Jerac

@kr-lik: Till the end of August. You should have contacted me earlier though, I live in Łódź and we could arrange a meeting anyway :D Road to Swarzewo is very nice, motorway all the way from Strykow up to Gdynia and then just some kilometers on a normal road. Even with the tiny, underpowered delivery van I was using it was about 3,5h of smooth driving. Btw, come to us at http://zbudujmy.to - we have cookies! :D Thanks again everyone!

Definitely worth to go and see the exhibition, there are so many cool dioramas and MOCs built by members of Zbudujmy.to there :)

Thanks! :D @Nom Carver: I already have one model with fully finished interior (a warcraft 2 juggernaut) and I can tell you that unless you can very easily switch between "open" and "closed" modes, this makes absolutely no sense at exhibitions. People are coming and going, spending just few seconds near my table or cabinet, and I prefer them to see the outside. If I open up the model, they might not even realise what are they looking at, plus imagine all these comments "but these lego figs are too big!" And, uh, it would be heavy, as @VK-318 says :)

I might be not the most frequent poster of Eurobricks... but I believe I might have something which some of you might enjoy. Pardon for reusing mocpages description, but it seems to be pretty complete. I just hope there are some of you guys here who don't read mocpages too often... :) Let me present you the Chimaera, famous flagship of equally famous Grand Admiral Thrawn. A prime example of an Imperial Star Destroyer Mark II. The Star Destroyer might be very well the best looking sci-fi vessel in any franchise and for a good reason. Its design combines simple, clean lines with fine detailing where required, and the way bridge section arrogantly perches on top of the massive warship tells much about the Empire itself. Most people know that a Star Destroyer measures 1600 meters in length, but not many know that it is actually about 1000 metres wide! Building a huge Star Destroyer was my long lasting child dream, and by some luck I came across such time of my life when I can build it. Year earlier it would be impossible and given amount of money required, it might not have been possible in the future. First, some raw data. The model dimensions are 202x125x58 centimeters, or 252x156x72 studs. This alone makes it bigger in ANY dimension than ANY of my previous builds. The already large Titow Battlecruiser was probably a tiny bit longer than the Chimeaera Star Destroyer is high, but the SD might be a bit too low actually. Such dimensions naturally causes considerable heft of the construction and indeed - the model weights approximately 50 kilos. Approximately because it is impossible to lift it by one person so I cannot really check precise value. It is not the structural integrity which is limiting, the model is durable enough - it is the pure weight and dimensions. The Star Destroyer design process started in early November and actual build started just after Christmas, when first (...large...) batch of parts arrived. Since the model was meant to be featured on Zbudujmy.to LUG exhibition in Swarzewo which was to start at 1st of July, 2014, it was also the deadline. The model was ultimately finished just few hours before the beginning, which is the reason why some little sections are unfinished.I also had no possibility of taking good quality photos, since when the model was encased in glass cabinet, sunlight and reflections made that almost impossible. The ship in its full glory, standing in the display cabinet. The stand itself is made of steel but does not enter the structure - model is simply lying on the stand which is profiled to match ship's anges. "Terraces" section of the vessel, also the highest concentation of greebles and sometimes difficult angles. While the whole ship is a SNOT-ly mess, the superstructure greebling is actually built with common studs-up technique which allowed me to use some trans-clear plates. They will be required later on. Each of those engines took about 1,5 hours to assemble, and first one took about 1,5 weeks just to get the design right. Imagine you have to build a smooth 15-cm diameter bowl which is empty inside, stays straight and is durable enough to survive transport. In such a massive ship, every detail that can fall off during transport, will fall off during transport. Generally the bigger your MOC is, the more durable it has to be. Altough exact proportions of the Star Destroyer Mark II are an absolute mystery, I based them on known ISD-I proportions and common notion that the second ship was a bit more narrow than the original. Thus, while ISD-I would be 200x132 cm, mine is 202x125 cm. Either way, this is a stunningly wide ship which I have realised only when I started the build. Notice how the ship stays straight... while weighing around 50 kilos, measuring 2 meters long and having absolutely no steel or non-lego structural supports inside. LEGO and LEGO only! :) Bridge and terraces section close-up. The goal of greebling was not to recreate greebling of original ship, this would cost me too much time given the strict deadline. Most important features are included, though and greebling is easy to replace so maybe one day... :) As said before, the entire frame is made with LEGO pieces only, and consists of well over 1.000 technic bricks, out of which 700 are 1x14 or 1x16. There are also hundreds of plates, pins, liftarms and unimog suspension parts... yeah, no mistake here :) The ship is modular - it is too heavy to be moved around by two people safely, so entire top section can be taken away. Not only it makes it lighter, but allows easy access to the frame which is both required for maintenance and also offers good holding points. One who wants to pick it up by the frame needs to have good leather gloves or it will hurt. A lot. With blood. :D This little viginette shows how empty the model is inside. I wonder how heavy would it be if it had an interior... not that the interior would be interesting, considering that if a minifig was to-scale with the ship, it would be shorter than one plate's height. That's me :) Maybe tired a bit after another sleepless night but happy anyway. One of LEGO-related dreams fulfilled! Kris Kelvin, The Prime Judge of the Zbudujmy.to association - friend who has helped me a lot during preparations to the exhibition and (mentally) during building. Plans for the future? The ship will stay at Zbudujmy.to exhibition at Swarzewo in Poland for next three months, after that I will take it back and properly finish. Altough detailing is more or less done, some parts of the structure are not reinforced and are too fragile in long-term. I also plan to add fully working lightning, which you sneakly peek at here: That photo dates back to March or so when the ship was still under constructions, but shows how hangar lightning already works. And in the end, few more or less interesting facts: - There were more than 1500 used of each of: 1x2 plates, 1x1 bricks with headlight, 1x4 bricks and 1x1 tiles - all in light bluish grey. - Sensor globes on the bridge were actually designed to be 6-stud diameter, but one BL seller decided it would be fun to change splash terms at night and cancel my order - few days before the deadline. So I had to use whatever I had at hand... - The halfway-done ship was entirely dismantled near April because I found out it was less than 10 centimeters too shallow. - For quite a time it was impossible to pick the ship up, because its structure relies not only on the frame but external covering as well. If one side - either top or bottom - is missing, the other side won't stay attached to the frame. - Originally I have based the model dimensions on drawings taken from Essential Guide to Star Wars Vehicles, which was a bad decision. The model would be 200x100cm while it should be 200x125cm.... even bigger problem surfaced when I have realised that my car's trunk opening is actually only 110 cm wide. It would be ok for the ill-proportioned EGSWV design but not for the proper one. - For last two weeks the model was built in the dining room. I was testing if it would fit in the car after "cutting off" the edges (and it did!), but I found out that it is impossible to drag it back to 1st floor due to narrow staircase. It was hard enough to get it down. - Original estimate for 1x2 plates was 2000. By a mistake I have ordered that lot twice... which eventually proved to be beneficial, as there are over 4300 of them used in the final iteration of the model. 1x2 plates are by far the most common element used. - The model can be actally hung from the ceiling on some kind of a steel wire - the frame will easily support the weight. The problem to solve is in the ceiling itself, it would need three quite massive hooks.

