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  1. Since the 1:1 L.M.S Explorer thread was one of the most visited threads on RRU I thought that I should revive the thread in blog form (since almost all threads are closed now). Maybe not many people will see this blog, but you know what? I will still post this blog entry in case someone only uses this forum instead of a chat program like Discord (which still doesn't have a good overview compared to a forum). Also keep in mind that the edit-button doesn't seem to exist in the blog section. That means that I have to post updates either in a new post below or a new blog entry and that we all have to avoid making spelling errors for example (the final boss of posting basically^^). Original Forum Thread: This thread contains the older content like the original descriptions, older renders or things like images of my separate L.M.S. Explorer bridge model. https://rockraidersunited.com/topic/3082-11-scale-lms-explorer-ldrawstudio-20-file-downloads-2021-10-21-oh-hey-this-thread-is-10-years-old-and-still-going/ Download Links: 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer (LDraw file that also works in studio 2.0): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r195/ 1:1 L.M.S. Explorer bridge (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r358/ 1:8 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r194/ 1:16 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r193/ 1:32 L.M.S. Explorer (LEGO Digital Designer file): https://www.rockraidersunited.com/files/dl-r192/ Description (slightly changed from the entry on BrickLink: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=105148) Below are the renders (made in studio 2.0) of my improved 2016 version of the L.M.S. Explorer from LEGO Rock Raiders. The import of the LDRAW file took about a minute and rendering took about 1/2 to an hour depending on the picture (rough guess from 2019). Render options used in studio 2.0: Very High, Transparent (adding a background afterwards is more practical in my opinion), Asteroid (Lighting option), GPU, Stud Logo. Here is the link to the thread on RockRaidersUnited: https://rockraidersunited.com/topic/3082-11-scale-lms-explorer-ldrawstudio-20-file-downloads-2021-10-21-oh-hey-this-thread-is-10-years-old-and-still-going/ It's also on Flickr (album link): https://www.flickr.com/photos/94844382@N07/albums/72157711107415188 Summary of the background story: 2010 I started playing Rock Raiders again and saw this ship in the intro. My first thought was: "Awesome! I wonder, if someone managed to build and upload a picture of a recreation of a 1:1 version" I didn't find a big version, so I decided to make my own. The building process looked like this (ultra short summary): -during the whole project: Watching and analyzing the intro and one of the both outro versions over and over; including still frames of the video (resolution: 320*240 pixels) -using LDD (Lego Digital Designer) -around 18000 bricks LDD became unstable, so I used LeoCAD -using LeoCAD (in the beginning it was fast, but it became very slow and unstable too, but at least it stable enough to almost complete it) -during the process bugs like slightly displaced bricks were occurring, too, but it was okay. -2011 I published the original version -2016 I found out, that converting an lcd file (LeoCAD file) to ldr (LDRAW file) improved the speed of LeoCAD immensely. That's why I fixed many mistakes (some micro gaps still exist, but I would have to start from scratch to fix those). -until I found out about studio 2.0 and it's render function I settled on POVRay to make pictures of this ship Random statistics: Length: 962.4 studs/ 769.9 cm/ 303.1 in. Width: 130 studs/ 104 cm/ 41 in. Height: 143.4 studs/ 114.7 cm/ 45.2 in. pieces: 58827 (it's only the hull. Also some superfluous bricks. Apparently bricklink also displays a lower number, but I tested the download and it worked fine and display 58827 bricks) construction time: ~10-11 months (2010-2011 and 2016) Other notes: -Personally I like the overall shape of this spaceship, but the main problem is the small amount of details. -keep in mind, that this ship gigantic and that your computer may not handle the file. I recommend a bit of patience since it can take a while depending on what you are doing (selecting all the bricks can take a few minutes). -it's an ldr file imported to studio and then converted to an io file. Images Video R. R. Slugger also made a YouTube video (the thumbnail uses an older L.M.S. Explorer render in case someone wonders about the different look) about my various versions of the spaceship and includes his own attempt of building one of the models (1:16 version) in real life! I think that the video is quite nice and I wonder if more collaborations are possible in the future? (Maybe about the L.M.S. Explorer version from the Rock Raiders book "High Adventures Deep Underground" which has to be seen to be believed XD). Future Plans The project is currently inactive, but I already started working on it: yet another version of the L.M.S. Explorer. This time without micro gaps or small construction errors here and there. I will also make sure that I only use bricks that existed back in 1999. The main reason why this is inactive is that it's not an exciting task since it's basically doing the same thing again (reconstructing the spaceship).
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