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You forgot the guy in the cantina scene who held the boom mic! *Rolls eyes* Hey, let's list ALL Star Wars characters ever and call it a day - one or more of them will eventually be a minifig in a set, a promotional item or whatever. Neat!

I want to vote for Rex in Round Two, because I like his character so much and LEGO got his face perfectly, but the rest of his minifig is sadly pretty uninspired. So I have to go for Vader - he is a must-have in every Star Wars minifig collection, his torso- and legprinting is well done, and I really dig the new two-part helmet mould. So Vader it is. Why not Boba? Well, frankly, it's a nice minifig and I had to get him as well, but I got him way after Vader and some other CHARACTERS, because Fett is not really a character in the movies and I don't care much more for him than I do for a Jawa or Tusken Raider...

"Sixty! Looks like I won." - Ahsoka Tano, The Clone Wars season 2 episode 5... and there's no way to call for an airstrike to get a tie in this case.

I can't see results when I vote, and I'm not even sure if my submitted vote is considered by the poll. Anyway, my pick is Ahsoka Tano. Since I firsted watched The Empire Strikes Back as a kid when it first hit the theatres, Vader has been my favorite character. But since 2008, his apprentice managed to surpass him and Ahsoka is now my all-time favorite Star Wars character - closely followed by Vader and Luke Skywalker - the reason for this being her personality and how she is written, her character-arc, and what she represents in the context of the Force and the setting: Ahsoka, like Luke Skywalker in the EU (and hopefully in the new canon sequels, too), has actually managed to find a balance between the Light Side and Dark Side, using both and not being ruled by any of the two (unlike the Jedi Order and the Sith) - this has been exemplified throughout her scenes in season two, especially in the finale when she faced Vader. It's interesting to me that Vader, who has been prophecised to bring balance to the force, is mentor/father to the two force users who actually managed to balance the Force within themselves - his former apprentice Ahsoka and his son Luke. The reason for me picking Ahsoka, though, is not just what the character means to me, but also because it is a beautiful minifigure - not perfect, but close and very well designed. Her face, though, is perfect for an adult LEGO Ahsoka.

Taking a break from building stuff for Star Wars, I decided to build my favorite thing from Ridley Scott's movie 'Prometheus' - the space exploration craft of the same name. I did not go for size with this model, although it still is quite huge sitting on my shelf, but rather for correct shapes, angles and proportions with as much detail and texture as is possible with Lego at this size. Here's an image of the finished model. Please note that I will post more detailed pictures from other angles and close-ups of different sections this weekend. The pylons on which the engines rest as well as the engines can be rotated to change between flight- and landing-configuration as seen in the movie. The engines also have landing gear that can be hinged outward as in the movie. I hope you like it. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.

After playing the good old X-wing and Tie fighter series of videogames in my rare spare time lately, I had the urge to build my favorite tag-team of the Rebel Alliance: The Y-wing to deliver a huge punch to large targets, and the A-wing to clear the path for the Y-wing towards the target. I already had a good base to start with for the A-wing with my McQuarrie A-wing prototype, but I improved and modified the build once more. First of all, I made the sides smoother and the angle of the sides more accurate by getting rid of the slope bricks, and using a straight assembly of tiles mounted on a hinge instead. Here I also applied a sticker - something I normally don't do - but in this case it looks much better with the long dark sticker on the front two thirds of the sides to represent the dark gap in the fuselage for the torpedo- or missile-launchers. Also, it's an official sticker from Lego originally used for the canopy of an older A-wing set. I also made the fuselage in front of the engines one stud shorter, and the part of the fuselage in-between the engines one stud longer - both of which required a re-engineering of the internal structure, mainly for sturdiness. I also brick-built the engines differently to the official set in the recent wave, and also made them one stud longer. This gave me the right proportions compared to the studio model used in Return of the Jedi. The engines are also angled less than those of the McQuarrie prototype-version in order to give the fins the correct angle. With the Y-wing I basically had to start from scratch, which initially required some sketch-building mainly to get a grasp of the correct proportions of the engines and the cockpit sections and to get the size correct for minifig scale. As with the A-wing, I also wanted to SNOT-built it with studs-up in all 6 directions, and give it accurate greebling and detail as much as possible. I quickly realized that it was important to get the contrast between the smooth elegant cockpit and front sections of the engines and the cluttered, mechanical fuselage right. I also aimed for retractable landing gear, so that I can display it in landed mode or flight mode along with my A-wing. What can I say? I'm pretty happy with how both have turned out, and building the Y-wing with all the greebling was lots of fun. Both are sturdy - something which was particularly important with the Y-wing because the engines are heavy, as is the rest of the model, which is why the flat wide struts that connect the engines to the fuselage have their core built right into the inner structure of the engines and the fuselage, resulting in a very solid connection which prevents the struts from bending at all under all the weight - neither in landed nor in flight mode - and the engines not wobbling at all. Feel free to comment, and tell me what you think. Happy building!

