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LEGENDS returns for Volume 4.

Three ships. Three very different corners of science fiction. And probably the most technically awkward trio I’ve tried to squeeze into this scale so far.

As always, each ship is paired with a tiny scene from its world and a set of Character Studdies™.
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PROJECT HAIL MARY: The Hail Mary

Amaze amaze amaze!

The Hail Mary is built to display in both of its configurations: its standard flight mode, or opened out into centrifuge gravity mode, with the two ends of the ship extended around the central axis.

The scene recreates Grace and Rocky’s first proper meeting, separated by that transparent wall of xenonite in the connecting tunnel. There’s also a tiny display showing the Petrova Line running between Tau Ceti and Adrian - the green planet where Grace and Rocky eventually make their rather important discovery. Its made with transparent red pieces which would look very cool lit up...

Character Studdies™ include Ryland Grace, Rocky, Eva Stratt, Boyce and, of course, Armando.
__________

FIREFLY: Serenity

Serenity was ridiculously difficult at this size.

There are barely any straight lines on the thing. Getting all of those angles, curves, engine shapes and organic bits of detailing to read as Serenity without making the model substantially larger took a lot of messing around.

The accompanying scene is the classic Train Job, with a blurred high-speed landscape rushing past behind Mal, Zoe and Jayne as they secure the cargo.

Character Studdies™ include Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Wash and Inara, complete with one of her classic elegant sheer outfits.
__________

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Galactica

And finally, Galactica.

This one might be my favourite bit of micro-engineering in the collection. There is a lot going on in the shape of this ship, and somehow it all had to fit into a tiny footprint.

There are some really fun SNOT techniques, reversed stud directions and slightly ridiculous connections buried inside to get the armour, flight pods and layered hull details where they need to be. I think the result is crazy accurate for the scale.

The scene is the Galactica hangar deck, featuring a super cute version of Starbuck’s red-and-white, three-engined Viper Mk II. It even has a movable access ladder, and the Viper itself lifts straight out when it inevitably needs to be swooshed around the room.

Character Studdies™ are William Adama, Laura Roslin, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, Lee “Apollo” Adama, Saul Tigh, Gaius Baltar and Number Six.
__________

Three more ships added to the LEGENDS fleet.

Hail Mary. Serenity. Galactica.

What should be in Volume 5?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 4.

Three ships. Three very different corners of science fiction. And probably the most technically awkward trio I’ve tried to squeeze into this scale so far.

As always, each ship is paired with a tiny scene from its world and a set of Character Studdies™.
__________

PROJECT HAIL MARY: The Hail Mary

Amaze amaze amaze!

The Hail Mary is built to display in both of its configurations: its standard flight mode, or opened out into centrifuge gravity mode, with the two ends of the ship extended around the central axis.

The scene recreates Grace and Rocky’s first proper meeting, separated by that transparent wall of xenonite in the connecting tunnel. There’s also a tiny display showing the Petrova Line running between Tau Ceti and Adrian - the green planet where Grace and Rocky eventually make their rather important discovery. Its made with transparent red pieces which would look very cool lit up...

Character Studdies™ include Ryland Grace, Rocky, Eva Stratt, Boyce and, of course, Armando.
__________

FIREFLY: Serenity

Serenity was ridiculously difficult at this size.

There are barely any straight lines on the thing. Getting all of those angles, curves, engine shapes and organic bits of detailing to read as Serenity without making the model substantially larger took a lot of messing around.

The accompanying scene is the classic Train Job, with a blurred high-speed landscape rushing past behind Mal, Zoe and Jayne as they secure the cargo.

Character Studdies™ include Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Wash and Inara, complete with one of her classic elegant sheer outfits.
__________

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Galactica

And finally, Galactica.

This one might be my favourite bit of micro-engineering in the collection. There is a lot going on in the shape of this ship, and somehow it all had to fit into a tiny footprint.

There are some really fun SNOT techniques, reversed stud directions and slightly ridiculous connections buried inside to get the armour, flight pods and layered hull details where they need to be. I think the result is crazy accurate for the scale.

The scene is the Galactica hangar deck, featuring a super cute version of Starbuck’s red-and-white, three-engined Viper Mk II. It even has a movable access ladder, and the Viper itself lifts straight out when it inevitably needs to be swooshed around the room.

Character Studdies™ are William Adama, Laura Roslin, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, Lee “Apollo” Adama, Saul Tigh, Gaius Baltar and Number Six.
__________

Three more ships added to the LEGENDS fleet.

Hail Mary. Serenity. Galactica.

What should be in Volume 5?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 4.

