Legonian Special Forces

by Raziel on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 18:18

Dude awsome minifig and I love the camo design.

P.S. Where did you get that hat?

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Thanks Raziel. As for the

by Peter_Nix on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 18:25

Thanks Raziel. As for the hat, I'm guessing you mean the beret, I made it with Sculpey III.

-Alan

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Wow, I have been waiting to

by pacman110011 on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 18:56

Wow, I have been waiting to see more of these guys and let me say it now- I love them. Your helmet looks very cool and is just a simple mod with a couple snips(or so I beleive). The detail is very nice, especially for using a very fine point Sharpie(once again correct me if I am wrong). These are great Alan and may I ask, about how many more of these yellow bundles of awesome can we plan on seeing? -Pac

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What, I can't see them. . .

by Pharazon on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 01:26

What, I can't see them. . . oh wait, they're in camouflage. I get it ; ) Seriously these are great customs. I am really impressed with the beret. It gets a bad rep but can be cool in the right hands and you pulled it off. We'll need more information on how you made those.

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Thanks all for the nice

by Peter_Nix on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 07:38

Thanks all for the nice comments.

Pac; Correct on both assumptions. The helmet which my avatar, Alpha, is wearing is a regular motorcycle/space helmet with the chinguard snipped off strategically (it can still have visors, goggles, etc... clipped on). And yes, fine point Sharpie for the details like the collar and around the pocket on the suspenders, oh yeah, and Beta's rolled-up sleeves. All other details and coloring (with the exception of the heads and hands) are painted on. As for how many more? Well, Gamma is in production, so that's a definate three, I'd like to create a squad based on six to eight (probably six) soldiers and maybe some mercenaries for eXport (but I'm not allowed to talk about their "mission" over here ;D ).

Pharazon; I'm glad you liked the beret, I have gotten flak on their shape from other people, but one thing I've noticed is that berets (in the real world) are worn in various different ways (flat as a pancake, puffed up, hanging over the appropriate eye...). But I definatly could give more information, especially if it'll help others.

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Awesome- I keep forgetting

by Shadowviking on Fri, 09/15/2006 - 11:44

Awesome- I keep forgetting pics of my own berets, but yours look better anyway. (though, as you said, they're worn differently by different people)
I can give them names if yould like, Pm me about it if your interested.

Anyway.

Those are awesome. that folder went straight to my favorites. Those are really cool, I like the camo.
And do I understand correctly that they're hnad drawn? Wow... Keep it up!

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Shadowviking, about the

by Peter_Nix on Sat, 09/16/2006 - 20:37

Shadowviking, about the berets- yellow sticky notes ;D ! As for the names, I'm still debating about how their naming will work as well as a bit more info on them. I could say though that Gamma will be the weapons man and close quarters combatant and Delta'll be (if I could work out the head cover/cape deal) the team's sniper and infiltrator. But I'll try to send you a message soon concerning names that I could use some help with, but for the moment, these guys as well as my Megablokian platoon will probably remain covert units with their designations the first six to nine greek alphabet letters (until I realize how confusing that'll be).

Straight to your favorites? Thank you, the rest of the team will hopefully be along shortly... And they're only partially hand drawn, otherwise they're painteds (but sorry to disappoint, Gamma's going to be a hybrid).

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Alan, great figs! I love the

by Unknown Artist on Sun, 09/17/2006 - 07:35

Alan, great figs! I love the way you painted them - and those berets are simply awesome! These were just too good to leave them out of the minifig database. :D Hope you like the pages:

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Thanks UA for the comments

by Peter_Nix on Mon, 09/18/2006 - 07:36

Thanks UA for the comments and sending them to the database :D ! Hopefully I'll get to work a bit more on the next two today and post them soon.

-Alan

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I love your camoflauge

by Viking Maniac on Mon, 09/18/2006 - 08:25

I love your camoflauge designs, they look really nice on these figs. I love the short selves on LSF Beta.

The beret's are awesome aswell, is the first one fabric or cleveryley patterned sculpey?