Is it possible that LEGO is re-making older UCS sets to also kill the horrendous aftermarket prices? That'd actually be something I'd applaud them for.

I'm pretty disappointed with this set - it's a very very poor rendition of a Millenium Falcon and not worthy of the UCS-label at all. I like that this Falcon finally has some interior, but it's all wrong. And let's not even talk about the exterior - the cockpit is the wrong shape, the wrong size compared to the rest of the ship, and even in the wrong position - it needs to be forward on the right side! They made an attempt at the mandibles, but they are far to short, and have the wrong shape and angles, too. This is very bad. I like that they attempted the segmented sublight-drive to the rear, but once again, it is the wrong shape, size and proportion. What were they thinking? I can only hope that it'll not be that long again until we get yet another UCS Millenium Falcon, but this time designed much more accurately than this sorry excuse...

I wanted to have a Minifig of Anakin as he made a short appearance when Ahsoka cut open Vader's face mask on Malachor. Since I'm pretty sure we'll never get this Minifig, I finally decided to modify two parts and make my own. Since people here in this topic have modified parts to get updated Minifigs before - like rubbing off prints - I'd say it's legitimate for me to post this here, even if the modification is a bit more involved. The parts I used are the following: -Darth Vader from set 75150 -Anakin's head from set 9494 First of all, I took a very sharp hobby knife with a narrow blade and carefully cut out the right lens from Vader's helmet. Then I cut in the vertical damage above and below the lens where Ahsoka's lightsaber cut into the metal. I used regular printing paper to carefully smooth-out and round-out the edges of the cut so that they look as shiny like an official element from Lego might look. Next I filed away 1mm from the top of Anakin's head and from the stud. I also cut away the antistud in Vader's helmet. I did this until the eye of Anakin's head visible throught the removed lens on Vader's helmet lined up with the left lens which is still intact. Then I carefully glued Anakin's head into the modified Vader's helmet to make it one clean, modified element, which can be removed from the neck-peg on the minifigure torso and the lower part of Vader's helmet:

I know the digital model on which your MOC is based, and you did a great job at capturing the shape and proportions. It's hard to get it's sleekness in Lego, and I've pondered myself how to build this in Lego some time ago. I'm confident you could improve the overall look and suggest more sleekness by cleaning up the colour scheme. In my eyes, the red is a bit too cluttered all around the model and ruins the shape a bit. I'd love to see a version with a straight red stripe on the sides and the other red parts exchanged with white on the nose. That way, you create a visually sleeker looking nose, because your eyes are not distracted by the red noise, and guided by the long red stripes. This is meant as constructive criticism to improve you otherwise neat build.

Many thanks again, guys! A pin conection would have been clever, but there's just no space for the technic bricks with holes required for this. Instead, the internal structure is held together by staggered 1xX-plates, which also tie together the frame of bricks with studs on three sides and onto which the slopes are mounted. Instead, the connection is achieved through jumper plates. Here's a link to a photographic instructions of how to build my McQuarrie prototype A-wing, on which this latest version is based. This should give you an idea.

