Calanon

I voted for #2. If Lego are not willing to engage with EB anymore why not have a subforum for other brick companies? I am against allowing any that are blatant IP thieves that you get on AliExpress because that's very much legally and morally in the wrong if you're selling someone else's designs - whether they be official designs from Lego or fan MOCs - for cheap. I don't think there's enough demand for #3 and I'd rather not see 5 dead subforums. If another brand gets popular and starts to dominate it can get its own subforum like how SW is separate from licensed.

Sandcrawler and AT-AT look good. Remnant snowtroopers look so much better than the renders. I like that they have kneeguards now. RE the whole Mando in every set I think him only having the one outfit heightens that. Han was in a lot of Solo sets but he's constantly changing clothes so less repetitive.

I disagree re new troopers looking good. The visor looks absolutely huge and inconsistent with regular snowtroopers.

Really excellently done.

Light grey arms & legs for the shuttle is a weird choice. The pilots wear black flightsuits, like TIE pilots. It's a faded black so I could see using dark grey like they did for Bodhi Rook but light grey? Really?

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?

Thank you. Unfortunately, not yet. I'd like to make instructions at some point but I'm unlikely to have time until the summer. Thank you. It was important of me to get as many details as possible considering it's basically a grey box with some angles! And the cargo gives it some colour.

The Imperial Troop Transport has 2 drivers and can carry up to 20 passengers - here pictured with 19 stormtroopers, half a platoon led by a lieutenant. I also included an alternate roof with an opening hatch as seen in later seasons of Rebels as well as the cargo carrying variant, where the cargo can be swapped around and take entirely new cargo. Credit to Rob van Leeuwen for the passenger bay roof design - I could not find an alternate version that I liked.

74-Z speeder bike, able to be modified to have a passenger in order to recreate the Endor speeder chase. I had toyed with using a 3l bar to make it slightly more minifig scale (the bikes are short!) but I thought 4l gave slightly better proportions. I don't love minifigs being held in place only by handlebars but the bike is so tiny it felt more appropriate here.

I really love this - particularly the wall greebles and the hidden piping etc.

Just watched some SW set video demos. It's rather quiet and hard to hear. Maybe it's easier in real life but it seemed like an effort to get the music to play (and not even authentic music) and the sound of the Lego pieces being moved was louder. Seems like it might be fun for children to reenact dogfights with fighters but I'm shocked that some of the sounds were not authentic SW sounds. It makes it sound cheap and feel gimmicky.

The TIE sounds alright. X-wing doesn't really sound like an X-wing. I also watched the one with the cantina and the music is not the SW cantina music and it's a struggle to hear it over the moving of the Lego pieces to make it play. The TIE sounds alright. X-wing doesn't really sound like an X-wing. I also watched the one with the cantina and the music is not the SW cantina music and it's a struggle to hear it over the moving of the Lego pieces to make it play.

Ahh... new R2 with rotating head has a body with smart brick attached to back of torso, so it's flat. That makes me a lot less excited.