R-Type Lego R9 (Pictures) (Update: more pics)

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Sun May 29, 2005 7:13 am

Here's my new creation:

Not perfect by any means, but it was fun making it! (Not to mention a nice break from dying on Level 5 in R-Type Delta again)

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sun May 29, 2005 7:42 am

That's pretty cool. I guess modern Lego has so many fancy parts (Star Wars Lego, etc) that making shmup models using it is actually quite plausible.

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:00 pm

I like

amazing fair play

Any others that you'll be working on dczx?

(Vic Viper)

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Sun May 29, 2005 2:26 pm

Pretty Kewl if I might say so. Your skill is admirable (much better than I ever was).
Now, make the Ikaruga and I guarantee you will be considered god amongst men, at least in my opinion

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sun May 29, 2005 4:28 pm

Oh, wow, it's great!! However, you might want to check the full Final Hangar, I have this feeling the ship's design is closer to some other model than R-9.

My respect, man!

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Sun May 29, 2005 5:28 pm

Thanks for the comments.

Yah, I kind of combined the R9 from R's library with a picture of the R9A. The side guns should probably go under it though. I'll try to make some more ships and post pics again sometime!

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Sun May 29, 2005 8:32 pm

Nuke wrote:Pretty Kewl if I might say so. Your skill is admirable (much better than I ever was).
Now, make the Ikaruga and I guarantee you will be considered god amongst men, at least in my opinion

If I'm not mistaken, someone actually did that. Don't remember where i saw it, though...

As for the R-9, nice work!

Post by **system11** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:03 am

Heh - really cool!

You should tell us which kits you needed parts from, and show a few pictures of it half dismantled so we can make them too

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:59 am

Not bad. I seem to recall seeing an Ikaruga made out of Legos at some point on the old forum.

Post by **system11** » Mon May 30, 2005 7:07 am

Vexorg wrote:Not bad. I seem to recall seeing an Ikaruga made out of Legos at some point on the old forum.

Multiple lego bricks are still called 'lego'.

A lego brick is not called a 'lego' therefore you cannot pluralise it by adding an 's'.

I know this is pedantic, but it's pretty far up my hate list along with 'your' instead of 'you're' and 'I could care less'.

Please don't make me go postal.

llaoyllakcuf · Post by **llaoyllakcuf** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:05 am

Ikaruga Lego:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway/464 ... ama_o.html

creator's homepage:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milkyway/4645/

I like the Lego ver. of Shinra

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:10 am

The RS Shit looks so cool!

Is this supposed to be the 5th Boss in Thunder Force V that changes shapes?

GINKEI?

Is this Ikaruga Level 1 Boss?

What are these?

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Mon May 30, 2005 12:35 pm

Whee, LEGO. Never built anything shmup-related out of it, but I am a member of LUGNET and a pretty serious builder...robots are my thing.

bloodflowers wrote:Multiple lego bricks are still called 'lego'.

A lego brick is not called a 'lego' therefore you cannot pluralise it by adding an 's'.

Millions of LEGO geeks everywhere are sending you candy and flowers

Zhon · Post by **Zhon** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:12 pm

Heh. I've transitioned from one who takes umbrage at "Legos" to one who says "Legos" just to get a reaction.

Oh, and that model is pretty neat - combining 2 things I like - Lego, and R-Type!

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:57 am

Hey everyone.

Funny story about the model. When I was taking pictures on my bathroom floor, I accidentally dropped it and watched much of it shatter into little bricks!

Fortunately, I was able to recontruct most of it, but it's slightly altered. I hope, "upgraded".

For parts, I used the Lego set from the Star Wars ARC-170 set. For the top engine though, I used parts from my ancient "Space Lock-up" set, along with a few other minor details. The other Star Wars lego sets look like they have some good pieces too.

Here's some updated pics:
The R9 with cool bubble canopy glare

"The Hanger"

I'll try to permanently host some more pics somewhere and disasemble if anyone wants to see how to build one.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:18 am

Have you thought of a way to make the force device yet?

Great work so far though!

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:38 pm

The most beautiful use of legos ever. Nice work, dc!

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:46 pm

not shmupy at all, but my brother made these really cool models (their heads in LEGO) of the characters from A Land Before Time back in the day. no pictures survive, that i know of, unfortunately.

The Bullet Dodger · Post by **The Bullet Dodger** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:46 pm

That's some fine craftsmanship there, cdzx!

Looks great!

I bet it would be easy to make one of the hawk designs from the Darius series.

nullstar · Post by **nullstar** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:02 am

Thunder Force wrote:That's pretty cool. I guess modern Lego has so many fancy parts (Star Wars Lego, etc) that making shmup models using it is actually quite plausible. :)

I'm fairly certain there's enough wing components between the AT-AT and (new model) Millenium Falcon sets to make a Vic Viper. 'Course, they took so long to assemble that I'm not yet truly inclined to put my whim to the test. I did, however, start attempting to make a Viper with the Lego Digital Designer a while back, but it -- for whatever reason -- fails to include many of those pieces.

Speaking of The Brick, any chance someone here's purchased the Star Destroyer? I periodically consider it, but that's a lot of change and I'm really not sure where I'd put the damn thing. (Call me crazy, but it seems that the Star Wars sets are some of the few that are actually constructed of fairly ordinary bricks -- so many of the other theme sets seem to get maximum mileage out of set-specific components and 3D plates. Then again, maybe I'm just sick of the city collection being endless rehashes of a handful of civic buildings. `We've decided to refresh some of our antiquated sets from three years ago and release ((POLICE|FIRE|GAS) STATION)|HOSPITAL|AIRPORT Mark 6. This will bring our complete set to: police station, fire station, hospital, airport, street sweeper, race car, helicopter, and SUV with motorcycle trailer.')