Three ships. Three very different corners of science fiction. And probably the most technically awkward trio I’ve tried to squeeze into this scale so far.

As always, each ship is paired with a tiny scene from its world and a set of Character Studdies™.
__________

PROJECT HAIL MARY: The Hail Mary

Amaze amaze amaze!

The Hail Mary is built to display in both of its configurations: its standard flight mode, or opened out into centrifuge gravity mode, with the two ends of the ship extended around the central axis.

The scene recreates Grace and Rocky’s first proper meeting, separated by that transparent wall of xenonite in the connecting tunnel. There’s also a tiny display showing the Petrova Line running between Tau Ceti and Adrian - the green planet where Grace and Rocky eventually make their rather important discovery. Its made with transparent red pieces which would look very cool lit up...

Character Studdies™ include Ryland Grace, Rocky, Eva Stratt, Boyce and, of course, Armando.
__________

FIREFLY: Serenity

Serenity was ridiculously difficult at this size.

There are barely any straight lines on the thing. Getting all of those angles, curves, engine shapes and organic bits of detailing to read as Serenity without making the model substantially larger took a lot of messing around.

The accompanying scene is the classic Train Job, with a blurred high-speed landscape rushing past behind Mal, Zoe and Jayne as they secure the cargo.

Character Studdies™ include Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Wash and Inara, complete with one of her classic elegant sheer outfits.
__________

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Galactica

And finally, Galactica.

This one might be my favourite bit of micro-engineering in the collection. There is a lot going on in the shape of this ship, and somehow it all had to fit into a tiny footprint.

There are some really fun SNOT techniques, reversed stud directions and slightly ridiculous connections buried inside to get the armour, flight pods and layered hull details where they need to be. I think the result is crazy accurate for the scale.

The scene is the Galactica hangar deck, featuring a super cute version of Starbuck’s red-and-white, three-engined Viper Mk II. It even has a movable access ladder, and the Viper itself lifts straight out when it inevitably needs to be swooshed around the room.

Character Studdies™ are William Adama, Laura Roslin, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, Lee “Apollo” Adama, Saul Tigh, Gaius Baltar and Number Six.
__________

Three more ships added to the LEGENDS fleet.

Hail Mary. Serenity. Galactica.

What should be in Volume 5?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 4.

Three ships. Three very different corners of science fiction. And probably the most technically awkward trio I’ve tried to squeeze into this scale so far.

As always, each ship is paired with a tiny scene from its world and a set of Character Studdies™.
__________

PROJECT HAIL MARY: The Hail Mary

Amaze amaze amaze!

The Hail Mary is built to display in both of its configurations: its standard flight mode, or opened out into centrifuge gravity mode, with the two ends of the ship extended around the central axis.

The scene recreates Grace and Rocky’s first proper meeting, separated by that transparent wall of xenonite in the connecting tunnel. There’s also a tiny display showing the Petrova Line running between Tau Ceti and Adrian - the green planet where Grace and Rocky eventually make their rather important discovery. Its made with transparent red pieces which would look very cool lit up...

Character Studdies™ include Ryland Grace, Rocky, Eva Stratt, Boyce and, of course, Armando.
__________

FIREFLY: Serenity

Serenity was ridiculously difficult at this size.

There are barely any straight lines on the thing. Getting all of those angles, curves, engine shapes and organic bits of detailing to read as Serenity without making the model substantially larger took a lot of messing around.

The accompanying scene is the classic Train Job, with a blurred high-speed landscape rushing past behind Mal, Zoe and Jayne as they secure the cargo.

Character Studdies™ include Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Wash and Inara, complete with one of her classic elegant sheer outfits.
__________

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Galactica

And finally, Galactica.

This one might be my favourite bit of micro-engineering in the collection. There is a lot going on in the shape of this ship, and somehow it all had to fit into a tiny footprint.

There are some really fun SNOT techniques, reversed stud directions and slightly ridiculous connections buried inside to get the armour, flight pods and layered hull details where they need to be. I think the result is crazy accurate for the scale.

The scene is the Galactica hangar deck, featuring a super cute version of Starbuck’s red-and-white, three-engined Viper Mk II. It even has a movable access ladder, and the Viper itself lifts straight out when it inevitably needs to be swooshed around the room.

Character Studdies™ are William Adama, Laura Roslin, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, Lee “Apollo” Adama, Saul Tigh, Gaius Baltar and Number Six.
__________

Three more ships added to the LEGENDS fleet.

Hail Mary. Serenity. Galactica.

What should be in Volume 5?

Serenity was ridiculously difficult at this size.

