Fallenangel

I'm almost sorry to say this Walter Kovacs but I think that your TIE Aggressor is in fact really too wide. (It reminds me of what LEGO did with the 10175 UCS Vader's TIE Advanced.) The ship really should look nearly exactly like the TIE Advanced x1 from the front; the pylons appear stretched. The same goes for the rear section just behind the cockpit. But to be honest, this is the first time I've ever noticed any major errors in your UCS models - and I study reference pictures all the time. I think all of your UCS TIE ships - even the ones I had never heard of - are masterpieces and really show what devoted people can do with LEGO elements - they pretty much destroy the stereotype that LEGOs are only for kids and all adults who "play" with LEGOs are weird. I'm not sure where people picked this up, but being on Eurobricks, I'll say it: I'm a conformist! Walter Kovacs! We're behind you all the way!

ACPin all I can say is that this is really good, especially the little details around the windows and the rocks just below the railings. Now all you need to do is make an equally smooth and accurate bongo - the set looks really out of place with the building and the water.

Does anyone know of any X-wing MOCs - other than those of bwhp (Brucey-wan) or dateman - which retains the hexagonal shape of the rear fuselage and the nose? I wanted to use a different method from Brucey-wan's because the plates between the bricks just don't work in real life, and click hinges are much too flimsy. I'm asking because the overwhelming majority of X-wing MOC's on the Internet leave the fuselage all boxy and the nose similarly boxy and IMHO the X-wing just doesn't look right that way. A related question - does anyone know where I can find the measurements of the ILM studio models of Star Wars ships? (X-wing, Y-wing TIEs, etc.) I'm asking about the ACTUAL models used in the movie, or at least within a specific scene. Not the Wookieepedia or Cross-sections measurements, as those can be off.

Actually, I'd like to ask BaronSat about his larger X-wing model - I think certain parts of it were very nicely done and I'd like to see how that nose design would work out. BaronSat are you there?

The design of the ship is absolutely stunning (although I have to admit it looks quite unlike Star Wars). Great use of the printed TIE 1/4 radar dishes and the other ones -are those from the AT-TE or something? The detail on the wings with the bars is also very nice. My favorite part of this is definitely the pink highlights - they're reminiscent of something out of a science fiction video game. Overall a very unique design. Oh, and the pilots are female lightsaber-wielders!!! Nice.

Wait, you mean this isn't supposed to be a Techno Union ship? It looks awfully like one... In any case, this work is simply amazing - the smoothness of the ship is very nice, and the smoke pieces on the top are a nice touch. By the way, how many battle droids can you fit in that?

I'm starting to wonder why LEGO doesn't re-release this with a Weequay minifig... that would definitely boost sales. (And save our wallets!!!) Wasn't there a Weequay of some sort in the Target Pirate Tank thing? I wish LEGO still released sets this cheap! Why can't they sell STAPs or 74-Zs or something individually? They can sell magnet figs and keychains...

KielDaMan to achieve the wedge around the cockpit I would suggest using those huge 3x12 wing plates (like on the 6205 V-wing) but at an angle, perhaps with click hinges. In other words, SNOT would be the best technique. You could also do what Gareth did with his UCS Delta-7 and position grooved bricks at an angle. The wedges don't quite have to be 4x1; I think you can use those huge red slopes with the holes in them that were used for the support in the 7163 Republic Gunship set. (The holes can be quite easily covered up with 1x1 tiles.) And by the way it's fallenangel, never just angel. =D

The ribcage along with the cheese slopes for the snow look cool. Your passage reminds me a bit of the 501st log entries from Battlefront II...

I'm tempted to call it Azure Angel III, but... Stingray? Aqua Mirage? Aurora? (I'm suggesting some water- or ice related names since it's blue.) The engines do look a bit small for the average podracer but the way you built the front of the pod looks really cool and the dark blue is great. Could we get a shot of the cockpit? I can make out an "engine" piece and some wing plates but that's about it. Shouldn't the power couplings be blue or purple or something?

