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When I was little, I used to love my Perler beads. I would make things and then take them apart and make other things; for a while, I remember that I was making FF1 weapons from my imagination, because, yes, I was that nerdy as a child.

Anyway, I got a little nostalgic last year, and even more so when I saw some of the nerdy projects that other like-minded people out there have been doing (check out http://www.spritestitch.com/?p=2604 or http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/ipb/in...howtopic=11460). So I bought a bunch of beads and boards, and just last night I finished my first project:



It's Alex from River City Ransom, for those of you who were too young to play a true NES gem (or the GBA remix, I guess). It's got just over 8,200 total beads, and for the scale, it's pictured there with a CD case.

Perhaps I can do something Final Fantasy-related next.

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 11th December 2012 15:51

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You make me want to throw Daft Punk's "Work It" at you for that, in accordance with the famous RCR flash video.

Great job. Though I immediately wondered why you couldn't just have used one bead per pixel. I guess that would be 1/16 the size...

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I recognized the character immediately. I miss that game. It had a weird strange sort of rpg'ish aspect to it even.

With that being said, nice work. I cant wait to see the FF visions you create.

Showing some serious love for pixels there.

Run out of black beads at some point?

Not that I recall, IP, why? I have about 10k black beads in my closet.

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Not that I recall, IP, why? I have about 10k black beads in my closet.

Because his right hand (left in the picture) seems to have a group of four peach colored beads that should be black. Like a 1/2 sized pixel of peach. If you want to call it "artistic license" to make the closed hand read better, I won't question it.

This post has been edited by Iain Peregrine on 8th November 2010 20:07

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 8th November 2010 08:32)

Not that I recall, IP, why? I have about 10k black beads in my closet.

Because his right hand (left in the picture) seems to have a group of four peach colored beads that should be black. Like a 1/2 sized pixel of peach. If you want to call it "artistic license" to make the closed hand read better, I won't question it.

Oh, no, you caught that. Just did it in error and caught it too late.

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Alex AND The Go! Team, eh? That sounds like the recipe for some sort of late-night NES party. One that would likely be punctuated both by fruity sodas and ecstatic cries of "BARF!" well into the wee hours.

Pretty awesome stuff!

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Cool biehns.

l've seen something like this before, but nearly as big. Thanks for sharing.

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