Make the TPU juints in a way where you can squize the tpu with a hex wrench so it expands slightly to the size. If you can't make something perfect, make it adjustable
Hi Matt, we love your scaled up videos. We are a middle school robotics class. One of my 7th graders explained the slumping problem. I am sure you already know this but coming from a 13 year old was pretty cool: "The reason the ball sockets on the big lego mech were weak is because of the square-cube law. If the big mech were, say, 5 times wide as the small (normal) lego one, it would weigh 125 times as much, but the area (grip) of the ball socket is only 25 times as much. So it has only a fifth of the gripping power as the small lego mech, and thus slumps down. This actually applies to life as well. Cells are so small because the surface area that gives it nutrients and food increases by the square of the size-up, but the amount of energy required by the cell (its volume) increases by the cube of the size-up. So they end up being small."
Hey that’s very cool! I’m really pleased it’s got some young minds thinking! And yes of course he is right! This mech is 4X scale so theoretically 16x the mass, however, the printed parts aren’t sold like Lego, they ar robot 5 to 10 % infill and a wall of around 1mm thick. So you don’t need to support 16x the mass.
One thing I'd adore seeing you make would be a larger scale Bionicle model, something like the Toa Mata would be a good base but it'd be so cool to see a larger scale version of Brutaka or one of the Bionicle titans. They could also possibly be made easier to stand because they have piston supports in the legs
your videos are always welcome thank you. And i don't care that you don't post often as you post things you do in your hoby at the rythme you can like any hoby Keep having fun and sharing your fun with us :D
I imagine that if you could successfully scan the pieces, the tolerances would be too loose in the large scale and none of the pieces would stay together without glue.
Looking forward to the growth of your channel. Fun concept, good production. Having to print such massive parts must really delay your uploads. It'd be cool if you would include the print time for key parts to give people a sense of it.
Your giant Lego builts really inspired me to do something similar but due to lake of time and a giant 3D printer there is just any idea and a first draft 😂
I own both sets & i can say that you've stayed true to them in parts detail & build but as for war machine not sitting right well it's because of the way he's built w/ the 1x2x4 brackets and the plates on it no way around that
LOVE how this is all (mostly) friction fit. King of tolerance!! Tolerance is usually the hardest thing for me when designing. Have you done your own here, or are the parts just directly modeled and scaled?
I prefer the looks of the new one too. It would be even cooler with a snazzy colorscheme instead of just brown and grey. For the hinges, some mechanism like in those adjustable arms that lock all joints in place with a single knob would be nice, like those that are used to hold dial indicators.
War machine, that's the one for me... WARMACHINEROX ;) That 8860 set looks like it's going to be amazing, upscaled suspension looks so cool! (Are you going to EMF Camp this year?)
Nah they are both terrible, the best similar concept mechs Lego have done to my mind are the Life on Mars (7314 and 3213). With honourable mentions though they are different styles of mech for the Rock Raiders Granite Grinder 4940 (much less pose able, but it just looks so much fun - so much more Colin Furze's style/brand of mad machine) and some of the Lego Technic robot type models from the late 80's like 8852. Edit: Don't want to appear to negative, I think you have done good work on them though, always fun to see your uploads. Also have you considered breaking with Lego design on the ball and socket joints a bit and introducing a 'click' - that periodic distortion of the ball so its got some bumps type idea should let you get a good number of much more stable poses while still looking correct enough as the scale of these 'click' features can be so small it will still look like a ball and socket.
Yeah I’m sure there are tons of cool mechs I don’t know about and I’ll look these up for sure! These were quite simple and fast to produce though so it worked for this project. I have thought about making an indexing type joint yes, but do try to keep it as original as I can
I like both but WarMachine edges it. As for how I’d display them, if you want to send them I’ll let you know ;) On a side note, I agree that WarMachine would look great with some servos fitted, that would be really cool! Looking forward to the future vids and congrats on the YT Play button :)
I need to mention this. There is a Software called Bricklink Studio 2.0 It's made to build LEGO digitally. I personally haven't done this but you can export your Creation into other File formats. I saw this from a Digital Artist (I don't remember the name) explaining the process. He exports them into blender and I guess you would be able to export it to a different program and then into a slicer.
