I’ve been subscribing to the Lego Master Builder Academy for a while now. It’s the replacement to the bi-monthly unrelated Lego sets. What’s nice is it means I have a tidy little box of Lego meant for building on a small to micro scale. I keep it beside the couch and on occasion actually get the chance to doodle. This, is one of those.

I’m not sure how it happened, but subconsciously I almost always default to building space ships. I guess because there’s nothing saying how they should look. Except of course, when you get wondering what would happen to the manufacturers of Star Destroyers and Alliance ships if their respective oppressive backers were to topple. Lets face it, lots of good people can get involved with companies that may make something less than pure. Hey, they have mouths to feed t home. This welding job came up. They got the job and they build ships.

So what happens when the Rebels or Brown Coats topple their oppressors? Notice how I refrained from calling these groups what they are? Like Terrorists? These people, going about their business, building ships are out of work. Or are they? That’s the idea behind this interstellar Apartment/Condo building that lacks a name. It’s as if some junkers took a Star Destroyer and a Tohku-Class Cruiser, washed off the blood of the oppressed and turned it in to luxury living.

Breaking free of aerodynamics (space i a vacuum, remember) you can basically build any shape you want. With a towering living quarters and additional decks scattered around the ship there is ample space for residents and crew. Accessed via the front deck so the bridge can also act as tower control, a docking bay allows for residents to make on world visits as they travel through space.

I have no idea if this thing can travel through hyperspace, or create trans-dimensional worm holes to quickly navigate the far reaches of space. I didn’t think it through that hard. ;-)

Anyway, it was a fun little MOC to build while watching the incredibly dumb antics of Storage Wars. So there’s that. Enjoy!

So lets think back to what brought this blog to life. . .

Oh thats right, those damn raccoons. They’re still around, in fact I had great fun, ehr, I mean I was left no other option, then to shoot one a couple weeks ago with my paintball gun while I had the electric fence repurposed on the garden for the summer.

But of course, I wouldn’t be here with such an audience if it wasn’t for my peeps. Those folks that both read my insane ramblings, and those that link to my blog. So since I can’t thank every single one of you by name, I’ll be certain to report out what WordPress tells me are the good folks linking to my site.

Thanks!

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Here is another of my micro builds. In a night’s time I sketched out this mini salvage fleet. Consisting of a container/crew ship, bomber, and fighter. You can get the basic ‘scale’ from the one-person cockpit of the fighter on the right.

From that, the bomber and cargo ship should be fairly obvious. None of the ships have many working details, and obviously no interior to show. It turns out the first ship I built was the cargo ship. The idea in my head was to just experiment with some snot (Studs Not On Top) techniques and micro scale. My only other goal was to make it look cool, which I think I accomplished.

From there I decided I wanted to build a few support ships, because of course, in my Lego Space, there are always space pirates to defend against.

If you didn’t realize, I’m still a big fan of Lego. For the most part, I am at the point that I collect sets for parts, and seldom create what Lego tells me to with the included instructions. I keep most of my parts sorted by color, and build in color schemes when appropriate. However, I still keep a small amount unsorted and in one container so I can still ‘sketch’ if you will. This is one of those such creations. While waiting for a legal time to go to sleep and nothing on t.v. to numb my mind, I created a patrol tank. It’s bright color scheme is the same idea of a black & white cruiser. Make yourself seen, so you don’t have to file a police report.