que-ever on 13/7/2009 at 21:07
hiya folks... I've made some thief-themed lego creations and thought maybe you guys would appreciate. The following is copy/pasted from my post on a lego forum, so some of the brick lingo may not be clear at first, but it's the pictures that matter anyway, right? tell me what you guys think!
(paste starts here)
I've been a lego lover most of my nineteen years of life, took a break for a year or two from building but the bricks were always there so it wasn't as if I could truly ignore them... Recently a combination of the builders of this site, the Dwarves' Mine set, and the Thief video game series inspired me to start building again. Nothing I've ever done is particularly advanced, so I've been trying to expand my arsenal of techniques.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02804.jpg)
I built the figs first... left to right, if these names mean anything to you, are a mechanist, a hammerite, two varieties of guards and Garrett the master thief down on the bottom.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02806.jpg)
less glare-y pic of garrett with his mechanical eye and blackjack. Hopefully I'm doing these deeplinks properly, I don't want to wait for my gallery to go public.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02784.jpg)
This here is a combination school, church, living quarters, I don't know. It's mostly a place to play with the figs, hence no roof and openings to mix-n-match other rooms.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02785.jpg)
diamond windows added in later to avoid the "big gray wall" syndrome I've been hearing about. Also shows off the two-plate high steps with tiles I was experimenting with, especially the corners there (which I like).
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02786.jpg)
an eight-wide porticullis with a half-stud offset to make the bars look even. it just occupies a one-stud gap between the tall bricks on either side, which lets it slide up and down.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02787.jpg)
shows more oddly shaped windows, and a glimpse of the "tan room" made in tan due to a lack of grey :p
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02789.jpg)
hammer shaped window. Pleased with how it came out.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02790.jpg)
graveyard of no consequence. Cracked crypt, was meant to be at an odd angle, but I uh... forgot.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02791.jpg)
couple of placeholder houses, trying out the daub look, and the split down the middle to access the inside.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02792.jpg)
all opened up. No interiors :(
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02793.jpg)
A forge. What I usually build, I guess a kind of big vignette. Basically a room but no walls, allowing access/play, compatability with other baseplate-only rooms, and works well with smaller-size collections.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02794.jpg)
the switch is the basic "open stuff" switch from the thief games, or at least my brick approximation. I should probably take some screenshots to compare.
The little box with the hinge is where the molten metal would be poured in, and then something useful should pop out... couldn't find anything useful to fit inside it though. I'm kinda proud of using the grey/trans rock bottom as the big bowl to hold molten metal, the trans-orange making it look like heated metal or what have you. Eh? Eh?
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02798.jpg)
An electrical room, where the people in the thief universe harness electricity or mana or whatever it is they use to power all their lamps and elevators, blah blah. I like this room a lot, the different devices are pretty close matches to the game models and I think the tesla coil things look cool in general. Plus this-
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02800.jpg)
gears in the wall. Nothing fancy (bad picture too) but I think it adds a little.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02801.jpg)
a room built around a river baseplate. I suppose it's where they get water from... We've got the pipes here
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02802.jpg)
the bridge I don't like the look of so much, but it's necessary if you want the figs to be able to get to the other side, I suppose.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02803.jpg)
arch, and another gear wall. the 1x1 cylinders at the bottom of the arch opening are sand green because of the algae! Ok no it's because I ran out of dark grey.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02795.jpg)
it may be weird that the most out-of-the-box thing I've ever built... is a box. It's got five sides, and the bottom is open to fit on studs. It uses snot and the like. I ran out of brown after three walls, as well :p
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02797.jpg)
here it is with a dwarf, for scale.
and finally, a bonus shot of all my brown bricks and slopes... along with some more machinery and a couple of robots.
(
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/not-so-cool/Thief/dsc02807.jpg)