As cool as upscaling another mech set is….what about something a bit more challenging? One of the best sets LEGO has done in the past 10 years was their Wall-E set which came out of the ideas program! I think it would be amazing to see the Lego Wall-E ideas set (not the brickheadz wall-e) scaled up to the actual size Wall-E is supposed to be! About 3 feet 4 inches IRL! Maybe you could even motorise it and throw in some RC controls!
I wonder if teflon tape / pft / plumbers tape could help stiffen up those joints to make it easier to display without having to print more joints out. Toy Polloi on TH-cam, uses a trick like that for joints on small toys that are loose. 12:11 . . . Both are fantastic bye the way . . . Can’t pick a favorite.
@@MattDenton maybe some way of using the TPU only as a thin lining on the joint to give friction without making the whole joint flexible ? .. No idea how you could do that tho ...
Really nice video. The dampener looks also really promising 😍 For the TPU balls on the feet, they might be the same as on the shoulders, but they probably have to withstand a bigger mass. Maybe you can even increase the friction with a kind of TPE. I personly was looking for a grippy alternative to tpu, as my rc car had no grip at all with tpu. So if took inspirtaion from lego tires which are actually made out of SEBS. There is one Spanish manufacturer, Recreus, who produces exactly this material as filament. And it worked great There might be even better options out there, but for me this works perfectly. (SEBS is a sort of TPE)
Oh that’s interesting 🤔 I’ll take a look at that material 👍 yeah the ankles do take more load but before I got the body on I could tell they were a looser fit
Congrats on 100 K now LOL toy product that had ball joints and sockets was stikfas. And if the ball joints got loose, the guys at the company said to paint clear nail varnish over the balls and then reconnect the sockets and it’s a stiffened them up. So I don’t know if you could add layer to the balls or sockets with something similar
Welcome back :-) Lego stays cool ! For the ball joints try ribbed plates same as lego so you can lock it in positions. part 4265a then use a spring system to easy unlock and reposition. ?
I like the look of these new mech suits lego has been doing, but i abhor the design choice with the permanently angled limbs. The earlier mech suits had ball joints for the knees, wrists, and elbows, in addition to the hips, shoulders, and ankles.
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Nice TPU balls!
yep he got nice balls there ;)
That’s what she said! :)
I came here to ask "how many doors down do you live from James Bruton?!"😂😂😂
@emilflognoid1532 he lives 20 mins walk from my house 👍 but I’m moving 3 hours away soon 😬
😂😂
This mech deserves a giant LEGO minifigure like that giant lego alarm clock
A NEW MATT DENTON VIDEO?!! And it's Giant LEGO?! So good to have you back!
Thanks 🙏
my favrite mech
This video was amazing I love the war machine mech keep up the amazing work !
Make the TPU juints in a way where you can squize the tpu with a hex wrench so it expands slightly to the size. If you can't make something perfect, make it adjustable
yo, could you adopt me
😂
He didn’t say no…
@@3liasBlue but he didn’t say yes…
@@Drevin235 but he didn’t say no
But he didn’t say yes..
Those shocks were like little fidget toys. Those look awesome!
Yeah I love them 😍
your lego go kart actually inspired me to build a 1:2 scaled car that i am currently modeling in CAD. Lots of parts ready to order already
Great!!
Giant Lego just never gets old! Love your projects and can't wait for that car :)
Thanks 🙏
Hi Matt, we love your scaled up videos. We are a middle school robotics class. One of my 7th graders explained the slumping problem. I am sure you already know this but coming from a 13 year old was pretty cool: "The reason the ball sockets on the big lego mech were weak is because of the square-cube law. If the big mech were, say, 5 times wide as the small (normal) lego one, it would weigh 125 times as much, but the area (grip) of the ball socket is only 25 times as much. So it has only a fifth of the gripping power as the small lego mech, and thus slumps down.
This actually applies to life as well. Cells are so small because the surface area that gives it nutrients and food increases by the square of the size-up, but the amount of energy required by the cell (its volume) increases by the cube of the size-up. So they end up being small."
Hey that’s very cool! I’m really pleased it’s got some young minds thinking! And yes of course he is right!
