Tom_Brick

As I said, I really liked the Ice Planet theme, but the set designs weren't great. The Deep Freeze Defender might just be the ugliest ship of them all. I guess as a kid, I really would have wanted to have this one. Which is why I made it now as an adult.

Yup, as I said above, the SP1 ships were my alltime favourites. Both Mission Commander and the SP-Striker. The fact that I'm not a fan of the double cockpits is the main reason I never liked the Deep Freeze Defender. I mean it is the defining feature of the set. The great Ice Planet theme cannot nullify that. But even if one were to reduce it to one cockpit, the overall shape of the thing is also not very good either, with the two sets of small wings and the bulky, rectangular back. I still don't see anything exceedingly ugly with that ship. The strange tail-end is a bit weird, but that's it. The colour scheme is fine. I guess if you're not a fan of the forward facing wings, you won't like it, but I kinda like the idea. In fact, back then, I took apart my Galactic Mediator and built a ship with a similar wing design out of its parts, only it was a bit bigger. Though I see your point regarding the bulky sides of the thing. I never owned it, but I could imagine that the angle of the photo here is its best looking side. If I rotate it in my mind and look at it from the front, I suppose it won't look nice. Still not the worst in my book though.

Really? I don't mind the Star Hawk II that much. There were worse. Personally, I have never been a fan of the Deep Freeze Defender for example. I loved the Ice Planet theme, but that ship was always ugly to me. But I guess it would have been a great set to build my own creations from. In hindsight, I also quite like the UFO sets. They came out after my younger self had moved on from Legos, so I never even noticed these sets until many years later, but they were solid IMHO. As for Unitron, again this was after my "active years", but I guess I would have liked it. Looks like it was a bit of a failed attempt at reviving Futuron, but it had a monorail, so there's that.

Oh yeah, I remember that robot. Definitely a cool set. But the other sets aren't that special and the overall colour scheme isn't that great. It feels like a worse version of M-Tron. Still good of course, but given that M-Tron is such a beloved theme, it's just an extremely high bar to compare against.

Cheers. They certainly brought back memories when I reassembled them. Same here. As I said, I really loved the Ice Planet concept when it came out, but the sets themselves were average at best, except for the Ice Station Odyssey I guess.

It's in large parts down to nostalgia. What did you play with as a kid. Of course I selected multiple themes, but my favourite has to be Space Police I. It had the coolest ships. I had both the Mission Commander and the SP-Striker and both of them were some of the best ships they ever designed. I also had lots of Classic Space stuff. My parents bought them used and those were my very first Legos. So I also really appreciated those. Whereas Space Police had the coolest ships, M-Tron had the coolest land vehicle in the Mega Core Magnetizer. But the Particle Ioniser was also nice. I didn't like the Stellar Recon Voyager though. While it had some cool play features, it just looked ugly as sin. So that was one of the models I quickly took apart to build my own stuff. Unfortunately, I never had any Blacktron I. Looking at it in hindsight, those were some awesome sets. I also liked Blacktron II though. Ice Planet was a really cool concept, I liked the idea and the colour scheme, but none of the models were really inspiring. I didn't like Space Police II very much. While the sets were all right (not nearly as good as Space Police I though), the colour scheme was ugly. During Covid, I unpacked all of my old Legos, disassembled them, put the bricks into the washing machine and then reassembled them.

Really nice. Has a beautiful late 1960s retro Sci-Fi vibe.

Thanks @SpacePolice89 and @danth , If I find the time, I will certainly try to pick up the B-Wing project again.

I will start working on instructions soon. Thank you. But I don't think that I will be working on that one. For one, it would be a bit big and secondly, I don't really see the angle for transforming it into a classic space themed ship. One thing that I might continue to work on: In the past, I started working on a Space Police I themed B-Wing. I eventually stopped after it got a little out of hand. but maybe I'll return to it

Update I have now slightly updated the model and also created instructions, which can be found on my Rebrickable page here: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-195798/thomin/galaxy-starfighter-g-1

I'm glad you like it. It would be awesome if you brought this to life. I wouldn't have expected anyone to even contemplate building this.

I've put the Stud.io file on my Dropbox. Whoever is keen on playing around with it is welcome to download it. I will keep it up there for a while, but I won't guarantee that it will be available indefinitely. A couple of comments: There is no support structure to speak of underneath the sand dunes. So if anyone is interested in actually building this, that would be the first thing to tackle. Obviously the rear end of the worm needs a bit of refinement. The rings may be a bit "soft". You'd need to build one in real life to test how well it holds up. I think it should be fine, but I wouldn't vouch for it. Though adding some more supports inside should be possible. But then you also wouldn't want them to become too heavy, so that the mouth of the worm can still be lifted slightly up from the dune. If it turns out to be too heavy, I guess one could also take out a ring or two from the front section of the Worm, though the ball joints I've used typically are quite strong and the scales should also offer some resistance if push comes to shove. Anyway, here's the download-link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/uopkr5le3vfnt2begl7a6/Worm.io?rlkey=md086gr3lydaupy8jnvqumbal&dl=0

That was a nice idea, thanks. I've continued with the design and closed it all around. I'm still not happy with the tail of the worm where he comes out of the sand, that section would need some refinement. But I think I'll end it here. I'm never going to build this and I doubt anyone else would want to do so either.

I wanted to continue with my current Dune obsession but there really isn't all that much inside the Dune universe which lends itself to be transformed into Lego. But I figured that a sandworm + rider would be a nice challenge. I have gone into Stud.io and tried to come up with something. While I do like the current look, I'm not sure if I continue down that path. The damn thing is just too big. It sits on three 32x32 base plates. We're already at more than 3600 pieces and the rear end is still missing, plus I only have a rudimentary support structure for the sand dunes. So I expect a final design to end up quite a bit north of 4000 pieces which is just unreasonable. Still, it was fun so far, so I might at least finish the design in Stud.io. But I doubt that I'll take it any further than that.

If you have followed my WIP Post, you will already have the gist of it. I have finally managed to iron out any issues with my Stud.io design and create the instructions. Basically, I have tried to do the following things: Design a completely new tail section. Replace any offensive colours. Design new panels with less studs. Make the overall shape more like the movie Thopter. You can judge for yourself if I succeeded. Instructions and Part List are available here: https://reb.li/m/179131 Here are some more renderings: And some pictures of my prototype (there are some minor differences compared to the final design):