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The Magazine for LEGO® Enthusiasts of All Ages!

Issue 59 • October 2019

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LEGO Star Wars : ®

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The Builders Strike Back!

Star Wars and all related characters and properties TM & © Lucasfilm

Miro Dudas Jacob Neil Carpenter’s Death Star Instructions AND MORE!

The Photography of James Philippart

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Issue 59 • October 2019

Contents

From the Editor....................................................2

People

Justin Gates: Building Spaceships!......................................3 Amado Pinlac (AC Pin): Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of LEGO Star Wars............................................8 Evan Ridpath: Building Star Tours and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge............................11 Konrad Aksinowicz: Making a Scene!............................................16 Rui Miguel Anacleto: Making Astromechs and Microships!.............................................21

Building

Daryl Ng: Making Speeders and Blasters!.................25 Steve Peterson: Sith and Jedi Holocrons.............................28 James Philippart: Cooking up LEGO Photography!...........30 Jacob Neil Carpenter: That’s no Moon... ..........................................34 Simon Wild: Building Bridges (and other Star Wars Places)....................40 Miro Dudas: Star Wars Character Builder!....................47

You Can Build It: Midiscale Leia.................................................51 Mini TIE Echelon............................................60 Minifigure Customization 101: One Magical Hat...........................................66

Community

Mark Mancuso: Making an Iconic Mosaic!.........................70 Community Ads...............................................78 Last Word.............................................................79 Classic AFOLs.....................................................80

People

Justin’s version of the Lunar Lander.

Earlier this year, the LEGO Group released a set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing: the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle. Right before the set was released, a fan builder presented his own version that turned out to be as detailed as the LEGO Set! Justin Gates (known online as Akula Bricks) is the 22-year-old builder behind the model. He’s been a builder since earlier than he can remember, but remembers that LEGO was something that was always there in his life. Whether it was his own collection of parts or a friend’s, it was always fun to play around with it and create different things.

Justin started LEGO building when he realized that he was fascinated with model-making and miniatures, but never really had the skills or resources to make any of his own.

For him, LEGO was a media which wasn’t as intimidating to get into, had no painting or gluing, and if he didn’t like the way something turned out, he could easily change it.

Justin Gates:

Building Spaceships!

Article and Photography by Justin Gates

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People

Amado Pinlac with his Star Wars diorama.

Amado Pinlac (AC Pin):

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of LEGO Star Wars!

Article and Photos by Amado Pinlac The diorama without the commemorative minifigures.

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A few days after the sets containing the five commemorative minifigs were officially announced for the 20th Anniversary of LEGO Star Wars, the Rockefeller LEGO Store management asked if I’d be interested in doing a display that would be appropriate for the occasion. Honored to have been tasked for this commission, a meeting ensued a couple of days later to discuss the details and logistics for the MOC. The outcome of the meeting left me with full control on the design aspects of the build that would include the five commemorative minifigs (Leia, Luke, Han, Vader and Lando) and size restrictions for it to fit the large display case. The display had to be ready for installation onsite the weekend before the release of the sets on Monday April 1, 2019, giving me less than two months to complete it.

This was easier said than done as it took me a couple of weeks to come up with the design concept for the whole display. Trying to find a specific scene with all five characters together was an impossible task as Leia, Luke and Han were together in a lot of scenes, Vader in some, but Lando was the wildcard as he wasn’t even in the first movie.

Scenes within the Death Star, Cloud City, and Rebel ships were considered until it finally dawned on me that there wasn’t one scene that would fit the required creation. The interplay of the dark versus the light side concept inspired the idea of doing two vignettes, and I finally settled on a very iconic scene to bring everything together. The Yavin IV A New Hope award ceremony I had done several years ago was resurrected and rebuilt to accommodate the two vignettes. The whole creation was divided into two sections: The base which included the dark versus light vignettes with the Death Star light panels all around and with the LSW 20 at the back, then the top for the ANH awards

People

Evan and his Star Tours layout.

Evan Ridpath is a Star Wars builder whose specialty is a niche in the Star Wars theme. He built a model based on the Star Tours ride at the Disney Resorts, and also built a microscale version of the new Galaxy’s Edge park at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. He’s only 23, but has built for the past 20 years with no sign of stopping.