This mech is 4X scale so theoretically 16x the mass, however, the printed parts aren’t sold like Lego, they ar robot 5 to 10 % infill and a wall of around 1mm thick. So you don’t need to support 16x the mass.
One thing I'd adore seeing you make would be a larger scale Bionicle model, something like the Toa Mata would be a good base but it'd be so cool to see a larger scale version of Brutaka or one of the Bionicle titans. They could also possibly be made easier to stand because they have piston supports in the legs
I do get a lot of requests for bionicles !!
Your so talented! The dedication is insane
Oh thanks 🙏
That first giant Lego spring was cool but the second one is huge :D. Can't wait to see where it's going to be used 👍🏻
I know right!!! 😃
I would love to see a giant upscaled minifigure (the lego set) even more upscaled
Totally can't wait for the the Lego Chassis 8860 ... love what you do please please make more videos
Thank you 🙏 appreciated
your videos are always welcome thank you.
And i don't care that you don't post often as you post things you do in your hoby at the rythme you can like any hoby
Keep having fun and sharing your fun with us :D
Thanks 🙏 appreciate the feedback :)
WOOHOO GIANT LEGO FTW!!! Something so satisfying about watching giant Lego go together
Yeah 🙌
I imagine that if you could successfully scan the pieces, the tolerances would be too loose in the large scale and none of the pieces would stay together without glue.
Yeah scanning kits doesn’t work for this kind of thing.
Looking forward to the growth of your channel. Fun concept, good production. Having to print such massive parts must really delay your uploads. It'd be cool if you would include the print time for key parts to give people a sense of it.
Thanks you 🙏 and noted about the print time 👍👌
Kinda funny how building with giant LEGO sounds pretty damn similar to the way it sounds when minifigures build with LEGO in LEGO games.
I know right!!
This is awesome good job. You’re probably gonna end up building a full-scale Lego house next.
Thanks! A house might take some time 😄
Always enjoy a new Matt Denton video. I've been watching you since the micromagic hex days.
Awesome! Thank you! That’s going back some years now :)
You should put the big mech in an even bigger mech
i dont see how anyone wont subscribe to this this guy is literally so cool
Oh thanks 🙏
@@MattDenton your welcome
How small is this guy?
Size of your hand like tarantula and other mega legos and other bugs that are size of your hand
HI! , GREAT WORK
I also print giant Legos in 3D, you have been an inspiration.😀
Oh thank you 🙏
Your giant Lego builts really inspired me to do something similar but due to lake of time and a giant 3D printer there is just any idea and a first draft 😂
As long as the inspiration is there 🙌
This man will give lego an idea to make mechs for mechs
Love the pfp
Perhaps a low viscosity resin and some sand on the inside of the ball joints to create the friction needed?
I own both sets & i can say that you've stayed true to them in parts detail & build but as for war machine not sitting right well it's because of the way he's built w/ the 1x2x4 brackets and the plates on it no way around that
Thanks 🙏
Let’s see you do this for a RG/HG gunpla kit. RG Epyon would be a cool one to try
Please do UCS Star Destroyer next🥺
That would take a while! It took me a year and a half to build the real thing!
This man earned a sub😎👍
Thanks 🙏
No problem
Bro likes Lego so much
I wonder am I the only one who would love to see him do this with the new ninjago coal mech from ninjago dragons rising season 2 part 2 sets?
Nice mech!
LOVE how this is all (mostly) friction fit. King of tolerance!!
Tolerance is usually the hardest thing for me when designing. Have you done your own here, or are the parts just directly modeled and scaled?
Hi 👋 no the tolerance takes a while to get right! I’ve made many mistakes! Tolerance doesn’t scale :)
Great! Nice , to see you again!
Thank you! Cheers!
I prefer the looks of the new one too. It would be even cooler with a snazzy colorscheme instead of just brown and grey.
For the hinges, some mechanism like in those adjustable arms that lock all joints in place with a single knob would be nice, like those that are used to hold dial indicators.
Yeah like on a magic arm! That would be good but quite hard to implement 🤔
War machine, that's the one for me... WARMACHINEROX ;)
That 8860 set looks like it's going to be amazing, upscaled suspension looks so cool!
(Are you going to EMF Camp this year?)