Oh, thanks to all of you for the kind words - I'm glad you like the models! I have only so much time for LEGO, even though I love the whole process of coming up with and building and later improving a MOC. The reason for this is not work or family, but having several creative and time-consuming hobbies (converting and painting miniatures for wargames on competition level, for example...) First of all: Thanks to you, too! Secondly: The U-wing, it seems, will start to haunt my dreams. To be honest with you: I started to disassemble my U-wing MOC in order to take photographs of the build. Then I realized two things: I could build some elemets and sub-assemblies more efficiently, and instead of spending a lot of time taking photographs, I'd rather build something - the result of which ended up in this thread. However, I plan on eventually building a slightly bigger U-wing in the future, so we'll see. Sturdy! No, in all seriousness, the build of the nacelles is pretty straight-forward, nothing fancy here: I guess this should give you more than a clue.

Many thanks to all of you for the positive feedback! I've been very busy during the last few weeks. I'm also almost done with a few tweaks on the model, and have reserved a huge chunk of time this weekend for taking pictures and posting photographic instructions. I'll keep you posted.

I've started collecting legos and building a few sets first, and then mocs early this year after a very long break. Since I'm a fan of Star Wars - the original trilogy and the clone wars 3d series - I naturally gravitated towards the Star Wars license of LEGO. The first MOC I build was a re-build of Mike Psiaki's X-Wing, since I love the X-Wing and his MOC really convinced me, so I brick-linked the bricks I didn't have and built the beauty using his instructions. I'm generally a fan of the Star Wars spacecraft, especially the starfighters and other small to mediumsized varieties. I find it challenging to build something relatively small in Minifig scale and still get the proportions, angles and shapes as right as possible with lego bricks. My first MOC project I'd like to share here is nothing special, but something that's fun and challenging to me and has been done by lego and some other MOCers, like KielDaMan here on this forum, before: Ahsoka's Jedi Starfighter. I set out to do the following: Get the shape and proportions as right as possible while still allowing for important features like a complete removable astromech (not just the head), retractable landing gear, an 'airtight' cockpit roomy enough to comfortably house the Ahsoka Minifig, and a brick-built colour scheme that's not too blocky (so no stickers or spray-painting), and avoid blockyness generally as much as possible. I've build the model over and over again, until I arrived at something I dare to share here. Also note that the astromech is not the correct one - I've already ordered Ahsoka's from a minifig shop here in Germany, though. This is a WIP (no MOC is ever finished, isn't it?), and I'm a relative newbie, so be kind, please . Edit: Updated this OP with an image of the finished build. More images of the updated build a few posts below!

Taking a few critical looks at my original A-wing MOC, I decided that a few important improvements were in order to get the shapes and proportions right. So I spent a few hours during the past few weeks to revisit the built, and a lot has changed - quite a lot, especially with the internal frame and the way this model is built. The changes were neccessary to accomodate the more correct outer shape, and to retain the sturdiness of the original MOC. Now Ahsoka's ride was finally finished, and after a few intelligence missions into imperial territory and a daring escape, Ahsoka asked Chopper to check her A-wing for imperial transmitters in an abandoned facility from the Clone Wars before returning to Phoenix Squadron. "What have you done, Chopper?! When I told you to take this thing apart to check for transmitters, I meant it figuratively, not literally!" "Badoop, ba ba. Arrrrrh!" "Ach, okay. Now let's check these sub-assemblies, and then help me put this thing back together, understood?" "Woop, woop!" If anyone would like to create an lxf-file - be my guest! Enjoy and have fun!

Thank you, guys. And thank YOU very much for this, @kylefriz! That's very much appreciated.

The U-wing has received a few improvements, too, and I will provide instructions in the same manner someday around christmas, because I have a few days off then. So don't worry, they're coming!

