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Issue 73 • May 2022

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

People One Color, 39 Times: An Interview with Caz Mockett............3 You Can Build It: Minifigure Habitat..................................10 Brandon Jones: Building the Monsters, Inc. Door Warehouse.....................................12

Building Eric Law: Harry Potter Ninjago City and Moving Staircase Scene..............21 Paul Sluiters: Building Hot Rods!.................................26 Antoine Huguerre: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad........28 Inez T. Vasquez: Brick Botanist...........................................36 Lance Alderson: Menetheus.................................................40 You Can Build It: MINI Havoc Marauder...........................46 BrickNerd Instructions: Pirate Ship Ride.......................................51 Minifigure Customization 101: RWBY (WIP II)...........................................57

Community RogueBricks Collaborative Project: Adventure Islands..................................62 Bantha Bricks Files: Corey Schaaf’s Resistance Transport.............................66 Community Ads.........................................78 Last Word......................................................79 AFOLs.............................................................80

People

Caz Mockett’s habitats.

Perhaps it’s because so many of us have been locked up in our own little cubes, but LEGO “Minifigure Habitats” have been in the zeitgeist a lot lately. My social media has been full of amazing, creative CMF (Collectible Minifigures) block-mocs this past year.

The first LEGO CMF series was released in 2010, and as early as that year, Eurobricks (a European LEGO fan site and forum) sponsored contests using them in “habitat” vignettes. To the best of our nerd-hivemind research, though, the modern, diagonal, stackable formula for “minifig habitats” came to be in 2016. Pangeran Panda shared his pattern that is based on the design used in the 2016 Olympic Bricks Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, which garnered over one thousand entries in the category competition!

I can’t say whether I’ve seen thousands, but the icing on my habitat cake has been the wonderful series of MONOfigure habitats by Caz Mockett from the UK. Each of the 39 stackable habitats uses LEGO elements of only one color in the LEGO spectrum, with each individual cube involving a wholly unique character and style. Caz has been dropping these stacked gems three at a time on Instagram and Flickr, and now the spectrum is finally complete! On page 9 is a photo of Caz and her MOCs to give you a sense of scale.

One Color, 39 Times: An Interview with Caz Mockett Article by Gwyneth Kozbial Photography by Caz Mockett This interview first appeared on BrickNerd.com on May 18, 2021. It is presented here with permission.

Caz was gracious enough to answer some of my burning questions about her series. Jump on board this tour of her brick-built habitats!

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Gwyneth Kozbial: Thanks for chatting with BrickNerd!

When did you come up with the idea to create monochrome habitats? Was there a specific instance that caused the “spark”?

Habitats under construction; substitute colors fill in for parts under order, giving these a color patchwork look.

Caz Mockett: About two years ago, I saw a video of a huge collaborative Habitats display at an Australian LEGO convention. It had many different habitats, which provided great inspiration—including some for monofigures. At the time, I had no intention of collecting any myself, but I never really forgot about the habitats I had seen.

When I finally succumbed to the monofigure bug, I had already been building habitats for many other minifigures, so it just seemed like the natural extension to do monocolour builds for myself. I didn’t see it ending up with 39 and counting when I started!

I think we’ve all had projects or collections snowball like that. Did you normally collect monofigures?

I had been resisting for some time, knowing how expensive some of them could be. But being a fan of all things colourful, eventually I cracked!

Does this use your entire collection, or are there alternate figures that might show up in Round Two? Round Two!? Please, no! I have ideas for a small handful of new colours, but at present, the minifigures are not able to be completed yet, as the parts in the right colours don’t exist. I keep my hopes up though because LEGO is releasing new elements all the time—the torso/arms and new hairpiece in Vibrant Coral from the new VIDIYO sets are just some examples.

Are all of these pieces original LEGO? (Or are any Brasso-ed?)

They are all genuine LEGO pieces, but it is impossible to build some monofigures without removing the prints.

Brasso is definitely a great help to do this in the kindest way to the plastic.

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People

The Door Warehouse.

Brandon Jones:

Building the Monsters, Inc. Door Warehouse!

