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After a long break, I continued to build my next airplane. I started the construction some month ago, but then I lost the enthusiasm for it. Some weeks ago I met Er0l and that gave me the right impulse to go on. So sty tuned for more pictures.
Pilot Lt. C. Williams
Vanessa Grun with her custom-built skybike. The bike is built around a V8 Haverlock "Banshee" engine salvaged from a downed V-30 Warhawk.
Just a fairly quick dieselpunk speeder bike I knocked up using the basic engine design from one of my earlier planes ( www.flickr.com/photos/25163007@N07/5766853848/in/set-7215...)
The P-72A gunship, codenamed “Skyhammer” was developed by Arcadia Aeronautics for the Kovlakian Airborn Artillery. It was devised as a counter measure to the threat of the new armoured Zeppelins, and proved extremely effective against them. It also saw extensive use in the Battle of Syrrah where squadrons flew low in night attacks to destroy the city’s heavily fortified walls. The plane here is painted in night camo colours and is piloted by Lt Colonel Dirk Salvo. It is armed with two 20mm front–firing machine guns and a 400mm artillery cannon which carries a maximum of six shells.
CNC racing league made lots of fun, so why not do some kind of sky racing? Ok... here we go, let's start with a shape you may recognize. It's an homage to one of my previous racing ships. 😉
Since it's very unlikely I'll have time to finish, photograph and upload any more models before the end of the year I'm posting this round up of this year's mocs. A paltry five this year, no-where near as many as 2012's nine. Life sometimes gets in the way of the creative stuff!
- a year in Lego -
That's it for 2014. I was a little bit lost in space, but building one of Jons planes, brings me back to Sky-fi. The next plane is already in building stage. I wished I had more time to build some more, but otherwise there were so great things around. I participate in some contests and I've won some Lego prices, both for the first time ^^. I met other AFOLs und I found some good friends out there.
Big aim for next year is to participate in an exhibition ;o)
I haven't posted much on flickr lately, or at least publicly, but I am still alive and most definitely still building. I have been focused on a pretty cool collab project for Brickworld Chicago, which hopefully some of you will get to see in person (only 3 weeks to go!!!).
This airplane MOC was an impulse build that I built a day or two ago. I had been canabalizing my original Ma.K Platypus for parts, and then something sparked the idea of making a sky-fi airplane out of remaining scrap heap chassis. I'm pretty pleased with the result. That said, I'm open to any suggestions for improvement. Thanks.
The single-engined, single-seater SeaBee-23 is specially-designed for aerobatic display.
[Built for my IronBuilder matchup with Pascal]
Goodbury Mechanicals is proud to present the Sparrowhawk, a new aeroplane utilising Jet-Propulsion! Designed with the aim to break the sound barrier, hopefully the first to do so.
It has been a while since I built Sky-Fi, or added anything to the Goodbury product line. So here is the Sparrowhawk
I've been stuck in an epic black hole of no building inspiration for months now, and having to take it easy on my arm isn't helping. Will sent me some flintlock pistols and a bunch of other stuff recently, so these figs aren't much more than an attempt to kick-start my creativity by putting Will's gifts to work. The intent is something of a sky-fi/steampunk vibe.
These guys are the villains, and I thought I'd see how they look with the new TT gas masks. The new design is great, much more stable.
Brickarms: swirled brown/gunmetal musket, black flintlock, swirled red/silver flintlock, silver machete with printed blood pattern.
In the Great War industrial espionage was common. The Heliconian High Command managed to get hold of several blueprints including that of the P-23 Skywolf. The plans were studied and improved upon, notably, the nose-mounted rocket launcher was removed and replaced with four 30mm cannons. Other improvements were made to the streamlining and 2 stabilizer fins were fitted above the main wings. After the War many falcons were bought by local freelancers as well as for private air forces. The plane we see here is freelancer Yvette Gagnaire's plane the "Queen of Hearts", the trademark blue of the Heliconian Airforce being replaced with her own personal white and red livery.
this particular take has a rare artifact, whenever there are chromed parts i see a bunch of "dead pixels" wich no matter what i try i cant get rid of, any advice???
Jet lignite model information and download:
Once known as "the Cadillac of the Skies", the Pacifico TT-12 was the gem of the Central American Air Defenses. Its 2 giant Mitsubishi engines were fast enough on their own, but the twin turbofans made the TT-12 virtually uncatchable. With 4 heavy fuselage-mounted machine guns and 2 bombardment-grade wingtip cannons, the TT-12 was a terror to behold. Although it won't go down in history as the workhorse of the war, it will still be fondly remembered by the brave pilots who were lucky enough to fly one.
