My modern army

Post by G2 » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:56 pm

Hey all, I thought that I would share some pictures of my modern-day army. I am still working on building vehicles for them using 'real' Lego, but here are a few pictures.

The Good Guys

The Bad Guys

APC

Military Helicopter 1

Military Helicopter 2

Military Truck 1

Military Truck 2

Military Snowmobile

I hope that you guys enjoy.

Post by **Olothontor** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:01 pm

Once you build all of that, it'll be even more aweseom than it already is. And that's pretty awesome. What you need are moar missiles!

Post by G2 » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:29 pm

Olothontor wrote:What you need are moar missiles!

Here is my missile silo. - Thanks to Izzo for the design (he is fantastic Lego builder).

Missile-Silo

I am sure there will be moar to come.

Post by **Tzan** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:26 pm

Is there an official name or part number for those torsos and helmets?
Looks good, about as close as you can get I think.

Post by G2 » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:42 pm

Tzan wrote:Is there an official name or part number for those torsos and helmets?
Looks good, about as close as you can get I think.

Torso Town Vest with Patch Pockets over White Shirt Pattern / White Arms / Yellow Hands

Green Minifig, Headgear Helmet Sports with Vent Holes

With the torso, you will need to get green arms and swap them.

Post by **Rayhawk** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:08 pm

The green bike helmet is a good solution, I like that. I should point out that BrickArms and BrickForge both also have military helmets, if you don't mind custom pieces, although they're pricey ($1-$1.50 each).

Post by **kidko** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:57 pm

I've actually never seen such a large force all color-coordinated with each other. Good work!

Post by **Tzan** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:32 pm

The black and green sport helms sell for $.99 to $1.25 on BrickLink. You can get other colors for half that price.
So maybe Brickarms is not too bad, although the color wont match.

The torso sells for around $.14

Post by G2 » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:51 pm

Tzan wrote:The black .... helms sell for $.99 to $1.25 on BrickLink.

I don't have any black helmets, but I think may get a few, so I can make some special ops guys.

Tzan wrote:The torso sells for around $.14

Don't forget that you need green arms as well.

Post by **Foggy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:30 pm

Yikes.
Got enough guns to supply them all?

Now then, build them a command bunker. One that they can all defend at once.

Post by G2 » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:40 pm

Foggy wrote:Got enough guns to supply them all?

Actually I don't have enough guns. But sometime soon, I will be making a big purchase from Brickarms, so that my poor soldiers can actually defend themselves.

Foggy wrote:Now then, build them a command bunker. One that they can all defend at once.

This sounds like a great idea. I might just do that.

Post by **Olothontor** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:50 pm

One question about that silo... I can't identify those red bits on top of the cylinder pieces. What are those?

Post by **piltogg** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:55 pm

everything mathches it is evil!!!

Post by **IVhorseman** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:05 pm

Olothontor wrote:One question about that silo... I can't identify those red bits on top of the cylinder pieces. What are those?

they're the base of minifig joysticks/antennas. they've got the stick part taken out, and then they're placed on top of those 1x1 grey pins with one end that's about half length. what's great about these rockets, is that they're removable; they fit into the hollow chamber of those 1x1 cylinders, and function as excellent firing chambers (so you can actually "launch" the rockets!)

Post by G2 » Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:42 pm

Olothontor wrote:One question about that silo... I can't identify those red bits on top of the cylinder pieces. What are those?

These are actually the Electric, Light Bulb Cover, which is actually only available in transparent colors.

But since I am using a cad program, I have made them an opaque (instead of transparent) red.