Great work on the color scheme and thank you for fixing that droid socket - the LEGO astromech droids are so oversized and the sockets even more so - it just kills the sleek look of the ship. One thing I would suggest is to change the way you achieved the large wedge section surrounding the cockpit - the curving bricks don't quite look right. (That's the reason I think the LEGO Anakin's Jedi Starfighter is so ugly.) And maybe change the nose to taper to a point - the flatness of it doesn't quite resemble the "pointy" look of the actual ship. By the way, the engines on the Delta-7B (which it appears you based your models on) are different from those of the Delta-7 seen in Attack of the Clones - they are more covered up, while on the Delta-7 they are more exposed. Hence the jet engine pieces used on the official version would be more accurate than the linked cylinders. (Though if you ever decide to make a standard Delta-7 Aethersprite, you should totally go with that method - from what I can see, it looks great.)

That's hilarious!!! I love it! So are the birds for sale if I want them? You've had them for three or four seasons? Can the birds go about their business?

I want you to look through these pictures very carefully and compare them with the monstrosity that is the 6212 X-wing and see if your opinion about 6212 doesn't change completely. I would also like to tell you that the 6212 X-wing is for sale on S@H at its original price after 4 years, which is probably the longest time a System set has ever been on S@H. I've compared the instructions for this ship with the older 4502 X-wing (which of course was not quite there.) The ships are exactly the same except for two things: 1. There is one more grey 2x2 tile with groove on the front of the nose, and 2. a pair of wing plates near the cockpit is tan on the 4502 but white on the 6212. Considering the number of parts in this set (around 400 for the ship I think) that's far less than 1% change. In other words, LEGO's laziest redesign yet. You can't even call it a redesign. Every single gaping error present in the 4502 X-wing is still there - along with one of the greatest pilots in the Star Wars universe, Wedge Antilles, shamed with a generic smiley face and mistakenly presented as Red Three when he was clearly referred to as Red Two in the Death Star trench run and later Red Leader in the Battle of Endor. For $50 you would expect so much more out of a LEGO Star Wars set than a few color changes and a new helmet print. After 2 years, you would expect some sort of improvement to the design. Where is it? I could nitpick this set for hours. Even at LEGO standards, this is truly a disgrace. A disgrace to one of the most iconic ships in the entire Star Wars saga. My two cents.

There are no more legends...

The complaints are that on first sight the General Grievous minifigure is uglier than any other LEGO Star Wars minifigure we've EVER seen. That includes Jabba, Gasgano, Sebulba, Jar Jar, AND all the Clone Wars minifigures with their creepy Exo-Force-like faces. It looks nothing like LEGO. It's absolutely hideous. It's evident from the in-build pictures that this is indeed another lazy redesign... yawn. Why don't they put the molded figs in the cheaper $10 sets and only in like $50+ sets? They end up making the expensive sets even more expensive...

The old one was better.

Well, my vote was for the 10179 "truescale" Millennium Falcon (most accurate) but... I completely agree with what afosl said about LEGO Star Wars in general - parts change, and it's near impossible to compare old to new. Each rendition of the legendary ship has its own good qualities and bad qualities. For that reason, the original 7190 is second, over the 4504, over the mini, and yes, over the 10179. The original LEGO Millennium Falcon had a bunch of nice minifigures, lots of play features (though difficult to play with), lots of minifigure tools, big radar dish pieces. It represents the uniquity that was the pre-2001 LEGO Star Wars line and should not be trashed in favor of the newer 4504. In fact, the 4504 is my least favorite LEGO Millennium Falcon. I confess I don't like halfhearted rehashes (6212 X-wing must die), but that's only a part of it. The main thing is that it looks too... cartoony. The mandibles are horrendously undersized while the cockpit is enormous and somewhat phallic. And I'm still getting used to pale LEGO minifigures. And all those stickers are very annoying - I remember most of the sets at that time still had mostly printed pieces. The snowtrooper with the clone torso brings up another issue; buying a $100 set for the sake of two rare minifigures (and the prices on bricklink were, I recall, outrageous.) '04 I think was one of the few times LEGO even attempted to incorporate accuracy into System sets and, being a children's toy company, they didn't do that well. My true favorite? None other than the groundbreaking 7778 Midi-scale Millennium Falcon. First, the size; it's a brilliant new scale that really allows for a lot of creativity in design while keeping a low price range. What's more, it doesn't include new minifigures (which might have been expensive molded minifigures, mind you), keeping the price down and the bricklink price even lower; it's very solid and is quite playable. It's also one of the only two LEGO Millennium Falcon sets to include the quadlaser cannon on the underside of the ship - a landmark feature, in my opinion. The design, too, is a relief; in an age where LEGO is becoming more and more like Hasbro, an old-school, plate-on-plate build with minimal Technic use is refreshing.