The fact he has no instructions does not prove anything. Reverse-engineering someone's model is easily possible. Just look at the photos - and dmac's are good ones - and build the same. I could copy any of his work (that is, build a model that looks identical) given I have needed parts. Interior might be diffrent but on the outside, it would be identical. It is as "inspired" as Chinese fake "lego" bricks are "inspired" by original Lego bricks.

What cavegod sent to Undead Army Officer is one of main reasons why we got so angry about that. It is not about copying MOCs - multiple people have copied my a-wing, mcm, power driller, someone is now trying the Battlecruiser with my help (and he assured me that he will include credits). We share our ideas and update someone's designs very often, sometimes enchancing an already great model to a purely awesome one. All that, however, with giving credit to the builder. After all - it is not a shame. Actually I think that updating a design that come from a hand of lego master is a mighty achievment. Cavegod, however, choose a diffrent way. Silently copy the model then claim that this design is his one, Lego ripped their set out of HIS work, and that "you will find that dmac copied my shuttle". Again - it is not about copying, it is only because of cavegod himself. You see, you have all the data required, but the interpretation is wrong. Do not look at details. Look at more obvious things. Dimensions, for example. If cavegod done all of designing job by himself, even if he used exactly the same references, some dimensions would be diffrent, because everyone inteprets the sources a bit diffrent way. Wings being one stud longer. Cockpit shorter, some angle diffrent, distance from the hull to the place where wings bend diffrent... and such. Even more, why did he choose the same exact scale? There goes question #1 to Cavegod: If it is you who designed the ship, what references did you use? Photos of original ILM models? Sketches from the Guide to Star Wars Vehicles book (whatever it is called, there is just one such book)? Other sources? Proof #2: Dmac made several mistakes in his design. Many things can be done better, but there are things that are outright wrong. Somehow, exactly the same problems appear on Cavegod's ship: -Nose is WAY too long. Biggest and most evident design flaw. -Lower wings are too wide (the distance between front and rear edge of the wing). -Holes around each of white 40-tooth gear (lower wing supports) could be easily hidden with some basic arches. And now about Cavegod's changes: look at dmac's model and the original ILM one. All Cavegod has added are some unnecessary greeble panels under the cockpit or above the top wings. The only one part that was made better in my opinion are engine exhaust ports. If all this, but mostly repeated mistakes, are not a proof, then what would be?

