Good Sets for Parts 7

It's only been three months since the last GSfP, but it's just about time for all the new sets for 2014 to hit the shelves.

70123 Lion Legend Beast.  120 pieces for $9.99.  A lot of tan pieces plus new mini-ball joints.  All that for $0.08 per piece?  Nice.

70127 Wolf Legend Beast.  110 pieces for $9.99.  And this one's $0.09 per piece.  Lot's of white, plus light bley and silver.

31019 Forest Animals.  272 pieces for $19.99.  Hinges, brackets, clip plates, bar plates, black brown bley, tan, and other colors all for $0.07 per piece.

31021 Furry Creatures.  285 pieces for $19.99.  Similar to the set above, this one is more black and bley though.  Still for $0.07 per piece.

31014 Power Digger.  64 pieces for $4.99.  A decent amount of hinge type pieces, this set could work well as terrain at 7P scale, and it's $0.08 per piece.

60059 Logging Truck.  228 pieces for $19.99  A bunch of fun pieces, plus a new one, in predominantly green and brown.  It's $0.09 per piece though.

76012 Batman: The Riddler Chase.  304 pieces for $29.99.  $0.10 per piece for a wide range of brackets and slopes in black and bley.

70723 Thunder Raider.  334 pieces for$29.99.  The only one of the current crop of Ninjago sets that is anywhere near affordable.  It has plenty of clip plates and other interesting parts for $0.09 per piece.

Non-Human 8

Here's a handful of non-human mechs for you to ponder.

Planet Exploration Companion by SuperHardcoreDave.  Absolutely fantastic.

WIFFY Earthmoving by FLAVIO.  Hockey Helmet Robot!

SR Industries Racer by βroadside.  I was originally going to post this, but then I did a little digging in his Flickr stream.

SpaceQuadDroid12 by NateFalslev.  This one's a render.

New Soviet Republic - блоха by Happy Weasel.  Okay, another person who's disabled downloads.  Go look anyway.

Battle Report, Part 2

This time with more pictures!

The killing field near stevenik's primary station.

The battle for one of stevenik's secondary stations.

The Silver Strongarms.

The killing field later in the game.

The station battle later in the game.





That's really about all there is. I don't have anything of substance to add. :-)

The original battle report is here.

Spotlight: Pierre E. Fiesche

This was originally going to be a "Terrain & Scenery" post.  Then I realized I had chosen all my photos from Pierre Fiesche.  Pierre has been around the Lego community for a while.  He's done a lot of very interesting microscale work as well as some very fascinating spaceships.

Tracer L.A.V. by Pierre E. Fiesche.  You can see the Minifig Trophy used as a scale marker.  Still, this looks as if it can be used at 7P scale.

Spade F.C.V. by Pierre E. Fiesche.  Similar design and size to the one above.

"Ox" Light Module Transport by Pierre E. Fiesche.  As you can see by the Tracer in the background, this is in the same scale as the other two vehicles.

GRUNT Light Assault Vehicle by Pierre E. Fiesche.  There's a lot of NPU in this picture.

All of these designs would make great terrain or stations.  You should check out the rest of his Flickr stream.  There's some fantastic work there.

K2: The Widowmaker

I was planning on posting something different today.  Aaaaaaand then I went and visited my local Lego store.  When I wandered down to the back by the PaB wall I stumbled across one of these sitting on the back counter.

Take a look at the piece under the tape.

Here's another look.

Yes, that's right, I have a whole box full of these.  This is what's called a K2 box and it cost me $70.00 USD.  I still haven't counted how many I purchased.  However many, I think it's enough.

Here's a better look at the label.

Back in September there was a serious buzz on the MFZ boards about these being available on the Pick-A-Brick wall.  They finally made it to my area and I went big.  They're out there people!

Frame Evolution: Egg Walker

Recently, as in this week, I put together a quick frame design.  I had a stack of Lampholders in white so I decided to use them as the core of my build.

This is what happened.  20 Lampholders and a smattering of other parts and we have a frame.  The legs don't move.  They do have the illusion of movement though which is really all that is necessary.

But I wasn't happy with the arms.  Flickr page.








I swapped the arms out for something a little more flexible.  I don't have all that many 1x4 Hinge Plates though, so I can't really mass-produce this design.  That's what I really want because it's grown on me and I think it's fun.  Flickr page.

After some discussion on the Hangar and a great suggestion by MRaichelson, I arrived at this point.  I now have three fully built and a few more under construction.  Flickr page.

The next step is to formulate attachments and create stations.  When I have those finished I'll make another blog post.

Did I mention they also qualify for MittenNinja's 3T Challenge?

A Random Blog Post

I occasionally wander over to MobileFrameZero.com/MFZ to take a look and see if any new and interesting messages have been posted.  Today I found this blog post.  I do not know the person that wrote this post but he talks about introducing his son and father-in-law to MFZ back around Christmas-time.  They all seem to have had a great time and the post is so ebullient that I had to share it with all of you.  It's really nice to see other people who are as head-over-heels about MFZ as the rest of us.