Hey 👋 yeah james and I will be at EMF for sure 👌
Nah they are both terrible, the best similar concept mechs Lego have done to my mind are the Life on Mars (7314 and 3213). With honourable mentions though they are different styles of mech for the Rock Raiders Granite Grinder 4940 (much less pose able, but it just looks so much fun - so much more Colin Furze's style/brand of mad machine) and some of the Lego Technic robot type models from the late 80's like 8852.
Edit: Don't want to appear to negative, I think you have done good work on them though, always fun to see your uploads. Also have you considered breaking with Lego design on the ball and socket joints a bit and introducing a 'click' - that periodic distortion of the ball so its got some bumps type idea should let you get a good number of much more stable poses while still looking correct enough as the scale of these 'click' features can be so small it will still look like a ball and socket.
Yeah I’m sure there are tons of cool mechs I don’t know about and I’ll look these up for sure! These were quite simple and fast to produce though so it worked for this project.
I have thought about making an indexing type joint yes, but do try to keep it as original as I can
dang does it look good now make a bigger war machine figures and maybe a storm trooper! but I understand why you wouldn't
I like both but WarMachine edges it. As for how I’d display them, if you want to send them I’ll let you know ;)
On a side note, I agree that WarMachine would look great with some servos fitted, that would be really cool!
Looking forward to the future vids and congrats on the YT Play button :)
Oh thanks! Yeah I think some automated movement would be great!! I’ll ship them out right away ;)
I need to mention this.
There is a Software called Bricklink Studio 2.0
It's made to build LEGO digitally.
I personally haven't done this but you can export your Creation into other File formats. I saw this from a Digital Artist (I don't remember the name) explaining the process.
He exports them into blender and I guess you would be able to export it to a different program and then into a slicer.
Yes, the problem is the parts that export out are really low quality! Like studs are faceted to about 10 faces etc :/
@@MattDenton ouh...
so you would need to redo them pretty much ok dummer
@@MattDenton I like to import them into fusion anyway to check I am not making any mistakes and I get all the positioning right.
@@username9774 yeah it’s good to have a reference. I found it was quite a lot of steps to get them from their native format into my cad package
Maybe you can do the ball and sockets less round and more polyginal? Like 20 sided dice... so it can kinda click around from point to point
Nice idea 💡 👍
cyclists use products like 'Carbon Gripper' when their seat tube slips. Maybe this helps your robots standing up.
I’ll take a look thanks 🙏
I think you should remix them.. try everything from the warmachine but with the legs from the storm trooper so you can bend the knees.
Why did I not do that!?!
As cool as upscaling another mech set is….what about something a bit more challenging? One of the best sets LEGO has done in the past 10 years was their Wall-E set which came out of the ideas program! I think it would be amazing to see the Lego Wall-E ideas set (not the brickheadz wall-e) scaled up to the actual size Wall-E is supposed to be! About 3 feet 4 inches IRL!
Maybe you could even motorise it and throw in some RC controls!
Cool idea! I don’t have much space at the moment as I’m about to move. Hence another small kit! But I have some fun stuff planned :)
so awesome!
Thanks!!
I wonder if teflon tape / pft / plumbers tape could help stiffen up those joints to make it easier to display without having to print more joints out. Toy Polloi on TH-cam, uses a trick like that for joints on small toys that are loose.
12:11 . . . Both are fantastic bye the way . . .
Can’t pick a favorite.
Thanks 🙏
Perhaps if you could make a joint that used TPU on the ball and the socket it may give enough friction to hold up the weight ..
I tried it, in fact I filmed it and I thought it was in this edit 😂 maybe I removed it. Anyway the socket was too flexible and it was worse :/
@@MattDenton maybe some way of using the TPU only as a thin lining on the joint to give friction without making the whole joint flexible ? .. No idea how you could do that tho ...
@@AustralViking yeah possible with a multi material extruder, but not easy 🤔
Love your work!
Thank you!
Jjst to get a opening at-at walker that size. Wow!
The lower torso was the wrong way, but doesn't really matter😌
Really nice video. The dampener looks also really promising 😍
For the TPU balls on the feet, they might be the same as on the shoulders, but they probably have to withstand a bigger mass.
Maybe you can even increase the friction with a kind of TPE.
