How does this
Become this ?
With an inspired design and some building. The design come from my favourite Lego website, and one you absolutely have to visit if you are keen to get your money's worth out of your Lego collection
it's rebrickable, and in particular it's the design for The Spaceship the Star Wars nerds amongst you my say - Hey that's the N-1 ship from The Mandalorian and I'll have to trust you. I saw the first series of Mando but don't particularly remember the ship, I just thought it was cool.
In fact it was one of those designs that I was absolutely amazed with, how someone looked at the Aston Martin set and went - I know I can make the Mandolorian ship out of that and looking at the stills from the show, it seems about right.
Maybe his set like mine wasn't an Aston Martin, because more correctly for me it pre the starship it was a truck, which is the normal sort of alternative designs you get, a car into a different kind of car.
But it was time carefully take apart the truck, place all the pieces in piles, find all of the original pieces that weren't in the truck and then set about reassembling it all again. I know it must have been a really good build because I have so few shots of it, which means I must have be lost in the process.
Like all alternative designs made by not Lego people it starts looking like the finished product immediately, none of the usual wondering about what you are actually building, a third of the way through and you have a third of spaceship.
I have to say some of my favourite work is in the thrusters the silver pipes (which were the exhaust on the car is smart but expected, the use of the wheel pieces (are the rear of the thruster and the wheel inserts (towards the front before the red piece) is inspired.
Also impressive in the design is the building of a stand - it's a little cumbersome, but still and amazing effort, and solves one of the big problems with spaceships, how to desplay them in flight.
Anyway let's have a close look at the finished product
It's minifig size by the way, so I couldn't resist putting on of the minifigs I have of myself in the pilots seat - and yes I have been known to wear a black cowboy hat and avaitors in real life
More wheel work here
and here
The curves are very impressive, there are some strange joints but it all works
All in all this has to go down as one of the most enjoyable alternative builds I've done, I have a feeling this one is going to be assembled for quite some time.
