Lego Mobile Crane 8421

Bart · March 13, 2016

By DTM-51

It took me about a month do build, rig and render it.
I’ve used the LDraw meshes, exported them as a template into a CAD-Program, rebuild every piece, export them back to Blender, made the final touch (edge split) aaand finally appended the piece into the main .blend where i assembled everything….

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

6 responses

Ivan paulos Tomé

13 March 2016 at 13:46

Wow, very nice and carefully crafted model. Congratulations !

Stephen

13 March 2016 at 17:23

totally awesome. Almost as much fun as a real lego model.

claas

13 March 2016 at 21:46

very nice rendering – lacking a tick of contrast but lighting is great!

elbriga

14 March 2016 at 00:06

Georgous, really goergous. Makes me want to go back to Lego Digital Designer :)

b-fuze

14 March 2016 at 01:25

Awesome man, very good job. Keep up the great work! Everything is on point though I do think a tad bit of texturing is in order, even the subtlest detail as a procdural texture would’ve been great.

Otherwise, awesome work man!

Nuts 'n Gum

15 March 2016 at 16:31

Fantastic! This is one of the Lego sets I want most, and seeing your wonderful model makes me want it that much more.

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