Article and Photography

by Brandon Jones

One of the most striking scenes in the movie Monsters, Inc. begins when Sully and Mike ride a door to the door warehouse, where thousands of doors are kept for monsters to open for scaring the children on the other side. The setting looks endless, with racks of hung doors as far as the eye can see. For most builders, this would be a subject best left alone, but not Brandon Jones. In 2021, he unveiled his build of the Door Warehouse at BrickCon, a LEGO fan convention in Seattle, Washington!

Brandon has been building since he was a young child in the early ’70s. Originally, he focused on Classic Space, but he adapted as the theme matured and diversified.

By the time he was in his late twenties, Brandon had less and less time for building and his collection found a place in the back of a closet and was rarely played with. This changed when he wanted to take out the LEGO and play, and his wife at the time wanted to have a Halloween party.

They compromised and held a LEGO Halloween party, where all the bins were out and their adult friends came

in costume to play and have fun. This became an annual tradition that Brandon and his son continue today.

Mike Wazowski makes an appearance.

Having a dedicated time of the year to build really kept the creativity and love of the brick alive for him. Once Brandon discovered BrickCon (held on the first weekend of October), everything moved to a whole new level and LEGO is now a year-round activity in the house. Often the dining room table hosts a work-in-progress or piles of LEGO, which makes for great dinner conversation.

LEGO building also guided Brandon’s career direction. He worked as an electrician for high-end custom homes for over 20 years, but shifted careers in 2011 to teach STEM and robotic programs to elementary kids using LEGO. LEGO building has become such a passion for him, he’s finding creative ways to pay the bills while working parttime teaching after-school enrichment, home school, and summer camps, while sharing his love of LEGO and doling out knowledge along the way.

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Building

Eric Law’s Harry Potter themed Ninjago City.

Eric Law’s

A quidditch game area.

Harry Potter Ninjago City and Moving Staircase Scene Article and Photography by Eric Law Building big things is something Eric Law does often. For ten years, he has been building—he was inspired to build when he was disappointed that LEGO only made one modular building a year. With his kid’s bricks, he built his own and kept going. His favorite themes are Marvel, Ninjago, Modulars, and Harry Potter. It’s the last theme mentioned that he has done the most, though.

Eric built two layouts based on Harry Potter that were displayed at BrickCon 2021. The first one was Harry Potter Ninjago City and was inspired by a community build at another LEGO fan event in Canada, BrickCan 2018. There, 30 builders collaborated on making a Ninjago themed layout. Eric originally wanted to make a Harry Potter themed Ninjago City block, but then Covid hit and he found himself suddenly with a strange combo: Time, bricks, and wine.

With those, he kept on building the city bigger and bigger.

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The other layout was the moving staircase scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Originally, the layout was going to be part of a collaborative build and was going to be a scene from the Battle of Hogwarts from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. However, Eric decided to leave the group and found himself with a cool-looking build that wasn’t completed. After thinking about it for a few minutes, he figured the only way to save the build was to do the moving staircase from the first movie.

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Building

Antoine Huguerre’s

The Disney theme parks have been inspirations for many LEGO builders. With the LEGO Group releasing Cinderella Castle and the Disney Railroad sets, it’s a logical step to build other attractions. For Antione Huguerre, his inspiration was Disneyland Paris’ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. The rollercoaster shares the name with three other coasters in Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland, but has a different layout that actually goes under a river! Antoine’s build not only matches the layout, but also runs a LEGO rollercoaster on the ride track.

Article and Photography

by Antoine Huguerre The entire layout, which takes up two tables.

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The entrance queue building.

Antoine is a builder that came back from a Dark Age—he got his first LEGO set as a Christmas gift in 1998: the Patriot Jet (#6331). He was only five years old, and he continued to build until he was 15. At that time, he sold his collection and didn’t return to building until 2017 when he bought all the Angry Birds sets and the modular Parisian Restaurant. In 2019, Antoine joined his first LEGO Users Group “Brisy” to begin his AFOL experience.

Additionally, he made the coaster work, which is a notable achievement because, as he learned, making a rollercoaster is hard because the system is not stable. Making the coaster run made the build even more satisfying!

Antoine’s future plans include building more of the park. The build he is currently working on in fact, is Disneyland Paris’s version of the Haunted Mansion: Phantom Manor.