I can't wait to see more of these, some vehicles would look great with them.

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Boy oh boy, how did I miss

by Lamanda2 on Mon, 09/18/2006 - 10:10

Boy oh boy, how did I miss this for five whole days?

Very nice work on these, Alan, I love Alpha's beret, it's superb! Not to mention all of your great work with camoflauge, these definately deserve a spot in the gallery. :-)

Hey, I guess you were right about how your finger prints make them look like fabric, great job!

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Viking Maniac, Amanda;

by Peter_Nix on Tue, 09/19/2006 - 08:31

Viking Maniac, Amanda; thanks for the comments. The berets, as Amanda pointed out are Sculpey, any resemblance to fabric is due to accidental fingerprints which I then decided gave it more of an "air of fabric authenticity" so I started doing that purposefully after that. Vehicles- I'd love to get them some, but for the moment since I don't have enough tan bricks, they're going to have to share with my Megablokian platoon, but hopefully soon even if the vehicles will be a different color (as much as I find little use for yellow bricks, I'd rather not get Sand spraypaint (or if there's dye) and convert them).
And Amanda, how you missed them? camouflage!

And to continue with the squad... LSF Gamma:

Notes: I'm thinking that I'm not going to keep that head (I tried a beret on it and it just started peeling the sticker off- too thick. But I did want to see how the face sticker would come out and for the moment and I misplaced the heads that I'm using for the rest of the team (yes, I lost my head :D )). The "boonie hat" and sleeveless shirt kind of make him look too much like a "cowboy" and not a "Weapons/Close Combat Specialist", so while he'll get the standard "boonie hat"/combat helmet/beret deal like the others in the team I plan to now get to work on a "do-rag" for him (I'll probably replace the "boonie hat" pics with the "Do-rag" pics later on but leave them [the "boonie" pics] at my Brickshelf account. And yes, I realize that the decals printed out to slightly different shades than the paint or minifigure *sigh*, at least it's not too bad for the shirt. More variations on the torso decals can be found at my Brickshelf folder once it's public, including an OD Green version of the shirt if anyone is interested.

About the Decals: As the team's primary Weapons Specialist he'll be mainly using either a GPMG (a Bestlockian M60E1 to be exact) or when I get the chance to purchase a LA pack, a SAW, so he has an ammo belt wrapped around him. Around his neck is supposed to be a towel (I was debating about it being his shirt), I did that to give him some shoulder padding- everytime I think of GPMGs, I always remember the Vietnam pic of a US soldier carrying an M60 across his shoulders, when I was in Israel in '91 I was in the part of my group who signed on for two weeks of basic training and then two weeks of base guarding, during basic training we had GPMG training, I chose to carry the weapon and remembering that pic, carried the weapon across my shoulders- just to let anyone know, the Belgian MAG (British L7, I think, I can't look it up right now) has much sharper edges than an M60 seems to have- hence, because I look after my troops, a towel for the poor guy. And as a Close Combat Specialist, the sleeveless shirt for easier movement (okay, that sounded stupid, I just thought it would look cool).

-Alan

EDIT (11-26-06): I finished Gamma's bandana and changed the pics to show that. The original pics with the decal face and boonie hat are still at my Brickshelf gallery.

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Great work on that one! I

by Viking Maniac on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 13:14

Great work on that one! I think a regiment of the legonian troops may be moving to my house, we shall have to see ; )

Personally, I like the hat, but there's something just a little odd about the face, but it doesn't really matter as you did say you may change it. The decals look great aswell! But I think some of the lines on them are a little too thin, but they still look quite nice.

I look forward to seeing them armed and ready and standing togethor, and shouldn't your troops be against the megablokians?

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A regiment across the seas?

by Peter_Nix on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 08:03

A regiment across the seas? Well, I'm not set up for that yet, and I doubt it would ever get to that size (squad sized maybe), but I was thinking of my X-Mercenaries as soon as I get up of my lazy <transmission interrupted> and look into that a bit more. But as I said earlier, can't talk about those missions here. ; ) .

