Lego Asp Scout (UCS minifig 1:96ish scale) update

[Rubbernuke]

Giggles uncontrollably

This is INCREDIBLE. A piece of ART. I wish it was possible to buy that one... or... gets dreamy look A Fer-de-Lance... (okay, I'd have to sell my liver to afford one, but hey, a man can dream, now can't he...)

So far (since I've been buying Lego as I go along- hence why its taken so long with so many rebuilds) its got:

X3 (non UCS) Millenium Falcons
X2 (non UCS) Tie Fighters
Lots of tiles (I mean- a lot! over 600)
About £200 worth of BrickLink stuff (plus donations from people taking pity on me)
A fair amount of old 80s lego (as in old skool notched angled plates)

Instructions would be actually doable, but be very, very scary. The previous build was a hodge podge of 80s, 90s Lego which (since bricks do change and create issues) which this build eliminates, hence it being cleaner.

And another (old and superseded so its slightly out of order) picture. This one is / was a test for the Asp Scouts 'wings' - its on the extreme left of the picture here (as well as another front hull plate test which was a failure as it was too heavy and brittle)

 

[Darth Ender]

-1 for lack of kumo burgers

poor mini fig is going to go space mad with starvation. Which would be odd because he brought his npc crew along for a reason.

 

[Rubbernuke]

-1 for lack of kumo burgers

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poor mini fig is going to go space mad with starvation. Which would be odd because he brought his npc crew along for a reason.

There is a snack bar, mind. And that those burgers are wider than a minifig- and while I'd love a burger bigger than my head it may cause issues

Thinking about it though, if I used a 1x1 round tile and some other 1x1 stud bricks....it might be possible

 

[Rubbernuke]

 

[Darth Ender]

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burgers taller than they are wide may not look aesthetically correct, but that doesn't stop all of the "gourmet" burger joints around where i live. So it will do.


edit: also, they make flat round 1x1 pieces in the right color for the top of that bun. Will reduce it's height a bit.

 

[Rubbernuke]

burgers taller than they are wide may not look aesthetically correct, but that doesn't stop all of the "gourmet" burger joints around where i live. So it will do.

Hey, I'm all for big food

 

[Rubbernuke]

burgers taller than they are wide may not look aesthetically correct, but that doesn't stop all of the "gourmet" burger joints around where i live. So it will do.


edit: also, they make flat round 1x1 pieces in the right color for the top of that bun. Will reduce it's height a bit.

I did look for a light tan stud brick but I've only got white or grey ones

 

[Rubbernuke]

So you thought it was dead?

Its still going, slowly but surely......

 

[Rubbernuke]

Is it dead? Am I mad? Who knows!

Interior work (left side)

Taking the 'spine' heatsink away (its modular) to expose the semi engineering deck.

need so much......grey Lego.....so, so much grey Lego

 

[nemolomen]

...need so much......grey Lego.....so, so much grey Lego

FTFY...

 

[Darkfyre99]

Is it dead? Am I mad? Who knows!

Interior work (left side)

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Taking the 'spine' heatsink away (its modular) to expose the semi engineering deck.


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need so much......grey Lego.....so, so much grey Lego

I’m still in awe of you doing this with real Lego.

Real Lego.

 

[nemolomen]

I did look for a light tan stud brick but I've only got white or grey ones

 

[Shabine]

If Frontier were to put Rubbernuke's Lego Asp Scout in the game, I would be the proud owner of a brand new Lego Asp Scout. Not just for the laughs, but because a Scout made out of Lego is probably sturdier and more useful than the one we have access to now.

 

[Rubbernuke]

I’m still in awe of you doing this with real Lego.

Real Lego.

Cheers! Its certainly come a long way from the.....84 version all the way back at page 1

And although I've said this about twenty times, I can see the end of the build- I just need a lot of tiles for the ships hull.

Here are some more snaps-

There are several removable parts I've taken off (there are more panels here which can be removed from the floor with detail underneath. This can be considered the 'main deck' with a fully detailed deck below (which you can see here when I take the back off).

Here is a photo with the rear ramp and the blurry dot at the end is the lower pilots position in the canopy

Lower pilots chair in focus

Just to add to the OCD all ladders that access each deck flip down and up, so 'if it were real' jibber everything is accessible and practical.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I’m still in awe of you doing this with real Lego.

Real Lego.

I second that. All those "Lego" builds done on the computer aren't real Lego builds. It is only a real Lego build if you expose your feet to the threat of stepping into the bricks at night on your way to the loo.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

also, it is not a real Lego build if your computer program can just supply any missing bricks. REAL Lego means being short of exactly the one brick you need.

 

[Rubbernuke]

I second that. All those "Lego" builds done on the computer aren't real Lego builds. It is only a real Lego build if you expose your feet to the threat of stepping into the bricks at night on your way to the loo.

Or when several A4 wads of paper fall from a shelf onto your model, smashing it in half. That happened last year and....I'm not ashamed to say I had a major sad* about it.

*fell to the floor and screamed like a child

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

Or when several A4 wads of paper fall from a shelf onto your model, smashing it in half. That happened last year and....I'm not ashamed to say I had a major sad* about it.

*fell to the floor and screamed like a child

I would have had a proper tantrum about it, including smashing the model to bits.

Edit: Not everybody can cope as well as that guy:

Source: https://youtu.be/3_FieJToFKc?t=102

 

[Rubbernuke]

I would have had a proper tantrum about it, including smashing the model to bits.

My wife thought I was having some sort of medical emergency when I was cradling my broken Scouts mangled hull. When she realized what had really happened she rolled her eyes and just walked off.......utterly brutal.

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

My wife thought I was having some sort of medical emergency when I was cradling my broken Scouts mangled hull. When she realized what had really happened she rolled her eyes and just walked off.......utterly brutal.

the mental image of that scene made me genuinely chuckle.