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Thanks for posting this brilliant build, and also this great write-up of the design process. The thing I really like about this model compared to other recent X-wings (especially inthert and cehnot) is the nice, smooth, stud-free nose. I also like how the underside of the fuselage is smooth, composed of flat panels, and nearly completely enclosed even with the retractable landing gear. The landing gear itself also looks like it works a lot more smoothly than in other models. The tiled wing interiors are great too. I think the other models get the subtle angles in the central fuselage and the tail cone a bit better, but having never built anything this complex myself I really can't complain. Thanks for making the instructions available, and for taking the time to make the model relatively stable for the sake of the instructions. I tried to build inthert's X-wing once, but all the illegal connections made it so unstable during the build process that I never finished it. Does this model have any illegal connections or places where the geometry doesn't <quite> work out, like the inthert nose?

Thanks again for posting the pictures and the instructions. I made a few changes while building, but the result is still basically your childhood A-wing: For comparison, this was the childhood A-wing that my brother built: And this was the childhood A-wing that I built: Clearly, builds like yours were way out of my league back then, and builds like yours are still way out of my league now! Hopefully it won't take another ten or twenty years to get up the moxie to build your excellent A-wing, X-wing, and TIE fighter in real bricks. However, after building it virtually I'm not sure your old model quite fits with my retro X-wing and TIE fighter builds. It's still a bit too big. Still, thanks a lot for posting this build!

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@Forresto - Thanks for your kind words! I sure hope I can show you the ship in real bricks sometime. In the meantime, I've updated the first post with tonight's build.

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I think a Lars Homestead set could get by without the gory bits just fine. Just leave out the skeletons! After all, the Tuanul Mesa attack in TFA was represented in 75149 without any of the real atrocities. When I watched ANH as a kid, I never realized the burning skeletons were meant to be Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru; I just saw blackened burning debris that blended in with the rest of the scene. I didn't realize it was supposed to be a disturbing, gory scene until I was a teenager. TL;DR: I'd like a Lars Homestead for the 20th anniversary too.

Do you mind if I build this myself from the instructions on Brickshelf (or better yet, can you send the LXF)? This would go perfectly with the retro-styled T-65 X-wing and TIE fighter I posted recently. I've been thinking about building an A-wing in a similar style, but I hadn't yet figured out how to do it without making it overly large compared to the X-wing. I think this build would fit pretty well. My main idea is just to revisit the makeshift builds of my own childhood (A, X, Y, TIE), but it would also be nice to have these physically built by the time the Juniors A, X, Y, TIE come out next year. Edit: One more question, if you don't mind: what year does this model date to?

I couldn't afford 10210 in 2010 and I certainly can't afford it now! But maybe with a bit of Bricklink luck and a bit of time at a sewing machine I can afford something similar. I downloaded TheCardinal's Stud.io file for 10210 and made the following changes: Hull colors inspired by USS Constitution and French ships of the line ca. 1800 Mast and spar colors inspired by HMS Victory and British ships of the line ca. 1800 Added platforms ("tops") to masts Deleted stern gallery Added framework to hold ship's boat with sail aft of the mainmast Added equipment to suspend ship's boat without sail behind stern Added ladders for belowdecks access Added four cannon Added extra stores Added boarding netting on top of the bulwarks Added fittings for twelve hammocks belowdecks Will use home-made fabric sails instead of sails from 10210 Will use a less expensive crew than 10210 Regrettably, the change to a black hull and the addition of extra cannon, boats, and hammocks probably outweighs any savings from the changed mast colors and the omission of the sails and crew from 10210, so this probably isn't any more affordable than 10210 itself. What do you think? What are best practices for building affordable sailing ships? (This is my first Pirates MOC as an adult.) Thanks for all questions, comments, advice, and critiques. Overview - bow Overview - stern (before removal of stern gallery) Stern detail (after removal of stern gallery) Boat framework detail Hammock detail (not all parts attached in Studio; the antennas should fit underneath the parts at the end of the top hammock) Ship's boat detail

Rustic? More like rusty! :) Besides the availability of parts, the purpose of the dark red with black highlights and trans-clear glass is to echo the color scheme of set 75186, which I've previously mentioned as a next-generation Galaxy Explorer. I haven't yet figured out how to translate into bricks my idea for a base to go with 75186, so this is just something small to fill the time. Here are the rocks I settled on for my 928 redux moon base. I decided it was more important to keep things simple than to reproduce the vintage crater plate or include an exploding function. The spacemen will just have to dig the top off the hill by hand if they want to get at the crystals. The flagpole should have the CMF series 16 astronaut's flag.

Thanks for posting pictures whenever you take a step forward in your digital and physical builds. Your steady, methodical approach to improving your layouts without breaking the bank is something I'd like to emulate, but I haven't yet figured out how to Bricklink parts affordably. Your Classic Space base is pretty big - if I asked Bricklink to pull together an Easy Buy set of carts, it would probably ask me for $700 or so! How do you get it down to even the (still unaffordable) price of $250? As for this build itself: I like the front grill and the trunk, and I'm sure the car would be fun to have around in person. However, I like to have a bit more clearance in Lego cars so that they can handle carpet instead of just smooth table tops. Have you considered lowering the wheels a plate or two? Also, the roof would look a lot better and would still be just as structurally stable if it used this part at the front. Would it be too much trouble to modify the car to seat a third person behind the front row? I know it can really complicate the build, but I like to get as many seats as possible into a car, and it looks like there's room under the roof for one more person.