His first set was a Duplo set when he was three years old.

Since then, his parents have supported his creative endeavors, and LEGO was always seen as a good creative product to invest in for that. He also grew up down the street from LEGOLand California, which turned out to be a great place to visit and explore as a kid.

As he grew older, he had a sort of Dark Age, as during his four years studying film at Chapman University, he built less since he left his LEGO bricks at home. He was still involved with the online LEGO community and was always brainstorming ideas for what he wanted to build as soon as he got home for break.

Evan Ridpath:

Building Star Tours and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Article and Photography by Evan Ridpath

Evan builds the most in the Star Wars theme, but he also enjoys Harry Potter, Disney, Castle, Lord of the Rings, and the Modular Creator buildings which line his family’s dining room. While this might be a throwback to some, the Adventurers series with Johnny Thunder was a favorite part of his childhood building as well!

Evan got his first Star Wars set, the first AT-ST (7127) when he was five years old because he thought the Chewbacca minifigure looked cool. His parents had seen Star Wars:

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People

Konrad’s rendition of ILM during the production of The Empire Strikes Back.

Konrad Aksinowicz:

Making a Scene!

Article and Photography

by Konrad Aksinowicz 16

Konrad Aksinowicz has been building for a while—over thirty-five years, in fact. Considering he is a forty-year-old filmmaker, his building time has taken a majority of his life. It has always annoyed him that people compare the passion of LEGO building to playing with a children’s toy.

He doesn’t agree with them and is convinced that LEGO building is an adult hobby such as snowboarding, cooking, painting, and composing music. For Konrad, building is yet another form of artistic expression that has not yet been accepted by the majority, but it’s only a matter of time.

He received his first LEGO set in 1983 from his grandmother. Living in communist Poland, Konrad was shocked because there were no such toys available. The set he received, the Black Falcon Castle (6073), changed his life. He was five years old and now could build anything he wanted.

Over the many years that Konrad has built, LEGO building was a part of the day until he turned fifteen. Even after then, he built, though not as much. When he emigrated from Poland to Sydney, Australia, his LEGO sets went with him.

The scene he built here is as old as he is. Forty years ago, talented people from Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) worked on the AT-AT sequence for the movie The Empire Strikes Back, part of the Star Wars trilogy of films created by George Lucas. The moviemakers introduced a special type of camera that could be controlled by computer and

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People

Rui’s models of R2-D2 and BB-8.

Rui Miguel Anacleto has been building all of his life, since he was little. He was never satisfied with the original sets and always tried to either improve them or make them his own creations.

In his young adulthood years he kind of forgot the “LEGO life” and didn’t pick it up again until about three-anda-half years ago. Now 38 years old, he builds Star Wars-inspired models, including droids.

For him, building is a great hobby, as he always loved arts in general, and as a graphic designer, he’s always eager for new creative challenges. He’s always had a bit of a creative side and building LEGO models was almost a natural step for him. Star Wars is his favorite theme, but he loves some oldies too, like Classic Space or Castle, as well as the big vehicle models that came from the old Model Team series and Creative Expert vehicle models.

Rui Miguel Anacleto:

Building Astromechs and Microships!

Article by Joe Meno Photos by Rui Miguel Anacleto

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Building

Daryl’s rendition of the speeder Obi-Wan and Anakin drove in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

Daryl Ng has been actively building for the past four years—his LEGO building was rekindled when his girlfriend bought him a LEGO set. Since then, he has been building vehicles and props from the Star Wars universe, including a model of Han Solo’s blaster and landspeeders from all of the movies.

He started building as an outlet for creativity. Daryl has never considered himself that creative a person and felt that LEGO building was a good way to be creative.

To him, he hasn’t built that much—he’s only built about 25 models. He has done more designing, with more than 140 Star Wars models designed. He prefers digital design as it’s less time consuming than actually building; he can do it anywhere with his laptop, and he never runs out of bricks!

Having grown up with the movies and the accompanying toys, it wasn’t hard for Daryl to get inspired to build them. He enjoyed the vast amount of vehicles, ships, and models. With such a expansive library of subject matter in the films and cartoons, he started building and hasn’t stopped.

Daryl Ng:

Making Speeders and Blasters!