A bit late Christmast gift for Starcraft and Lego fans: the mother of all SC ship in Lego. 80 studs long, 5 kilos, 3 large BL orders and few smaller, month of work. The ship design is based on the in-game model, not the movie version, so altough I had a basic sketch of proportions, I had also a free hand on details. Flickr, Brickshelf.

It is not "inspired" by dmac. It is almost "copied"... Original: (gull gallery of dmac's original ship here)

It is by far the most beautiful SW set ever, maybe excluding its larger brother. Actually, it is good enough to be a true MOC, without any limits Lego designers have to work with. The scale, however, is a bit weird. It is too big for existing microscale fighters, too small to be placed side-by-side with the UCS Tantive V...

Well, after that "one reply" you have dimnished your chances to get any comments on your work. There are just few things which are more annoying than complaining about amount of comments you got, really. As for the ship itself - the Z-95 is hard to capture, because it looks so deceptively easy, and there are few realli distinguishable elements. Actually, you've managed to get rid of all of them. It is much more than just X-wing with 2 wings removed, just look: Engines, wider nose cone, bubbly part after the cockpit. They're all diffrent than in your version. Even if it is meant to be "modified". Altough - while the Z-95 part is a fail - the MOC itself is nice and quite well built.

Sure, there is a link to BS in the first post. Altough not much interior, really... ;>

Thanks for replies, guys! Indeed, I a The biggest problem I see is actually not visible too much on the photos, but in real life it is - because photos are sligltly too bright. Generally: The one on left is what I'd like it to be, the one on right is how mine looks. At least for me it is damn annoying :> As for the colour scheme, I was just bored about red, I don't have pieces for dkred, green looked rather weird (and also some parts are very rare or even just don't exist)... and finally, I always wanted a white-blue A-Wing :>

I thought that I could share it here, for SW fans ;> While I can't say that I am a "Star Wars builder", because there is just one ship from SW built by me, that one ship - my favourite in whole SW - has grabbed my attention for long. The RZ-1 A-wing Interceptor. A weird one, appears just few seconds in the movies, probably if not the Executor accident nobody would even know about its existence. Yet that little ship got popularised by Lucas Arts games, and its distinct shape has proven to be lego-proof for a long time. Actually, nobody ever done it right, and I wonder if it is even possible. I didn't succeed, either. There are still some issues that I just can't fix anyhow. Yet, I hope you like it :) Brickshelf, Flickr!

Ah, I understand. Sorry for this little misplacement :)

Why do you think so? Of course it was meant to be a PM vehicle... so.... ?

As the size issue has been solved, this is not longer needed ;)

Asuka, a headlight 1x1 brick -> piece of flex cable -> minifig hand -> tile 1x2. Sounds scary, I know, but it is really not that difficult :)

My second (but not last) favourite theme is space. Space microscale exactly, but I like minifig scale, too. Yesterday I've built a little fun model, something little just to prove that power miners theme is not that bad as many people seem to think. There are few functions: opening cockpit with some space for tools and massive dozer blade which can be moved horizontally and vertically. Treads work on any rough surface, even on paper. BS gallery flickr!.

V-LI-06A Trucks. Everybody knows these. Massive, ugly vehicles seen in numbers on each bigger construction site. Some of them, however, really stand out from the crowd. For example - the Czech Tatra 815. It is a really peculiar truck, with its independent "bent" suspension, air-cooled engine or even exhaust which isn't as simple as in more typical trucks. I am really surprised that the steering wheel is still round... ;). It really deserved a Lego model, and as I am a big fan of lego trucks... it was just a matter of time. The model itself is built in minifig scale, but without a minifig inside, because of massive SNOT-work. Sorry for that, but I think that overall look is more important than details like minifig fitting in the cabin. The tipper can be raised or lowered, its endplate opened, wheels turn, suspension is bent like in original car... and that is all. I hope that you like it :) BS gallery flickr!

Okay, in fact I didn't post anything on my first account here, I was just an ugly, byteeating lurker. But here I come again! :) My name is Jarek, I am from Poland (oficially) or from Naemis IVb (unoficially, as some people have already found out that I am an alien. Whatever). I could write many funny - or not - things here, or things absolutely unnecessary, but... let it be simple: Hello everyone! :)