As for the lines, I really didn't want them to overpower the picture (it is a bit busy as is right now but that doesn't mean I cant try thicker lines in a few places when I get a chance- I'll definatly try to make some time to try it out). They are 1 pixel width for the smallest, which is the smallest lines that Photoshop (5 at least) allows. As for the face, it probably looks odd because you see the seams of the sticker paper which makes the face look smaller and interferes with the placement of any other hat piece other than the "boonie hat"- I do think that if I did it in Waterslide decal that it would look better.

They still have to be armed with official weaponry, for now they've been raiding the Megablokian's armoury (my current Lego guns just don't cut it- revolvers, single shot rifles and megaphones (and any of their variants- I've seen some custom guns based on those weapons and even tried some myself but they just aren't right)). As for them being against the Megablokians? They are all part of my little empire so they're all my troops. But like America for example, there are different types of people all working together, so in this empire I have Megablokian Spec ops working alongside Legonian Spec Ops working alongside Cobian Spec Ops all supplimented by the Bestlockian Infantry (I'm sorry, I just can't call those "Generation 2 giants" Spec Ops, they look more like infantry to me). Additionally, while the LSF are as elite as the Clone Commandoes, there's at least a platoon (6 soldiers to a squad, with around 9 squads total) of elite Megablokian Special Forces- fighting on the football field just sounds better ;D.

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sooooo cool i can't really

by gunnil on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 15:16

sooooo cool

i can't really compete with you with my paper minifigs

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Thanks Gunnil. If I

by Peter_Nix on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 17:37

Thanks Gunnil. If I remember, you did a paperized Fett with helmet, your paper skills are real good, I can only imagine what you could do if you tried soldiers.

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Great Job, I simply love the

by Unknown Artist on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 09:01

Great Job, I simply love the mixture of decals and paint! Another Customs entry is in order!

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Hybrids are the way of the

by Peter_Nix on Sun, 10/01/2006 - 12:33

Hybrids are the way of the future :D. If I ever get to it (I was hoping to do this with WS Decals) I plan to do Marvel Super Hero Deathlok as a Hybrid as well- its the only way to do some of them properly. As for Gamma, there is no way that I would have been able to paint on the tags, lettering and muscles properly enough to make him look good, so I had to do a combination with him. The rest of the team will most likely be all paints (maybe one more Hybrid if I have trouble with a vest). And thanks again for the entries.

-Alan

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they're sooooo

by Devil May Cry on Fri, 10/06/2006 - 00:56

they're sooooo cooo0oool

100/100

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Todah, Ori : ) . It's always

by Peter_Nix on Fri, 10/06/2006 - 07:37

Todah, Ori : ) . It's always nice when people enjoy others works.

-Alan

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To get away from the

by Shurtugal on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 22:04

To get away from the 'cowboy'ish look, you could make his sleeves torn off.

Hope I helped.

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You have a point there

by Peter_Nix on Fri, 10/13/2006 - 07:40

You have a point there Shurtugal, however, when I get less busy I hope to try sculpy-ing another bandana for him, my first try looked funny and busted. As the team's WS/CCS Gamma would look better with the bandana (not even a combat helmet- I tried, it also just doesn't look right with the sleeveless shirt) As for the cowboy-ness, it's mainly a problem with the cowboy hats- they're not bad, but they do look funny, but for now they're the best I have to simulate a boonie hat, oh well.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-Alan

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After a long enough hiatus

by Peter_Nix on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 20:16

After a long enough hiatus from my squad, here's LSF Delta, the team's sniper (weapons will be [hopefully] done when the squad is finished):

Background: LSF Delta is the team's secondary Weapons Specialist, specializing in sniping and infiltration.

Notes: Okay, desert soldiers probably don't wear Ghillie-suits, but I thought it would look cool. This Ghillie-suit is in two pieces, which can be worn with either piece (the cape only or the hood only). Even though you can't turn Sculpey inside out ;D , the story behind the cape/hood is that it's reversable so that in rocky/shadowy areas he uses the camouflaged side, and in areas with pure flat sand it reverses to a solid "sand" colored cape/hood.
When I created the hood I apparently made it too tight around the minifig's head so I may have to find an alternate way to create the hood (maybe a fabric glued (or attached some way so it's removable) around a combat helmet).