Article by Joe Meno Photos by Daryl Ng

To prove this point, the model he is most proud of is his first Star Wars custom model—Rey’s speeder, seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s the only model he has revisited over the years and improved. The current model is his 12th or 13th version, where he added an interior engine display.

His building process starts with a paper sketch to get a feel for general dimensions. From the sketch, he notes the key areas that he thinks will be challenging and starts visualizing how to go about building. From there, he starts digitally building. He started his building with LEGO Digital Designer, but now uses Stud.io (a digital building tool by Bricklink) or MLCAD, a PC LEGO building program.

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Steve Peterson’s Jedi (left) and Sith (right) holocrons.

Steve Peterson:

Sith and Jedi Holocrons Article and Photography by Steve Peterson

I’m Steve Peterson; I’m an insurance agent and also co-admin the Facebook group LEGO Star Wars Fans (which can be a full-time gig in itself!). At the time this is written, LEGO Star Wars Fans has about 25,200 members worldwide and counting!

Like many out there I had LEGO as a kid, and went into a Dark Age of sorts, returning to LEGO in 2015. In early 2017 I created my first MOC and there was no looking back.

If you hadn’t already guessed, I primarily build Star Wars LEGO creations.

I’m a huge fan of the Clone Wars and Rebels series, and when I saw the Holocrons featured in Star Wars Rebels I knew that I had to try it.

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I start out all my MOCs in digital form.

Deciding to start with the Sith Holocron, I quickly learned the challenges of building a LEGO pyramid shape that also hinges open and closed, and also build them as close to 1:1 scale as I could. I set that aside for a bit and went onto the Jedi.

Building

A speeder biker aims a shot...

James Philippart:

Cooking up LEGO Photography!

Article by Joe Meno Photos by James Philippart ...as does Han and Chewbacca.

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The photos all seen here were taken by a French chef.

James Philippart creates these tableaus and photographs as a hobby, as well as photographing car races. He has been doing sports photography for five years, and LEGO photos for three years. His treatments on both subjects are dynamic and realistic.

His LEGO scenes use minifigures and settings he has built. He’s a big fan of LEGO Star Wars and Harry Potter, and has been a lifelong builder. While he has made many Star Wars-inspired photos, he has also done a growing number of Harry Potter-based photos.

A photograph may seem like an easy thing to do, but James plans and thinks about every element. When he watches a movie and is inspired by a particular scene, he imagines the picture he wants and how he’s going to do it. Technically, he uses a DSLR (digital singlelens reflex) camera—a Nikon D5200 set up to take macro photos. The macro setting gives him a small area of focus, which is good to give depth to the photo.

To keep the camera stable, he uses a tripod at photo sessions and at events.

His LEGO room faces the sun during the day, so he doesn’t depend on flash photography, just a pleasant day.

Photo sessions are set up and taken with natural lighting between noon and 3:00 pm. Most of the photos are done with practical effects—there is very little use of photo editing programs for enhancing. For his Indiana Jones photo, he used a match, and for his Star Wars Inferno Squad photo, he used real fireworks to create the flame effects. At a session, James takes hundreds of photos. For every 50 frames taken, only five are good photos.

James’ old photo of Diagon Alley.

Taking the Shot For his Tatooine-based photo (seen on this issue’s cover) he used a monitor for the background and placed the other elements on a tabletop in front of a monitor with a desert background. With a macro lens to blur the background, the shot is taken!

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Building Jacob’s Death Star.

Jacob Neil Carpenter:

That’s no Moon...

Article and Photos by Jacob Neil Carpenter The Orbital Battle Station, DS-1 Death Star project started in early summer of 2013, while I was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Since I was on a well-established Forward Operating Base (FOB), I was able to spend what free time I had building with LEGO. I acquired my sets from either ordering online or asking my wife Jennifer to send them to me. In this case I asked her to send me two of my 10188 Death Stars from home, with the intent to kit-bash the sets together. “Kit-bash” is a term used by some in which multiple sets are combined together to make one big one. When I received the two Death Stars, I started putting them together roughly using the instruction manual. During the early stages of the build I found I would need more pieces, which I requested through my wife. Due to job requirements, the 34 Death Star only got about a quarter of the way

done. So when it came time to redeploy back to the United States, I broke down what I had completed to ship everything back home.

