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  1. Rubblemaker
    Well… I dropped my iPad on my foot while I was trying to type. That hurt. Does that count? 😜
  2. Rubblemaker
    That is an alarmingly ignorant and shortsighted viewpoint you have there. I can only assume you don’t know or understand what it takes to bring a model of this calibre (or any calibre for that fact) to the stage where it is considered fit for the public to build. Also, and I speak from experience here, Brickvault have some of the strictest criteria around for accepting Mocs into their store which often requires even more work from the creator. The fact that you think all of the time, effort and investment we put into making our creations the best they can be for others to build shouldn’t warrant us asking for a (comparatively tiny) payment for them is absolutely baffling to me.
  3. Rubblemaker
    Thanks, your comment prompted me to re-watch that scene. Still shocking! Thanks :)
  4. Rubblemaker
    Yeah, this is a great idea for a diorama! :)
  5. Rubblemaker
    Hi all, It's been an ambition of mine to create my own ED-209 for about 2 years now. Ever since I saw him stride onto the screen in the original Robocop I've thought he was the most badass looking robot I've ever seen. So here, standing 25cm high, weighing over 1kilo and made of 1473 pieces is my UCS scale ED-209. His head rotates and his arms move at the elbow joints so he can be posed as well. Instructions for ED are purchasable from Rebrickable here: https://bit.ly/3lrAfu1 The full album for ED can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157719629362696 Thanks for looking :)
  6. Rubblemaker
    You might have better luck with the 'Buy all' function rather than Easy buy (I'm assuming easy buy is the one you're trying). Easy buy tends to choose the fewest stores but doesn't take into account competing piece prices. If you try Buy all and select the country you want delivered to it might give you a more wallet friendly result, even though you'll probably end up with more stores. Good luck! Hope you enjoy the build (for when you do tackle it) :)
  7. Rubblemaker
    Thanks very much, that is indeed the look I was going for! Thanks
  8. Rubblemaker
    Ah! I hadn’t looked very closely at the new slave 1… or Boba Fett’s Starship as it is also not known by anyone except Disney’s legal department ;) I could see those wedges being very useful for a Super Star Destroyer.
  9. Rubblemaker
    There haven’t been many Mocs made of this ship (which was one of the big reasons I chose it) but yours is definitely the cutest I’ve seen! Love it. Are those 2x6 wedge plates definitely available in lbg? If so I’m going to use them in a future moc!
  10. Rubblemaker
    Waaaaaay bigger. 2mpaireds ISD is 117cm long, roughly 1:1360 scale (an ISD is 1,600 metres long). My Corvus is 85cm long, roughly 1:177 scale (the Corvus is 150m long). So to be to scale with his ISD my Corvus would need to be 11cm long or his ISD would need to be 903cm long to be to scale with my Corvus. I think anyway. I'm sure someone will correct my maths if I've got it wrong. Either way, it's not to scale. :) Thanks, neither did I until I'd built it. I only bought and played the game afterwards! Thanks very much :)
  11. Rubblemaker
    Thanks. Yeah what is it with these things? It's like Lego couldn't give them away, they're everywhere! There are about another 50 in my kids lego box. And they're all dbg too. Thanks! yeah I had to do something with them. I was never going to make a car, that's for sure. No probs! and thanks :)
  12. Rubblemaker
    Hi all, some of you may remember seeing pictures of my moc of the Rebel Alliance Corvus from Star Wars Battlefront 2 a few months ago. This is the Mk2 version of this moc. New improved, more detailed, part optimised and instructions are now available from Brickvault at https://www.brickvault.toys/products/corvus-rebel-alliance-corvette The model is made of 3749 pieces, is 85cm long and 38cm wide. The full album can be found on my Flickr page at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157719553741264 Or find me on Instagram: @rubblemaker_lego Thanks for looking :)
  13. Rubblemaker
    What do you do if you get 28 mudguards in a LEGO bulk buy? Yes, that’s right. You build a spaceship with them. Meet ACE (Asteroid Crystal Excavator). This chap braves the perilous boulder belts of our Solar System drilling into asteroids and filtering them through the gills either side of his ship searching for precious metals, gems and relics. He can also catch anything that tries to float away using the ships rear mounted pincer grips. And all that booty is stored in convenient compartments either side of the engine for the long trip back home. More shots in my Flickr album at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157719533984972 or find me on Instagram: @rubblemaker_lego Thanks for looking :)
  14. Rubblemaker
    Thanks. I don't have the official set but I'm pretty sure you're right, the set might be a few cm bigger. The proportions on the set are all over the place though. The cockpit on mine is 5 studs wide which is about right for this scale. I actually could have fit the canopy from the set onto it but it would look really weird, too high and too wide.
