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A WIP ship. I'm going for a very smooth retro vibe. I'll have to hit Bricklink for more of the big orange wedge and blocky pieces from Sentai Fortress unless anyone has any they wouldn't mind parting with. With more pieces, I plan on completing the overall rocket shape (and maybe adding some big fins for swooshing/landing support).
Suggestions?
This was the first model I ever attempted in Studio. The goal here is to do a very clean, sleek update to the Galaxy Explorer that's as close as possible to the original set, unlike many other Galaxy Explorer remakes that take the basic outline as a platform for complex SNOT techniques or greebling. However, I did make a few changes. I wanted the crew to be able to access the cargo in flight, so instead of a solid wall in the middle the crew cabin and the cargo bay are only separated by flags. The crew cabin is fully furnished with controls and two space seats, instead of being blank and empty. Due to limitations of the modern parts palette, the roof is blue instead of trans yellow. There is three point retractable landing gear. The doors in the aft fuselage are now large enough for minifigures to use them to access the cargo bay. The cargo bay is no longer tall enough to fit a rover with somebody sitting at the wheel, but it is otherwise much larger and more useful. It has 2 separate 6x6 cargo areas, letting it carry 2 small rovers, or a rover and a trailer (facing forward or facing backward), or 4 large crates and 6 small crates. Finally, I moved the fuselage-mounted engines lower so that the ship can now balance on them if you stand it on its end. That makes it what I call a well-balanced spaceship, like the 924 and the 918.
1994’s Saucer Centurion from The most excellent Spyrius sub-theme!
The rover drop-ship feature, while super simple, is amazingly effective. Great figs and prints, that console print (not pictured) is one of my favs. And I’m always stoked to get some neon transparent windscreens and antennas in blue!
I loved this medium sized spaceship as a kid, very happy to have it back in my collection now. Hurray for nostalgia lol
More 90’s sets to be featured soon, including another Spyrius Saucer
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Made in 2019, I used the Lego Ideas green spacesuit and the new Lego Movie 2 Spaceman helmet painted in New Shamrock Green.
I didn't know Jim Spaceborn. leafing through it I saw that there are CS spaceships and I tried to remake them. The Blacktrons are also interesting.
A modern update of set 6890 "Cosmic Cruiser" aka "Delta 1 Explorer and Shuttle," primarily inspired by a Space Police 3 sketch model built by Mark Stafford in 2007 or 2008, which in turn reminded NilsOBrix of the Cosmic Cruiser in a comment. Original here:
www.flickr.com/photos/nabii/8971069450/in/faves-149520828...
The Cosmic Cruiser is harder to update than the 918/924/928 series, because so much of its identity derives from its functionality rather than its shape. The mini scooter inside the larger spaceship, which itself is still small and swooshable, is a fun idea, but I don't like some aspects of the original set. The main rocket motor is way too big for the scooter, and with the scooter removed the spaceship is an immobile shell. With the scooter in place, the cockpit is anything but airtight, and the scooter rattles around as if it's about to fall out.
In this update, I wanted to keep the size and shape of Mark Stafford's sketch model while adding Cosmic Cruiser play features. I also wanted the Cruiser itself to still be flyable without the scooter - perhaps it can operate autonomously to come pick up the scooter if the scooter runs out of gas. That meant the scooter had to have a separate, smaller engine and the Cruiser had to have a set of retractable landing gear separate from the scooter. That also required the main engine and the rear fuselage to all swing up on the same hatch, which became too heavy to trust to the hinges used. It was then a bit of a challenge to come up with locks to hold the hatch in the open and closed positions. The hull color had to be red because a critical wedge piece is not available in blue.
The scooter is smaller and more boring than I would have preferred, but it fits neatly in the shell of the Cruiser with a docking mechanism that's a little bit more sophisticated than simply leaving studs on top, and the cockpit is airtight. As an homage to the original set, the scooter is built around the current standard automobile base, just like the original was. Unfortunately, I couldn't find room for the scooter to carry the standard set of tools (radio, spanner, space gun).
LEGO #6956 M:Tron Stellar Recon Voyager or
Rescue Star Cruiser, from 1990
New video up on YT: youtu.be/oUNsrVnlAKs
Not sure who designed this, but a good chance Jørn Thomsen was involved
Great M:Tron prints. Strange fence lattice elements. Cool ribbed convex corner panel
And loads of space bits and trans neon green
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Another variant that came together reasonably easily was White. This should be a purist pleaser as it's possible to be part accurate owing to the homemaker oven switches being available in the only other colour it comes in!
This is a proxy (if it's called that) of an X-1 Patrol Ship (6861). I much prefer it in the original delicious gray, but I didn't have much gray pieces left at the time I built this (I had rebuilt most of my old Classic Space stuff).
The wings are probably from a Galaxy Commander (6980) which I haven't rebuilt yet. I'm not much for big-ships because I think they are often whimsical and lack functions and details despite their size. I didn't have the supports in white, and I ran out of gray ones when rebuilding the Beta-1 Command Base (6970).
The black round base is from a Discovery moon landing set which I bought during a fluctuation in my dark age period. I think they sell a tr.green 2x1 brick in the Lego store now, but I forgot to get one when I ordered.
Rear view.
From LEGO Space: Building the Future by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard
Modeled in Blender from an LDraw mockup and rendered using Blender Internal
Published with creator's permission.
Original model by Peter Reid and Nnenn: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/sets/72157614915464830/
Buy the book at: nostarch.com/legospace
A rather oldish MOC I built last year but didn’t publish at flickr before. I do it now to join the starfighters group :-)
For pure classic spaceness I solely used parts that were produced and available before 1987.
Original here:
ideas.lego.com/projects/8cc6e49f-713a-4971-928a-4a7aeb821a10
Adapted from the original with the same rules as my other Wolf Leews adaptations: no mixing vintage and modern parts, only use real part/color combinations, somewhat different greebling.
The Brothers-Brick really liked ZCerberus's Galaxy Explorer, so they blogged it. I really like it, so I built it in Studio. It looks quite complex, but it's really quite simple - all the fancy tricks are on the outside. Well, except the tricks needed to build the underside. As usual, I had to make that up all by myself because ZCerberus didn't post any picture of the bottom of his build. Because he didn't post pictures of the interior of the cargo bay, I didn't bother kitting it out with a lot of clips and tools either. Original here:
Double feature of 1997’s small droid ships, the V-Wing and Cyber Blaster enter the LEGO City!
These tiny old sets were heavy on cool intricate prints. All about the minifigs here, but the V-Wing has some really fun classic space elements and shaping!
‘97 picks up with leg printing, which hadn’t been seen in a space theme since ‘94s Spyrius droid, Major Kartofski. And we’ll see leg prints on their human counterparts next time I look at RoboForce.
Happy to have both the Techdroids from this theme back in my collection, which Techdroid do you like better- red or blue?
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