It took me a few tries before I was satisfied with the basic shapes, angles and proportions of the arm, but this one is good to be test built I think. ;o)The inside of the upperarm is flat now, just like the real LEGO minifig arms, and you can also see the simple "pin" that will connect the arm to the torso so it can still rotate.
When you look at it now, one wonders why it was so much work?? ;o)
Stay tuned!
This was really cool watching the process of building a Lego character! Great work...absolutely Great work!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like it so far! ;o)
ReplyDeleteSometimes it takes very long to make something that looks so simple when it's done, and I still have quite a few parts to go, but luckily it's a lot of fun to do! ;o)
Totally agree, it's really hard to arms. In my case I had problems with the angle bracket which would be the shoulder, where it fits the pin to hold the arm and also provides rotational movement. As you can see in the image of this link http://paperbotz.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/f002x.png, the stand should be at 90 degrees to the flat part of each side of the chest to the arm can rotate 360 degrees without problems.
ReplyDeleteIn the image of the next link http://paperbotz.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/lego_man01.gif, you can see the structure of the arms on the chest viewed from various angles.
Yes, the flat part of the arm is very important so the arm can rotate against the torso; it took a lot of trying and redoing to make all the round and flat parts and the different angles look "smooth" together, but I think it looks pretty good like a real LEGO minifig arm now, so I hope the paper version will too! (only bigger ;o)
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