"With islets, palm trees, and crystal clear waters, the beautiful scenery of the tropical Scarif is contrasted by towering Imperial facilities and a Rebel surprise attack."
I created a small piece of the land map of Scarif in Battlefront ll..
Dimensions: 345 x 202 x 87 (Studs)
Pieces: 25738
Because I made so many Alternative build. I think it would be a fun idea to turn the Star Wars logo to read ALT BUILD.
As a designer, I think this was was great idea and it looked so fun next to my recent work
And got 20% off too
Finally finished this off with the Tantive IV midi scale set I managed to get my hands on recently.
For those who don't know, I build mounts for a living. I'm super excited for this one. It's insanely strong, and very straight forward to install. Well deserving for this set (which was a fun 13 hr build!)
I'm still working on arms that reach out at an angle, but that's going to be a huge undertaking for this model. But since I have this base figured out, it shouldn't be hard to adapt.
You get two brackets, and a display setup for the minifigs and plaque.
Before you ask, its' stupid strong. Insanely stupid strong. Just one bracket maxed out my 110lb luggage scale, and you get two.
Let me know if you have any questions! Finding it won't be hard if you know my stuff.
I never got the cantina set and it’s always been something I wanted to build! Plenty of scenes and details left to go but wanted to share my progress!
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i might’ve got a wee bit too high last night and woke up to having made this. the cloth kamma and custom DC-15As are from GCC. everything else is authentic Lego.
I've been doing this for the past year and figured it might be time to do a reddit post since up til now the only people who have seen these have been in discord as I've finished them.
So, here's the deal with these. If I'm being completely, brutally honest, I've gotta say, I've not been impressed by other podracer offerings online. Half the ones I've seen have antistuds showing, pretty much all of them are woefully undersized, and the scale of the models themselves is wildly inconsistent. So, instead of bellyaching, complaining, or being a nuisance and making people feel bad, I thought I'd just do it myself. And, well. Here we are!
It took me a month to settle on the scale, but I finally decided that the 2019 Anakin podracer is the most lore-accurate in scale and design that has ever been officially released by LEGO. With that size chosen, I decided the most accurate scale for these things came from "Star Wars - The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" (which was published in 2003). With those in place, I now had everything I needed, save for the actual designs for the dang things.
While things like the podracer models found in "Star Wars Episode 1 Racer" and "Racer's Revenge" helped, they tended to be a bit low poly for the Boonta Eve offerings (and revenge doesn't have all of them, anyway). I did manage to find a rip of the models from the Kinect podracing game, but notably models are lacking for Ratts Tyrell and Neva Kee (who was the podracer I began with).
Salvation came in the form of a 2-disc PC game released with the movie: "Star Wars Episode 1 Insider's Guide." This disc was a godsend, and it contained an absolute treasure trove of early-production models (both 3d and physical) as well as 2d concept art for all the pods, even including three of the SWE1R exclusive racers. With this in hand, I could finally truly begin.
Neva Kee was completed first, followed by Ark Roose. I began work on Mars Guo, which ended up being maybe a bit too much to chew so early into the project so I worked on Ebe E. Endecott, then couldn't finish him either so I dropped the project for half a year. This march I picked it back up again, completing Endecott and making Boles Roor, then Dud Bolt and finally, finally finishing Mars Guo, then finally figuring out how to even begin working on Ben. I've begun work on Teemto and Aldar, but I am in the middle of another slump at the moment.
7/17 Boonta Eve podracers complete. 10 remain, and then I'm done.
Well, except, as you might have guessed from the title, stopping there seems like quitting while I'm ahead. I am unbelievably proud of everything I've done so far but, would it be right if I neglected the video game exclusive podracers? No, I decided, I decided that no that wouldn't do at all actually and so I am done with 7/32, 35 if you include the non-canon Maul, Vader, and Watto from Racer's Revenge, and actually 40 if you include the podracer-themed mounts from SWTOR, and 41 if you include the TIE Bolt which is apparently a real thing according to one youtube video ranking every TIE variant that has ever existed in a piece of star wars media, so maybe I won't do that one but *WHO KNOWS* I sure don't yet. There may even be podracers I am as yet unaware of!
So, basically, I am now announcing to the world that this is a project I am working on, I have the intention to make the instructions available in the future but I don't intend to release them *yet*, I still need to make sure that they won't fall apart once they are built (Neva Kee has a pretty nasty sag in his engines so I need to figure out how to remedy that) and stickers are kinda going to be a requirement for guys like Guo so I'm going to need to find someone willing to design a couple of those... Basically, there's a lot of things that still need to be done before I'm convinced these aren't going to be of a sub-par quality but just be aware, they are coming.
TL;DR: these are the first 7 of the 17 Boonta Eve Racers, I intend to make the ones from the games too eventually, and I might be beginning to think of myself as a god because of all the work I've put into this. Everything I make is mostly in scale with the 2019 Anakin's Podracer released by The LEGO Group. Neva Kee is a little bigger though.
Took my time with this one as I waited for the parts for the 45% stand by BlackWolfStudio on Rebrickable. I'm contemplating getting printed parts and solid technic axles for the sagging engines, lmk if you've got recommendations!
Really adds a modern touch to older figures imo
I’ve got a bunch of 1999-2001 in the bins mixed with my kids’ LEGO that I’ll dig out someday, but everything else is since 2020.
Hello there ! Just a little asymetric design to reduce the parts bin size, and to (maybe) put on display. Some interior space is used to carry a couple crates, but that’s about all in terms of play features.
Criticism is welcome, I hope you will like it !
I was able to acquire this set for around $200, and after many frustrating late nights of building after work it's finished! I had to make some slight modifications on the frame to make sure everything is held in place and doesn't sag, but I am beyond excited to finally have this set that I've dreamed about since I was a kid :)
Has anyone seen anything like the one second from the left before? It seemed like it was marbled/speckled somehow, between silver and LBG. I assume maybe it was just listed by the metallic paint and didn't get the full coat, but it's impressively consistent around the whole thing.
It looks pretty cool and could be useful for a custom saber/fig.
Unfortunately don't know what set it came in because I only noticed it while looking through some of my spare pieces.
Several different lightings for reference.
From L to R: LBG, the one in question, metallic silver, and classic chrome.