While it is only a virtual model at this time, it follows the advice he has for fellow builders: “Build something, chose a theme that makes you happy to play with, or gives you pleasure to build. You never have to be frustrated playing with LEGO, it still is a leisure activity! If you decide to realize a huge MOC, don’t be in a hurry, it will definitely be a long journey! So enjoy all the moments.

Antoine’s modified train station.

“If you understand this, a world of possibilities lay in your hands to create a really fulfilling build for you.”

And in the planning stages: Phantom Manor.

You can see more of Antoine’s work on Instagram:@disneyrecreation and on Facebook: @disneyrecreation.

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Building

Inez’ Raffesia leonardi.

Inez T. Vasquez:

Brick Botanist Article and Photography

by Inez T. Vasquez

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Inez T. Vasquez, a full-time mother and lawyer, started building in 2012, quickly getting into building MOCs a year later. She had always loved LEGO as a child but she never got to build anything of her own because the toys were really expensive in Manila, where she lives. When the Lord of the Rings sets got released, she had a steady job, so she decided to treat herself to a little set (Gandalf Returns - #9469). She loved it so much, she started collecting more LOTR and some Harry Potter sets. From building from instructions, Inez moved on to modifying sets, and eventually went to building her own creations.

Her LUG, the Philippine LEGO Users Group, has always encouraged its members to build MOCs. Inez always loved trees, and was disappointed that LEGO’s trees looked nothing like the real thing. She started building trees and doing landscapes, often for PhLUG’s diorama builds. She began building flowers in 2018, when PhLUG took part in the iMake History Museum. Inez wanted to build something to promote Philippine biodiversity so she built flowers endemic to the Philippines: Rafflesia leonardi and Vanda sandertana (or the Waling Waling). From there she just built more and more flowers.

Building

Lance Alderson’s ship of the line Menetheus.

Lance Alderson’s

Menetheus Article and Photography

by Lance Alderson

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My name is Lance Alderson. I was born in 1993 and am 28 years old. I have held many jobs, but I currently work as a machine Technician making Coca-Cola bottles. Any Coke bottles in the Pacific northwest were made in our plant.

In the strictest sense I have been building for at least the last two decades. As a child I was always building or trying to acquire more Lego to keep building, and it was much the same through my teenage years. When I went off to college I fell into a little bit of a Dark Age and my time to build became almost nonexistent. It has only been in the last two to three years that I have really had the opportunity to get back into building, as I finally have had the space to build on a larger scale. It was at that time that I really dove into ship building.

Stern view.

The draw for me as an adult builder is twofold. First is the challenge of creating objects out of such a unique medium. Bricks are inherently square and lend themselves well to structures with right angles. I find a great deal of joy in assembling the correct combination of bricks to render a gentle curve or complex bend.

The second reason is that LEGO is a fantastic way to go about storytelling. I have always enjoyed seeing scenes where you immediately knew what was going on without anyone having to say a word, and LEGO offers endless possibilities to do so.

It may be unsurprising, but the Pirates theme is my favorite.

I was born in ’93 and missed the original Pirates line. However, a family friend had one or two sets and I was always enamored with them. The potential for exploration and adventure that the theme offered has always caught my imagination. From the discovery of far-off distant lands to pitched battles at sea, there are so many fun stories to dive into.

Almost all the official LEGO pirate ships are just a bit too small for my liking and they never carry nearly enough cannons, so I guess I was inspired to build something just a bit bigger. I wanted to be able to set a minifigure on the deck of a ship and have him be as close to scale as possible.

Stern deck view.

A look at the main mast and rigging.

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You Can Build It MINI Build MINI Havoc Marauder Design and Instructions

by Christopher Deck

Hello everybody and welcome back to one of our popular Star Wars mini modeling session! I am glad to share another model with you! This time we move along in the Star Wars publishing timeline and look at the recent animated television series called Star Wars: The Bad Batch. It picks out a story arc of the animated Clone Wars television series about a particular Clone unit (Clone Force 99), also known as the “Bad Batch.”

