New Custom Sets

by **Jedipawn** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:49 pm

Hello all! It is finaly time for my first posting of MOCs. I have been working on designing custom sets to be sold to the AFOL community to help with the lack of "classic" castle sets available today. The first several are up, unfortunatly the Brickshelf server crashed and would not let me upload the rest. The first line has 6 sets from one faction. I have not yet desided which faction to use, so any sugestions would be welcome. As of right now, the sets are buildings only.

Any constructive critisizem (sp?) would be VERY helpfull.

the link; http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74287

One finaly question, if there is anyone who knows Pro-Ray that might be able to explain how to change the angle/location of the "camara" I would love the help.

hope you enjoy!

Jedipawn

by **the_great_one** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:55 pm

Hey Jedi,
you will have to deeplink, the folder is not yet public!
I hope you hurry an post the new link! i always like good custom sets!!

Nikos

by **Jedipawn** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:00 pm

ok, well I don't know about "good custom sets", but here it goes anyway...

The Fortress
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=677397

The Stables (bad angle on the camera)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=677398

Jedipawn

by **the_great_one** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:08 pm

Nope, you will have to deeplink, so the whole background goes white, and then copy and paste the URL adress link.
They will be good!!
NIkos

by **Jedipawn** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:14 pm

ok sorry, a bit new to this posting pics.
lets try again

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... _on_16.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... g_cart.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... _on_16.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... rtress.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... ehouse.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... tables.jpg

and the folder link just in case
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=74287

The more I look at the pics, the more I get frusterated at the camera. So I appolagize for that.

Jedipawn

by **footsteps** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:07 pm

Jedipawn wrote:http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jedip ... rtress.jpg

Congratulations on developing a corner gate. How do you make the connections to the walls?

My own corner gate is here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=55478
and
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=43288

It's lots of fun developing new ideas. Yours looks like it might be quite elegant.

Alan

by **architect** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:21 pm

Hi Jedipawn,

I have a couple of suggestions:

Build actual versions of the sets and have 2 to 3 good photos of each. Make sure that instructions are easy to follow and include a parts list and a step by step parts list. Think of packaging. For rendering, lower angles would help us see the creations alot.

Ben E.
http://www.ellermann.us/kits

edit: My website provider is down

hopefully you can check my site later. I would also encourage you to check out http://www.brickmania.com

by **lemon_squeezer2** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:51 pm

I'm foaming at the mouth here. These sets are neat and I believe they would fit in with the original ones very nicely. They almost look like ideas lego might of had but then were dropped.

How many will you make of each?

How much will the cost?

Keep it up! I hope I will be able to get one

by jb » Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:31 pm

They look like cool models, but you need some better angles. Try downloading LPub. It's easy to change the camera in that and it will help when you make instructions.

James

by **Jedipawn** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:31 pm

ok folder is puplic with the better angled shots uploaded...

Jedipawn

by **Glencaer** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:06 am

"Constructive criticism"

Some questions: how much of a run are you doing on each set? (5 of each, etc)

Advice - use JPEG as your picture format. bmp (bitmaps) take up a lot of memory and load really slowly (even slower with a dialup connection).

The best place I've seen to sell sets is a BrickFest - as people bring money to spend there, and like getting few-of-a-kind things.

Lastly, don't be humble about your custom set - if you don't think these are good, don't bother going through the trouble of gathering the pieces and selling them. And telling other people that you don't think they are good is fishing for compliments, and won't attract buyers.

good luck with this.
-Lenny

by **Mr. D** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:00 pm

Very good! How much do you think the fortress will cost?

mD

by **Taki** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:07 pm

Hmmm these sets need figs and details. But first give us a pricelist please ::)

by **Todd** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:50 am

The sets look great, but a pricelist would help.

by **David Girard** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:05 am

It's really great work Jedi. I prefer MOC like sets as you did. This is the way I create too.

It need some minifigs however.

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