If you played LEGO as a kid, or have a crappy LEGO, you're bound to have a lot of LEGO parts left over, so how do you effectively utilize them? Next, I'm going to introduce a Lego more advanced play: MOC
What is MOC
The whole process of MOC is My?own?creation, which translates to "My Opus! ".
It's an advanced form of LEGO play. It is not limited to a set of parts, nor does it rely solely on the instructions for assembly.
Overseas there are many professional MOC gods are my idol, they are very good at using the existing parts of LEGO stacked with the real world has all the items, only you can not think. There is nothing they can't do.
Different parts can create everything in the world through clever combinations. It's like Goldfinger.
Categorization of MOC
People who have played with LEGO should know that LEGO itself is divided into many series, the more famous ones are the technology series, the plant collection series, the art series, the Ideas series, and so on.
MOC is no exception, it is generally divided into scientific and technological MOC or particle MOC. scientific and technological MOC generally have sports car ah engineering models. The granular MOC's have a variety of world famous architectural restorations and so on.
General mod can be divided into four categories
Architecture
Architecture is a very popular category under the mod, it has two kinds of gameplay, one is the use of a minimum of parts, to restore their own expression of the building, more It's more realistic. One is based on the proportion and construction of the real building, to complete the super realistic realistic class building model. Both schools of thought are very popular in mods.
Automobiles
Automobiles can be categorized into sports cars, off-road vehicles, engineering vehicles, and other types of vehicles. Basically, as long as there are cars in reality, there will be people to mod. the more popular ones are the sports car class and the engineering car class. These can be said to be the types that we 24k pure steel straight men can't refuse
Floral
Floral is also a very popular series, a lot of common plants and flowers, can be obtained through a simple combination. This series is perfect for gifting to the ladies of your choice!
Science fiction
Science fiction mocs, we can use our infinite creativity to put together all the models we want. My favorite thing to do is to take a bunch of Lego pieces and aimlessly put them together, often with unexpected results.
MOC drawings
If you're new to MOC, you'll be at a loss, so you can buy or go to the website to get the drawings of the MOC works of the gods, so that we can refer to the works of the gods, and then do more, so that you can get it all together. Below are two recommended websites that I personally like to use.
1. Rebrickable
The world's No. 1 MOC website, where countless domestic and foreign gods reside. Many of the gods' MOC works will be released to this website at the first time, I will look at what updated MOCs are on this website almost every day, and when I see the ones I like I will download them and pile them up.
2. Eurobricks
Eurobricks is a MOC site similar to a forum, except for posting drawings, there is also a lot of information and discussion threads. The atmosphere in there is also very good. It's good for the beginner to get in.
MOC
If some friends are not satisfied with the diy works of the gods, but also want to make their own unique works, but do not know how to start, I recommend the use of several software.
Lego Digital Designer Lego Block Simulator
Lego's official block simulation software, which has all the built-in Lego block parts, is simple and easy to use. And it's totally free. You can export PNG pictures as your own reference. But there are fewer features.
lego studio?
Third-party LEGO simulation software, there are a lot of LEGO do not have the parts to choose (need to be customized by third-party manufacturers support), it is also free, and easy to get started. It's also free and easy to use, and you can export the parts list and buy them with one click. It can be used as an advanced software for moc.
leoCAD
See cad, you should be able to know that it is a professional cad software, it is slightly more difficult to get started than the previous two, but it is also free. And it has a cross-platform version that supports win, linux, and mac. it's a must-have software for the cross-over to the big guns. All LEGO modeling operations - export - rendering can be done here.
Get the key parts
After determining the model of the moc, we are definitely going to start putting it together, and during the process we may find that there are some parts of the design that we are missing. How do we go about getting them? For example, I personally do this flower tree house, is relatively simple moc.
My red cherry blossom parts are not natively come with, this time we need to get this key parts of their own. There are two ways to do this, one is to go to a second hand platform and buy a "meat killer" kit. What is to kill the meat kit, kill the meat means that some LEGO players only like to collect LEGO miniatures, and the rest of the parts in addition to the miniatures will be sold, the price can be cheaper than the normal 50 ~ 60% or so. This kind is called killing meat. The second way is to directly find the official LEGO purchase, but this purchase method is more expensive, so it is generally not as a recommendation.
After familiarizing ourselves with the above approaches, we can easily start our own moc journey.