That wesker is exactly what I don't like about the newer LEGO Jedi starfighters. It's like they just gave up on a better design and decided a new paint job would change something. (The annoying 6212 X-wing comes to mind...) At least with the second Eta-2 Actis in 7661 they changed up the cockpit a bit so it would look better. In spite of that, the alternating plates on the "wings" of the ship look quite nice, and I'm glad they managed to fit Plo Koon into a set cheaper than $80. (Now they only need to do the same with Lando Calrissian, Jango Fett, and Luminara Unduli.)

This reminds me of the newer ARC-170 in that it look like the same basic set with a bunch of extra pieces slapped on. That and the pointless stickers and the overmolded minifigures. (But at least the clone pilots' helmets in the ARC-170 were accurate...) Even the moving guns and the sliding mechanism is more or less the same. But I suppose it's a little more accurate... Badgerboy's UCS General Grievous's starfighter is so much better... Are there even supposed to be thrusters behind the cockpit? I don't remember ever seeing them there in Revenge of the Sith - all the thrust came from the large ovular things on either side of the main body. I wish they had kept the older Grievous around longer - I think he was only in like two sets? The new one is ugly and was obviously very costly to produce.

I have to say that the AT-ST is truly one of the best I've seen. Very movie-accurate. Do you have any more pictures of it? The fallen tree trunk is very nice too, maybe you could put something like that into a WWII- type vignette? Is there any particular reason the base is black?

Assuming you meant to build a TIE Advanced x1, I'll let this reference picture speak for itself: A very nice exhibition picture from theforce.net The diorama is very nicely done. Wouldn't the ground be a bit sunken after the snail droid has passed over it? (In other words, shouldn't the plates be like one plate lower?) I think my favorite part is the tree and the weird bush thing next to it. Is that a scout trooper with binoculars I see on the right? Of course, building your own snail droid would be preferable to using the horrible official set, but it fits.

roguebantha did give a fresh new look to LEGO X-wings, but I see he has also omitted the hexagonal fuselage... There are many nice improvements over other models (the cockpit looks MUCH better), but still many inaccuracies - for example, the bottom of the X-wing's canopy should cut into the nose downwards, not upwards; and in any case those wings are just too thick. And I can't see the bottom very well, but it looks like he shortened the "midsection" between where the engines stop and the cockpit begins - the section that includes the cargo bay and the droid socket. Funny; the 7191 UCS X-wing has the exact same problem. I'm also tempted to say that the nose is too short - but it may be that I'm used to the nose of the 4502 Dagobah X-wing. In short, it's not exactly what I'm looking for...

You've built the ship in such a way that it reminds me of an Eta-2... especially the guns in the middle. Love the mohawk.

Oh, it's that ship from the new Clone Wars series... I thought you meant like a Consular or something. In any case, the colors themselves and the smooth interior are both very nice. Love the wall detailing. The first thing I would suggest is to make the ship a bit more squat - the LEGO Venator had a similar problem of being too tall. You can use wing plates to fill in the little gaps along the middle. Actually, since the actual ship appears to have a large groove in the front, I would suggest building the main hull in a similar way to the 10030 UCS Star Destroyer rather than the method used by the 6211 - the former allows for a straight gap along the center. Another thing - the rear section where the thrusters are present should resemble the rear section of a Consular-class cruiser - your version is rather chunky in comparison. Might I suggest using the "fin" bricks like on the dorsal fin of the 7166 Imperial Shuttle, attached sideways?

Whoops! I didn't look at the date of the first post before I placed my comment. I'm sorry if my mistake caused any inconveniences, I haven't been on this forum that long. =::| I'll try not to do this again. Sorry everyone! To tell you the truth LoRd AmUnRa I am a money-conscious Star Wars fan and I never bothered to pick up the Guide... a few of my buddies own copies and they're always available at old bookstores. (I think Wookieepedia has a few images as well.) If the window bothers you remember you can always build it in bricks or get rid of it - PepaQuin and errbt did the same thing with the Millennium Falcon, Tiao pulled it off very nicely with his E-wing, and I'm considering doing the same thing with my X-wing. The windshields are more or less transparent, so it doesn't detract much from the model. And from what I've seen of your MOC and the new 8097 I would recommend not buying the 8097 - especially since the better 6209 Slave I is very much available on the Internet.