MOC: Blacktron Xerra

[Horatio-Caine]

Hi there,

I'm new here but have been lurking for a while. Long story short, I was into Lego from when I was young and then lost interest in about 2008 or so and sold all my Lego stuff, which was a mixture of nice example older sets from the 90s and before, along with a load of older Lego sets I got when I was younger at that time and predictably at that age mixed them all up, so essentially a massive lot of pieces. I also sold most of the NIB older sets I had (big mistake there I was kicking myself soon after that!). At that time I was more interested in having the older sets on display as I'm not really a fan of what is being made setwise now mostly, however I do find the newer parts useful as you'll see next.

I still have a soft spot for Lego though and this year decided to come back but not to buy and display older sets anymore, no, this time I wanted to let my creativity show and build my own stuff every so often when time, money and space allows, also to buy a few of my favourite older Lego sets new as I am a bit of a collector too. I've already managed to obtain a few.

Anyway, over time, my favourite Lego theme grew to be Space, and from it my favourite subtheme was easily the original Blacktron faction, nothing beats that in terms of coolness to me. After I saw all these MOC's of them going through Flickr and all, I felt that it would be cool to do my own version of Blacktron. I know some people will say that it needs some yellow highlighting bricks, however when I saw pasukaru76's Phase Black Blacktron spacecraft on Flickr, I personally felt that looked amazing so for my personal version of Blacktron I have gone down that path mostly.

From that I began work on my first Blacktron craft and first MOC. It started in June, I purchased a few sets for parts along with part orders and took me about a month to get the majority of it done, since mid July I have been finishing and tweaking little details, the last one being what the minifigures will look like, I wanted to make them a bit different while still being recognisably Blacktron.

It has now all come to this, I give you the Blacktron Xerra.

All pictures.

I'll add a few details/story about it later on, for now though I hope you like it.

[Pate-keetongu]

That's sweet and sleek. The monochromacy looks rather good, espacially on the big flat areas, but some very small yellow details could look neat as well. The double cockpit is cool, nice to see those windshields used on a Blacktron MOC, they want to be used like that!

[Jargo]

Oh crap - spacegasm! Can't speak, Moc is too sexy. fblerblemphgrrrpffff........

[lightningtiger]

One word......AWESOME and now that is so Blacktron !

I like the styling of the craft plus it's weapons packs....sweet heat !

Brick On Fight On 'Horatio-Caine' !

[Horatio-Caine]

Many thanks for the positive replies everyone, I'm glad you like it!

I'll admit that there are certain areas where a bit of yellow would make it look nice too, although again I personally I have settled in with this look.

I updated the Flickr page with a story/description, which I will now add here too.

And now for Blacktron's introduction story.

"Coming from far and unexplored sectors of the Galaxy, emerges a new threat, in the form of…Blacktron.

The Xerra is just one of their sleek and formidable ships they have at their disposal. Designed to be incredibly fast and agile with very powerful weapons, they are used to take over and overwhelm parts of planets bit by bit in order to quickly form territories.

Its weapons include twin lasers at the front, torpedo launchers at the far sides of the wings and finally a very powerful drilling beamed weapon at the front which is capable of massive destruction. It has been reported that it was able to destroy more than half of ships much larger in very little time; its only disadvantage is that it takes longer to regenerate after it has been fired heavily.

Its sheer speed is also thanks to having two powerful warp thrusters either side at the back, coupled with its main massive rotating warp core engine that enables it to travel at warp 10 at least, which makes it able to travel between planets through space easily making it extremely hard to detect.

There is always an enemy waiting to come into play, and now it is Blacktron's turn."

Edited August 28, 2013 by Horatio-Caine

[projectINO]

Oh wow, that really is amazing! I love the updated style while still keeping faith to the original theme. Magnificent!