Iffy is only halfway to describing my opinion on the matter. I generally like what they do with Star Wars now (Rebels, Rogue One), but I have strong reservations as to HOW they go about it. I'm happy for all fans of Han Solo that they get a movie about his past adventures, but I wonder what they will do - Han Solo is a cool character, but he didn't have much - if any at all - of an arc in the Original Trilogy, and to be honest, I'm kinda sick of stories telling us where already established characters, events, gimmicks etc. come from, especially if there stories are already told. While they are generally doing a good job at introducing and developing new characters - like in The Force Awakens - I have my objections as to how they handle well-established characters, especially those whose stories are not completely told yet and who still have some journey ahead of them. Case in point: I loved that they had the courage to inject Darth Vader and Ahsoka into season two of Rebels, but aside from two excellent scenes (Ahsoka learning what became of Anakin in the Jedi Temple on Lothal and the two meeting for the last time on Malachor), I was a bit disappointed - not by the superficially ambiguous end (and if you pay attention to what is being said, shown and alluded to throughout the season it's not ambiguous at all - she's alive), but by what little they did with Ahsoka. I understand that they didn't want Vader and Ahsoka to overshadow the Rebels, but if you introduce such characters to a season, do more with them! I'd have made two regular episodes revolving around Ahsoka in addition to what we got - one last mission together with Rex, and one mission on her own. Instead we get only a handfull of scenes, two of them very impactful and nicely done, and that's it - the character is in limbo again. That's not how you do it justice, it's more like throwing a bone - a tasty one, yes, but still only a bone. Back to Han Solo: What do they want to do with the character, especially now that we know of his greatest contribution to the galaxy as part of the Rebellion already, and his dramatic death at the hands of his own son? Go back to some good old smuggling, or him meeting Chewbacca, or getting the Millenium Falcon? That'd be like going back and show how Vader was as a little kid - oh, wait...! I'm pretty sceptical. I'd rather have stories going forward, to be honest. So, what about the Lego minifigs? I don't see why Lego wouldn't create new prints for the faces of the younger Han and Lando. I guess they maybe have to, depending on the terms and details of the licensing contracts with Disney.

First of all - thanks a lot to all of you for the Kind comments! It uses some parts from the set, but is completely scratch-built. The way the underlying structure of the fuselage is constructed is completely different from the set, as is the cockpit, the rear, the engines and the way they are attached, and the troop compartment. Also, I didn't use the large canopy from the set for the front of the troop compartment, but the canopy piece from the Resistance X-wing/Poe's X-wing, since it's angle better suits the ship's profile. The wings are completely SNOTed, and the fuselage is a bit longer than the official set. If I get around to it, I might post some breakaway-pictures - the model breaks down into sections easily, so this will not generate too much fuss for me.

What can I say? Oh yes - rebels rock, and your fleet looks the part and ready for action. Inspiring project, and lovely execution. But a display as epic as this, doesn't it scream for imperial counterparts in scale?

Here's the AT ST I've build over the last week end to accompany my AT AT and the rest of my Imperial Hoth Attack Force. It fits a driver and is as high as 1 1/2 of the length of one of my AT AT's legs. The head can be rotated, of course, and the legs can be moved at 3 joints each to some extend. I will propably re-design the feet. I hope you like it.

Sure, I have nothing at all against other MOCers using this as a starting point to build their own MOCs and do with it what they want - that's why I posted all these pictures! The only demand I have is for you to have fun with it.

Now that EVERONE wants a tag, I don't want it. Damn contrarian reflex... No, seriously, there are a few clubs I'd like to join - so, can I also have a Star Wars theme tag?

I'm usually only posting in the Star Wars forum, and I love to build all sorts of vehicles. From time to time though, I want to build something from the real world, and I'm particulary fascinated by the look and design of military vehicles from WW2, which brings me back full circle to Star Wars, since the design of Star Wars is significantly inspired by WW2 military vehicles. So I set out to build an iconic tank - the Tiger 1. Granted, there are lots of Lego-versions of this vehicle out there, and a quick google-search immediately makes it obvious from which creations I took cues on how to build certain elements - because why re-invent the wheel? Still, I did many things differently and on every step referenced an accurate model of the vehicle. The turret is my own take, because I felt that none of the turrets I saw in other creations truly captured the characteristic shape in a clean, uncluttered way. You will notice that I simplified the gun to keep the overall look uncluttered and avoid unnecessary texture where should be none. Last but not least, I also built the model with a detailed interior to make it more interesting as a whole. I hope you like it, and feel free to comment.

No, I was discussing movie sets... oh my!