The unit’s personal starship is the “Havoc Marauder,” a customized attack shuttle. It is overall a mainly gray design but features similar black wing inlays as you have already seen for TIE fighters, for example. With newer parts like the 2x2 plate with cut corner (part 26601), the short 2x2 wedge plates (parts 24307 and 24229), and the 2x2 triangular tile (part 35787), we manage to create wings that resemble the correct angles but remain relatively flat (two plates high) at the same time. The top fin is covered with the also quite new 2x4 pointed wedge plates (parts 65426 and 65429).

The nose, however, uses a traditional “space wing/nose” (part 4596), a part that dates back to the year 1984! It is still a unique shaped part today and shows how old and new part designs go along together perfectly!

Have fun building, and see you next time!

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

Main Body

Qty Color 2 Lt-Bluish-Gray 1 Lt-Bluish-Gray

Part 99781.dat 44302.dat

2 2 2 1 2

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

3024.dat 32828.dat 3023.dat 32028.dat 3794b.dat

2 4 2 2 4 2 2 1

Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Lt-Bluish-Gray Trans-Lt-Blue Trans-Lt-Blue Lt-Bluish-Gray

48336.dat 3623.dat 3021.dat 85984.dat 11477.dat 3070b.dat 24246.dat 3069b.dat

Description Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Down Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical Plate 1 x 1 Plate 1 x 1 Round with Bar Plate 1 x 2 Plate 1 x 2 with Door Rail Plate 1 x 2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud Plate 1 x 2 with Handle Type 2 Plate 1 x 3 Plate 2 x 3 Slope Brick 31 1 x 2 x 0.667 Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 Tile 1 x 1 with Groove Tile 1 x 1 with Rounded End Tile 1 x 2 with Groove

Parts List

(Parts can be ordered through Bricklink.com by searching by part number and color) Qty Part 1 92582.dat

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Description Hinge Plate 2 x 2 Locking with Single Finger On Top 3024.dat Lt Bluish Grey Plate 1 x 1 3633.dat Lt Bluish Grey Fence Lattice 1 x 4 x 1 4274.dat Lt Bluish Grey Technic Pin 1/2 11477.dat Lt Bluish Grey Slope Brick Curved 2 x 1 18646.dat Lt Bluish Grey Plate 3 x 6 Round Half with 1 x 2 Cutout 32123a.dat Lt Bluish Grey Technic Bush 1/2 Smooth with Axle Hole Reduced 33909.dat Lt Bluish Grey Plate 2 x 2 with 2 Studs on One Edge 44861.dat Lt Bluish Grey Plate 1 x 2 with Single Clip on Top (Thick C-Clip) 63868.dat Black Plate 1 x 2 with Clip Horizontal on End (Thick C-Clip) 6541.dat Md Azure Technic Brick 1 x 1 with Hole 24131.dat Md Azure Figure Friends Party Hat 14769pm3.dat Light Aqua Tile 2 x 2 Round with Round Underside Stud with Water Element Pattern 24866.dat Light Aqua Plate 1 x 1 with 5 Petals 3031.dat Bright Green Plate 4 x 4 22888.dat Bright Green Plate 4 x 8 Round Semicircle 3024.dat Pearl Gold Plate 1 x 1 32828.dat Pearl Gold Plate 1 x 1 Round with Bar 2412b.dat Reddish Brown Tile 1 x 2 Grille with Groove 4871.dat Reddish Brown Slope Brick 45 4 x 2 Double Inverted with Open Centre 27928.dat Reddish Brown Plate 2 x 2 with One Stud with Cut Corners and Raised Tab 41682.dat Reddish Brown Bracket 2 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up Centred 44302a.dat Reddish Brown Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical with Groove on Short Side 99780.dat Reddish Brown Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 2 Up 3069b.dat Red Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 20482.dat White Tile 1 x 1 Round with Pin and Pin Hole 23443.dat White Bar Tube with Handle

1 4

30374.dat 32126.dat

White White

4

37762.dat

White

4

78258.dat

White

4 2 2 4 2 1 2 4 1 1 1 1 7 2 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1

1 2 1

Color Dark Red

Bar 4L Lightsaber Blade Technic Connector Toggle Joint Smooth Cylinder 1 x 1.333 with 0.5L Bar and Bar Hole Bar 2L with Stop Ring

Pirate Ship Ride Design and Instructions by the BrickNerd Team

Going to an amusement park is always one of the most thrilling adventures as a kid. The fantastic sights, the smells of popcorn and cotton candy in the air, the sounds of screaming thrill-seekers.

