[OT] Monte Cook Finishes Lego Star Destoyer

[Upper_Krust]

Hi there Fenes 2!

Back when I was a teen I built a models of the Perry Rhodan Space Ships, buying parts once a week from my pocket money. All in all I worked 6 months on the biggest space ship.

I am sorely tempted to buy the Star Destroyer, but I have no room for my own models and I don't want 300 bucks sitting in my cellar gathering dust.

Perry Rhodan you say...I guess that means you are from Germany. You should talk to my fiend Knight Otu here on the boards he has done a lot of great work converting elements of Perry Rhodan to d20 you might be interested in!?

...and kudos to Monte, though I seem to remember it was Sue Cook who bought the Star Sestroyer for Monte for his birthday in the first place which I thought was very cool - Monte is indeed a lucky fellow.

 

[Dark Eternal]

Maybe not, but if you can get it up to 88 mph, you travel through time with it.

Only with a Dalorien(sp?).

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Does anybody know if it is possible to buy legos without them being model specific?

Yes you can. Go to Lego's official website. They have a catalog section and if you look around the menu for a while you'll find a section where you can get assorted parts.

 

[tonym]

...One of the those things I did - the last thing I did, as it turned out - was to use a cigarette lighter to replicate scorch marks on the model's surface, to show Han's close-calls with Imperial blaster cannons. But the model caught on fire!

Ah, woe was me. Days and days to build, but only seconds to ruin.

Whoa! That sucks.


Tony M

 

[tarchon]

When I was a teenager, I put together this huge, highly-detailed model of the Millennium Falcon. I spent days and days putting that thing together, using an instruction manual. Then, when it came time for the finishing touches, I decided to get creative and do some things that were not in the manual. One of the those things I did - the last thing I did, as it turned out - was to use a cigarette lighter to replicate scorch marks on the model's surface, to show Han's close-calls with Imperial blaster cannons. But the model caught on fire!

Ironically, that's how most of the exploding spaceship scenes were done in the original Star Wars. If you look closely, you can see George Lucas' Zippo in the shot when the Death Star explodes.
Darn...! That was a spoiler wasn't it. Ignore that bit about the Death Star if you haven't seen it yet.

 

[Fenes 2]

Hi there Fenes 2!



Perry Rhodan you say...I guess that means you are from Germany. You should talk to my fiend Knight Otu here on the boards he has done a lot of great work converting elements of Perry Rhodan to d20 you might be interested in!?

...and kudos to Monte, though I seem to remember it was Sue Cook who bought the Star Sestroyer for Monte for his birthday in the first place which I thought was very cool - Monte is indeed a lucky fellow.

Switzerland, actually (close enough... but it is like calling a Canadian an American....)

As far as Perry Rhodan is concerned, I stopped reading it somewhere after 1500 I think... I have a backlog of close to 5 years now. For SF roleplaying games (or anything with guns) I use the Shadowrun 3 rules, so I don't really need d20 conversions. Never ran a Perry Rhodan game though I ran a couple Outlaw Star adventures.

 

[Chauzu]

Yes you can. Go to Lego's official website. They have a catalog section and if you look around the menu for a while you'll find a section where you can get assorted parts.

Thanks. I must finish what I started: A big island with a city of monkeys (the monkey's captured a pirate ship and trapped the pirates in a gladiatoral arena with a dragon.) Oh god... I need more legos!!!

 

[mistergone]

Take pictures of it when you're done, Chauzu. And post them online.

 

[Balgus]

Is it just me or are there a bunch of extra parts lying around on the table.

Congrats Monte- that is a beautiful SD.

I know a guy who spends his spare time (and oodles of money) building his own vesion of transformable transformers. I asked how much he would charge to build me a Optimus, and he just laughed. I guess too much...

 

[Monte At Home]

The extra parts when into building the base, and a to-scale Rebel blockade runner ship. Pretty nifty.

This was the first large Lego set that I've ever paid attention to the directions (I built a TIE fighter and an X-wing according to the directions, but they were nothing compared to this). Most of my Legos come from castle sets and the plain old builder sets (just tubs full of basic bricks) and go into a series of large boxes from which I make big fantasy dioramas that have twice covered that table you see in the picture. That's a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I would call building the Star Destroyer fun. Nice to have it finished, though.

(Back in the old days of TSR--not WotC--when we all had very large work areas, I would set up the dioramas there. No room for that at WotC, though, so I had to bring it all home.)

Oh, and the reason the large panels are held on with magnets is to allow you to get at the inside if something goes wrong without disassembling much. It is fragile, but that's no strike against Lego bricks--this thing isn't at all what the bricks were meant to do. As for the engineering of it, as someone who's messed around with Legos for years, I'm amazed at what the designer(s) created. It's not perfect, but it's still incredibly well engineered.