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Hello my dear fellows!
Today I’d like to show you three transport ships of the so-called “Rag Tag
Fleet”, the collection of civilian ships which follows and is protected by the
Battlestar Galactica. The following vessels are all from the Classic Battlestar
Galactica series, although it’s possible some also appear in the new series.
Something all three ships have in common, is, that they feature all a heavy
amount of TECHNIC® pieces, the only pieces which allowed for their somewhat
untypical shapes. During my MINI building career, I learned that you should
never underestimate the potential of technic pieces. :-)
First ship for today are the famous “Colonial Movers - We move anywhere”. This
transport ship has its cargo containers assembled in a triangular way around its
backbone. Click one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
The second ship is another container freighter, the “Gemini Freighter”. This
freighter has octagonal cargo containers, so I guessed those octagonal bricks
from the underwater themes should do the job. They are connected via technic
axles and liftarms. Click one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
The third and last ship for today is the “Livery Ship”, a mineral hauling ship.
It uses 1x5 technic plates, some of my most favourite pieces these days. Click
one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
That’s it for now. Thanks for your interest and stepping by. Have a nice sunday!
Yours Christopher.
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In lugnet.space, Christopher Deck wrote:
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Hello my dear fellows!
Today I’d like to show you three transport ships of the so-called “Rag Tag
Fleet”, the collection of civilian ships which follows and is protected by
the Battlestar Galactica. The following vessels are all from the Classic
Battlestar Galactica series, although it’s possible some also appear in the
new series.
Something all three ships have in common, is, that they feature all a heavy
amount of TECHNIC® pieces, the only pieces which allowed for their somewhat
untypical shapes. During my MINI building career, I learned that you should
never underestimate the potential of technic pieces. :-)
First ship for today are the famous “Colonial Movers - We move anywhere”.
This transport ship has its cargo containers assembled in a triangular way
around its backbone. Click one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
The second ship is another container freighter, the “Gemini Freighter”. This
freighter has octagonal cargo containers, so I guessed those octagonal bricks
from the underwater themes should do the job. They are connected via technic
axles and liftarms. Click one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
The third and last ship for today is the “Livery Ship”, a mineral hauling
ship. It uses 1x5 technic plates, some of my most favourite pieces these
days. Click one of the images below to get to the
BrickShelf Gallery.
That’s it for now. Thanks for your interest and stepping by. Have a nice
sunday!
Yours Christopher.
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Absolutely gorgeous stuff, Christopher! Very inventive use of parts, especially
the Technic 3-bladed helicopter rotor on the Mover and the Santa Fe engine
exhuast discs on the Livery Ship.
Very deserving of the spotlight!
Dave S.
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Hello Dave,
thank you for the feedback which is highly appreciated. So, those 3x3 discs come
from the SantaFe trainset? I already wondered where they were from.
Thanks,
– Christopher
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Impressive as ever, Chris. Which I say as a builder of micro-starships myself.
(I even displayed a few at this year’s BrickFest, though they vanished next to
Nathan Proudlove’s meter-long Blacktron II.) Run out of Star Wars Expanded
Universe designs to replicate, have you, and moving on to other universes?
This reminds me: would you be interested in exhibiting any of your models at the
World Science Fiction Convention this summer, in
Yokohama, Japan? I’m organizing LEGO events there. Since the Worldcon is all
about international SF fandom -- this year more than most, since it’s the first
time in Asia -- I’m especially interested in demonstrating that AFOLdom is also
international.
Builders are very protective of their MOCs, so there’s not a lot of
shipping-to-unattended-exhibits, but I’ve got an alternative: I’ll build copies
of your models from my own brick supply (you’ve already done the LDRAW plans),
transport them myself, and display them under your name. Interested?
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Hello Phillip,
thanks for your comment! I will publish more SW models soon, but I thought it
would be good to be present in some other SciFi themes I like as well. So I
concentrated in bringing up my new site http://www.deckdesigns.de and quickly
get some more content for the new side sections. Now that they are established
with a moderate amount of models, I can go back to regular building. :-)
I furthermore like the idea you proposed about the show. Feel free to contact me
privately.
Thank you,
– Christopher
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