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Inspired by this. (I think I saw Space Marine armor used for microspace somewhere else as well...)
Now comes the hard part: Build a micro scene to go with it!
I'm bringing a few ships, you know just a couple ;)
I do want to shout out to Tyler Clites for the micro Battlestar Pegasus I commissioned him to build for me last year. It really makes the micro BSG fleet work!
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.
BrickCon 2022 is happening in Seattle 28-SEP to 02-OCT.
Since I built another Homeworld inspired ship this year, I decided to bring my SHIPtember 2015 build, the Hiigaran Battlecruiser, out of retirement to display at the show.
Also bringing the mechs I build late last year and some microspace ships for a collboration project.
One of the largest combat-oriented vessel's in the Tangeryne Mu Dominion, the Babylon-Class sports point defense cannons, heavy turrrets, torpedo launchers, and an enhanced shield generator.
My first larger microscale build since coming out of my dark age. I had a lot of fun building this thing, and think it will fit in well with the other vessels for my LEGO tabletop game.
See it in person at the Charm City LUG table at BrickWorld Chicago 2023 and BrickFair NOVA 2023!
My 11-year-old son walked in while I was still building this, and asked, "Dad, are you going to put a big laser cannon hanging down at an angle underneath?"
I said, "Yes, how did you know?"
Evidently, I've built spaceships that look like this before...
The gold filigree is sign of the Grah’na warrior class; tangle with ships like this one at your peril.
After a two month combined naval and surface operation at Nyxis, the RSV Banlaoch makes its return journey to port to restock on fuel and ammunition and bring its bomber wings back to full strength.
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Hi everyone, I'm not dead! Took me two years, but I finally got back into bashing my head trying to understand Blender and churn out some more renders. I should (hopefully) be doing more too, mainly re-renders of older ships but a few new ones as well.
Not too much else to say about this one, except that I'm trying out some new things in Blender. I finally figured out emissive materials, so it's got thruster glow, plus some glowy light bars to illuminate the hangar in a way that's hopefully similar to what Pierre Fieschi did here with his Tesseract.
Also, shoutout to user Cagerrin for helping me a ton with figuring out Blender renders better.
Microspace battlecruiser with fighter escorts.
Had to get this up here before I leave for college tomorrow and leave my Lego at home.
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.
Stats: 168 studs long, 47 studs wide, 45 studs high.
One interesting trick I used for the photography, for those interested: in this photo, I used very harsh light in order to emulate the lack of atmospheric scattering in space, but those dark shadows make it difficult to mask the edges of the model. To get around that problem, I first took a shot with a single LED bulb with my camera on a tripod, and then shot again with a longer exposure and all the lights in the room on. I was using my phone to control the camera, so it didn't move at all. Then I used the brighter exposure to create the mask, which I then applied to the darker image.
FUN FACT: There is a baby t. rex hiding somewhere in the greebles. The location remains secret, at least until someone spots it. It is visible in at least one of the photos in this album.
Here is my contribution to my favorite holiday : SHIPtember.
The Maersk Highliner MkI is a supercapital sized freighter designed with versatility in mind. The giant cargo bay can hold anything up to frigate sized ships. The Dorsal Bay allows for easy manoeuvering of entering ships. It also features a compact refinery and several processing smart-hatches which can fill every compartment of the upper hull with any kind of resource, ore, fluid.
While very simple in design, this gigantic ship has been equipped with a dual state of the art Roll-Royce Warpdrive, allowing it to eco-efficiently travel great distances at very improved speeds compared to its ancestors.
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Work this year was crazy so I had to build this thing in 5 days , while deviating from a completely different initial design. It was really intense and by the end , my back hurt like crazy. Some of you might have noticed this is an interpretation of Maersk's Triple E class vessel , with a simple, straight forward design , and state of the art engines. Obvious inspiration was also homeworld 2 crew transport ships.
The entire upper part is built with tiled stretched baseplates, and the lower part is a sturdy studs forwards brick wall that is strong enough for the upper baseplates to bend.
The entire , 184 studs long ship (about 150 cm) , is completely hollow and smooth inside which is something i'm very happy about.
It seperates in two clean parts for transport to various exhibitions this year.
In the future I will be making a 200+ studs long version (MkII) by adding roughly 20 studs in the middle.
Enjoy, and happy SHIPtember everyone!!
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.
Based on Rob's (dasnewten) Prometheus
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is traditionally interpreted as "Foresight", while his brother Epimetheus translates as "Hindsight" or "Afterthinker". I feel describes this MOC well; I adapted several key components of Rob's original design while opting to put my own touches on this model. As such, I reworked about half of the original design (most notably the aft section), including the quad engine format as well as the Hangar bay.
I would especially like to thank Rob and Nick (tardisblue) for their fantastic feedback in making this a reality. I only took a few pics, but I plan to display this at BrickCon if there is interest.
The core of this is a 1x1 brick with 5 studs and I wanted to use those wing clips on something micro.
I've made a lot of progress. The bottom and port side still need a lot of work. I'm aiming for BFVA 2019. Current stats: 168 studs long, 47 studs wide, 45 studs high.
UPDATE: This model is now complete.
These dudes were also a part of our BrickCon 2025 collab. The red fleet from last year were built in a hurry to fill space and as a result weren't particularly interesting despite being built in a pop color. This year I wanted to improve upon those designs. Not shown: 3 more of the little guys plus two that are in a state of rapid deconstruction.
