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In this tutorial I will build a complete Star Wars LEGO model from scratch using Autodesk 3ds Max 8. Originally I made this for the speed modeling contest. Since the purpose of this contest is to model as much as possible within one hour, I didn’t model the underside of the lego bricks (or the underside of the model). For this tutorial I recreated the model and since there was no time pressure, I used some different techniques.

I will start of with modeling some basic lego pieces and after that the more complex ones. In the second part of the tutorial I will assemble all the lego pieces together to create a lego snowspeeder. The third part will be texturing, lighting and rendering with finalRender.

Basic Lego Bricks

More Lego bricks

Sloped Lego Bricks

Lego Plates

Lego Hinges

Laser

Cockpit Window

Special Parts 1

Special Parts 2

Assembly 1

Assembly 2

Texturing

Rendering