One of the more memorable and iconic rides from many amusement parks is the pirate ship ride that rocks back and forth like a ship on the waves. The BrickNerd team has designed a small version of this rocking ride, complete with a mini ticket stand, a ship that swings, and a ride logo!

Don’t miss the new 2L bars being used to help hang the ship or the well-placed grille tiles used to make tiny portholes. You can even change the printed tile to theme the pirate ship ride to whatever you want. How fun!

This was a fun little model to design—we hope you’ll enjoy building it just as much as we did designing it!

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Building

Ruby with her Crescent Rose (in progress). RWBY TM & © Rooster Teeth.

Minifig Customization 101:

Article by Jared K. Burks Well, when you start a project, it can be easy to underestimate how long such a project is going to take you, and then reality sets in and the plan gets adapted— or as Taylor Swift has stated, “Just because you made a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.”

Today I am going to share with you the progress on my Team RWBY figures. Most of the effort has been spent in working on their accessories; weapons, hair, designing cloth, etc.

Just to recap, RWBY, pronounced “Ruby,” is an American anime influenced computer animated web series created

by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. RWBY is set in the fictional world of Remnant, which is composed of four kingdoms plagued by malevolent creatures known as the "Creatures of Grimm." The individuals fighting these

creatures are known as Huntsmen and Huntresses and typically work in teams. The central team of the series is Team RWBY, is composed of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna (of the half-human, half-animal Faunus race), and Ruby’s half-sister Yang Xiao Long. Please see the prior article in the series for more details, or hit your favorite search engine and look up RWBY. In the previous article I had a first draft of Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee constructed. However, each of these figures featured some aspects I was not satisfied with and continue to work on at the moment. I have also started working on Blake Belladonna and have started to design Yang Xiao Long.

Ruby Rose Previously I had created a Ruby figure by constructing the Figure Art, a modified LEGO hair piece, a custom Scarf/ Hood, custom skirt, custom weapon (Crescent Rose) and repurposed a cape from the Scarlet Witch CMS. I was reasonably happy with this effort, but I have three flawed areas I wanted to continue to address. The biggest issue was her weapon, the Crescent Rose. This is a large and dynamic scythe; the version in the article is one I found on Thangs 3D Models (Thangs.com). The other points I was still working on were the red part colors, basically the painted parts and her red cape (not red at all, it’s dark red). Having a more consistent color of red is critical as every character was named and designed around a central color, and Ruby’s is the color red, so this has to be right.

The Crescent Rose.

Ruby’s hood in progress.

I started by creating my own version of the Crescent Rose in Fusion 360. This has allowed me to control sizes throughout the scythe to allow Ruby to interact with the weapon at several different points around the weapon.

This is critical as she spins, twists, rides, and throws the weapon in several ways and I want the playability to allow for those actions. Given the limitations of the LEGO hand, I also have to place two handholds off the side of the weapon to allow for posing, specifically the icon pose of her standing with the Crescent Rose behind her. The desire to replicate that specific pose is the whole reason for the second grip.

In order to address the hood and skirt painting, I needed a different resin; at the time of the last article I only had grey and black. I needed to use white resin so that the base color wouldn’t affect the hue of red paint. This was merely a reprinting of the hood in white resin, which was then painted with VHT Red Vinyl Dye. This worked effectively and allowed for a very even and brighter red hue. I took a different path for the skirt because I had previously created the skirt as one piece and adding the red required very careful brush skills. If I were to merely print it in white, I would now need to paint both the red and the black, making the masking even more critical. Therefore, I separated the skirt layers into individual parts, which will allow me to print the top in black and the bottom in red.

Once printed this way, I can spray the bottom with red, just as I have the hood giving a great color match to the two parts.

Weiss Schnee Ruby’s skirt as two parts.

For Weiss I had constructed the Figure Art, created a custom hair piece, a custom skirt, and a custom weapon (Myrtenaster). I was reasonably happy with this effort aside from the terrible skirt paint job, but I did have a few other flaws I still wanted to address. The biggest issue was her hair; it was too small and had cracked, on top of being the wrong color. This was easily rectified by getting the white resin and scaling the hair piece design. The skirt solution described above can also be used to help the Weiss’ skirt, but the color of the top skirt will still present a challenge and I have not solved that issue at this time.