That is my version of a corsair airplane.
Of cause it's not true to scale, it is just an airplane inspired by the spezial corsair shaping.
The Kondor is a high speed, low cost fighter made by the factories of Baron Michielle von Granger of Burgundy. Here we see one straight from the factory with no squadron, or even nation markings present. This fighter has a longer range then even elven built models of the same era and enough cockpit room for several hand dropped bombs to be stored.
This fighter was made famous because of it's fictional pairing with Archibald 'Goggles' Flashman in the series of Great War III novels by Lt. Cdr. George Wells, in them 'Goggles' successfully shot down over 130 dwarf and elven aircraft, a highly improbable figure given the actual statistics of the war show a 2 to 3 ratio the other way. However as propaganda it worked perfectly and many schoolboys of the Celtic North Sea Kingdoms grew up wanting to be a fighter pilot 'Just like 'Goggles' Flashman!'.
In the lead up to BrickUniverse Louisville in a couple weeks (Jan 19-20th, 2019), a local magazine reached out to interview any local "LEGO artists" that would be displaying, and I guess I fit the bill. I retook some pics of some of my MOC's, and uploading here.
This one is of the cloud vignette I put behind one of the "aeronauts"...
The V-30 Warhawk was developed by Blackshaw Avionics as a long-range fighter and was primarily used by the Arcadian Air Force for escort duties. The plane pictured is the “Spirit of Freedom” and was one of the four planes that escorted the Arcadian Royal Airship during and after the Great War. The three other fighters were the “Spirit of Hope”, the ” Spirit of Justice” and the “Spirit of Destiny”. All pilots were hand-picked by the Head of Airborne Forces and included some of the very finest pilots in the Kingdom. The crew consisted of one pilot and one gunner although both cabins were fitted so that if either crew member was killed the other could take over their duties. Each Warhawk was fitted with four Haverlock “Banshee” engines and four 24mm machine guns.
Built for the "Wings of Justice" contest at FBTB. (i.e. build an aircraft inspired, and piloted, by a super hero)
The T-160 Thunderbird (pictured here with pilot Capt Penny Bowman) was an experimental fighter developed by the Palladite Republic. The Palladites, renowned for their inventive but impractical ideas fitted the fighter with twin Arc guns, each one housed in an electrically insulated nacelle at the front of the plane. Each Arc gun was powered by its own generator capable of creating 12,000,000 volts. Although the gun had a range of well over a mile, the weapons were very difficult to aim and pilots eventually resorted to dive-bombing their targets at high speed and firing their weapons when in close proximity to ensure a hit. When they did hit, the Arc guns would cripple their target's electronics, sometimes electrocute the crew, and occasionally ignite the fuel tanks. The guns would often short circuit so eventually a 12mm machine gun was fitted beneath each Arc gun in case the main weapon failed. Although feared for their unpredictable nature, Thunderbirds did little to effect the outcome of the war and only 152 were ever made.
"…At the end of the Great War, as commanded by the Treaty of Versailles, the renouned Jastas of the Luftstreitkräfte were disbanded and all of their aeroplanes destroyed. Despite this excessive humiliation, a few elite Prussian fighter pilots persevered. They found a new demand for their skills as sky mercenaries … and found new aeroplanes to fly. Over time, these renegade flying aces rejoined forces to form a mercenary squadron known as the "Wolfsatz” (Wolfpack).
The most successful, and notorious, of these pilots was Wolfram Wolff (after whom the squadron took its name). He became widely known as the “Wolfengeist”, as the tales of his exploits grew into ghostly legends. Despite popular belief, Wolff never painted victory marks on the side of his aircrafts (his generation still viewed the practice as “brutish” and “unsporting”). However, the extensive collection of aeroplane “souvenirs” mounted in Wolff’s trophy rooms left little doubt to his prodigious success as a hunter of the skies..." ________________________________________
Special acknolwedgements go out to JonHall18 for all the inspiration in the sky-fi theme, and SavaTheAggie for the shield work where I pulled the Wolfpack logo.
And for now, the last one of these Sky Fighters to make it a squadron of three.
I'm having so much fun with the Sky-Fi theme and making fighters like this, I kinda see 'em as flying Hot Rods.
A good-guy fighter with a flashy color scheme that still tries to be steampunk-y. It's actually based off of the same frame as the fighter I made for the Space Marines project, albeit with some minor tweaks and a heavy dose of early 20th-century stying.
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A Prototype Bomber making first use of primitive jet-engine technology during early WWII...
A purely fictionnal plane, not based on anything in particular, except the engine intake design by Fredoichi ;)