Rubblemaker

Designed and built a xeno inspired hoverbike for mine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/49007694088/in/dateposted-public/

That's easy. Try doing it with 15,310 real lego pieces from bricklink which are randomly bagged and not even grouped by part: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/33911637468/

Alien Xenomorph designed by Buildbetterbricks. Xenorider hoverbike designed and built by me. Xenorider MOC full album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157711454714936 Alien Xenomorph SEC full album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157711627740112

And they've sold 28 of them!. Unscrupulous a-holes. And they're using pictures of the Tyrant interior to sell it as well. Dumbasses don't even know what they're selling.

Good point, well made! Its going in!

Its waaay bigger than mini-fig scale, but it would fit most larger figure builds. In fact I'm planning on building the Xenomorph model by Buildbetterbricks to ride it! I think it'll fit pretty well. I think with Ideas they have pretty strict guidelines on stuff being quite kid friendly. Given the foundation for this build (an unstoppable alien killing machine that tears people in half) it may struggle to make the cut. But I might do it anyway, just for the crack!

Hmmm... Lego ideas... scratches chin in contemplation... And thanks! :) Its pretty much entirely jet black. I shot it in daylight to make use of all round 360 degree lighting to bring out all the nooks and crannies. Its VERY shiny, as all good Xenomorph's should be! consequently, it does look a bit silver in places. There's a bit of LBG in there but the bodywork is all in black. Lovely wonderful black!

I had a thought the other day, what would a high powered hoverbike inspired by HR Giger's Alien Xenomorph look like?. So I started building. And I made The Xenorider. Its made of 180 pieces, is 35cm long (including the flame) and has the following features: 1. Mouth mounted 'Tongue-guns' 2. Lower hull ribbed exo-plating 3. Side to side slime ejector exhausts 4. Seat mounted rear facing temperature dispersion tendrils. The full album can be found here for anyone interested. Thanks for looking :) https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157711454714936

Nice work! Looking as polished as ever and it’s only a work in progress! Mind you, you have some competition choosing this location, have you seen what Jhaelon Edwards is working on at the moment? ;) Whilst I’m here, great job on your Tie Whisper. Looking forward to building that one day!

Not that strange. They’re probably telling the truth, after all, it’s not like such a collaboration hasn’t happened before: https://www.reddit.com/r/lepin/comments/bfdnt7/jeremy_has_a_moc_of_the_empire_over_jedha_city_on/

I've now completed the Venator. Really incredible build (though more fragile than the ISD). Full album is here for anyone interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157711190384011

You could always 'de-stud' the Aggressor like I did: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157710727139542

Hi all, I've just completed building the Nemesis. Its a really stunningly accurate model which is doubly impressive given its scale. (I've put a comparison shot with the studio model in my Flickr album), Here's the full album for anyone interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157710999872528

Buying parts section by section is certainly the most expensive way of buying parts for an already incredibly expensive Moc. Better to buy the while lot in one go.

I wouldn't do bowls or cups unless you have acres of room to spare. I kept everything in zip lock bags and put them in shallow boxes. It looked like this and I could carry it all at once by stacking the boxes on top of each other (though that was bloody heavy to start off with). I would spend an hour each night searching for pieces for about 30-40 pages of the instructions and then an hour building. There really is no magic formula for sorting over 15,000 pieces. I tried to keep all my plates, tiles, bricks, technics and odd bits all separated from each other but grouped together in the boxes but there are so many different types of pieces in this that you're going to be doing a LOT of searching for every single step of it. And that continues right to the end. Even on the last main book I had about 50% of these bags that still hadn't been emptied completely. Its hard work and needs a huge amount of patience. Worth it though.

It’s 97cm long, 58cm wide at its widest point and stands 48cm high from the bottom of the base to the top of the shield generators. It’s also INCREDIBLY heavy!

I thought Lepin got busted recently? or was that only one little factory? I guess all they did was cut one of the tails off the hydra.

Gorgeous dog! I’m lucky in that I have a semi detached house with an external garage. I keep all my builds on shelves in that garage. I can also lock it so my kids (5 and 2 year old boys) can’t get their mitts on them. At least for now. When they’re a bit older I’ll let them play with some of them.

Your Mon Cal dwarfs the Aggressor. It must be crazy huge. Where do you store all these massive Mocs? It always makes me chuckle when people ask for Tyrant instructions. If these people actually saw the Aggressor fully built they’d realise how crazy that request is. The Aggressor is enormous and barely moveable when fully assembled as it’s so heavy. I have no idea how you transport the Tyrant to shows. It looks bigger than my car!

Thanks! The new UCS is 13cm longer but a LOT less detailed and far more retro looking to my eyes. I like tiles. :] Hmm, think those have been around for a while now. I don’t think they are the tiles Raskolnikov was talking about? I couldn’t have used them in my mods to this build unfortunately.

Hi all, I thought some of you might be interested to see my build of Raskolnikov's ISD Aggressor. I finished it a week ago after 4 months of building. I wanted to do something to make the build a bit unique so I decided to try and modify the upper hull a bit. I first removed the 1x1 tiles to smooth it out and added some grill tiles to break it up a bit. I built all the main raised areas on the top hull with tiles instead of studded plates (god I wish Lego would start making wedge tiles!) I also built in the zig zaggy pattern that appears along the top rear hull of ISD's extending out either side of the superstructure into the back corners I redesigned the long thin rectangle section that appears at the front of the superstructure and the triangular raised platform at the very front of the ship. I also redesigned the middle raised platform to make the shape of this part more faithful to the studio model of an ISD. I removed the lightsaber handles from the turrets and doubled up on the clips. Moving onto the superstructure itself, I added in the extra raised platform that appears on the L shaped area directly behind the turrets. I also replaced many of the studded plates on the top roof of the superstructure with tiles (credit to Onecase for his use of cut corner tiles in this area, which I replicated) Finally I added macaroni tiles to the back engines. I seem to have ended up with a sort of Monarch-Aggressor hybrid in the looks department. These changes may be a bit divisive to some but personally I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Modding it wasn't easy. And what a build it was! I loved every second of it. Thanks and all credit to Raskolnikov for this incredible model! Here it is: And here is the full album including tons of pictures of minifigs hanging out in the incredible interior: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157710727139542

Exactly what I thought! In fact I'm surprised at how low effort it looks as a design. I can imagine it having some serious nose droop problems in years to come as well. Unless its internal structure is made with titanium technic bricks or something! I knew I'd be downvoted to hell for saying this on reddit though.

Thanks for this. :) All really useful to know! I'm about to build Onecases Midi scale SD (Nemesis) So the next time I get round to making a big ISD it will likely be the Monarch and I'll use tips like these as part of my tactics to keep the cost down! Nice one!

Dude! that is awesome! I just ran the Monarch half through Bricklink. Mine came up as £562.. which is ok.... but... from 72 different sellers!!!!!! Which makes me do an unhappy face. 72 lots of postage charges is probably going to come out to as much as, if not more than the price of all those pieces. No Monarch for me :(