[redsniper]

These are some things (air/space ships) that I built. Primarily from by little brothers' limited lego supply but also from some k'nex they got for Christmas.

From back in the summer when I started reading Legacy of the Force and had a sort of Star Wars revival. I felt like making a SW style fighter and ended up with this. It's sort of a seaplane/starfighter; those beige bits on the bottom are supposed to be pontoons.



This is some kind of fighter/bomber thing, nothing spectacular.



This is meant to be a Eureka Seven style airship. For those not familiar with the show, it's big, you could comfortably fit a person or three in the space of one peg. Oh, and for the wise guys who were on #hard-light when I talked about this, here are your pics because it did happen.



And this here is basically a Gekko ripoff, complete with swiveling anti-SOB cannons and a retractable fighter-launching runway/ramp/mechanism. It can carry two of the smaller thing you see next to it.



I know this probably pales in comparison to the stuff that CP5670 and all you other lego nuts can crank out, but I thought these were kinda cool and right up HLP's alley, so here you go.

[Hellstryker]

Terrible job with the legos, but i suck with knex so  at that

[haloboy100]

Ah....that brings back a lot

[redsniper]

Well, I could make all kinds of excuses about the legos: they're all mixed together in two big bins with a bunch of other toys, a lot of the pieces are tied up in other models, there are two little kids randomly pilfering from my carefully scrounged pile of "cool" parts, etc. Heck, you can see I basically used the same parts for each of the lego ships.

The real truth though, is that I don't have a lot of experience making up stuff with lego (and it shows apparently ). Whenever I got them as a kid I would just build the model according to the directions and put it aside to play with or look at. On the other hand, I had a large, semi-permanent pile of k'nex on my bedroom floor for years and I was endlessly inventing crap with them (and I guess that shows too ).

[haloboy100]

Whenever I got them as a kid I would just build the model according to the directions and put it aside to play with or look at.

Ditto, sept it would usually get destroyed after i dropped/dismantled/vacuumed/otherwise nuked it a couple days later, and the pieces would be thrown in my now enormous bin, which i ever so happily donated to my friend a year ago.

[NGTM-1R]

I've always preferred to build my lego models from as few parts as reasonably possible, with a few notable exceptions that were intended for more than just me to mess around with. (They also tend not to be color-coordinated.) This is partly because I tend to use as "concept art" for 3D work, and anything not very detailed leaves room to screw around, but partly because then I could make hordes of them.

[CP5670]

Not bad for a limited parts pool. Those chrome 1x1s look cool. I need to get some myself.

I should have my big Blacktron 2 carrier completed some time next summer. It's far from finished but starting to look pretty impressive. I would take some pictures of my progress so far but I don't have a camera here yet. It has been some time since I've worked on it seriously, but I will be getting back into it in a few weeks. The finished model will have roughly a 40x40" profile when viewed from the front along with pneumatic bay doors and various types of lighting.

If I run out of parts, I generally go to Bricklink and buy some rather than disassemble existing models, unless it's a rare piece that I cannot get easily. I need to order another batch soon actually, as I'm running out of a bunch of stuff. The quality problems associated with the outsourcing of brick production earlier this year seem to have passed, so it's a good time to buy.