-Alan

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They look great! We're

by l33tone on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 20:31

They look great! We're probably due for another minifig custom entry soon. The pockets look weird for some reason. Not to nitpick, but the hood looks a little "poofy".

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Thanks Lance. No problem

by Peter_Nix on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 21:04

Thanks Lance. No problem with the nitpicking, besides if by "poofy" you mean "puffy" I'd have to agree. Unfortunatly with my degree of Sculpey skill I guess I wasn't able to do such a great job- it always looks better in concept than in actual design :p . As for the pocket it might look a bit wierd, I tried to illustrate a tilted billowable pocket so that he could access the contents easily even when lying down hiding in the sand.

-Alan

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Oh. Did you want the

by l33tone on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 21:28

Oh. Did you want the pockets to look like these?

Perhaps you could do this to acheive the desired affect?

That was I thought would look good, maybe some buttons like the ones above?

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Lance, I'll definatly take

by Peter_Nix on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 13:07

Lance, I'll definatly take your thoughts into consideration since you have a good idea there.

However, here's how I thought of the pocket's design would be: 1) The buttons are covered by the pocket's flap- so no buttons [showing]. 2) The two lines going down from the flap is where the pocket billows out from (the right and left sides "overlap" the middle)- I would then be able to darken (or add another line parrallel to) the lower (leftmost middle) line to simulate some depth. 3) The square surrounding the pocket (it's outer edges) are "sewn" to the shirt so it would be dificult to do the shadowing (especially with it's size and the thickness of my ultra fine point Sharpie).

On the flip side, I admit that since LSF Delta is drawn-on instead of a decal, I'm almost nervous to try adding anything else to the pocket (too small- with my luck I'll end up ruining it).
Storywise, since he's the team's sniper, I can't see him keeping enough stuff in the pocket to billow it out to the point where I'd need to show shading- chances are, he'd only have a map or other piece of paper or two (if the pockets were kept billowed and he was lying down even in the sound- that would seem to be uncomfortable.

As for that pic of pockets, I might be able to use a variation of it for LSF Epsilon or Zeta (I'll probably be turning them into hybrids as well and givng one or both tactical vests- Epsilon; demolitions and Zeta; medic).
Back to the shading- I have to go think... Thanks for the ideas, now I have see the best way [if chosen] to implement it (I might keep this pocket flat- simulating it empty or just filled with a map).

-Alan

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When I was zoomed in to edit

by l33tone on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 13:18

When I was zoomed in to edit your picture, I noticed that the brown camo part seemed to shade the bottom parts. Perhaps you could do that for shading? And by the way, the lines I edited look better if they're closer to the pockets.

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Don't get me wrong, I like

by Peter_Nix on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 14:34

Don't get me wrong, I like your idea. I'm just trying to see if there's a way (using the tools I have) to accomplish it. Thickening a line or two with the Sharpie is possible, however, the smallest brush size I have is a 10/0 which produces brushstrokes thicker than the Sharpie- so using a brush for the shading is out. As for the lines you edited turning the pocket into a cube wouldn't work (at least not in all those dimentions). In fact, I'm looking at the minifig right now and am coming to the conclusion that the way I drew the pocket doesn't lend itself enough space to add anything to it without messing it up (of course if it was a decal it would be easier to change (thinner lines for example)- but LSF Delta (and most/all of his teammates) are painted and drawn on). The size of the pocket is approximatly 2/16" wide by 3/16" tall; which doesn't give much room between the pocket folds for any type of shadowing other than "blotches".

-Alan

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AWESOME!I was thinking that

by RIPPAMAN on Wed, 12/06/2006 - 14:34

AWESOME!

I was thinking that for the sniper if you used one of UA's hooded cloaks it might look a little crisper (is that the right word?).

Exellent work.

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