When I returned stateside in the early months of 2017, I knew I wanted to build a big MOC (My Own Creation), but did not know what to build. I initially entertained building another bigger and more detailed Imperial Star Destroyer than the last one I built, which was featured in the April 2013 BrickJournal issue #23. I also entertained the thought of building a Super Star Destroyer, but after some thought I decided my next MOC would be the Death Star. This was decided as I was not able to complete the kit-bashed Death Star I started in Afghanistan. I knew it would be a challenge since spheres are not an easy feat, especially a large one and one that would have a detailed mini-figured interior. I knew it would be a long journey and an expensive one, but figured the outcome would be worth the effort and the cost.

I decided to build the first Death Star, from Star Wars: A New Hope, with the intent to create all of the major scenes from that movie. That being said, not everything on the Death Star was shown in the movie, so I knew a lot of it would be

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7 Level 8 Level 9 Level 10

Death Star Level Description Level 1: Turbolift Bay, Grand Moff Tarkin’s Living Quarters, and Turbo Laser Bay. Level 2: Turbolift Bay, Taim and Bak D6 Turbolaser Battery, Officer Living Quarters, and Officer Mess Bay. Level 3: Turbolift Bay, Taim and Bak D6 Turbolaser Battery, Death Star Overbridge, Annex Bay, and Overbridge Meeting Room.

Level 4: Turbolift Bay, Darth Vader Chambers, TIE Fighter Pilot Living Quarters, 2 SB 920 Laser Cannons, Death Star Super Laser Control Center Bay, and Super Laser Bay. Level 5: Turbolift Bay, Stormtrooper Living Quarters, TIE Fighter Bay, Flight Control Bay, Main Hanger Bay, and 2 Taim and Bak D6 Turbolaser Batteries.

Level 7: Turbolift Bay, Medical Bay, Scout Trooper Speeder Bike Bay, Imperial Probe Droid Storage and Maintenance Bay. Level 8: Turbolift Bay, Taim and Bak D6 Turbolaser Battery, Annex Bay, Enlisted Crew Mess Bay, Armament Storage and Maintenance Bay. Level 9:Turbolift Bay, Annex Bay, Enlisted Crew Cantina, and 2 Supply Bays.

Level 10: Turbolift Bay, Droid Maintenance Bay, and 2 Annex Bays.

Section of Level 3-5: Turbolift Bay, in Open Bay (The Swing).

Section of Level 6-8: Tractor Beam Controls in Open Bay.

Level 6: Turbolift Bay, Scout Trooper Living Quarters, Physical Fitness Bay, Maneuver Training Bay, Taim and Bak D6 Turbolaser Battery, and Detention Center.

Stormtrooper living quarters.

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TIE Fighter Bay.

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Poe Dameron’s X-Wing being readied at a Resistance hangar.

Simon Wild:

Building Bridges (and other Star Wars Places) Article and Photography

by Simon Wild

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Simon Wild, a 24-year-old builder, has built a few Star Wars-oriented builds, but his best work is with bridges. What do the Star Wars movies have to do with bridges? Nothing really, unless you are looking at the starship command centers—command bridges. Simon built the bridges to two different ships: a Rebel cruiser and an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Simon has been building since he was a child, but had a short Dark Age in his teenage years. Fortunately, he never got rid of his LEGO so he could just continue with building and collecting. The LEGO Star Wars releases of 2008-2009 are the reason why he got back into building, and LEGO in general.

It goes without saying that Simon’s favorite LEGO them is LEGO Star Wars. He’s also a big fan of the Star Wars films and the Expanded Star Wars Universe (books, games, etc.) Looking at LEGO’s early Star Wars models inspired him to recreate Star Wars ships and vehicles of his own as a kid. The Star Wars universe allows a lot of creative freedom—with unique character and an interesting and instantly recognizable aesthetic.

Simon’s design methods depend on the project. Sometimes he just gets his bricks out and starts building and experimenting. With other projects, he likes to build the model in LEGO Digital Designer or Bricklink Studio first, and order parts to build everything in one session. Having some sketches is quite helpful to get an idea of size, shape and features.

