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Thanks. Am I right in thinking you are creating the build instructions for the Monarch?

There were quite a few 9676 sets on eBay when I looked a couple of days ago. In fact someone was selling 2 complete Death Stars taken from two of these sets for £10.99 for both, free shipping. So I bought them as I’m planning to build the Monarch too.

Cool! There are single Death stars from that set on eBay still for about £9 odd so should be do-able. I can see 3 halves making up the visible engines but where are the other 3 halves used (and on the Monarch, I presume they're in the same place?) Are they hidden behind the main exterior engine housing and connected in some way? edit: hang on, scrub this. I just realised you mean 6 if i wanted to do BOTH builds. Phew, wish I had the space and money for both. One giant SD build per decade I think or I'll end up divorced, starving and sleeping on a lego star destroyer ;) I had to weigh up potential costs here and its 11,000 vs 19,000 pieces. Yours is a serious beauty though.

Ebay. I just bought 2 complete death stars (top and bottom halves, each taken from 2 set 9676's) on ebay for £10.99, free shipping. I should say though that I plan to use them for onecases Monarch as it looks like that uses the same pieces. So if it turns out I'm wrong once the instructions are available for that build I'll be selling them.

I wondered if this would appear here. I actually saw it on Rebrickable last night and couldn’t quite believe what I was looking at. I just watched your YouTube video, which, as a burgeoning Lego SD obsessive (I just built a midi scale SD moc) I found absolutely fascinating. I’m stunned at the work you’ve put in here, not just with the attention to detail on the model itself but with the instructions and the insight into the building process (a rare thing to see from moc builders at your level). If I ever actually find enough space to store this (and money to pay for it) I’ll build this in a heartbeat. Or,.. several months of heartbeats.

Thanks, :) that’s nice to hear given that it’s my first ship MOC. Prior to this I’ve only built scene MOC’s.

Wow. Thanks very much! :)

Thanks. :) Will you be putting instructions on Rebrickable when they’re ready?

Good god! Just...... speechless. I think after the Chimeara this has to be the most beautiful SD moc I’ve ever seen. I was about to build the Aggressor, I think I may wait for your instructions instead. Just incredible. Thank god you posted this a day after my midi scale SD Moc, mine looks like a duplo toy compared to this!

Two answers to this really, 1. Unfortnately no, if I could I would,... in that, if I had the ability to build it worthy of instructions I would have as I’d love to be able to make something others could make too but... 2. To be honest you wouldn’t enjoy the particular way I built this as it’s very much a display model and doesn’t follow easy step by step procedures. I’ve no doubt some of the expert builders such as Jerac or Raskolnikov could have come up with far better ways to achieve what I’ve done here. In fact Jerac gave me some late advice about proportions which prompted me to take another look at some of mine. I built it purely from my head and really wanted to figure it all out on my own. I’m a pretty inexperienced builder so that led to some quite stressful periods during the build when I was convinced I wouldn’t be able to finish it, but the buzz was well worth it. Sorry, that’s a long winded way of saying ‘No, sorry’ isn’t it? ;) maybe next time I’ll teach myself how to use Studio so I can make something for others.

Hi all, This is my new Midi Scale Star Destroyer MOC. Its made of approx 1,600 pieces and is 45cm (56 studs long). I basically built it by buying up a whole load of parts and starting to build with just a ton of Star Destroyer pictures to use as reference (Lego, CG and movie shots) Took me about 2.5 months to design and build it and it threw up a lot of challenges on the way that I was determined to try and find a way to solve. It seemed that every time I figured out a solution to one issue, it created a problem elsewhere on the build. Got pretty frustrating at times when I couldn't get those hull plates to angle properly but I figured it out in the end which has turned out to be extremely satisfying. I'd say I got a bigger buzz from building this than from any official Lego build I've ever done. For those interested the full album is here (it also has a fully modelled underside with both hangars in): https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157707430587464

Yep. Don’t stop doing this. These are amazing! Beautifully shot as well!

Absolutely gorgeous. I’m in the middle of making a midi scale star destroyer moc so I know how challenging these ships can be just at that small scale!. This is phenomenal work! Love it!

Hah. Yeah. I've done a couple more mocs since then so got a bit more experience. If I were to do this again now I'd make much more of the macabre side of it. Would be quite a tiny Wampa if there were! Snow trooper probably got blown to pieces by the snow speeder as it went past him. His comrades don't seem to care though. Thanks very much :)

No, it’s a very famous moc (sec) by Raskolnikov called the Plus size At-At (as I mention at the start of my post) You can find instructions for it on Rebrickable. It’s also a brilliant build and the instructions are free. :)

Thanks. It’s not going to set the moc world on fire but it was only intended initially to be a decorative base for the AT AT which then kind of grew into a bigger moc.

I built this a couple of months ago after making Raskolnikov’s awesome Plus size AT AT and wanting to do something with it cooler than just putting it on a shelf to gather dust. Ashamedly there are a couple of 1x2 knock off white plates in the base as I ran out of pieces and couldn’t BrickLink such a tiny amount so raided an old box that had all sorts of brands in. It’s 99.9% Lego apart from those damn plates though. I’ll probably come up with a better solution for a flying ship than that big ugly stand the next time I do something like this too. It was only my first moc. But anyway, the full album for it is on my flickr page here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157700628270101

Thanks! Agreed about Vader. I’m a purist.

Mine is at 12:35. It’s the first fan creation they show in the end sequence. Pretty chuffed about it!

Law of averages. His designs haven’t been about all that long and imperial era are the most popular. I doubt many people in total have made these FO ones. Eventually once enough people have cottoned on to these models and more and more are being made I’m sure someone will try a red windscreen piece.

I can’t answer that as I didn’t design it. I just bought the instructions which came with an xml file and I ordered the pieces from that. I see no reason why you couldn’t swap the windscreen out for the red one, unless it’s not the right scale of course. Might well do that the next time I have a BrickLink order to do.

Thanks very much! :)

No way! You really should. The way light reflects off the black and red on this one is beautiful. You killed it with this design. I think I like it more than the TA. Sooo... you probably know by now that I can’t just build one of your ties without building a moc around it, so, give me a month or two and this one will be at the centre of something pretty ambitious, if I can afford it! Watch this space.

I continue to be blown away by the quality of Jerac’s Tie fighter designs. This one was a dream to build and photograph and looks absolutely stunning. I love his technique for creating the ball at the centre of a Tie fighter. Though it may not be the strongest way to do this, its certainly the most striking and visually accurate. Its easy to forget you’re looking at something made out of Lego when you view these ships. Full flickr album available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157703400746341