered TECHNIC hub which worked well with the golden goggles. I also altered the boots a bit, adding a lot more golden buttons connected to tracks. I kept the hip-bag of the old version, but added a rohirrim shield hanging on a golden chain as a pocked watch, which are often seen hanging on a belt on steampunk costumes.
This MOC was also quite painful to photograph. No, I'm not talking about the white-on-white issue, I dealt with it quite well on Gimp. I'm talking about the wind. It fell down two times on the porch and I had to pick up the pieces and built some areas again. A herd of mosquitoes didn't help at all, as this is still the gorram summer of Finland. So, I took most of the photos inside, with a bit worse lighting. You can see them on Brickshelf gallery.
-Pate-keetongu
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MOC: Same
Same is a brother-in-arms with Bladis despite their very different battle styles. When Bladis, ironically, enjoys blasting his enemies in pieces from other side of the desert with a big gun with a beautiful long-teeth female on his side, Same wants to watch his enemy from eye to eye while slicing their "important bits" with his scythe or one of his many knives.
The main idea behind Same was to build a long, slender figure with a hue of bat or shark motif. The rib bone armor was a result of that, giving a spice of horror and shark-tooth elements to the character. I also like the pattern it gives against the pitch-black torso, while the other white parts are drawn far from the body to mask end the ends of the limbs.
The utility straps were the other thing. They are reference to Snake's accessories from Metal Gear series, as Same's character is somewhat based on him. There is the green moderator stone and six knives hanging from them, plus two tucked on the sides of his boots. I wanted to put the leg straps on different heights to make them look as a individual accessories and not parts of the armor. -Pate-keetongu
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Steampunk adventurers
Cecily M. Holster, a suspended monorail pirate. Smart fellow with a sense of moral like a flaky plaster. Has a lot of experience on the gondola pillaging ground and sure knows the rail network.
-Pate-keetongu
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Steampunk Citizens
Godalming Jarvis is an infamous goon and scroundel. He escaped his old fellow mafia-men from Italy, arrived on London with a stolen airship and became the personification of London's Steam Mafia. Jarvis has a whole set of nasty tools and apparatus to help him on the broad road of crime.
-Pate-keetongu
PS. This is the 100. post of this blog! Help yourselves and take some coffee and cake!
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Steampunk airship crew
Gladys Barns, a proletarian from the boiler and fire box rooms. The depths of huge airships are her kingdoms, and she doesn't take custodial high-level bosses' wailing easy.
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MOC: Gambrodon
Gambrodon lizards are herbivorous critter from their native planet Runksukka. They are also very popular pets in Makuhero City because of their cute appearance, playfulness of a puppy and curiosity of a five-year-old. The idea behind this lizard was to use very similar head than the mutated one's but with huge, cute eyes and blunt teeth and a lizard-like low body build. The tail is rather similar to the big one. I looked HF Brain Attack screenshots to see how the official characters mutated with the slugs: The body build altered but the head was pretty much the same.
And so, when a vicious brain slug attack and attaches itself to Gambrodon's head, it launches a very fast and nasty evolution...
...And turns the cute critter into terrible dinosaur.
I haven't built that much animal creatures with Bionicle/HF parts so this was an pleasant challenge. It started with the head. I had had a similar head tablescrap around for few months, and I took it and gave it more evil-looking eyes, some more teeth and built that red brain-slug. It was easier to integrate a brick-built slug into the head and I don't even have any of those official ones.
The tail was interesting. I needed a tail heavy enough to balance the MOC, but stiff enough to keep the pose. Those two-toe feet pieces worked surprisingly well. They are connected to basic HF joint pieces with one ball on the middle. The tail can be posed, but is held together firmly enough to keep it stiff. The spikes on the tip on the tail create a connection with the shape of the head, and the red pattern on Skrall sword adds a color splash to associate with the red slug.
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Temporary update
No, I'm not dead.
But I have been pretty much away from keyboard for two weeks and you won't see me during the next week neither. I have been traveling around Finland, met friends and relatives, been on a rock festival (Ilosaarirock) and also bought some LEGO (Monster Fighters Crazy Scientist set on sale and a few kilograms (and that's terribly lot) of Bionicle parts for 30€ from my 10-year-old cousin who didn't need them. There were something like thirty canister sets and some small sets (but sadly no titans) and now I feeling I'll never need new Bionicle again.
But I have also built stuff with the small bits of spare time at home. You can expect some small Dieselpunk stuff and bigger steampunk stuff, and my LUGBULK order likely arrives during the next week I'm on a trip so I can finally finish the Goddamn Bombur then.
But now I'm in a hurry so see you later,
-Pate-keetongu
But I have been pretty much away from keyboard for two weeks and you won't see me during the next week neither. I have been traveling around Finland, met friends and relatives, been on a rock festival (Ilosaarirock) and also bought some LEGO (Monster Fighters Crazy Scientist set on sale and a few kilograms (and that's terribly lot) of Bionicle parts for 30€ from my 10-year-old cousin who didn't need them. There were something like thirty canister sets and some small sets (but sadly no titans) and now I feeling I'll never need new Bionicle again.
But I have also built stuff with the small bits of spare time at home. You can expect some small Dieselpunk stuff and bigger steampunk stuff, and my LUGBULK order likely arrives during the next week I'm on a trip so I can finally finish the Goddamn Bombur then.
But now I'm in a hurry so see you later,
-Pate-keetongu
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MOC: Bombur
But yeees, I have a got a dwarf here! He's the big one, and the long-awaited one (Not for poor Bilbo and his parlour, though), Bombur, brother of Bofur (Who is work-in-progress) and cousin of Bifur (Finished and also modified after the taken photos).
