Idea for a MASSIVE Lego project

[Johnnymuffintop]

Ok, this is either brilliant one of the dumbest things I've ever thought of.
We build a fleet (not multiple ships, and one KEY ships, if not only just the various Enterprise, Defiant, and Voyager and a few shuttles) of lego ships.
Probably when finished set of at one of the Trek museums or something.

Here's the kicker, we build it ALL at a scale of 1 stud per meter...
That would mean:
Type-9 Shuttle: 1.33 " long
Type-6 Shuttle: 1.88 " long
Class F Shuttle: 2.30 " long
Type-10 Shuttle: 3.03 " long
STXI (Construction site) Shuttle: 3.77 " long
Type-11 Shuttle: 4.40 " long
Defiant: 4 ' and 5.75 " long
NX-01: 5 ' and 10.86 " long
NCC-1701: 7 ' and 6.89 " long
NCC-1701-A: 8 ' and 0.06 " long
Voyager: 9 ' and 0.50 " long
NCC-1701-B: 13 ' and 5.02 " long
NCC-1701-C: 13 ' and 9.66 " long
NCC-1701-D: 16 ' and 9.88 " long
NCC-1701-E: 17 ' and 11.96 " long
NCC-1701 (JJPrise): 19 ' and 0.45 " long

Thoughts? Anyone considering helping (at least with design at this point. I still gotta get the lego CAD program)

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

At that size it becomes quite the engineering project, I would assume that the binding strength of the bricks breaks down somewhat when a complex design starts sizing up? What do the professionals do in the circumstances, are there pre-fabricated skeletons for such purposes?

 

[S'kai]

You Crazy Glue the bottom two layers of suspended parts. Who will know?

 

[Johnnymuffintop]

Typically the professionals make a skeleton that they build around. If I were to do it for Star Trek ships, I'd essentially be building a 0.008% scaled version of a starship's framework.Technically I could avoid that for a lot of parts, like the saucer itself, but the necks of all ships could DEFINITELY have to be reinforced.
Anyone with any metal fabrication skills?

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

You Crazy Glue the bottom two layers of suspended parts. Who will know?

You the builder! Always build with Lego knowing you'll have to take it apart again one day.

 

[The Axeman]

I switched from Lego to CGI some time ago. Even trying to get all these models together virtually in cyberspace would be difficult.

 

[Albertese]

God. How expensive would that be? You should apply for a grant. They give them out for art installations if you can write a good enough BS Essay about how it will add meaning to the world. Or something...

--Alex

 

[Johnnymuffintop]

I switched from Lego to CGI some time ago. Even trying to get all these models together virtually in cyberspace would be difficult.

Well, the trick would be to divide the project into smaller parts. Do just the bridge section, just the torpedo launcher, just the shuttlebay, etc digitally. The majority of it would be just winging it.

As far as a grant is concerned, if I know that there was a possible Trek museum somewhere that wanted them, I could both get some fundage from them as well as a grant. As for the BSing a reason: Clearly, the Trek community as a whole would be brought together for a communal goal. In doing some, it would bring those parent's basement living trekkers out into daylight and being to rehabilitate them back into society.
(^Keep in mind, not my actually opinion of all of us, just had to exaggerate it to sound better. I might even throw in a suicide attempt or two)

 

[The Axeman]

I think you'd have better chances getting it into a Lego World type place rather than a Trek museum, but then they'd have their own Lego construction experts anyway. I think a shedload of cash is required, no idea where to get that, and even then there's no gaurantee the models could be made at all.

 

[AnyStar]

wow, co-incidentally ive been workin on 3d lego stuff the last couple days. i've secretly been working on a lego-size 1701-refit, and i can tell you that at lego size it is 20-½ feet long, just under 5 feet tall, and 9-½ feet across !!!

i havnt started modeling it yet, i'm still modeling individual bricks to use, but i do have a screenshot from the LegoDigitalDesigner software that my son plays with, this is what gave me the initial idea.

the only downside is, unlike all the SW lego kits there are, the shapes of the general outlines of Trek ships dont lend themselves very well to lego construction, you have to get very creative to make them look decent.

 

[AnyStar]

You Crazy Glue the bottom two layers of suspended parts. Who will know?

You the builder! Always build with Lego knowing you'll have to take it apart again one day.

my son has a tendency to take sharpies, spraypaint, & glue to his lego creations... i still cringe whenever he wants to do it, epsecially when he's planning on altering classic bricks he inherited from my old collections

 

[BolianAuthor]

wow, co-incidentally ive been workin on 3d lego stuff the last couple days. i've secretly been working on a lego-size 1701-refit, and i can tell you that at lego size it is 20-½ feet long, just under 5 feet tall, and 9-½ feet across !!!

i havnt started modeling it yet, i'm still modeling individual bricks to use, but i do have a screenshot from the LegoDigitalDesigner software that my son plays with, this is what gave me the initial idea.

the only downside is, unlike all the SW lego kits there are, the shapes of the general outlines of Trek ships dont lend themselves very well to lego construction, you have to get very creative to make them look decent.

I was just gonna say... why not make a CGI Lego ST fleet?

 

[The Axeman]

I think that while it's cheaper than building the real thing, it's only marginally less difficult given the inherent problems of using standardised square parts to make round ships. I'd love to see one complete at that scale though, it would be immense!