introduction plus moc plus question

[DonBrizzel]

Hello everyone. My name is DJ, and I live in Maryland, US. I have loved legos and Star Wars my whole life, but could NEVER afford the sets that I desired. I only recently discovered the LDD and have been having a blast making legos with it. I then discovered that Lego has been doing mini Star Wars legos, and have been for quite some time, I don't know why I've never seen them until recently. I started doing research on them, but didn't like them.

So I really wanted to do my own mini MOCs for the X-wing and Y-wing because I hated the ones that Lego put out, especially the Y-wing, yuck.

I searched all over the internet, taking ideas from a lot of people's mini-mocs (including Prater Yed), combining them, and adding my own touches, to make an X-wing and Y-wing that I can say that I would be proud to build and display.

Here they are!

Now, on to my question. When I do the BOM for these sets, and go to Lego.com, I come up short on a ton of pieces. Is there a website or a store out there that I can do a one stop shop for all of the bricks that I would need to complete these sets?

Thank you all for reading!

-DJ

[donbarca]

bricklinck.com

if you know the part numbers it is going to be much easier to search through the site

btw.... cool little moc like the y-wing in particular!

and welcome to eurobricks

[Lobot]

Hi DJ, and welcome to Eurobricks!

I'd second the advice to use Bricklink, I've used it extensively in the last couple of years and haven't had any problems. Just have a look around and try to buy from sellers that are based in your country, otherwise the shipping can get rather expensive!

Oh, and it's LEGO......never with an 'S'

[DonBrizzel]

Thanks for the advice guys. I will check out Bricklink right now!

And I will remember. It's Lego. Got it!

[DonBrizzel]

Okay, I went through Bricklink and bought what I could. There were still 13 pieces that I need that Brinklink did not have. Anyone have any other suggestions?

[DarthTwoShedsJackson]

First of all: Welcome (I'm quite new here, too), and I really like your micro MOCs! I'd love to see them built with real bricks.

Speaking of which: If you have the part numbers, just enter those in google - there's a lot of shops besides Bricklink (which always is a good first resort) who sell parts which are rare or out of production. That's how I found some parts (the cockpit canopy in a specific transparent colour for example) for my re-build of Psiaki's X-Wing, which I didn't find with Bricklink sellers here in Germany or Europe - I didn't want to get them from overseas for reasons already stated in this thread. So I found some online shops here in Germany who had them.

Edited December 30, 2013 by DarthTwoShedsJackson

[DonBrizzel]

Thanks guys! I have found and ordered all of my bricks. Now I play the waiting game! It turns out that some of the part numbers from the LDD were wrong. I had to do some research to get the correct part numbers and was able to order 90% of the parts fron Lego.com. The rest I was able to find on bricklink.

I will post pictures again when I build them!

[DonBrizzel]

Updated LDD with the parts that I ordered:

[DonBrizzel]

Okay, this is my final render. I am not messing with it anymore. Going through the LDD some more, I found the perfect guns for the X-wing. I also put the longer engines back on the y-wing, because it just looked better with the longer engines. I am not making any more changes!! (yea right! haha) I ordered the gun pieces for the x-wing, and I am burned out and done with ordering bricks.

Here is the final final final products!! (yea right!)