There are barely any straight lines on the thing. Getting all of those angles, curves, engine shapes and organic bits of detailing to read as Serenity without making the model substantially larger took a lot of messing around.

The accompanying scene is the classic Train Job, with a blurred high-speed landscape rushing past behind Mal, Zoe and Jayne as they secure the cargo.

Character Studdies™ include Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Wash and Inara, complete with one of her classic elegant sheer outfits.

This one might be my favourite bit of micro-engineering in my latest collection. There is a lot going on in the shape of this ship, and somehow it all had to fit into a tiny footprint.

There are some really fun SNOT techniques, reversed stud directions and slightly ridiculous connections buried inside to get the armour, flight pods and layered hull details where they need to be. I think the result is crazy accurate for the scale.

The scene is the Galactica hangar deck, featuring a super cute version of Starbuck’s red-and-white, three-engined Viper Mk II. It even has a movable access ladder, and the Viper itself lifts straight out when it inevitably needs to be swooshed around the room.

Character Studdies™ are William Adama, Laura Roslin, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, Lee “Apollo” Adama, Saul Tigh, Gaius Baltar and Number Six.
__________

Three more ships added to the LEGENDS fleet.

Hail Mary. Serenity. Galactica.

What should be in Volume 5?

I wanted this one to feel unmistakably Stargate before you even get to the characters. The Prometheus sits above a compact desert-world scene, with the Stargate, pyramid and blazing sun pulling together the visual language that defined the series from the beginning.

The ship itself is a slightly awkward, very human-looking lump of early interstellar engineering — which is exactly why I like it. It doesn’t have the elegance of the more advanced ships in the series; it looks built rather than grown, borrowed or perfected. Shrinking that chunky shape down while keeping the aircraft carrier-esque bridge, engines and 3 part hull recognisable was the main challenge here.

Below it are Character Studdies™ of O’Neill, Carter, Jackson, Teal’c and Hammond. The core SG-1 team was essential, but Hammond had to make the cut too. You can’t have them disappearing through an alien portal every week without the man calmly authorising it from beneath a mountain.

The finished display comes in at 215 pieces and combines the first Earth-built capital ship with the older, stranger world waiting beyond the gate.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

For this one, I wanted to combine the ship with the moment everyone remembers.
Above the display is the freighter Nostromo itself, built at a tiny scale but still accurately shaped to capture that heavy, industrial silhouette. Below it is the mess hall and the chestburster scene, with the crew gathered around Kane just as things start to go very, very bad.

The diorama includes Character Studdies™ of Ripley, Parker, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Jones and the Alien Xenomorph (and the chestburster if we're being accurate), all reduced down into the same deliberately abstract micro style as the rest of the series. At this scale, every colour and stud has to do a lot of work, particularly when trying to make five characters, a cat and one of the most famous movie monsters instantly recognisable.

I liked the contrast of putting the enormous ship above such a cramped, intimate scene. It captures both sides of Alien: the scale and isolation of deep space, and the horror of being trapped inside with something you do not understand.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

There was no chance I could make an Expanse build without putting the Roci front and centre. It’s one of those ships that feels like a character in its own right: battered, practical, heavily armed and constantly carrying a crew who are barely holding everything together.

The scene underneath is Eros, with Miller and Julie Mao at the centre of the protomolecule situation. Rather than picking a straightforward action scene, I wanted something that captured the stranger, more unsettling, but also human side of the series, and one that was visually beautiful.

Alongside Miller and Julie, the build includes Character Studdies™ of Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex and Bobbie Draper, with the colours and silhouettes give each of them just enough identity.

The contrast is probably my favourite part of the model: the hard, military geometry of the Rocinante suspended over the blue, organic chaos of Eros.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 3, moving beyond the Star Trek ships of the earlier collections and into three very different corners of science fiction.

This volume brings together the Prometheus from Stargate SG-1, the Rocinante from The Expanse and the Nostromo from Alien. Each display pairs a micro-scale ship with a compact scene, using the setting and Character Studdies™ to capture more than just the shape of the vessel.

From desert-world adventure, to protomolecule strangeness, to claustrophobic horror, these are three ships that feel inseparable from the stories and people carried inside them.

__________

STARGATE: The Prometheus

I wanted this one to feel unmistakably Stargate before you even get to the characters. The Prometheus sits above a compact desert-world scene, with the Stargate, pyramid and blazing sun pulling together the visual language that defined the series from the beginning.

