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Regarding price. I built this in "two rounds" buying a lot of parts as experimentation. Add to this the fact the several orders were 1-5 brick types because I was impatient + my unoptimzed brickcount is around 550 types, I think I have probably used between 1200-1400$ in total. Considering all this, I think a sub 1000$ should be doable - maybe even sub 800. It all depends on the new BL buy algoritgm - and how many who are building the same model :)

Very impressive! I am curious, how did you manage the long narrow bridge - is it stable?

I love a good alt design and this is surely a great one! Cudos for the detailing on the fins. The colour scheme and imagination is commendable. Good job!

Congratulations! My son is due in July :)

Hi guys, quick update: The instructions maker is working day and night to meet the June 1st deadline - the instructions "book" is going to be BIG! :D I have also tweaked the back section a bit and - uh, what is this? A scale Imperial shuttle! [/url] I hope it is Tydirium, but those two escorting TIEs makes it seem unlikely :)

It is 85941 Cylinder Half 2 x 4 x 5 Still adding a few more details to the model :)

Very pretty - sleep and clean! The proportions also look spot on :)

There is a B-Wing - check out the latest changes:

June 1st is still the target date. The model will also come with a range of scale ships: Falcon X-wings Y-wings A-wings B-wings Tie Fighters Cheers :)

Yeah ecmo, my thoughts exactly on the 4592. Right now I am trying the reverse engineer the B-wing :)

These are great designs ecmo. I am familar with Tim's work though - and I am trying to tweak these to go with the Neb. They are pretty close to scale. I don't know that little semi cone piece he uses though. Billdozer - many of the internal bricks can be any colour, but many of them has to be grey because parts of them will be seen. I am not sure if the instructions will say any colour.

We will have a whole bunch of stuff to assist with the build ready as soon as possible - including professionel grade instructions :)

I would buy this. The new Hoth set I wouldn't

I am just fooling around - please go ahead and make some awesome xwings - and other fighters :) I am just fooling around - please go ahead and make some awesome xwings - and other fighters :)

Working on an x-wing design: Comparison with the advent calendar X-wing.

The old one was about 110, this one is 120. Don't recall exact height - not home right now :)

The falcon is based on Tim Goddards design which you can find on his flickr - Those are the plans I used :) Just add the cockpit from the microfighters set and make the cockpit tube a bit longer. An X-wing should be about 6-7 studs long/wide. Please post your creations here :)

More like 6k bricks actually :) Brick type count will be optimzed. Right now the model uses old and new versions of the same brick in several instances. This will be ironed out - except in cases where different molds contribute to the organic look of the model :) The Lego store in CPH wants to display it, however they did not have an area that it could fit in though :/

The back looks great! I see you have used orange/red for the engine glow. I used light blue. The correct would probably be white/yellow, but that wouldn't look that good anyway :)

All tweaks will make it into the instructions :)

This thread is about the ongoing tweaks to the Nebulon B I posted a few weeks back – and, more importantly, the instructions how to build it yourself! Here is the original post: http://www.eurobrick...pic=129607&st=0 Before we delve into the improvements there is a message from the instructions master himself: “To everyone who is interested in this absolutely gorgeous model, I am sure that you have heard the rumors of a professional grade instruction manual, and in the words of Han Solo, "It's true, all of it". It is indeed true that a manual will release, and I am currently working on it as I type! Along with the manual will be some awesome content, but we will save that surprise for later. Obviously the biggest thing in your mind is "When will it be done?" To answer that question, I am pushing myself to get this done 100% ready for release on June 1. What is keeping me from making the release date sooner is the fact that there is one tricky thing for me to do in terms of reverse engineering this model, but once that part is done, it will be very easy to finish the manual up. It is very possible that I can get the manual done before then, but let's keep it as June 1 for now in order to avoid pushing the date back at all.” I can’t wait for these instructions and will probably have to build it again :) Now to the tweaking After making the original post I looked at the pictures and I though that the model looked pretty good. However a few areas still stood out to me. In some places I simply discovered a better brick to convey something and in other places I found a bit more detail to put in. For example, I have changed a few bricks and added a few details to the top pod. The “gold bar” brick in lbg has come in quite handy. The overall detailing on the green pod is also better, but I am still considering a few bricks changes for some of the finer details. There are several tweaks like these, but there was one place in particular that still bugged me - the long subdivided pod near the bottom of the stalactite. Even when designing the first iteration of the ship I wasn’t completed satisfied with it. Back then it had been a little too small and I wanted more detail on it. During the rebuilding process I had gotten used to – even though now it was clearly too small and compared to the rest of the ship it lacked detail. Besides the size discrepancy, the pod on the film model consists of 82 narrow sections from one end to the other. My original version consists of 27, not so narrow sections, and that kept being an eyesore to me. So as an experiment I did this: Just by changing the small slopes with grilles I got the look of the sectioned pod. The way the old pod is built meant that the spacing between each of the grille bricks matches the width of each individual grille-legs. Thus each leg of each grille looks like a separate subsection. By tilting the core of the original pod the shape of the pod began to emerge. Now I just had to mirror this and put the detailing back on. Now the pod consists of 27 x 3 = 81 sections, just one from the studio model, and lives much better up to the detailing of the rest of the ship. In the picture above you can also see that the section below the long pod had been updated and made wider. This is the sections that among other things uses a racecar on the studio model :) I have also added more detail more piping and detailing elsewhere – and removed a bunch of studs. The backside has also gotten an overhaul especially the back of the fin, but I forgot to take the picture of the back before the model was put back on display. The antenna placement was also tweaked :) I hope you like the changes. They will make it in to the instructions as well. Any further changes will be updated in this thread. Next up: putting in lights ;) Lastly, I have gotten a few question about the stand. It is pretty stable also compared to some of the standard UCS stands. It just takes a little help from a friend to set it up. You hold the model while your friend places the legs - 20 seconds and you are set :) Watch this space for updates on the INSTRUCTIONS! Now with X-wings: More changes:

Great to see another well made Neb! If lego made a UCS set it would probably be closer to yours, it has great detail and look really sturdy! I also like the modular build style - and you stand looks way more stable than mine :) Can we please see a shot from behind? :) PS. My brickcount has exploded way past 5000 and I am still tweaking ;) Great to see another well made Neb! If lego made a UCS set it would probably be closer to yours, it has great detail and look really sturdy! I also like the modular build style - and you stand looks way more stable than mine :) Can we please see a shot from behind? :) PS. My brickcount has exploded way past 5000 and I am still tweaking ;)

Excellent work Rasko! That engine area mmmm! :) What I like the most is that everything makes sense when looking at it from the inside as a minifig scale model - and on the outside it looks like a studio skal model. A build like this often requires a lot of compromises, but this one pulls it off! An what an interior it is, with little ships and crew compartments - It is full of little stories. I am drooling over these pictures :) I have one tiny suggestion though. For the most part there are very limited studs on the model - just enough to add to the overall detail. However there are a few large studded areas - have you considered making these areas with tiles instead?

Thank you Lobot! Hopefully the instructions will be done before winter - but I also hope the Snowspeeder is awesome (I had to mod the old one quite a bit :) Regarding the angles - I am not sure lego would ever make a set with angles set up this way ;) The frigate in ISD scale was some I threw together using parts I had lying around - it could probably be improved a lot. I will post a few pictures of it later :) Thank you! When will you post yours here? :)

Hi Action, your blaster looks amazing! The fact that it even works wants me to built it and annoy the crap out of my coworkers :) One suggestion though, have you considered using tiles instead of plates on the outer layer? I know that some people like studs on their lego, but is it something you have considered?