Lego Miata update

"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv) 10/14/2020 at 21:40 • Filed to: Legolopnik, Miata

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I’ve transferred my Lego Miata design from LDD to an online Lego CAD program called Mecabricks, which is compatible with a rendering program called Blender, which will allow me to make nice, photorealistic images of the Lego Miata... if I can get the darn thing to install properly. This may take awhile. But in the meantime, the Miata is already looking a lot more like actual Lego in Mecabricks:

A Boy and His Longtail > Jim Spanfeller 10/14/2020 at 22:00

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That’s looking pretty good!

Urambo Tauro > Jim Spanfeller 10/14/2020 at 22:19

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This is amazing! So h ow the heck do you decide on a particular scale before doing your best to replicate it within the confines of the angles and curvatures that Lego bricks can afford?

Jim Spanfeller > Urambo Tauro 10/14/2020 at 22:33

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Thanks! I usually look at a particularly difficult/prominent detail, try to build that, and then scale the rest based on it. Usually I start with the wheels , but in this case I started with the pop-up headlights and based the rest on the proportions of those because I figured they would be tricky to build in lots of different sizes. This worked out pretty well, although it did mean I only really had one tire option to choose from.

Urambo Tauro > Jim Spanfeller 10/14/2020 at 22:47

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Yeah I imagine that some shapes would have been easier to recreate at other scales, b ut I think you made the right choice here . The headlights have got to be the NA’s m ost recognizable feature, and getting that right really helps sell any compromises you have to make in trying to convey the rest .

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Jim Spanfeller 10/14/2020 at 23:08

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That's looking so much better. I really wonder about the low resolution render that LLD has. Such an iconic shape there. 

Jim Spanfeller > A Boy and His Longtail 10/15/2020 at 02:15

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Thanks! It’s almost ready for Lego Ideas. Just gotta get the rendering program to work so it will look its best :)

A Boy and His Longtail > Jim Spanfeller 10/15/2020 at 11:28

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Got any plans to actually build it?

Jim Spanfeller > A Boy and His Longtail 10/15/2020 at 19:25

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Possibly. I don’t have the parts on hand to do it, but someday I might order the parts. If it actually reaches 10,000 supporters and Lego decides to make it a set, then I’ll probably want to so that so I can compare my original design to the set.