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    Flags!

    By Bfahome,

    Eventually!
     
    Seems there's a fancy new part coming out soon. 1x2 place with hollow studs and rounded corners. Along with all the other neat things it could be used for, one thing I want to see it used for is some kind of flag or banner material. From what little I know of the techniques, most "curve" builds use a mix of 1x3 plates and 1x1 round plates or some staggered arrangement of 1x2s and 1x1 rounds. But the new piece looks like it could maybe provide a much simpler, better-looking, and more stable way of doing that. I'm sure it'll be good for other compact curve uses too, like cylindrical shapes.
     
    Just want to get this thought out there.
  3. Bfahome

    More Overwatch

    By Bfahome,

    Been playing it pretty consistently since I got it. Usually there are a few hours in the morning I can squeeze in. So far my top hero playtimes are:
     
    - trashmouse
    - ^__^ >__< x__x
    - combat frog
    - justice bird
    - ghost boy
    - the cavalry
    - grandma
     
    Check out my sweet achievements I guess.
     
    Got some fun skins and things from the Summer Games but I want to unlock ALL THE EMOTES. In time, I guess. But Halloween is coming up, so I have that to look forward too.
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    Overwatch

    By Bfahome,

    So, I bought it today. My laptop can't run it, but I'm living with some people and one of them is letting me use her computer for it sometimes.
     
    I'm not very good at it. Yet! But I did get a play of the game once so that was fun.
     
    Orisa and Junkrat are leading in play time, followed by Pharah and Tracer and then a little bit of a few others.
     
     
    also:

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    Cat photo

    By Bfahome,

    This is one of our cats. She's quite rambunctious, rather adorable, and prone to silly poses. I figured the internet could use more cats.
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    it let me give this guy a more accurate blaster.
     
    I love the mini building craze I get into when new things arrive. I built another thing too but I'm waiting on sharing that until I can finalize it in a satisfactory way. Its character is still evolving.
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    LDD Decals

    By Bfahome,

    [miraculousness intensifies]
     
    Are there any decent LDD-compatible minifig decal templates out there? Like ones that outline exactly how they apply to the torso or arms or legs or whatever. I feel like the arms are going to be annoying to do unless I can actually see how the file is mapped to the piece.
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    It's my birthday

    By Bfahome,

    [chucks TV out window] and that is DEFINITELY the most important thing happening today, everything else is fine and going ok
     
    e: and I got a sweet Nexogon from B6 so that's cool too
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    Been playing it a bit and had a thought. You know how increasing your Stamina lets you hold your breath for longer, which makes the Speed training easier? I think a mechanic like that across all of the training would be pretty cool.
     
    Like:
     
    Speed training could up your speed in the Stamina and Strategy training.
     
    Accuracy could help your balance for the Willpower training, or perhaps slightly increase the range of your reach for Strategy training.
     
    Strength could help with the Stamina training, or let you swim harder in Speed training.
     
    Strategy could improve your control in the Willpower training or let you hit the dummies in the Accuracy training better.
     
    Willpower could decrease click time/difficulty for the Speed and Stamina training.
     
    I think this would be a neat way to tie all the skills together. It would offset the difficulty curve a bit, but it would encourage you to travel and level up all of your skills evenly.
     
    (Or maybe some of these do have an effect in addition to the Stamina/oxygen connection, but I haven't noticed it because the leveling up is gradual.)
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    "New" being a relative term, since at this point it's been around for about a decade.
     

     
    But anyway, I've long thought that this was a very strange piece. Two of the sides appear to be flat, the other two are rounded, and one end is slightly tapered. All these things combine to make it so that you need to pay extra attention to which way you're attaching these together if you want a consistent look. Is there some reason for it to be made this way that I'm missing? Maybe the molding process? Can't tell. All I know is that it looks weird and I don't understand why it is this way.
     
    Does anyone else feel that way? Or have some insight as to why it is?
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    I dunno, this seems like it could be neat. The curve on the shin armor fits the curve of the dish pretty well. Makes me think of some speedy character who's either a robot or in some kind of super speed robot-suit.
  21. Bfahome

    Ball

    By Bfahome,

    I need more of these threes. Seems like this could be some kind of magic/future/steampunk generator or drive thing.
  22. Bfahome

    Recent building

    By Bfahome,

    I have a bunch of MOCs that I've made over the past several months that I just haven't posted because I actually like them and I want them to be represented by decent pictures, and my marginally-upgraded Tracfone isn't the standard I have in mind. So I've only shared a couple of pictures of some of them. One of them is Doggo (Brickshelf gallery when public) who I've only posted a few silly images of in other places, but isn't assembled anymore because I decided to take the upper body and use it for a Cat Noir build. So there's the images of what there was, because Doggo might not be built again for better photographing.
     
    Speaking of Cat Noir, I think I managed to figure out a workable head for him thanks to Aanchir's suggestion of using bananas as hair. It may not be at the scale I'd like it at, but it's something. Too bad he won't be done for this year's Convention Circuit superhero theme (at least at first) because I need to order some of the parts from BrickLink. I recently ordered some Galidor parts from a seller and they got lost in the mail somehow (either mis-delivery or theft upon delivery), so that kind of killed my enthusiasm for that temporarily, so it might be a while. I'm also waiting to get the Star Wars constraction Chirrut figure, because he includes a light flesh #3 CCBS shell that I want to use as the face. It's a shame that the Exo-Force arms don't come in tan and that tan banana pieces are so expensive (there were only two included in one Harry Potter set a decade ago) because flesh face with tan hair would look way better than tan face with yellow hair.
     
    The image attached to this entry is a quick thing I built to go with a set of legs I made using Galidor pieces and the Star Wars CCBS shins. Those I'll use on Cat Noir as well.
     
    Other things I've only teased elsewhere and some I haven't shared at all. Some of them go together so I want to post them all at the same time.
     
    Going to be shipping the usual stuff for the Convention Circuit again, but with the addition of my mini SYSTEM Makuta head, Chompy, Roodaka, and a BioniLUG thing. I don't think I ever fully showed off Roodaka, just once a while ago and then at BrickFair 2014. Pretty sure I've made some changes since then so that'll be a thing to see I guess. I won't be sending Golden Key on the circuit because I feel like he's run his course and the tenuous stability of his head build isn't worth the trouble. I'll probably keep him around for a while though, since I don't see any big need for any of his parts right now.
     
    So that's that I guess, not much else to say on the matter. Still building, still enjoying it, but preference and circumstance keep me from sharing much of it outside of a few snapshots here and there.
     
    (Oh and I'm starting more work on my LEGO Ideas proposal, so that's something too. Future!)
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    Building tips requested

    By Bfahome,

    Looking to build this fella, have the body basically worked out but hit a massive wall when it comes to the head.
     
    Anyone know of any good techniques for things like the hair? Or even the head overall. It should be about 1.5x-2x the size of the average Kanohi to be accurately scaled to the body.
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