Tomsche

Very smooth lines on that hulking behemoth! Love how the fighter bay is nicely integrated to the `upper body`

Thanks all :-) Big spaceships, definitly not my cup of tea, but I`m glad I managed to pull something more or less decent off for the challenge

My entry for category B of the Unseen Menace event in Andromeda`s Gates, the set up was to build a vessel that could hold at least 5 figures. Now, I`ve come to terms with myself that my modest building skills aren`t suited for the Gates game, I`m more experienced in building a tree or a sloped roof, then an engine of a lasercannon, but that doesn`t stop me from the occassional build still in this. Combined with the facts I spend the last weeks nearly finishing my displays for the end of the year shows, and still in need of sorting a lot of material and cleaning out my `workspace` from all the other hobbies I once had, this means I`m frankly not building at the moment for the game. *** Start Log *** Augustali 10th, AD 3815 Thesseus B. Von Geekington reporting The Pale Lady: System checks everyone, how is this going? Thesseus: navigation is green m`lady LV-426: All scanners set within acceptable operational parameters Grumpy: Ops hmmpf Prof Sai-Saichi: Ditrilium mixing chamber ready The Pale Lady: Fnatastic work people. I`m going to send a message to the powers that be that The Ice Sparrow is ready to join the fleet. We might only be a lightly armed high speed transport shuttle, but we will be selling our icy blood dearly! Ice Sparrow, DeMas! *** End Log *** The vessel is inspired on the `Sentai` style of faintly animal looking machines, common in most of those series though in this case it hasn`t been build on a specific series. The wing `flaps` where build using stacked plates to give the impression of moveability, like a regular plane flap, for atmospheric use. The roof of the main body is detachable to show the stations inside the vessel. As is the pilot canopy It was a fun thing to build, but I really had the nagging in the back of my mind that this just wasn`t `my comfortzone` for trying to build and develop something around. I saw and learned some valuable things so far in this story, but for now, I got one build still ready (The Machine Buffalo), which I`m holding back for when it`s going to be a `battle` on a contested planet, as that better serves the story for the build itself.

the weekend of the 15th november, Waagnatie Antwerpen

I`m at BMA, probably hauling along my (by then) 3 Lord of the Rings and a Harry Potter display, amongst some other things.

Great looking laboratory and a lovely story

So the Watcher in the Water survived the Fellowship and migrated to outer Space. Very nice build!

That`s up to you Bob, highly appreciated but not life threatening I wans`t really paying attention to the clock when I posted it so wether it`s for this or next week is the same for me

My thoughts exactly when I had written up the whole build post, and went for a quick check just what needed to be in the topic title hehehe

To quote myself Didn`t say challenge or anything in the topic now did it ;-)

On a totally different note, I started using the #AmdromedasGates on Twitter, no idea if this will be a problem

Category C for the second challenge of Andromeda`s Gates - Unseen Menace is to build the interior from somewhere on a spaceship, in minifig scale and with your character present. So I went for the interior of a lab quarters, which I could tie in nicely to my Marden moc I did a few months ago, when I was (as befitting an Ice Planeteer) the first of the corporation to set foot on the icy neighbour of our homeworld. But then my own stupidity hit me, as I reread the rules and saw it had to be a minimum of 12x12 studs builds, and I have no time at all this week anymore to build something else or to expand on this vignette, so instead I have placed it as a `regular` weekly build again on Marden. Considering I`m having not much time at the moment to build for AG anyways and get involved in any tactics the corporation is working out currently, I guess that the few builds I will be doing will be set on this icy planet anyways, since I feel most `at home` to work in that direction and keep in touch with my sig-fig anyways. *** Start Log *** Augustali 10th, AD 3815 Thesseus B. Von Geekington reporting As I sit here reviewing the logs from the droid ICE-001 and crosscompare them to the sample of the strange crustalized water he brought along, I noticed an odd chemical reaction in the frozen liquid. For some unbeknownst reason, this water is radiating an inner heat signal, while remaining in an only slowly thawing state of being frozen hard. While obviously not permafrost, I guess that due to the special artic conditions of the planet below, even though it orbits close to the system`s sun, there is a certain `fuelling process` going on in it`s molecules. I am considering and analyzing this phenomena now, and we remain in orbit above Marden until this is cleared out, but as far as I can hypothesise, this might mean these water crystals might actually be an intresting new source of fuel for spatial drives. If we can develop a way to have them incorporated into a stardrive engine and regulate the process of thawning to increase or decrease the amount of energy these crystals punch out. *** End Log ***

Fantastic! Not only do you have probably the most errrrm `diverse` set of characters in the AG, making them big scale now is just hilarious. I truly love it, great work!

Great build! Love the little shipsies, elegant design on them

Fantastic work, the decoration using the wheel shields is awesome

Another great episode, and to add in a famous quote "That`s a big ship"

This is cool, it`s totally different with great parts uses, love it!

Is it allowed to label then `AoM` for this mini challenge (I for one, still need to build a mill for that)

Teeheeheee, Avalonian ancestry that duke?

Lovely build, takes me back to when I was a weeee little minifig

That`s a lovely wagon, great work

Or that you just shouldn`t be looking for a charlatan called `El Dragao` to forge your swords...

Love the details and the pool table, another great build and story. You`re probably the only bugboy I won`t turn my mining laser on ;-)

House Phase 2: The Forge of El Dragao