The final issue was the color of her weapon Myrternaster, which needed to be printed in grey resin to make it the appropriate color.

3D printed Myrternaster progression.

Weiss Schnee with Myrternaster (in progress).

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Community

RogueBricks Collaborative Project:

Adventure Islands

Article by Johannes Haimann/Vaionaut Administrator & vice ambassador of RogueBricks www.flickr.com/vaionaut One of the largest exhibitions in the German-speaking countries is the annual Bricking Bavaria, which is organized by the LUG of the same name from Munich. Since our LUG RogueBricks does not organize its own exhibition, we have joined the Bricking Bavaria exhibition for years, exhibiting our models there and using the event as a meeting place for our otherwise mainly online active community.

This year the exhibition was held together with the “Faszination Modellbau” (fascination of model building), an exhibition of model builders and dealers in railroading, RC aircraft and boats, in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance in Germany.

Markus Rollbühler’s island.

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Corey Schaaf’s

corey schaaf

Resistance Transport

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Article by Steven Smyth, Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars Photography by Corey Schaaf Galactic greetings! I’m Steven Smyth from Bantha Bricks: Fans of LEGO Star Wars.

Since the community’s founding in 2016, on an almost daily basis, I have witnessed amazing and creative Star Wars builds in the best Star Wars themed building brick group on Facebook. Corey Schaaf is one such builder with a unique minifigure scale Resistance Troop Transport from the Star Wars sequel films and other media.

I thought it would be fun to spend a little time checking out this build and getting to know the person behind this awesome ship construction!

SS: How’s it going Corey? I know you have quite a following with the members of the Bantha Bricks group, you have shared some amazing MOCs (My Own Creations), but for the uninitiated, please introduce yourself and tell us a little about what you do.

CS: Hey Steve! Thank you so much for the opportunity to share my MOC with the Bantha Bricks and the BrickJournal community. I am 44 years old and I work as a User Experience/Web Designer. I am happily married with a wonderful wife who supports my passion for LEGO. I am also the proud father of two amazing children who love to create and play with LEGO just like their dad. In fact, it is because of my son’s Christmas present that I re-engaged with LEGO and rekindled an old passion.

Would you say Star Wars is your favorite theme? Or do you have a shocker for us?

Star Wars is definitely a favorite of mine. I was born in 1977, just a few months after the first Star Wars film was released. While too young to fully appreciate the cinematography of the time, some of my earliest memories included dueling lightsaber battles between a young Luke Skywalker and Lord Vader.

As a child I also remember dumping large tubs of LEGO all over the floor. My brother and I would build whatever our little imaginations could think of. Star Wars was a huge influence on many of our builds—here comes the shocker, we often built LEGO bases for our GI Joe, Cobra and Star Wars action figures. There were some pretty epic battles between Cobra and the Empire. As I grew older my love for creating things evolved, but my love for Star Wars never faded.

Data File: Resistance Transport The Resistance Transport was first seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the transport of General Leia Organa. Basically a patchwork ship, it has a weapons pod, a transport module, and a cockpit pod that was repurposed and modified from a B-Wing Mark II. The transport can carry 20 troops and, while armed with a laser cannon, is usually escorted by fighters.

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During college, I still sets from time to time, CLICK THEpurchased LINK TO ORDER THIS always from theINStar Wars I would not ISSUE PRINT ORfranchise, DIGITAL but FORMAT! have considered myself an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) until December of 2019. My son was given almost 40 pounds of LEGO from his grandmother as a Christmas present. My wife and I took on the monumental task of sorting all the parts so we could more easily put sets together. While searching for a place to buy parts for some of the sets, I stumbled upon Papaglop’s Razorcrest and Mirko Soppelsa’s TS-Project. I had never put someone else’s MOC together and the fact that both of them created instructions for their builds was mind blowing to me. I wanted to learn how to do that myself! Building those first two MOCs were the sparks that led me down the path to creating MOC-BW2001: The Resistance Troop Transport BRICKJOURNAL #73 Ship.

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The rear of the transport.

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