The ship itself is a slightly awkward, very human-looking lump of early interstellar engineering — which is exactly why I like it. It doesn’t have the elegance of the more advanced ships in the series; it looks built rather than grown, borrowed or perfected. Shrinking that chunky shape down while keeping the aircraft carrier-esque bridge, engines and 3 part hull recognisable was the main challenge here.

Below it are Character Studdies™ of O’Neill, Carter, Jackson, Teal’c and Hammond. The core SG-1 team was essential, but Hammond had to make the cut too. You can’t have them disappearing through an alien portal every week without the man calmly authorising it from beneath a mountain.

The finished display comes in at 215 pieces and combines the first Earth-built capital ship with the older, stranger world waiting beyond the gate.
__________

THE EXPANSE: The Rocinante

There was no chance I could make an Expanse build without putting the Roci front and centre. It’s one of those ships that feels like a character in its own right: battered, practical, heavily armed and constantly carrying a crew who are barely holding everything together.

The scene underneath is Eros, with Miller and Julie Mao at the centre of the protomolecule situation. Rather than picking a straightforward action scene, I wanted something that captured the stranger, more unsettling, but also human side of the series, and one that was visually beautiful.

Alongside Miller and Julie, the build includes Character Studdies™ of Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex and Bobbie Draper, with the colours and silhouettes give each of them just enough identity.

The contrast is probably my favourite part of the model: the hard, military geometry of the Rocinante suspended over the blue, organic chaos of Eros.
__________

ALIEN: The Nostromo

For this one, I wanted to combine the ship with the moment everyone remembers.
Above the display is the freighter Nostromo itself, built at a tiny scale but still accurately shaped to capture that heavy, industrial silhouette. Below it is the mess hall and the chestburster scene, with the crew gathered around Kane just as things start to go very, very bad.

The diorama includes Character Studdies™ of Ripley, Parker, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Jones and the Alien Xenomorph (and the chestburster if we're being accurate), all reduced down into the same deliberately abstract micro style as the rest of the series. At this scale, every colour and stud has to do a lot of work, particularly when trying to make five characters, a cat and one of the most famous movie monsters instantly recognisable.

I liked the contrast of putting the enormous ship above such a cramped, intimate scene. It captures both sides of Alien: the scale and isolation of deep space, and the horror of being trapped inside with something you do not understand.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 3, moving beyond the Star Trek ships of the earlier collections and into three very different corners of science fiction.

This volume brings together the Prometheus from Stargate SG-1, the Rocinante from The Expanse and the Nostromo from Alien. Each display pairs a micro-scale ship with a compact scene, using the setting and Character Studdies™ to capture more than just the shape of the vessel.

From desert-world adventure, to protomolecule strangeness, to claustrophobic horror, these are three ships that feel inseparable from the stories and people carried inside them.

__________

STARGATE: The Prometheus

I wanted this one to feel unmistakably Stargate before you even get to the characters. The Prometheus sits above a compact desert-world scene, with the Stargate, pyramid and blazing sun pulling together the visual language that defined the series from the beginning.

The ship itself is a slightly awkward, very human-looking lump of early interstellar engineering — which is exactly why I like it. It doesn’t have the elegance of the more advanced ships in the series; it looks built rather than grown, borrowed or perfected. Shrinking that chunky shape down while keeping the aircraft carrier-esque bridge, engines and 3 part hull recognisable was the main challenge here.

Below it are Character Studdies™ of O’Neill, Carter, Jackson, Teal’c and Hammond. The core SG-1 team was essential, but Hammond had to make the cut too. You can’t have them disappearing through an alien portal every week without the man calmly authorising it from beneath a mountain.

The finished display comes in at 215 pieces and combines the first Earth-built capital ship with the older, stranger world waiting beyond the gate.
__________

THE EXPANSE: The Rocinante

There was no chance I could make an Expanse build without putting the Roci front and centre. It’s one of those ships that feels like a character in its own right: battered, practical, heavily armed and constantly carrying a crew who are barely holding everything together.

The scene underneath is Eros, with Miller and Julie Mao at the centre of the protomolecule situation. Rather than picking a straightforward action scene, I wanted something that captured the stranger, more unsettling, but also human side of the series, and one that was visually beautiful.

Alongside Miller and Julie, the build includes Character Studdies™ of Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex and Bobbie Draper, with the colours and silhouettes give each of them just enough identity.

The contrast is probably my favourite part of the model: the hard, military geometry of the Rocinante suspended over the blue, organic chaos of Eros.
__________

ALIEN: The Nostromo

For this one, I wanted to combine the ship with the moment everyone remembers.
Above the display is the freighter Nostromo itself, built at a tiny scale but still accurately shaped to capture that heavy, industrial silhouette. Below it is the mess hall and the chestburster scene, with the crew gathered around Kane just as things start to go very, very bad.

