This is a display stand that I built to display a stock LEGO Star Wars 20th Anniversary Boba Fett’s Slave I 75243 model. I didn’t want to make any modifications to Slave I–including its fold-up “flight” handle on the back. Also, I wanted it to appear mid-flight, which simultaneously gave it a good pose and provided a stable center of gravity. The gallery of images below gives more detail about how it was designed.
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Continuing my backlog of LEGO mods and MOCs posted recently, here’s another mod that I made in 2019. The LEGO Star Wars X-Wing 75218 was designed with wing missile shooters and fixed rear landing gear struts. I modified the X-Wing to remove the missile shooters and give the blasters a little more detail, and I replaced the fixed landing gear struts with retractable landing gear as shown in the photo above. The gallery of images below provides more detail on both modifications that you can implement in your own X-Wing.
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I’ve documented several of my LEGO Millennium Falcon MOCs and mods here (Last Jedi update), here (Force Awakens), here (Midi-Scale display), and here (7190 remodel). This time, I completely overhauled 75257 with a 4-person cockpit, detailed engine compartment, more round hallways, landing gear details, and a SNOT lower mandible slope with opening for center landing gear. There are more details to be found in the photos below.
I added greebling, blast marks, and other details to make the Falcon appear as close to the cinematic model as I could giving the low fidelity and resolution of LEGO at this scale.
I wanted to include as much detail as possible–including detail hidden from view, like in the AMT/ERTL Cutaway Model of the Falcon. I made use of pipes–especially in the engine comparment–thinking of Han Solo’s repairs to the Falcon during the escape from Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). The pull-out gunner’s turret has an targeting computer display.
I wanted the landing gear to look as accurate as possible in this small scale while also providing ample support for this heavier model.
Also, I built an upward sloping display stand for the Falcon shown below. It’s shape combined with gravity locks the Falcon’s landing gear in place so that it can’t move in the display stand. It has a lot of Technic reinforcement due to the weight of the Falcon, which is more than the stock 75257 set.
A few months later, I took another stab at the Falcon’s interior with an intention of making the rear passage way more circular and making the engine compartment less busy but with thought out detailing. I stripped down the interior and began again. True revision in practice (i.e., throw out your first draft and begin again).
I disassembled this Falcon before Y and I moved to our new apartment in 2022. Since then, I’ve rebuilt 75105 (The Force Awakens) and 75257 (Rise of Skywalker) using the assembly instructions. They sit on either side of my desk at home. I have plans to build a larger Falcon of my own design that fits between the size of these playable sets and the much larger 75192 and 10179 sets. It will have a 2-stud side wall to give it a sleeker look than the chunky playable models. I’ll provide updates when this new build gets underway!
Soon after the release of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), I designed and built a play-oriented Q-Ship LEGO MOC for Ebony Maw’s attack at the Sanctum Sanctorum to accompany a stock-built 76108 The Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown set as shown above and in more detail below.
While it would have certainly have been great to build a larger Q-Ship as others have done, I had to work within the constraints of the type and quantity of LEGO bricks and elements that I have on-hand.
I settled on a simple ring structure with interior red accents and a driving platform for Ebony Maw that included a display screen. In the southwest quadrant, I added bars for Iron Man and Spider-Man to grab onto, and I included the Q-Ship’s engines in the northeast quadrant above the driving platform.
Overall, it was a straight forward design that added a sense of drama to the Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown set by having danger approaching from above.
Continuing my recent post of past LEGO MOCs (my own creation), I wanted to share this minifig scale Hulkbuster armor for Iron Man that I built during the summer of 2019 as something more playable and scaled properly than 76105 The Hulkbuster: Ultron Edition pictured below.
Iron Man’s Mark 44 Hulkbuster Armor is meant to put him on par with The Hulk in terms of strength and size. Considering the minifigure at the heart of the 76105 set, it is gargantuan in comparison to The Hulk. Therefore, I set a goal to build Hulkbuster armor that matched the mini-figure scale as closely as possible, encapsulate an Iron Man minifigure, and have more points of articulation than the smaller Hulkbuster armor in 76031 The Hulk Buster Smash (having a swivel waist like the 76105 Hulkbuster in this small size was beyond my skill).
Igor in 76125 Iron Man Hall of Armor inspired the basic layout of Hulkbuster using the ball-joint connectors. The 5-stud wide chest piece with an arc reactor in the center and wrap-around elements is my favorite part of the build. Rotated views with a focus on key details are included below.
Given more specialized elements–especially in dark red and metallic gold–I think that I can continue to refine this model to pack as much detail as possible within its small size in comparison to its larger brethren.
