Calanon

Unfortunately, despite saying last year I'd hope to join, it's financially not going to work out what with all money going towards a wedding now. Hope you guys have fun and hopefully I can join again in 2027.

Yes, I ended up realising a few hours after posting. I had been basing it on this part of the Wookieepedia article: "and the MC40a's clamshell-like keel was the same as the MC30C Frigate" as well as the picture on the article. Not sure if the Mel Miniatures model is a canonical appearance but I found that this morning and it's more like the heavy cruisers. There's no concrete length as even for Legends it says between 500m and 600m. The Mel Miniatures one also had the variance in width vs the other image looking almost straight. I will try and do something as I want a mini fleet but building in this scale is definitely something I'm not good at!

I want to try adapting the MC30c to be an MC40a light cruiser. I am utterly stuck on how to do the raised bits on the slope at this scale. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Yes, thank you! I do think it looks too old-mannish - perhaps some printing for the hair he did have would have been good. The exposed stud doesn't bother me too much.

Alas, Imgur is blocked in my country. I may buy the piece and try it anyway.

There is but I think it's a little too 'old man-ish' for Picard.

Looks excellent. I really like that Palpatine has a secluded area. Nice work on the doors too.

Largely the new ones. But I dislike the new stormtrooper helmets and the hybrid realistic/animation style print for clone trooper torsos and helmets.

Love a good Rock Raiders MOC. This feels suitably modernised yet classic.

That's crazy talk. Where would we be without everything being turned into a side hustle? I completed several digital Star Wars MOCs in the last year which I shared in a group chat. Haven't posted any proper picturers anywhere because I want to make sure they work IRL and I had a few people suggest I put them on Rebrickable. I know it's a compliment but the idea everything has to be on there I just find a little exhausting. It also really frustrates me when some people churn out a lot of digital builds and put the instructions up for sale before checking it really works.

Whilst I don't think the GWP looks very good I think it's rather dishonest of Lego to include a picture with it integrated into the DS hanger on the DS page. I'm still midly disappointed we didn't get more conference room officers and they haven't even bothered with dual moulding.

Yar and Pulaski would need the earlier uniform and I imagine they wanted consistency. O'Brien would have been a good addition (considering no rank pips probably easy to make) but perhaps if they do well they'll do other ST sets and include him in a DS9 set? Although that's probably me being hopeful since it's less iconic.

I recently ordered a 16x32 dbg baseplate on Bricklink and unfortunately it warped in the post. I've been trying to straighten it out by putting it in hot water and leaving it for a few hours under something heavy but to no success. Yesterday I went to 80C water for about 5 minutes and left it for about 8 hours but the bend's still there. Does anyone have any other suggestions on what I could do? Alternatively, I plan on using it for a MILS plate. Does anyone know if it'll be straight with the pieces on top? If so, I may as well just get the pieces I need and not bother with the heat.

Very disappointed in no rank pips. I know it means all officers can be accurate across TNG (well, S3 onwards) but still. I like the look of the set although it's not quite what I imagined I will probably still buy it and make a bridge MOC. I wasn't expecting a full interior but I thought there might be space for a small bridge.

From the email the merger seems to be more subsuming any BL accounts within Lego accounts since if you don't have a Lego account it'll be deleted. Wonder how many that will happen to. I'm often not a fan of account merges or transfers as things go wrong.