I personly was looking for a grippy alternative to tpu, as my rc car had no grip at all with tpu. So if took inspirtaion from lego tires which are actually made out of SEBS. There is one Spanish manufacturer, Recreus, who produces exactly this material as filament. And it worked great There might be even better options out there, but for me this works perfectly.
(SEBS is a sort of TPE)
Oh that’s interesting 🤔 I’ll take a look at that material 👍 yeah the ankles do take more load but before I got the body on I could tell they were a looser fit
Congrats on 100 K now LOL toy product that had ball joints and sockets was stikfas. And if the ball joints got loose, the guys at the company said to paint clear nail varnish over the balls and then reconnect the sockets and it’s a stiffened them up. So I don’t know if you could add layer to the balls or sockets with something similar
Thanks 🙏 I’ll give it a go 👍
yep that could be great to add thin layers
very nice. I also dig the fingers 😁
If it's 400% scale, that would make it similar to Quatro.
Need the mini millennium falcon
Welcome back :-) Lego stays cool ! For the ball joints try ribbed plates same as lego so you can lock it in positions. part 4265a then use a spring system to easy unlock and reposition. ?
Thanks 🙏 I’ll take a look :)
Print an interlocking profile in the ball sockets to increase their stick?
Yes man y wanted to see the resuilt
Сделай просто 3D принтере Lego костюм своего человеческого размера❤❤❤❤❤
Now do a 4x scale of Zane’s titan mech
Now you just need to make the figures
I like the look of these new mech suits lego has been doing, but i abhor the design choice with the permanently angled limbs. The earlier mech suits had ball joints for the knees, wrists, and elbows, in addition to the hips, shoulders, and ankles.
Yeah :/
Now make a mech for the big mech!
Nice parts
The spring is just the coolest thing :-) how did you make the metal spring?
I purchased the springs to fit 👍
Now you should do a ninjago titan mech lol
U should try to make a 3Dprinted war machine mini figure
Hi matt loved the video i was wondering if you could make a large minikit from lego star wars the complete saga
Possibly!
Very awesome
You should make that new Lego hulk buster one, yea that $500 something dollar ine
Yooo that lego set is the same toy that i bought a few week's ago
👍
Hey can you make the hulk mech suit for lego I want to see that one next
Can you please make a giant stormtrooper to put in the mech or try to see if the clock would work
The clock?
Well by clock I meant the storm trooper clock lego made way back as the clock was pretty much just a scaled up stormtrooper minifigure
actually u can export lego part stl file from lego Studio program.
anyway nice video!
Yeah but the resolution of the parts is terrible, you can count the faces of a round pip 😬
This might come off as rude but are bionicle toa buildable? Anyway these mechs you’ve made are super impressive and awesome, nice job dude!!!
Thanks 🙏 yeah I don’t know, I’d have to take a look
What I’d do to get my hands on one of these things.
13:20 ... i have a idea what that is for.... ;) congrats on the plack
Thanks, what’s you’re idea? 🤫
You should make the Minifigures for them lol
the hips are backwards on the marvel mech
Yep.. it gets sorted in the video
wow so cool
great model but you put the bottom torso on backwards
I know.. I notice in the video
@@MattDentonoh shit just noticed that sorry! great model!
Can you please make LEGO
Jay's Mech Battle Pack
71805
What’s the scale of the larger shock absorber? 10X? I remember your parts are usually 5X
8.34 ;)
Do you have reliable source of filaments matching Lego colors?
I mostly use PolyMaker but the match isn’t perfect.. just close enough
Make a giant ant man mini fig
War machine is superior
I agree
you should print correct minifigures for it.😁
😅My lip bro got the storm truper mech and i had the war mashine So big lol
Lego is made from ABS so how come you don't use that?
PLA is better for the environment and way easier to print! ABS require hover temperate and can warp quite easily. My first blue Lego gokart was ABS
Wow! 😮🤯
Stormtrooper
Or thor it doesn't matter
why not print rubber joints ?
I did
The hip is in the wrong way.
Yeah.. I correct it later in the video 😂
Try to 3d print lego set 71808
What type of 3D printer do you use?
On this build I’m using Bambu printers. Link in bio
Could you tell me how to get the mold to print all the pieces?
please😊😊
it's for my son
Download the files. Link in bio
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