  15. Rubblemaker
    A few months ago I made a Razor Crest moc. It was.. not very good. I've since been using Stud.io and one of the first goals I had was to re-design it, as I love the ship. It quickly turned from a re-design into a completely new, much larger moc. So here is my 1436 piece, 36cm long Razor Crest. I'm calling it midi-plus as to be honest, it's bigger than most midi scale models (it's as big as the UCS Snowspeeder). I used Hasbro's highly detailed Haslab Razor Crest model as reference material to try and get mine as proportionally accurate as possible. As it is too small for minifigs and there are too few transparent pieces at this scale to achieve the shape I was after, I made a trade off on the cockpit canopy and brick built it. I personally prefer dbg for this as, to me, the canopy looks dark grey in pictures, not black. So this is the closest impression of glass attainable for me. The engines are also fully brick built and (internally) probably one of the most complex constructions I've ever created. I've also created an angled stand for it which slots in and out of the underside and it comes with detachable landing gear and fully functional side and rear doors (with a mini Mando and Grogu inside) If anyone is interested in building it, I've created instructions for it which you can find on Rebrickable here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-80727/Rubblemaker/the-razor-crest-midi-plus-scale/#details (full transparency, I'm asking for a small fee of 9GBP as it took a lot of work to create and make instructions for). Or, if you just want to look at more of it, the full album can be found on my Flickr page here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/164260086@N06/albums/72157719481624086 or on Instagram: @rubblemaker_lego Here it is next to the UCS Snowspeeder Thanks for looking :)
  16. Rubblemaker
    IT’S NOT MIC... ..... oh wait... you already did that... Amazing job as ever Ron, these look as good now as the first time I saw them in the LUG!
  17. Rubblemaker
    Well, can confirm, that is one super gorgeous ISD moc! Nice work!
  18. Rubblemaker
    Looks really good, at least I think so.. do you have any pictures in brighter lighting? So we can see things like the stand and the overall outline? It’s all very.... dark. Beautiful and moody but.... dark... ☹️
  19. Rubblemaker
    Come find me on Instagram: @rubblemaker_lego. I’ll be posting updates on instructions there :)
  20. Rubblemaker
    It’s half a cm longer than the UCS Falcon. But considerably ‘slimmer’. As for actual real life (in universe) scale.. I have no idea. I don’t really build sets so don’t pay much attention to them.
  21. Rubblemaker
    I was basically sticking bricks together at 90 degrees the wrong angle! Jerac told me that snot is easy to do but easy to get wrong in an unfixable way. And he was right as there was no way forward the way I was doing it and I had to start over from scratch (about a week in, so in all, the build you see in these photos was actually about 2.5 weeks in the making). As for instructions.. I was thinking about them whilst building.. is what I'm doing something that could be 'sold' as a building technique? ... that sort of thing. I happen to know someone in my LUG who is not only an excellent moc maker in his own right but also a wizard with Stud.io and he will be making the instructions from photos of the ship. Fortunately, the way I created it, it can be separated into sections quite easily for photographing without having to actually 'take it apart'.
  22. Rubblemaker
    Pretty much both. After I'd finished the Gladiator I spent about a week scouring the net looking for something to fill the void before settling on the Corvus. Then I downloaded as many images of it as I could find and spent a few days studying every single square mm of it. By chance around this time I'd also just bought a gigantic joblot of lbg Lego from eBay which happened to contain hundreds of bricks in it. It was around then that I thought I might have enough to attempt a SNOT build. Then it was just a case of .. building I guess. I partition a ship into sections in my mind and build it in those sections. Once I have enough of these I usually tackle a frame to hold them all together. Then it's just a case of keeping on going. I have a saying before I start every moc.. 'I'm going to keep on building until I can't figure out a way to keep on building.' With this one that almost happened and then I contacted Jerac to ask for his advice as he employs the snot technique to incredible effect. He was amazingly helpful and saved the build as I was about to give up, by giving me pointers on how to do this technique properly. So in short, yes, I just build. Mess around, tear it up, build it again, iterate, re-iterate, study pictures of it and hope to god I'll have enough pieces to see it through to the end (usually placing multiple small Bricklink orders along the way as I think of ideas I don't have the pieces for). Sorry... long answer but.. there's no quick way to explain it all. :)
  23. Rubblemaker
    Lol, not that I want to give you anxiety but I used a couple of control panel printed pieces as greebling in the mid section too
  24. Rubblemaker
    Hmmm... well, there are plenty of choices regarding the Imperial Corvus as it's the only one people ever seem to make. Nice to see something new occasionally isn't it? ;) regarding the tanks... I'm afraid I'm going to have to completely disagree with you on that one. The modified plates are way too thick for that area and as for the printed tiles... well, I think mine next to the reference material speaks for itself. I think I nailed it pretty accurately:
  25. Rubblemaker
    Lol, the Gladiator. Yeah, that was me too. In my head that was about 16 years ago.. but in real time I finished it one month ago. I’m about to embark on a mammoth instructions making project for this and the Gladiator though so don’t expect another giant ship from me in another months time... maybe 2 though.. ;) No... me neither....
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