Just a little spaceship I built, many years ago...

[RohanBeckett]

I'd forgotten about this one for at least a decade or two.... then I re-discovered these photos... so glad they were taken!

Film was expensive.. so it must have been a decent enough model for me to convince my mother to take a couple of photos!

I'm pretty certain this would have exhausted nearly every white/blue/black/grey piece I had... I was always loath to use any other colours in spaceships! (it just wouldn't look right!)

All the buggies and mini-ships docked with the main spaceship, and it had plenty of hatches, and folding pieces!

You can probably guess the main Lego sets I had, by some of the unique pieces in it!

(is that 2 rare trans-yellow antennas on it? )

RB

[RoryoCox]

Very nice it looks just like an original space ship, but bigger.

The colours are nice too.

[Skull-Mark_Ladybug]

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[lightningtiger]

Great spaceship you had then 'RohanBeckett' - I agree with 'MacK' - remake it !

I'm a conformist! !

[RohanBeckett]

Great spaceship you had then 'RohanBeckett' - I agree with 'MacK' - remake it !

I'm a conformist! !

I might be able to remake it with original parts... I have all my childhood lego in a big box behind me..

Unfortunately, I 'played-with-it-to-death', and as a result, most parts are in very poor condition.. scratched/scuffed/dull/broken.

Plus the box it was stored in, was kept in my fathers steel shed, and suffered about 20 years of VERY hot Australian summers...

a lot of the pieces are very brittle now.

I don't have many new space sets these days ..apart from my beloved 8480 Technic Shuttle! :D

RB

[Big Cam]

That is awesome, I love retro LEGO pics. Look at all those spacemen you have

I remember seeing creations like this in my LEGO magazine each month.

Cool ship!

[KDog]

Why did none of the sets I built as a kid look that good? Seriously, that looks like it could have been an official set if LEGO had higher pricepoints back then.

[krystalKING]

I wish I could build something like that!oh and one word:WOW

[Fires-storm]

Very awesome! I love how it looks, and all the little spacemen just sell it

[Spacefan]

A very unique spacecraft, and quite a MOC for its time.

Looks to be a mix of late Classic Space and Futuron, so it would put it in around 1987.

Did you have any original Blacktron? I still have all of my 6954 Renegade, but the kit was a U.S. only release from what I can gather.

[snefroe]

pretty big indeed... wonder how you swoosh that in the nude...

did it survive your childhood in any way or did you take it apart the day after?

[BobaFett2]

I love it! I want so badly to collect those Futuron sets, but they are quite expensive on Bricklink now.

[RohanBeckett]

Thanks for the comments!

Yes.. a lot of classic space..

Heaps of little sets from 1979/1980, etc...

StarFleet Voyager... Galaxy Commander

Star Defender 200

was always a favourite, and

Sonar Transmitting Cruiser

was one of my biggest sets, and probably one of the last big Space sets I got, before 'requesting' more Technic sets for birthday/Christmas :)

I don't actually think I got a single Blacktron set... although I got a few M-Tron ones

Yes.. i'm guessing it was around 1988/1989... although I cropped the photos.. it was out in the backyard of the new big house we moved to, and the backyard was still pretty barren.. not many trees!

I used to love building this Super Space truck/van... think of an 'A-Team' style van.. but with large technic truck wheels.. huge windscreen at the front.. ramp at the back, to drive up other buggies.. flip out turrets, etc etc..

I used to spent hours doodling in school/lunchtime all these wild and crazy spacecraft ideas.. then come home and try to build them!

I wonder if I can find those sketches....

RB