In terms of building, Simon also builds spaceships. For him, while spaceships are certainly the most exciting part of Star Wars, he finds dioramas more interesting to

Building

C-3PO, R2-D2, Princess Leia, and R5-D4.

Miro Dudas got his first LEGO set 36 years ago and began as an adult builder in 2012. Now 41 years young, he has made a name for himself with his LEGO creations. His work has been displayed at the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark as well as at displays and shows in California. A lot of his most outstanding work has been with Star Wars-inspired builds, so BrickJournal chatted with him about LEGO building.

BrickJournal: What got you started into building?

Miros Duda: During my adulthood, I would play with my son’s LEGO and I would browse on the iPad for inspirations for LEGO castles. Castles was one of my childhood staple themes that I loved (late ’80s/’90s era) and I ended up finding the MOCPages website. There I would find builders such as Emerald Knight with massive LEGO castles. I would then gather up all the pieces I could, eventually I found Bricklink, ordered more parts, and tried my hand at it. I ended up building my son a giant blue/yellow Castle with multiple floors that he could play with. That started it all. Interestingly, I have not built another castle since then, as I found other themes through Flickr LEGO groups.

Did you have a Dark Age? If so, what got you out of it?

Despite the medieval era often being referred to as the Dark Ages, in fact it is the LEGO Castle theme that actually brought me out of the Dark Ages. Having been inspired by Castle builders on MOCPages, I started looking into collecting some ’80s/’90s era Castle figures and pieces. I found a website called Bricklink in June of 2012 and as an impulse bought a little old vintage Castle set 6049 (Viking Voyage) as I love those era Castle figures. Shortly after that I bought some secondhand ’80s era Castle Sets, and as they say, the rest is history.

Miro Dudas:

Star Wars Character Builder!

Interview by Joe Meno Photos by Miro Dudas

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You Can Build It Midiscale Leia Design and Instructions

by Miro Dudas

Miro Dudas’ work in LEGO building includes models and creations in almost every scale, from microscale vehicles to figures that are larger than miniland scale (the scale used at LEGOLand parks). Each of his works are a balance of detail and scale, where the small scale requires minimizing faces and hands, for example.

Miro’s Leia figure is a good example of creating small amounts of detail to define items and form. Leia’s pistol is only a barrel, but it conveys the weapon effectively.

Here, you can build the figure and see what other methods Miro uses to make Leia a recognizable character in this scale. It’s a complex but rewarding build, so have fun!

Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color) ty Q 2 2 2 10 7 1 2 3 1 3 9 6 1

Part 2420.dat 2429.dat 2430.dat 3002.dat 3004.dat 3005.dat 3010.dat 3020.dat 3021.dat 3022.dat 3023.dat 3024.dat 3039.dat

Color White White White White White White White White White White White White White

Description Plate 2 x 2 Corner Hinge Plate 1 x 4 Base Hinge Plate 1 x 4 Top Brick 2 x 3 Brick 1 x 2 Brick 1 x 1 Brick 1 x 4 Plate 2 x 4 Plate 2 x 3 Plate 2 x 2 Plate 1 x 2 Plate 1 x 1 Slope Brick 45 2 x 2

ty Q 1 4 7 2 4 1 3

Part 3040b.dat 3045.dat 3069b.dat 3070b.dat 3623.dat 3660.dat 3678b.dat

3

3684c.dat White

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3685.dat

White

3 1 2 2

3710.dat 3795.dat 4286.dat 4733.dat

White White White White

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4865a.dat White

2

6091.dat

White

3 4 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 2

11215.dat 11477.dat 15068.dat 18653.dat 24299.dat 24307.dat 30099.dat 43722.dat 43723.dat 47457.dat

White White White White White White White White White White

4 2 1 2 1 2 2

50746.dat 60478.dat 60481.dat 61678.dat 63864.dat 87087.dat 87580.dat

White White White White White White White

1 1 1 3 2 3 6 1 2

93273.dat 93606.dat 3020.dat 3021.dat 3022.dat 3023.dat 3024.dat 3710.dat 3794a.dat

White White Reddish Brown Reddish Brown Reddish Brown Reddish Brown Reddish Brown Reddish Brown Reddish Brown

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4032a.dat Reddish Brown

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4070.dat

2 6

4073.dat 6091.dat

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Color White White White White White White White

