What happened with you?

Chancellor Erik · Post by **Chancellor Erik** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:23 am

Ok, there are obviously some very talented Lego customizers out there, and some of the best custom pieces require a little cutting to get from official Lego to your own creaton. So everybody, 'fess up. What happened to you the first time you put the knife to the plastic?

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:36 am

Chancellor Erik wrote:Ok, there are obviously some very talented Lego customizers out there, and some of the best custom pieces require a little cutting to get from official Lego to your own creaton. So everybody, 'fess up. What happened to you the first time you put the knife to the plastic?

It looked good. Bat helm into pseudo-Corinthian - just loose the wings and some of the helmet around the mouth. But it wasn't that big of a deal for me since I've been wielding a hobby knife for quite a while now, and so it is no great brag that I avoided disaster.

Brickboy · Post by **Brickboy** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:52 am

The first time I modified a piece it looked like garbage, but I am getting better every day.

Alan

doctorsparkles · Post by **doctorsparkles** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:28 am

The first time I cut a piece, it was one of the Dragon Master halberds. I just sliced the spear point off the top, the spike off the back and cut the handle in half to make it a hand axe. Pretty simple stuff, so it turned out pretty well.

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:32 am

The first thing I ever customized was a Tyco Axe head that I superglued to a lance pole, so it would fit better into the lego figs hands. Then next thing I did I cut the blade off a lego axe and glued it to the back of another axe, thus making a double bladed axe. That little piece still looks awesome btw, but my nephew has it now.
That was about fifteen years ago?
anyway, I have had my share of mistakes, and "ew that looks like crap", but if not for the success of those two items I would probably not be near as brave with slicing and hacking and painting as I am today.

Freak

erikut · Post by **erikut** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:19 am

i modify bricks whit my theets

it hurts a bit but its ok thats why i anwerd the last one...

Jehkar · Post by **Jehkar** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:12 pm

I almost cut my finger off when I was modifying a oval sheild. I wanted to make it have spikes off the top. I tried cutting curves to go different ways. It worked well for a while, but the knife slipped, and sliced my index finger. I won't go into to much detail, but it as bad. And the sheild is a dark red now.

I am now armed with a nail clipper (mostly for quick cuts on axes) I can make axes like TTK in seconds.

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:04 pm

I had fun the first time I ever customized anything. Of course what I did was cut up the Dragon Master King I had, I frayed and cut his cape, cut several grooves and slashes into his face and torso etc... Then I did the same to his sword, shield and crown. I then used some dark red marker to simulate blood and had my Dragon Master King killed by treachery and then desecrated. It was fun and it began the story of how there are no DMs in my world, only Black Knights.

Will

Green Fox · Post by **Green Fox** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:55 pm

I have never cut a castle part, but I cut up classic space guns to make pistols and uzis.

Blasterman · Post by **Blasterman** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:55 pm

But it wasn't that big of a deal for me since I've been wielding a hobby knife for quite a while now, and so it is no great brag that I avoided disaster.

I have to follow TTK on this one. I started customizing
Hasbro SW figures back in 1996, so I have experience.

Teup · Post by **Teup** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:32 pm

Hey, where's the "I tried, but i screwed op so I had to order replacements @ BL

"
(i tried to cut out the bottom of a big barrel once, to name but one)

Also goes for the poor parts I wasted by making em black with markers...

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:39 pm

I have never ever taken anything to my LEGO's, and probably never will. I've seen some of Brickboy's customization, though, and it looks pretty good.

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:16 pm

My first modded parts were a "bell holder" basically I took a Pirates cutlass and chopped off 1/2 the blade so the remaining part can hold a yellow 1x1 cone. This was for my Castle's "Town Yeller" back when I was still building Castle sets/MOCs. Long before I went Ancient.

The Josh · Post by **The Josh** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:28 am

I have been tempted to modify my parts, but I have managed to restrain myself. I would hate to lose a quality lego piece to a bad modification.

-The Josh

jamitjames · Post by **jamitjames** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:35 pm

Well it looked bad before I did it, it was a unsilver sword.

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