From the start of my dwarf project I knew I would build Bombur with Lowell-sphere-style body. The round shape was rather easy to catch with the all-over SNOT (okay, that doesn't sound very clean) techniques. I'm also very proud of the studs here: Bombur is a working-class dwarf and his clothes a bit rugged and rough in texture. Bombur's big head was surprisingly easy. I have a rather limited collection of orange, but it was enough and I didn't even have to order any bricks for the head from Bricklink. Bombur of course has his double chin made of boat studs and also the bald spot (unfortunately cannot be seen on these photos) built using the same piece.
Unlike some dwarves, Bombur had a pleasing, a bit brighter color scheme to work with. Olive green 1x2 plates (bought 100 from LUGBULK) work rather well with the orange beard. The build was fresh also because the strong difference in the clothing: While other dwarves have long coats, Bombur has his shirt tucked in his trousers and therefore the shoes (which are not boots as usual but a round shoes built using the small catapult pieces) were completely different than those I built before.-Pate-keetongu
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REVAMP: Monster Fighters Automobile
I bought 9466 The Crazy Scientist and his Monster earlier this year from Oulu with rather good sale (43€, original price was 65€). The car included in the set caught my eye. I loved the idea of 8-wide old-timer car with monster-fighting apparatus and big round shapes; medium blue color was just perfect. But the design itself was seriously lacking. There weren't enough medium blue, some shapes were awful and it was full of annoying flick-fire-missiles.
When I arrived home from my trip, I nearly immediately started to revamp the car. I build it again from start, made the base a bit different (Read: Removed the useful pieces not necessary there) and re-designed most of it to add medium blue. I made the buffers light gray and go nearly all around the vehicle, added big exhaust pipes and better weaponry: Kept the radar but replaced the fick-fire missiles with bigger cannons. There's also a new driver, as the set didn't feature anyone behind the steering wheel!
-Pate-keetongu
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WIP: Steampunk cityscape
The project is (approximately) measured 60x48 studs and the ground is two plates and three bricks high. This raise takes some more bricks (I'm planning to use DUBLO bricks on the base) nut allowed me to built the channel and basements to the building. There is a speakeasy under the shallow building on the right, and there will be something similar on the other side -which is not built yet- too.
I build the red-black building's facade when I did some concepts of urban Victorian building. I have plenty of those 70s old window pieces, and they give a nice effect with their detailed frames. The roof is build using those strange modified plates with TECHNIC holes underside, giving a look typical to buildings of that age. I'm rather happy with that. The dark red autumnal leaves are from my LUGBULK order and I like how they match with the building.
-Pate-keetongu
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MOC: Belsa
I thinks she is a some sort of Hell's Waitress with a chainmail skirt and corset armour. I also thought of making a pair of rollerskates, but they wouldn't have probably worked so well with the shin design, so I kept those basic shoes (or boots).
I'm very proud of the "tricks" used in this build: The chainmail skirt and the elastic band corset. I got 150 of those dark-silver (or gunmetal or titanium metallic or what it is called) chain links from LUGBULK last year, and finally found a good use to them. They are connected to rigid hose on the front and rubber band on the back. The chain link motif extends to the shoulder straps of the corset. The strings on the chest piece are those rather stiff red elastic bands I fortunately had enough; no idea what sets they are from. I might use this technique also on upcoming builds as it came out so well.
The head was a bit tricky part. I was going to use the same emotion-less style I used on Karmenna and Lady Liberty 3000, but went with a bit different style with a stylised pair of stern eyes. I think it gives a surprisingly lot character to this MOC. The black messy hair and devil horns were going to be here from the moment I decided to go with the red skin. -Pate-keetongu
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Steampunk Middle-class
It's steampunk minifigure time again! My Victorian cityscape is still on progress, but it needs some inhabitants. 
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-Pate-keetongu
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The Sober Charm of Bourgeoisie
Lisbeth Hendawn, a sophisticated maid servant, has served most of the rich and powerful families and kins of the city, so he has a lot of knowledge about the secret doorways, safe code numbers, closet skeleton and so on. Most of the Bourgeoisie believe she is the most reliable keeper of secrets, and she has been serving the Prime Minister Windmill for some time now, but only a few know what has happened between her and dirty-but-august cop V. G. Gononde on Booger Brandon's bar...
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The Extraordinary Voyagers
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MOC: The Nightly Streets of Shangai K8000
The dark streets of the Asteroid Shanghai K8000 tell many stories and not all of them are sugary. Tonight Blacktron boss Albert von Koponya and his hemisperson Grookab are solving some cosmetical issues with local space pirate gangs. Jaakko "Death's Knuckleduster" Heimonpoika is speechless to say the least when Grookab's three-barrel vaporizer shotgun sweeps the paving with his dear brother.
This MOC was built for Finnish LUG Palikkatakomo's summer contest. The idea behind the contest was to build something with "Special useless pieces" with the Space Pirates theme. My NPU piece was (Or were, and still are, as there are two of those) those red pump pieces from 2008 Bionicle Mistika line's Nynrah blasters. They are used as Asian-style paper lamps here and are light up with a couple of red light bricks. I've had this idea for ages, but didn't have enough light bricks to use it before.The cheese pavement with poor gangta's remains is an another trick here, but otherwise it was a pretty straightforward build. I like the minifigs.
-Pate-keetongu
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Gambrodor Brain Slug break-up
Gambrodon won the second place on Eurobricks' Action Figure Months Before and After contest. The first place went to CIDDi's excellent Marcus Fisher, which was among my favourites on the contest. Thanks to everyone who voted me!
-Pate-keetongu
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