Like last year I thought I had to fill more space than I ended up needing which is why there are so many of them. They're not super complex but also like last year, it was super important that they not look like red star destroyers. There are some *awfully* sketchy things going on with the wiring of these guys but they look really striking when they're all going.
LL-9797 ( second ship for shiptember 2014) 115studs
LL-9797 is a cargo that transports water thanks to 40 tanks of 1.045.000L each
Capacity 41.800.000 L
Length 310meters
The fleet of the Jauss-Addar Shipping Co. rivals that of even the Titus Company's Transport Division. Using state of the art cargo freighters and smaller, faster transport barges, the Jauss-Addar company is fast becoming the largest and most relied upon shipping company in the galaxy.
-Excerpt from a Jauss-Addar Advertisement
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After spending several hours perusing Soren's amazing microspace collection (specifically his Union Fleet), I was inspired to build this. I'm not entirely happy with it, but it was a fun build :)
Enjoy!
Hi there!
Here is my latest build, it's tiny! It's based of the Lego 21109 Exo Suit from Peter Reid, yes the second figure is orange and not green (I didn't have another green micro figure). But nonetheless I hope you like this! For the breakdown and more pictures checkout my Instagram post (next week Tuesday! for the breakdown).
~ Eddy
So here, finally, is the WRS fleet all together. These pictures are all that remain now, incidentally.
The ADU/alien conquest stuff continues to exist, except for the mech, which is getting rebuilt, and the baseplates, which were quite fun to make but will be replaced by something different next event.
The alien tripod stomping on the army truck was a favourite from STEAM, the tank got some interest too (I was impressed that one kid correctly identified the cannon was a railgun), so that was nice enough. I broke the helicopter's contra-rotating mechanism several times before I simply stopped demonstrating it. I'll need to reinforce the stand as the u-joint/crank wasn't solidly enough anchored. Oh well, lessons learned.
Unfortunately the microspace fleet didn't really interest either kids or adults who don't already have an interest in spaceships or lego, so that part of the display felt like a bit of a bust. I even had lasers shooting out of the turrets, what more do people want?!
I've been making progress again after spinning my wheels on this thing for a while. The front module is almost done, and I've made significant progress on the center module. Current stats 85 studs long, 47 studs wide, 45 studs high. It will roughly double in length before it's done.
UPDATE: This model is now complete.
Quick and dirty photo showing the result of two more weeks of building until late into the night. I'm really hoping to finish it for BFVA 2018, although the engine section may slow me down too much to make that possible. I've been making progress again after spinning my wheels on this thing for a while. The front module is almost done, and I've made significant progress on the center module. Current stats 122 studs long, 47 studs wide, 45 studs high.
UPDATE: This model is now complete.
The Frontier S-Class Cruiser is the largest class of interplanetary cruisers. The ship carries cargo as well as offering luxury galaxy tours.
Microspace is something I don't do often enough :)
I like to imagine a main character anti-hero ambiguous villain mecha coming in and blowing everything up with a single itano circus. 'Cause you know, that's why we build ships- micromissiles gotta hit somethin'
The original Phobos 3 photos feature a blunt nose with a single eye that gives it a robotic or 'automated' look. I was never very satisified with the original nose, so I modified it to provide a more 'traditional' space cruiser look. The new nose version was displayed at BrickCon 2009, but I never took updated photos. Now you can see before and after shots. Which do you prefer? Was the nose job worthwhile?
The Daisuke I was a first generation mobile Kampfer, created and issued by the Outer Colonial Collective during the Second Colony War. The need for a standard, Collective Kampfer was realized 6 months before the start of the Second Colony War. Takashi Itou, a brilliant scientist and his team, utilized beam technology studies and created a stable particle source which could produce much higher energy output levels. In order to use this advantage, Great Japan ordered that a standard issue mobile Kampfer should be created, utilizing this new "Itou particle". After 3 short months, the Kampfer was ready for prototyping, and during this phase, it gained much fame for it's reliability and ability to adapt to the pilot. Toward the beginning of the Second Colony War, Daisuke I's fought in formations of 8, which would break-away and begin combat. This unique combat system forged a model for Mobile suit combat for the next few generations.
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Well, here it finally is, can't say it didn't take me long enough, but I am quite happy with the end result. The Daisuke I is fully poseable, and it fits an entire fig.
More microspace on the way as well. :)
A huge thanks to Fernald and Jared, Fernald edited this, and Jared guided me through the long building process.
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.
The back has mostly caught up to the front after an intensive weekend of building. The base of the tower is pretty much complete. It will get quite a bit taller before it's done. The terrain needs a lot more work too.
Multi-gun Frigate designed for close escort and patrol. Four fast-tracking turrets provide accurate short-to-medium range firepower against a range of targets. Predominantly operated by local militias and security forces.
House Tanatuos Envoy Ship “Silent Hand of Heaven”
The diplomats of House Tanatuos traverse displacement space in vessels that bear no visible armaments or defences, protected only by their reputation, their House colours, and the Emperor’s writ of passage.
Well, that and the House’s fleet of Thundermaw-class escort vessels, whose constant presence ensures that their envoys reach their destinations without incident.
Length: 106 studs
Part count: No idea
And so, my first SHIPtember build is complete! I am very happy with how it has come out on the whole; and glad for the quick progress I made in the first half of the month, given the limited time and energy I have had for it over the last two weeks due to sickness and other things. It has been great fun to properly engage with SHIPtember this year, and I imagine I will be back at it again next year!
Thank you to everyone who commented and gave feedback and suggestions along the way, I really appreciate it!