Reddish Brown

Description Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 Double Convex Tile 1 x 2 with Groove Tile 1 x 1 with Groove Plate 1 x 3 Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 Inverted Slope Brick 65 2 x 2 x 2 with Centre Tube Slope Brick 75 2 x 2 x 3 with Solid Studs Slope Brick 75 2 x 2 x 3 Double Convex Plate 1 x 4 Plate 2 x 6 Slope Brick 33 3 x 1 Brick 1 x 1 with Studs on Four Sides Panel 1 x 2 x 1 with Square Corners Brick 2 x 1 x 1 & 1/3 with Curved Top Bracket 5 x 2 x 1.333 Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 Slope Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 0.667 Arch 1 x 3 x 2 Inverted Wing 2 x 2 Left Wing 2 x 2 Right Arch 1 x 5 x 4 Inverted Wing 2 x 3 Right Wing 2 x 3 Left Slope Brick Curved 2 x 2 x 2/3 Triple with Two Top Studs Slope Brick 31 1 x 1 x 0.667 Plate 1 x 2 with Handle on End Slope Brick 65 2 x 1 x 2 Slope Brick Curved 4 x 1 Tile 1 x 3 with Groove Brick 1 x 1 with Stud on 1 Side Plate 2 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud Slope Brick Curved 4 x 1 Double Slope Brick Curved 4 x 2 Plate 2 x 4 Plate 2 x 3 Plate 2 x 2 Plate 1 x 2 Plate 1 x 1 Plate 1 x 4 Plate 1 x 2 without Groove with 1 Centre Stud Plate 2 x 2 Round with Axlehole Type 1 Brick 1 x 1 with Headlight

Reddish Brown ~Moved to 6141 Reddish Brown Brick 2 x 1 x 1 & 1/3 with Curved Top 11477.dat Reddish Brown Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 14769.dat Reddish Brown Tile 2 x 2 Round with Round Underside Stud

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You Can Build It

Mini TIE Echelon

Design and Instructions

by Christopher Deck

Hello everybody, and welcome to another mini model building session! In accordance with the special Star Wars issue of BrickJournal, we will develop a special Star Wars model on the following pages: The TIE Echelon. This hybrid of a TIE Starfighter and a space transport is part of Disney’s theme “Galaxy’s Edge.” It also appears in the related comic series with the same name. The ship’s shape shares similarities with transports like the Zeta-class shuttle as seen in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and TIE fighter characteristics like the typical solar panels.

The sleek looking craft features a lot of SNOT techniques which make the following instructions a real pleasure to build. The inner spine of the ship consists of four old SNOT bricks which are around for almost 35 years. Piece 4595 is often used for space guns, robots or cameras and allows attachments from all sides. It is also flat enough to align two of them side by side, which is not possible with the standard SNOT 1x1 brick with studs on four sides (part 4733).

Another highlight is the inverted cockpit using a large 3x4 wedge piece attached studs-down. It is covered with inverted tiles to camouflage its orientation. We can now add a thin cockpit glass and a 1x2x2/3 slope studs-down to obtain a cockpit tapering from three directions. For the solar panels you will need the newer 2x2 and 4x6 wedge plates besides the common 2x3 and 3x6 ones.

With that, you should be able to complete your own TIE Echelon! I wish you happy building and will hopefully see you next time!

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Parts List (Parts can be ordered from Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color)

TIE Echelon Main Body Qty Color

Part

1 2 1 4 4

Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray

99780.dat 87087.dat 3004.dat 2877.dat 4595.dat

4 2 1 1 2 4 1 1 2 1 1

Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Trans-Lt-Blue Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Trans-Black Lt-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray

