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  1. mcphatty
    Great work, much better looking than the new set!
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    Your Snowspeeders are great, very nice job with all of them! I personally like 6 the best, despite the lack of colour stripe the ‘wings’ look better for being solid all the way to the back, and those pieces come in orange. Those pieces along with the slopes give the rear such a satisfying shape, the greebling at the back looks very nice and your connection method for the lasers all the way through to the rear is very smart.
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    Beautiful work again! The dioramas are excellent and the photography is very impressive, so consistently lit and composed. I really can’t wait to see the battle now!
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    Great mods Freddie! The interior is very impressive, like Stifos said squeezing that into the model is a real achievement. I also really like how you’ve added shape to the underside, it’s a shame it was so boring on the original model so it’s great to see some effort put into it. Excellent work ?
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    That’s really smart, I like how you’ve arranged the cockpit piece and built into the cylinders at the wing roots. Nice job!
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    @obijon I’ve been in stitches reading all that, it sounds so familiar! I’m absolutely not allowed a cabinet but I can get away with one or two sets on the book shelf. I’m okay with that though, my little monsters can already reach interesting high up things. Wife might not be so pleased with the Star Wars IMAX posters I’m planning to get framed but luckily she is into Lego and accepts bribes.
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    @obijon I’m sorry to disappoint ? I’m stubbornly sticking with the same scale, there’s not I could tackle a ship that size, the prospect of doing a 60cm long Tantive IV is scary enough! I like the idea of the micro Coruscant chase through the industrial area, you should definitely tackle that! I might try the speeders, if they go well enough I’ll attempt the scene too. Talking of your stuff though, are you currently doing much aside from your minis?
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    Micro Home One (a tiny set 7754) - May 2020 I threw this together this morning in a few hours, I’ve longed after this set and finally have a desk-friendly version for real! If anyone has any suggestions for miniaturised playsets with vehicles I’d be happy to give them a try, I’m terrible at lego dioramas so this kind of this will be good practice :)
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    This is great! I love the overall shaping, as good as all the smooth MOCs can be it’s always great to see a traditionally blocky design like this that’s been done well. You’ve managed to get the ‘arms’ nice and thin but with all the support shaping and the back of the ball is spot on. Very nice, can’t wait to see the interceptor :)
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    Separatist Starfighters this time, including another Vulture Droid, Hyena Bomber; Tri-Fighter and General Grievous’s Soulless One. They were a quick project which I’ll probably need to revisit, Soulless One, but I want to crack in with documenting my TIE MODs and taking some photos of micros so I can tidy up this post! Enjoy :)
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    Just a quick update, the Republic Starfighters (ARC-170, Delta-7, ETA-2, V-Wing and Y-Wing BTL-B) instructions are done! Next up, Separatist Starfighters. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-42376/ron_mcphatty/micro-republic-starfighters
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    Since this seems to be the year of the clones I thought it was time to jump down my to-do list to some prequel ships, so here are my micro Republic Gunship, Naboo N1 and Vulture Droid! As before I’ve put instructions up on Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/users/ron_mcphatty/mocs/ This little Gunship has been in the works for a long time, the front end has given me so much trouble that I’ve been avoiding tackling it. I’m fairly happy with it now, the overall shape seems to work and despite a few one-stud connections the wings are strong enough. I’ve had these Naboo N1 and Vulture Droid Starfighters finished for some time, just a couple of pieces that didn’t exist held held me back! Last year I settled on a couple of 1x2 curved slopes with notches on the sides of the N1, in yellow, and thanks to the Speed Champions Audi Quattro they’re now real! Not the cheapest but hopefully more end up on BrickLink to bring the cost down. The Vulture Droid was nice and simple, I’ve also done a version in blues and greys which I’ll combine with some Seperatist Starfighters in the near future. I’m also nearly finished with some Republic Starfighters, just a few kinks left to work out.
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    @princess_kyloren Nice mods, I like the greebling around the rim and it’s good to see your ‘dish’ extended outward by one stud, that’s made a big difference and I’ll definitely be trying that myself ??
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    This is my first attempt at a diorama - Escape from Jakku, my favourite scene from the whole saga! I’m terrible at building settings so definitely need some practice, any tips or suggestions would be very welcome and I hope you like it. In the mean time I’ve made my Micro Millennium Falcon instructions free as a little Star Wars day pressie, May the Fourth be with you!
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    Incredible detail on the interior and exterior, great work well done! The rooms are very pleasing to look at, individually theyre so rich in detail it’s hard to take it all in, and the engineering between the rooms is the icing on the cake. I love the exterior and the way it opens, it’s very clever and neatly done, but the engine part on the split-wing part looks a bit small? Great moc, very impressive :)
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    @Thatguymax I wouldn’t worry about being behind, it won’t take long to catch up and then run out of money and storage space! Your mod looks really good, I like your laser roots and the daggers sound interesting, I’d be keen to see what they look like when your order arrives. And the targeting computer is excellent, what a great idea! I’ll have to try that next :) I should’ve posted instructions to these mods too, they’ve been sitting on Rebrickable a while, I hope they help the next person who gives this a go... https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-36569/ron_mcphatty/red-5-x-wing-t-65-set-75218-mod
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    Tensegrity MOCs seem to be a thing at the moment, so I tried to incorporate my Slave 1 into the floating frame. You can’t see the supporting string clearly, maybe a B-Wing, STAP or tiny Bespin, would work better for that, but the wobble is very satisfying!
