Rubblemaker

Thanks. There will be a whole fleet of modernised Neo Classic Space themed ships/vehicles to go along with this one eventually. Each with their own specific numerical designation. :)

Sometimes I see techniques and literally facepalm that I never thought of that. Your brackets and hinges approach to the angled wings on these is one of those moments. Very simple, clever and effective. More worthy additions to your fleet!

Thanks, ? the very fragile icing on the cake. They fall apart every 4.2 nanoseconds. ?

Thanks :) Crazy fragile too. I’ve seen this technique used by others (using ice cream scoops to simulate smoke) so decided to try it myself. Those things aren’t meant to be stacked horizontally and collapse if you even look at them the wrong way!

Speaking of: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157713034738613

Thanks very much. The separator ship was a lot of fun to do. The new one I'm making is a bit more... aggressive. You should make a micro LAAT gunship next. The reddit gunship UCS voters will go mad for it!

Yeah, micros aren’t my speciality. In fact I’ve found myself getting quite into Classic Space Mocs recently. Got a pretty chunky gunship coming up in that genre in the next few days!

That sounds about right. Pretty sure my little micro falcon is about 3 times smaller than yours. You know what? You should think about offering some (or all) of these as a package of instructions like Onecase does with his 3 midi scale star Destroyers! I think he charges $12.99 each or $30 for all three.

Damn! this and your falcon together look amazing. They all look pretty amazing actually!

Thank you :) Yeah... I kind of might have breathed a tiny sigh of relief... ;) Ha yes indeed. That pesky lego community and their love of gunships ;) and thanks again Kristof, think mines probably too small to be considered proper UCS standard, but I had a good stab at getting halfway between UCS and Midi scale :)

I'm not really surprised, the noise surrounding the gunship option was deafening in the Lego community. Oh well, you could always still build my Nebulon-B :) https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-34757/Rubblemaker/ef76-nebulon-b-escort-frigate-with-micro-millenium-falcon/#comments

Thanks very much :)

Indeed. You could say it’s nicely moddable ;). All great ideas for Nebulon-B Mk3 if I ever get round to it! Thanks :)

Every days a school day. I thought because Kershner directed ESB and not Lucas that he hadn’t been around very much during production. So I guess my pic IS relevant to the ESB Star Destroyers after all.

Your model needs no defending. No-one would dispute its a phenomenal model. In fact, if I'm honest, and again I think there are very few who would disagree, its the best looking of the 3 in this thread. I wish it was a few thousand pieces less as I'd build it in a heartbeat. And you achieved something very close to my heart which is to make it as studless as possible. As someone recently said, yours is as close as we'll get to Jerac's Chimeara that we can actually build for ourselves. My point was purely proportional in that canon ISD's were originally conceived as very thin. I'm not referring to Rogue One models and I say 'originally' because in the comparison photo I posted above you can see 1977 George Lucas in the background. That photo was from filming for A New Hope. Though if we were to scale that model to yours as you've done with the Fractalsponge render above it may well be spot on. Also I wonder if they thickened them up a bit for ESB?. Its splitting hairs though in the face of such amazing custom builds of this ship. We're incredibly lucky to have all 4 of them available (if you include the Aggressor). Amazing job on yours, which again I'll say is pretty much at the pinnacle of ISD Lego design.

The tie fighter is the one from the instructions. There are enough for 2 in the parts list plus 2 probe droids but I only built one of each. I've dismantled them both now as I'm too old to actually 'play' with this model. In fact I'm planning to dismantle it and build the Monarch later this year. It cost me £1,362 for about 14,500 pieces. I already had over a thousand pieces in my spares that I could use in it. This was from 6 different sellers on Bricklink.

Seen my mod of it? https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157710727139542

They are all beautiful but I’m afraid for accuracy the Monarch destroys them all. Star Destroyers are very thin, almost razor like. The Aggressor, Intimidator and Eviscerator (god that’s a mouthful to write them all out) are all much too thick. With the aggressor that’s down to the interior bulking it out, with the other two I’d imagine it’s down to the hefty technic skeletons strengthening such massive builds. Of course this may play against the Monarch over time, in pictures it does look like the bottom plates droop a bit at the front, but so do they all if you look close enough. Onecase is known for his attention to proportional accuracy and he nailed it with both the Monarch and Nemesis. Here’s my proportion comparison with my Nemesis build and the original studio model, and bear in mind the Monarch is just a scaled up version of the Nemesis (or vice versa):

Benny takes his new ship 'The Sea Separator' down to explore an undiscovered alien water world. A planet of red flaming rocks, pink plants and green seas. On Christmas day I was messing around with some blue pieces and I put the sea craft together. I had the idea pretty quickly to place it on an alien planet. A few bricklink orders later (mainly for those damn green tiles which I never seemed to have enough of) and I ended up with this. The colours of the craft aren't exactly faithful to Classic Space but I knew I wanted that as my theme anyway, hence.. Benny. Full album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157712624037107

Thanks very much, yeah I thought that about blue and orange too. A re-invention of the Classic Space colour regulations is strongly overdue ;) Hmm, retro! I like it. :) Thanks I've been building Star Wars ships for what feels like forever. I needed some colour in my life after all that grey!

Yeah, but that’s the Aggressor, the 15,000 piece one. That one is entirely practical for most people to build (I know because I’ve built it.. in real lego) and was created solely for that purpose. We’re talking about the really big isd’s here. The Tyrant is 35,000 pieces and the Chimeara (Jerac’s) is 40,0000. Way too impractical for most people, not that that stops people from thinking these things are easy to make and requesting instructions.

That is one of the craziest and most awesome things I’ve ever seen.

Especially for Jerac’s. 40,000 pieces!!!! (estimated) ouch!

Lol, well I don’t believe instructions exist so I guess not. But how many people would actually be able to afford or even have the skill to build it? Let alone store it. It’s enormous and would cost a small fortune! its a bit like Raskolnikovs Tyrant. People look at these things and think, yeah I’ll build that, with absolutely no comprehension of the scale of the undertaking. Most of them wouldn’t even be able to build these things if they tried and would give up through impatience after the first few months.

Jerac’s uses a very different technique as far as I can see. This one is based on the use of tiles over plates and the barest minimum of wedge plates to have as few studs as possible. But the studs are still there so although it’s an incredible build, it’s Lego construction is impossible to hide.... which is something Jerac did manage to do by using the snot technique of bricks on their side. His was about twice the size of this one. You’d be hard pushed to find a stud on his isd (if you’re not counting the greebling of course) I’m sure I read somewhere that he said this actually played against it whereby people didn’t realise it was Lego and just thought it was a giant plastic kit (and therefore didn’t fully appreciate the achievement). You wouldn’t get that with this model as it looks like a Lego isd (albeit an Impressive one and an amazing effort to reduce the stud count) Some people prefer studs of course but personally I like to hide them as much as I can so I doubt anyone will make something that looks better than Jerac’s Isd unless Lego start producing wedge tiles in the same shapes as their wedge plates. Which they probably never will. :(