Blacktron Invader 2.0

[DuckBricks]

Hi everyone,

This is my first MOC post on Eurobricks! Any feedback/comments suggestions is great!

I first decided to build this after one of my teachers (knowing I love LEGO), gave me a huge bin of LEGO to sort for her robotics class and gave me free rights to take anything I wanted. There was a lot of interesting classic space and castle stuff in there, but the thing that struck me the most was this (http://www.bricklink...m.asp?P=2345p44) piece. I asked if I could have that and some classic space torsos, and immediately was inspired to build a Blacktron MOC! Here it is!

I drew my sources mainly from 6984 Invader (http://brickset.com/.../6894-1/Invader) and embellished on it.

Here it is!

I tried to make it more streamlined than the previous incarnation, so unfortunately I had to use a trans-black windshield instead of trans-yellow (please don't kill me )

Here's flight mode.

And, true to the original, it separates and can even combine with my Alienator 2.0 (pics coming soon)

And here's the cargo container, it holds a minifigure.

Cockpit!

This was made quite a while ago, and I really do not care for the gray piece on the cargo section, it detracts from the overall look. However, I have already replaced it with another black piece and I think it looks a bit better

More pics can be found on my flickr account!

Thanks for the comments in advance!

legozebra

Edited March 30, 2014 by legozebra

[Artanis I]

Funny, I didn't even notice that it was grey.

I did however notice the yellow on the front, it seemed a bit much for me. Do you have the black version with the Blacktron logo? I think it would look nicer. I like what you've done in the front section as far as the "update" in shape is concerned. The other 2 sections don't seem as "modern" style to me in comparison. It's a nice little modification with the gun, but I wonder if you could make the back 2/3 sleeker with some nice curves as you've done with the front. I also thought that the back part on the original was too low in height. You could make it a declining slope, so that the height matches the mid and front section where it would connect to them, but taper off towards the very back, or curve downwards.

Thanks for sharing. Nice move with the Brick-tron Daddy

[-Hayden]

Nice I love how modular it is!

[SpaceMan Nathan]

Good job on the redesign.

[Henchmen4Hire]

Cool, I would change the nose piece to black though, it looks a little too much like a bird right now lol

[DuckBricks]

Funny, I didn't even notice that it was grey.

I did however notice the yellow on the front, it seemed a bit much for me. Do you have the black version with the Blacktron logo? I think it would look nicer. I like what you've done in the front section as far as the "update" in shape is concerned. The other 2 sections don't seem as "modern" style to me in comparison. It's a nice little modification with the gun, but I wonder if you could make the back 2/3 sleeker with some nice curves as you've done with the front. I also thought that the back part on the original was too low in height. You could make it a declining slope, so that the height matches the mid and front section where it would connect to them, but taper off towards the very back, or curve downwards.

Thanks for sharing. Nice move with the Brick-tron Daddy

Thanks for the suggestions. No, I unfortunately do not have the blacktron one, as I do not have any Blacktron sets (Either the prices are too steep, or some annoying AFOL buys it right in front of my eyes in a convention ). However, I did swap it out with a plain black one...

Yeah, I kinda rushed on the second parts, I originally intended it to be an exact rebuild of the set, but got a little ambitious, and it has been since redesigned.

Cool, I would change the nose piece to black though, it looks a little too much like a bird right now lol

Hahaha! My parents thought the same thing!

Good job on the redesign.

Thank you very much! I will continue to post my redesigns as I make them.