sounds like the start of a rage quit... I was flying my lego ship without insurance when all of a sudden it exploded the pieces went every where and it was a big disaster so now i'm taking a break from Lego. I may return when Lego is better developed and has planetary landings.
Thanks, I've just wet myself in the office.
Extremely detailed and proportional. FD should use this as a fun collectors build and sell them via LEGO. 1800 pieces is serious effort and this sure is well in class with the detailed Star Wars builds that you can get from LEGO.
Unlikely I'm afraid - LEGO are VERY strict about what IPs they will get involved with, and the nature of E : D just doesn't gel well with that I believe.
For someone like me whose experience with Lego is NOT extended to the internet age - how would I go about getting what I need to build this?
I tried to give a very brief overview of this on the LEGO Sidewinder thread - see here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=31908&p=2271792&viewfull=1#post2271792
I'm currently (intermittently) working on a legalised (ensuring bricks are available in required colours) version with pirate red paintjob - I'd like more dark red in it, but that dark red is expensive and has a limited range of pieces - though there are some that are only available in dark red, not bright, so there is at least SOME... Anyway, with a model this size it's a pretty big job and I've been off it for some time, but it's constantly nagging at the back of my mind.
Next step will be to try and rationalise the design to get down the part count where possible, but it's a good build from what I've seen, and it's a hell of a task to do virtually without breaking structural integrity, so I may just bite the bullet and lay out for the expected £200 - £250 this will cost through bricklinking. And that's probably the most complex part to do efficiently - I've never done it on a model of this size and complexity. The sidewinder was challenging at 656 parts, but then I did chose bloody hard colours for it - which is part of the rationale behind choosing the pirate colour scheme. I've done almost as large in part count, but that was a snowy mountain so mostly grey and white slopes, so very easy to source comparatively.
LXF will, of course, be made available when it's done, for those masochistic enough to rise to the challenge.
