Building Via Lego instructions

[impending_zombie_apocalypse]

So i got bored the other day and was building the "Malevolence" lego set spaceship, and i thought, hey, well this is blocks too, so i figured maybe if i could scale several blocks together to equal a lego that i could literally build some ships directly out of the lego instructions (although i would think it could potentially take a while as scaling the blocks to a lego would make the ship potentially about 6x regular scale if my math is remotely right)

I haven't started yet as it is literally 3:03 in the morning here, but i thought i'd put it out there as an interesting idea for anyone else to try if they felt like it too, i have to find the time myself but just felt like putting it out there, i think it's a decent enough idea at least :)

[Johari]

Did you make it? How did it come out?

[maggot]

This is a great idea, im going to try to make some lego sets too

[impending_zombie_apocalypse]

sorry, i haven't started it yet, been pretty busy with work, hence the reason why i tossed the idea out there, i wanted to at some point here but i work 5am to 5pm 7 days a week typically so i thought someone else could have fun with the idea in the meantime.

[Houmann]

Interesting idea. Just gave me another possible source of inspiration. Off to tjeck for online lego build descriptions. :-)

[dga8705]

It would be an interesting way to do it, but I don't think the scale would end up right for your engineer. Given that legos has plates and bricks, you'd almost have to make plates 1 block thick and bricks (which are 3 times as thick as plates) 3 blocks. Most of the builds I've seen have walls that are 4-5 blocks thick(at least the playsets, something like the Super Star Destroyer might work) which would make the walls 12.5m thick? Given that the astronauts are a little under 2.5m it wouldn't work out, but it would be a good guide I'm sure.

[impending_zombie_apocalypse]

well the typical lego brick is the thickness (height-wise) of 3 lego plates, which in that aspect would be easily doable if you were to build a lego block in game (1 block thick floors being the equivalent of a plate, 3 blocks thick for a brick, the problem i've noticed looking here at legos right now is that a lego brick that is 1 peg wide seems to be equivalent to 2 1/2 plates thick in that angle of it, since space engineers doesn't seem to have half-slab blocks like those of minecraft then i could see that posing a problem to the scale factor of the entire thing, unless you construct the entire model a though plates were 2 blocks thick, bricks being 6 high, and then that would allow for them to be 5 blocks of width per peg of said lego.

of course if you're building this as a large model or without some sort of editor, i imagine the scale of it all would get shockingly immense, as i actually have the lego super star destroyer, each outer panel has 12 pegs x5 x10 equals 600 blocks long for one side panel, not to mention the inward curve back towards the engines adding another 200-250 block distance to the end of it, in addition to the hundreds of steps up to that point anyways, it would be amazing to build but i imagine it would take months.