2 1 1 2 1 2 1 14 2 4 2 2 2 1

Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray

1 2

Lt-Bluish-Gray Dk-Bluish-Gray

TIE Echelon Wings

Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up Brick 1 x 1 with Stud on 1 Side Brick 1 x 2 Brick 1 x 2 with Grille Brick 1 x 2 x 0.667 with Studs on Sides 3010.dat Brick 1 x 4 3009.dat Brick 1 x 6 u8300.dat Clikits Ring 30367c.dat Cylinder 2 x 2 with Dome Top 3024.dat Plate 1 x 1 6019.dat Plate 1 x 1 with Clip Horizontal 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 3023.dat Plate 1 x 2 60470a.dat Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Clips Horizontal 3839b.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Handles Type 2 3794b.dat Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud 3022.dat Plate 2 x 2 3021.dat Plate 2 x 3 3795.dat Plate 2 x 6 61409.dat Slope Brick 18 2 x 1 x 0.667 Grille 85984.dat Slope Brick 31 1 x 2 x 0.667 4286.dat Slope Brick 33 3 x 1 3298.dat Slope Brick 33 3 x 2 92946.dat Slope Plate 45 2 x 1 3070b.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Groove 24246.dat Tile 1 x 1 with Rounded End 3069b.dat Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 3068b.dat Tile 2 x 2 with Groove 11203.dat Tile 2 x 2 Inverted with Groove 4150.dat Tile 2 x 2 Round with Cross Underside Stud 50373.dat Wedge 3 x 4 with Stud Notches 45677.dat Wedge 4 x 4 x 0.667 Curved

Qty Color 4 Lt-Bluish-Gray

Part 577b.dat

12 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2540.dat 3666.dat 3020.dat 3795.dat 24299.dat 24307.dat 43723.dat 43722.dat 54384.dat 54383.dat 48208.dat 48205.dat

Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black

Description

Description Minifig Ltsaber Hilt with Bottom Ring Plate 1 x 2 with Handle Plate 1 x 6 Plate 2 x 4 Plate 2 x 6 Wing 2 x 2 Left Wing 2 x 2 Right Wing 2 x 3 Left Wing 2 x 3 Right Wing 3 x 6 Left Wing 3 x 6 Right Wing 4 x 6 Left Wing 4 x 6 Right

Building Minifigure Customization 101:

One Magical Hat

Article and Photography by Jared K. Burks

Inspirational art for Mickey. Mickey Mouse TM & © Disney.

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A custom figure comes from many inspirations, but on occasion it is as simple as the correct accessory, in this case a magical hat. I was digging through the Build-A-Figure in the Houston Galleria LEGO store looking for rare hair pieces. Yes, most target the Pick-A-Brick (PAB) wall, but I target the Build-A-Figure. This is when I stumbled across several pieces in dark blue, specifically a wizard hat, torso, and the new lower body skirt. I knew instantly who this was supposed to be: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

From my research, specifically Wiki, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was released in 1940, and represented Walt Disney’s boldest experiment to date, bringing to life Walt Disney’s vision of blending animated imagery with classical music. This film was designed to enhance Mickey Mouse, who had declined in popularity, and created a unique film in the history of animation. As Walt Disney settled on the film’s concept, production costs grew higher than what the film could earn. Thus Walt Disney decided to include the short in a feature-length film with other segments set to classical pieces. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound reproduction

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Mark Mancuso:

Making an Iconic Mosiac!

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LEGO displays have been at sci-fi conventions for a few years now. While the biggest presence for LEGO is at Comic-Con International: San Diego, with lifesize (and sometimes largerthan-life) sculptures, other events have let LEGO fan groups display and participate. One of these conventions is the Denver Pop Culture Con, held annually in Colorado. This year, vol#59 unteers from theBRICKJOURNAL Colorado/Wyoming STAR WARS THEMED BUILDERS! Travel to a galaxy far, LEGO Users andSTAR, the far away Group with JACOB(COWLUG) NEIL CARPENTER’S DEATH work of MIRI DUDAS, and the LEGO® photography of JAMES Denver LEGO Users Group (DENPHILIPPART! Plus “AFOLs” by GREG HYLAND, “You Can Build It” instructions DECK,build BrickNerd’s DIY Fan LUG) assisted in bya CHRISTOPHER community with TOMMY WILLIAMSON, Minifigure Customization with designedArt by Mancuso.

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The original poster was converted into a mosaic using a combination of various computer software, utilizing a color palette from available LEGO colors. From there, the design was generated and LEGO brick-sourced.

FULL-COLOR magazine) $8.95 The build was (84-page a mosaic rendition of (Digital Edition) $4.95 the Star Wars poster painted by the http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=98_78_166&products_id=1509 Hildebrandt Brothers. Made up of 216 individual 16 stud x 16 stud plates, the mosaic took up 55,296 1x1 bricks