The diorama includes Character Studdies™ of Ripley, Parker, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Jones and the Alien Xenomorph (and the chestburster if we're being accurate), all reduced down into the same deliberately abstract micro style as the rest of the series. At this scale, every colour and stud has to do a lot of work, particularly when trying to make five characters, a cat and one of the most famous movie monsters instantly recognisable.

I liked the contrast of putting the enormous ship above such a cramped, intimate scene. It captures both sides of Alien: the scale and isolation of deep space, and the horror of being trapped inside with something you do not understand.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

LEGENDS returns for Volume 3, moving beyond the Star Trek ships of the earlier collections and into three very different corners of science fiction.

This volume brings together the Prometheus from Stargate SG-1, the Rocinante from The Expanse and the Nostromo from Alien. Each display pairs a micro-scale ship with a compact scene, using the setting and Character Studdies™ to capture more than just the shape of the vessel.

From desert-world adventure, to protomolecule strangeness, to claustrophobic horror, these are three ships that feel inseparable from the stories and people carried inside them.

__________

STARGATE: The Prometheus

I wanted this one to feel unmistakably Stargate before you even get to the characters. The Prometheus sits above a compact desert-world scene, with the Stargate, pyramid and blazing sun pulling together the visual language that defined the series from the beginning.

The ship itself is a slightly awkward, very human-looking lump of early interstellar engineering — which is exactly why I like it. It doesn’t have the elegance of the more advanced ships in the series; it looks built rather than grown, borrowed or perfected. Shrinking that chunky shape down while keeping the aircraft carrier-esque bridge, engines and 3 part hull recognisable was the main challenge here.

Below it are Character Studdies™ of O’Neill, Carter, Jackson, Teal’c and Hammond. The core SG-1 team was essential, but Hammond had to make the cut too. You can’t have them disappearing through an alien portal every week without the man calmly authorising it from beneath a mountain.

The finished display comes in at 215 pieces and combines the first Earth-built capital ship with the older, stranger world waiting beyond the gate.
__________

THE EXPANSE: The Rocinante

There was no chance I could make an Expanse build without putting the Roci front and centre. It’s one of those ships that feels like a character in its own right: battered, practical, heavily armed and constantly carrying a crew who are barely holding everything together.

The scene underneath is Eros, with Miller and Julie Mao at the centre of the protomolecule situation. Rather than picking a straightforward action scene, I wanted something that captured the stranger, more unsettling, but also human side of the series, and one that was visually beautiful.

Alongside Miller and Julie, the build includes Character Studdies™ of Holden, Naomi, Amos, Alex and Bobbie Draper, with the colours and silhouettes give each of them just enough identity.

The contrast is probably my favourite part of the model: the hard, military geometry of the Rocinante suspended over the blue, organic chaos of Eros.
__________

ALIEN: The Nostromo

For this one, I wanted to combine the ship with the moment everyone remembers.
Above the display is the freighter Nostromo itself, built at a tiny scale but still accurately shaped to capture that heavy, industrial silhouette. Below it is the mess hall and the chestburster scene, with the crew gathered around Kane just as things start to go very, very bad.

The diorama includes Character Studdies™ of Ripley, Parker, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Jones and the Alien Xenomorph (and the chestburster if we're being accurate), all reduced down into the same deliberately abstract micro style as the rest of the series. At this scale, every colour and stud has to do a lot of work, particularly when trying to make five characters, a cat and one of the most famous movie monsters instantly recognisable.

I liked the contrast of putting the enormous ship above such a cramped, intimate scene. It captures both sides of Alien: the scale and isolation of deep space, and the horror of being trapped inside with something you do not understand.
__________

What should be next in the LEGENDS series?

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the instrutions - that one looks much sleeker :)

https://ibb.co/4ZJD0Lfh
https://ibb.co/3mfnCC8T

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the instrutions - that one looks much sleeker :)

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built (and made instructions for) was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the instrutions - that one looks much sleeker

Grab it on Rebrickable!

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built (and made instructions for) was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the instrutions - that one looks much sleeker

Grab it on Rebrickable!

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the renders - that one looks much sleeker

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built (and made instructions for) was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the instrutions - that one looks much sleeker

Grab it on Rebrickable!

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the renders - that one looks much sleeker

For some reason a lot of people messaged to say that the Lego Star Trek: USS Defiant that I built was fake/AI.

So here are some built shots of my Defiant, this current stand is an early version of the one in the renders - that one looks much sleeker