I've stumbled upon something...AMAZING!!!

Post by **MicVash** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:04 pm

**Brickshelf Find** And Image HEAVY!

I want to make some hardsuits for my army to give some heavy support for my infantry (since I probably won't have a tank), and was looking around the web for some inspiration. Goodness....I found the holy grail!

I give you...

NORI -- Hardsuit Expert (And yes, they hold a whole minifig)

(These masterworks were NOT done by me, but NORI, a user on Brickshelf)

Link to Full Gallery http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=nori

Some of my faves.

And here's an interesting take on Hardsuits -- Non-Humanoid.

Check this "Mini Tank Hardsuit"

Enjoy!

Post by **Doodleshark** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:24 pm

Holy crap...

Whoever made these is a God.

Post by **Bonn-o-Tron** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:38 pm

Holy freaking crap!

Post by **King of Brix** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:07 pm

If you can get instructions for these... You will be god.

Post by **Blitzen** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:09 pm

No, god doesn't exist.

If you can get instructions for these, this guy is awesome. Go to his website. Maybe you'll find something.

Post by **piltogg** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:09 pm

yah, I've dabbled in the hardsuit arts also but its way to parts intensive for me. so I gave up after about 3

Post by **MicVash** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:21 pm

Blitzen wrote:No, god doesn't exist.

If you can get instructions for these, this guy is awesome. Go to his website. Maybe you'll find something.

It's all in Japanese.

It's not too hard to figure out how to make these things though if you just look at the different poses. I don't have those "T" axle grey pieces though and don't want to use any grey in my army. The bear claw on the white suit is simply genious though. Reminds me of the big elite marines from Warhammer 40k. I like the idea of a giant hammer too on the other white suit. The best part of the blue suit is the extra sniper rifle attached on the back. The big thick grey suit has that cool shoulder shield that I've in Gundam before. The flying grey suit is simply awesome. Very nimble and obviously the least parts intensive. The wings are sick.

Post by **Adean** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:31 pm

Flippity Flip!!! That's ossum with a capital "O"!!!! Man, I wish I could do that kinda work!

Post by **Carrnevil9** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:52 am

Something else about those particular suit designs: quite fragile on certain joints. All well done, and relatively easy to mimic. Geez blitzen, it's like you've never tried to build any of the alt-models on the back of a lego box before. *looks at lego box* Well, they used to put them on the back of boxes.

Post by **Rody** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:01 pm

yeah, most of the model is visible, it wouldn't be too hard to mimic. or at the very least get someting similar if you have the parts.

I've done more annoying mimicing build where I had to guess the interior as well.

Post by **Blitzen** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:36 pm

Carrnevil9 wrote:Geez blitzen, it's like you've never tried to build any of the alt-models on the back of a lego box before. *looks at lego box* Well, they used to put them on the back of boxes.

I guess you misunderstood me. I was trying to imply the same about KoB, but I guess I took "find out yourself, loser" to "make him tell you".

I also am sad at the lack of alternates, as I have no boxes from before 2005, but a lot of LEGOs.

Post by **pesgores** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:38 pm

Post by **King of Brix** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:16 pm

Well, thats great if you can see half the intricate interior of a sub-block model of a hard-suit/mini-mech. In this case, you can't. Naturally, if I actually cared about the ones you could see most of, I wouldn't be asking. Two in particular that are awesome, you also can't see. I think he did it to preserve his secret.

Post by **spacessj** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:17 am

Nice! very nice. but he should share the techniques he used or give some hints.

Post by **Rody** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:04 pm

King of Brix wrote:Well, thats great if you can see half the intricate interior of a sub-block model of a hard-suit/mini-mech. In this case, you can't. Naturally, if I actually cared about the ones you could see most of, I wouldn't be asking. Two in particular that are awesome, you also can't see. I think he did it to preserve his secret.

well actually you can, there isn't all that much interiour here, for many of these you can see pretty much everything except for the back, but he may have more pictures on his site.