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The Loerie is a high performance, fast and agile British gunship in service of Task Force Second Sabre. She has a free reign to act independently, unfettered by a mothership, to support Royal Navy operations throughout the lawless colony and border regions.
One of the more dynamic looking starships on the market, the arrowhead shaped armed courier is a popular choice for individuals transporting high value, low volume goods.
I threw together a microscale version of my favorite WWII medium bomber, the Heinkel He-111H. I didn't like how trans-clear 2x2 dishes looked as propeller wash, so I added some flex-tube prop hubs and called it good.
Soli Deo Gloria and happy building,
Greyson
Last year I was mainly working on animal models and several other creatures. With this model I come back to my true passion - LEGO architecture. Towards the end of 2017 it was already shown on exibitions in Germany. By the way: this model has no real archtype.
The Cerberus - named so for it's three bulbed viewscreen up front - is the standard issue American dropship and short haul troop transport. It has adaptable, VTOL style thrusters and is easy to fly in open space and atmosphere both but come unstuck during an attack on the 'undercity' of Yystret IV shortly after it's rollout to the USEF.
Up until this mission the Cerberus had a faultless operational record, but the USEF special forces were overconfident in it's ability to operate in the confines of a half-buried city. In reality, the three ships had to drop their troops two klicks from their target and this exposed the SEAL team to enemy fire and a hostile approach. The vessels were fired upon and one crashed whilst trying to remain on station during the mission, whilst the remaining two struggled to reach the landing zone for evacuation.
The manufacturers were quick to shift blame onto poor tactical decisions for this outcome but such a warning did little to prevent a slowdown in military orders. The USEF built the mission into their virtual combat training protocols as a challenge for graduating pilots to prevent and escape; most candidates fail and are marked on how well they deal with catastrophe.
Several updates were issued to software and hydraulics to improve reliability into the Fourth Age and the Cerberus sees use with the US Marines and some of the boarding and landing forces of the USEF. Although the stock version is unarmed, it is nimble and armoured enough to survive in heavy fire zones with the right type of escort.
Microscale polar expedition out on a research mission to study the Antarctic ice shelf thinning and the effect on the wildlife population, such as the seals. Expedition using couple of snowcat vehicles to traverse the frozen landscape.
I was inspired by the 2014 Arctic Lego sets and just had to build a microscale version.
This is my entry for the Assemble the Fleet 2020 contest. I've always been a fan of the paint job on the "graffiti TIE fighter" from Star Wars Rebels, and set out to design a larger ship the evoked the same style for Sabine to command. I settled on a modified design of the Defender-class Corvette from Star Wars: The Old Republic. The design was modified with the addition of two engines in addition to a Sabine signature graffiti paint job.
The escort fighters are not based on any particular canon design, but I chose to go with some type of TIE-style variant with a modified wing on one side and an engine cluster on the other. As for the color design, my thought is that "Commander Sabine" would likely encourage the pilots under her command to modify their fighters to reflect their personality. It is also nice to have a fabricated reason why the colored fighters are on one side of the ship and the monochrome ones on the other. =)
Comments / Criticism / Feedback is welcomed and encouraged.
Cheers!
The luxury apartments at Riverstone have been designed in a way that will offer you lots of space, with many amenities that set this newly renovated historic building apart.
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Another slab ship, not overly satisfied with this one. There's some elements I'd like to try on a large, SHIP-sized slab: the ventral acicular thing, the grabby arms near the bow, the angular fuel cells moving toward the stern.
I enjoy putting in some elements to suggest fish shapes (radiating fins, gills, tail, spines, feelers, needles, etc) but not too fishy, if that makes sense. In an abstracted way.
The Sanctuary rises from a ridge overlooking four valleys, famed for the clarity of their seasons. People from the region may be admitted to the Sanctuary for a period of secluded reflection -- traditionally, in Spring, for those who have just ended their education; in Summer, for those recently recovered from a life-threatening illness; in Autumn, for those who have completed their life work; or in Winter, for those who have lost a loved one.
A carved and painted folding box is a traditional memento for people who have stayed at the Sanctuary. Its design represents their experience, which can be held close inside, or unfolded to share the peace of the Sanctuary.
For more photos, see the full set.
Others may now it as the Poison Citadel.
This will be my brother-n-law's birthday present, hopefully he likes it as much I liked my present. Heavily influenced by the Skeksis's Castle. There's a couple of parts to finish it off and I will print a title for the base as well.
The City of Dale from J.R.R. Tolkien's the Hobbit built in microscale for the CCCXIII contest over on Classic Castle.com: www.classic-castle.com/
My fourth build for my Iron Builder against Jimmy Fortel, the seed part being the musketeer sword (7 used)
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This one was actually quite fun, might keep this round for sometime to display :)
Enjoy!
David
I've recently taken an interest in architecture, so naturally I had to combine it with my love of Lego (and of course microscale).
Inspired by Pascal's Columbus Center.
Winter is my favorite season of the year and Christmas is already in the air, so I can't wait for this magical time. Here a first Xmas build, more are coming soon! I hope you like my snow globe ;)
Inspired by Dune's Ornithopter
Free building instructions are available here.
Built for Part One of the 1-year anniversary event of our monthly 1h build challenge in The Workshop. Theme was open this time, I chose biomimicry, but builders were only allowed to use 10 different piece types, any color (i.e. 1x2 plate = 1 piece type).
Feel free to hop on the server and participate in Part Two next weekend.
Also, applications for our latest scifi collaboration are open until Dec. 31st.
The Ugly Duckling is a research ship intended to explore the distant corners of the galaxy in search of new habitable planets. It got its name after the Earth government failed to learn from an incident involving a boat in the early 21st century, and held a contest on the galactic network to name the ship. Ugly Duckling won, and considering it karma, the Earth government honored the contest results.
This is shot from about the same angle as the main photo, only without the harsh lighting that I used to make it look like it was in space.
During the build process I tried to imbue this cute little house with all the warmth and romance of Lizzy McAlpine's touching album Give Me a Minute.
I listened to Lizzy's entire catalogue on repeat while building, and it was an absolutely pleasant time :)
With photographing this small church model, I used an alternative exposure and experimented with different incidence of light. The photo editing was also different this time and I hope you like the result?!
From the Archives. This photo is one that I never posted before because it had some edge distortions that have mostly been cleaned up here. One of the things that I've always found interesting about this build is that at first glance it looks the same size as much larger castles. Its also kind of a disappointment I always have on the giant castle builds - in that it is hard to capture their scale in photos (without someone standing next to it).