@Digger of Bricks: Thanks for your suggestion. I found another solution that satisfies me, but I don't have pictures of it yet. In the meantime, here's a 918 redux that will be built physically as soon as I can figure out how to make Bricklinked parts affordable. I'd have preferred to build it in blue with a yellow canopy, but the wedge bricks in the rear fuselage aren't available in blue. The main goal is simplicity, but it has a few play features: room to store a few accessories behind the seat, a removable engine module, and a hinged flap on the underside just in front of the rocket engine.

@JarJarBonks: Thanks for your comment. I've updated the first post with tonight's build: a TIE fighter built in the same style.

King's Castle + Robot Command Center = Fortrex. Perhaps not to your liking (nor mine), but certainly innocent and whimsical. EDIT: Sorry, I don't mean to start a discussion about Nexo Knights, "classic" themes vs "modern" themes, the current Space and Castle drought, etc. The line above was just a reflexive response. Seriously, though, those are fun advertisements and they make me want to track down an affordable 6080 King's Castle or 7946 King's Castle (the closest modern equivalent). As a kid looking at Brickset, I didn't pay much attention to Classic Town, but as an adult I can see in Classic Town several kinds of vehicles that I wanted as a kid and couldn't get in then-current 90s Town or World City. I recently ordered a little red Classic Town car from 1984 (I think, don't want to check Brickset right now). It's great - trim, compact, nicely enclosed, with good-looking lights and even an opening hood. I've been tempted to get the Classic Town police car and doctor's car pictured above, but they're relatively low priorities on the wanted list.

In a post office, there are many possibilities for the background "story" that goes with the Modular Buildings. Remember the money launderers next door to the Brick Bank and the smugglers next door to the Detective's Office? I bet that crime ring has the postal service twisted around its pinky finger. Plus, there are all sorts of ways to reference the various shops and other establishments at Assembly Square and the Downtown Diner (even the Old Fishing Store) by means of parcels stacked in the back room awaiting delivery.

Do you have piece counts for the other Juniors kits?

The hero's ship is, in-universe, probably a T-65 X-wing drastically modified for air racing, similarly to how some of today's top air racers are heavily modified from warbirds like the P-51 Mustang and the F8F Bearcat. However, it reminds me of another thing: the old Expanded Universe's E-wing fighter. If the T-70 X-wing of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi is the new canon's answer to the old canon's "XJ" next-generation X-wing, maybe this ship is the new canon's answer to the E-wing. I'd normally be pretty confident that we'd get it as a set in 2019, but I'm not so sure, seeing as how the T-70s from The Force Awakens prevented a T-65 from hitting shelves in time for Rogue One, and the A-wings from Rebels and Return of the Jedi prevented an RZ-2 A-wing from The Last Jedi from hitting shelves in time for The Last Jedi. Maybe Lego won't want another ship so obviously inspired by the X-wing hitting shelves so soon after 75218, and before it 75149 and 75102. There's enough other material in the trailer that they could probably get away without including the hero ship in the first wave of Resistance sets.

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Maybe the problem was having the Soviet flag in the background of the image. The person who reviewed your project probably didn't check to make sure it was a public domain image. If you just submit pictures of the build itself, you should be okay. Edit: I just looked at the projects you linked to. I have no idea how to help.

It would help if you'd tell us more about the project. Maybe it isn't the Soviet flag that's the problem. What's the project about?

That would make a big hole on the bottom, though. I feel like the lever on the top, with the sense of depth that accompanies it, works reasonably well for the top greebling. Plus, greebling merely pretends to be exposed machinery while this actually is exposed machinery.

BUMP: This topic was started for a T-70 model built in the style of the 1999 T-65. I added a T-65 model built in the style of 1983 Space sets to the first post. Can anyone please point me to pictures of X-wing models and other Star Wars MOCs built BEFORE Lego obtained the Star Wars license? Preferably in the period 1983-1987. Thanks. EDIT: Here's a Brickshelf gallery by errbt with 1980s Star Wars creations, but there are no pictures of the X-wing hinges. Here's another by podracerHH, but it must be built after 1999, because it has early SW minifigs and click hinges. One by krize. Again, no good pictures of the hinges. Does anyone know of any others?

As far as I know, it's all speculation. There are no real rumors to discuss yet.

I don't know how retail works, so I can't answer the question you're actually asking. However, my attitude is that, looking only at my bank account, it only makes sense to buy directly from Lego if there's a cool free promotional set available or if a set cannot be found elsewhere for more than a 5-10% discount, since VIP points equate to a delayed 5% discount and double points to a 10% discount. I can't take personal responsibility in my shopping habits for how much of my payment goes directly to Lego versus the retailer I buy from.

I agree with everything Exetrius said. It's a great spaceship that looks like a MOC; it's overpriced at $70 but well priced at $50; and it's very creative. It looks like no Lego spaceship we've ever seen before. The minidoll design is great. However, it's not <my> kind of spaceship, so I'll pass.

The canopy of the police ship is attached with too many studs, making it difficult to remove and replace without damaging the rest of the build. Inside, the controls of the police ship look great, but they're too fragile, making it difficult to place the minifig at the controls and remove it therefrom.