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    Just a quick post to show this off. I’d been staying away from the Animation tab in the Studio render menu, assuming my creaky old PC would just spend endless days achieving very little, and then I read someone talking about reducing the samples. 32 was the magic number to get this done in just a few hours. And @Airking, you’re very welcome and I’m glad you like it :)
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    @codyaner Oh absolutely, I’d be over the moon if you used it! Can’t wait to see it in action!
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    This is a real triumph! Each scene was so well done, you’ve put together some clever little mocs and taken some beautifully arranged photos. Great job and thanks for doing this :)
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    @Midlife-crisis Wow, that puts your ship in perspective for me, it’s a lot bigger than I thought! Thanks for the photo, glad you liked the micro but yours is a stunner, there’s no comparison. I can’t wait to see yours with the Mandalorian and the Child inside!
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    Really nice job, as usual! The greebling and tiles makes it appear so much larger than it actually is, very smart.
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    @Midlife-crisis Haha thank you! Your build helped more than you know :) And you’re welcome, if you manage to cobble a micro Crest together I would love to see it next to your MOC.
  24. mcphatty
    The catch up... Micro U-Wing - August 2019 Micro Rebel Starfighters (X-Wing, A-Wing, Y-Wing & B-Wing) - December 2019 MIcro Millennium Falcon - December 2019 Micro Resistance Starfighters - December 2019 Micro Moldy Crow - February 2020 Micro Slave 1 - February 2020 Micro Imperial TIE Starfighters (TIE FIghter, Interceptor, Bomber & Advaced) - February 2020 Micro Virago (Star Viper) - February 2020 Micro Imperial Shuttle Tydirium - March 2020 Micro Outrider - March 2020 Micro Razor Crest - March 2020 Micro Naboo N1 & Vulture Droid - May 2020 Micro Republic Gunship (LAAT) - May 2020 Micro Separatist Droid Starfighters - May 2020 Micro Home One, a mini version of set 7754 - May 2020 Micro Darth Vader's Castle, a mini version of set 75251 - June 2020 Micro Droid Escape, a mini version of set 75136 - June 2020 Micro Assault on Host + AT-AT & AT-ST, a mini version of set 75098 with some extra walkers. Follow the link to see renders of the whole set. Micro Galaxy's Edge - August 2020 Micro TIE Reaper & Striker (Rogue One) - August 2020 Micro Star Wars Rebels, unique and recoloured starfighters from the show - August 2020 Micro Ghost & Phantom - August 2020 Micro Otana - September 2020 Micro Ebon Hawk - October 2020 Micro Mos Eisley Cantina, an A5 sized version of set 75290 - November 2020 Micro Rogue Shadow - January 2021 Micro Stinger Mantis - January 2021 Micro First Order TIE Fighters - January 2021 Micro Battle on Takodana, including Kylo Ren's Upsilon Shuttle - January 2021 Micro Solo Millennium Falcon - January 2021 Micro Nubian Royal Starship and Sith Infiltrator - February 2021 Micro Resistance Bomber and Blue Leader - February 2021 Micro Imperial Sentinal Landing Craft - February 2021 Micro Zeta-Class Cargo Shuttle "Rogue One" - February 2021 Micro Bespin Duel - February 2021 Micro Freemaker Adventures - March 2021 Micro Blockade Runners: Tantive IV and Liberator - April 2021
  25. mcphatty
    A long, long time ago I started working on a micro scale Millennium Falcon. To begin with all I wanted to do was add detail to the Microfighter but I kept tinkering and before I knew it I had a growing collection of micro Star Wars freighters and fighters, and here they are! Instructions for all these little builds are on my Rebrickable page. Since this all started with that Falcon Microfighter the cockpit piece (a light blueish-grey 2x2 truncated cone) became my yardstick for scale. Luckily trans-black 1x1 slope pieces work as fighter cockpits at the same scale so all the ships are, and will continue to be, as close to scale with each other as I can manage, at least based on these pieces and whatever reference images I can gather from Google. My Blockade Runner (April 2021) is the last ship on my micro Star Wars to-do list, although it’s hardly micro! The size and weight were a new challenge for me, I’ve never had to worry about a moc falling apart under its own weight before, but I enjoyed the challenge and managed to make it pretty easy to pick strong. I’ve put together instructions for the Tantive IV as well as the Liberator from Star Wars Rebels, which I couldn’t resist building for myself. Rather than doing new posts for each new ship I’ll edit the very long post below. All the instructions are on my Rebrickable page and there are photos and Studio renders some photos of the ships in this post, plus a few more on Flickr and Instagram. Thanks for looking!
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