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Now you can humm the Star Wars theme here. There's no chance at all that I can afford to use it.
Hello, and welcome to Swedish AFOLS first of many Star Wars episodes.
Star Wars is one of LEGO's most popular franchises with numerous official set that is loved around the world.
But also an incredibly popular category to build Mocs out of.
Wow!
Aaaaaaaoo!!
As you can see, I know very little about Star Wars.
But fortunately, there are many others that know almost everything.
One of them is Robert Lundmark.
I am Robert Lundmark. 41 years old, from Skelleftea.
I'm here at the Klossfestivalen in Örebro as a LEGO builder for the first time on a big event like this.
I'm actually quite new to the LEGO world.
I had no idea that there was this much stuff and there were so many adult builders.
I have built Lego for 4 years now and thought for 2 first 2 years that I was alone in the world to build LEGO as an adult.
So I built stuff at home for my own pleasure.
And when I discovered this world, it was great fun.
So for 4 years now I have built some creations. Above all, Star Wars-inspired.
I started building Lego when I pulled off my Achilles tendon in a floorball game ...
... and had so boring at home that I felt I needed something to do to not die from boredom.
So I started to build with my sons Lego.
And it became Star Wars creations. I've loved Star Wars since I was little.
So it seemed natural.
And these builds that I have with me here are Star Wars creations from different eras ...
... and from various movies. And most of what I have built is on a large scale.
Because I think it's fun to be able to get as much detail as possible.
This is Rey's Speeder from The Force Awakens movie.
That was relased 2 years ago.
It was a creation that I was eager because I think it has such cool design.
And it was exciting to find out if I could create these round shapes ...
... which it is composed out of.
It all started when I found this big round piece in front here at the grill.
And I thought, hmmm this piece I could use as a starting point to get to that round shape.
So that might be the start of what would become the whole model.
That peice decided the scale, one might say.
And that is usually how a creation starts for me.
I start with a piece that I feel would suit a particular purpose.
Then that will decide how big it will be. And much has become very large.
What is special about this creation is that it is built all around in all directions.
It looks the same on the bottom as at the top.
And all the way around.
And therefore I have used a lot of techniques to get this together on all sides.
There is a core in the middle with studs in all directions.
Then I have been able to dress the core in these different forms.
A fun thing that many like about this creation is this net that Rey collects scrap in.
It is an old old piratenet that I had.
Well it's my little brothers, which he had in a pirate set when he was little.
As I have braided together to form a larger net and built some scrap.
Another fun thing with this is that it turned out to be ...
...when this MOC ended up on the LEGO Ideas there were alot of the people who asked if the buildable Rey figure...
... buildable LEGO figure. If it would fit in scale with the Speeder.
And it does indeed and it is just a happy coincidence.
It was nothing I had planned.
But I've actually tried to put Rey on and running and it just fit in size.
And to practice to build in LDD to be able go make instructions ...
... I also built a mini scale version with only 40 pieces.
So we have a jumbo version with 2,000 pieces.
And we have a mini version with 40-50 pieces.
And that is something I've realised the fun in just the last few months ...
... how much fun it can be to build small too.
I have built big for years but to build small and the recognizable ...
... and smart small solutions. It is just as fun.
So I'll build more small models in the future.
Another MOC, one of my newer creations is Jabba that we have here on his throne.
A pretty fun mix of different techniques.
I built the base digital first, this throne, to avoid having to order many wrong parts.
Previously when I've built stuff I have ordered after how I thought I would build.
Then while I was waiting for the order for a few weeks I have time to change my mind ...
... and so I get a lot of pieces of mail that I won't need.
So therefore I build the base of the LDD and it fairly easily built.
Jabba the other hand, is far from simple built. It is rather twisty.
Also built in every direction all the way around.
I started building it in the blue plates to create the rounded shapes in all directions.
Then I've simply dressed the blue Jabba, as it was from the beginning, ...
... in olive green, and this light beige color.
Just to save pieces of useful colors.
So Jabba is blue inside.
It could be a tip, if you have a lot of pieces in colors that you do not think you will get the use of ...
... building the interior with them. Build the construction with those pieces.
So I did with Jabba, and then I got rid of some blue and I could dress it with the right colors.
What's fun with Jabba except that it is round in all directions is that I've had to build the entire face upside down.
The lower jaw and lower lip stuck in the body.
But then they sit here jaws and upwards ...
... they sit in technicpins here and then the whole face built up and down and tilted into the head.
Just to get the proper shape of the upper lip here.
It is an upside down build simply.
My name is Bernd Zieger called. I have not built with LEGO for 20 years ...
... but when the kids got their own models, I have also started to interest me a little.
That is actually one of the first models, which I bought for myself as a Christmas present.
The Super Star Destroyer that LEGO did.
But I felt it was so boring and missing at least half so I thought that I can do it better.
And that is the result.
So it became twice as long as the original with quite a number of LEDs in it.
I think it came out good.
And the Death Star came afterwards.
It was the same there. I have the original, but I think that is too gray.
And it does not have at least half of the pieces.
So I had to build my own and that's the way it is.
The Death Star was actually faster to build than you thought.
I built the skeleton with Lego Digital Designer. And the overlying parts.
But then it took a while to find all links inside so it really was round.
Here, the laser has an integrated LED for each single gray dot.
Which then lit up a small transparent rod.
And here at the head, I did something that I'm actually not very proud of.
I had to glue together the pieces of the tip.
For I did not come up with another way to get them to stick together.
But that's a whole other thing.
A little glue can be used. Now and then.
But actually not.
It actually became quite heavy. It weighs around 15 or 16 kilos.
And it is built in sections.
All these three wings, this three-piece wing, it can be removed.
So it's 20 up here, 20 down here. So that you can transport it easily.
You can take apart the bottom and the top half.
To fairly easily transport it safely in the car.
A bit messy on the inside. Quite a few cables.
But it need not be so neat for it is not visible from outside.
Most things can actually be removed.
Here is also a small coat.
With a small handle, so you can move it occasionally.
But as I said, it's quite wobbly and it can't handle much.
Personally, I think all these cracks and gaps, they're still too big.
So I do not like it very much myself.
And to build round is a misery. I think in retrospect, so I will not do it again.
There were many times I thought about just overturn it and do other things with the blocks.
Because I got tired of that I did not get it together as I wanted.
All gaps and stuff you see. It was not quite as I thought.
Or as I thought.
But people like it anyway.
And now it lives in the waiting room of my dentist's office.
And patients like it also.
They ask very often who is the wierdo that built it, and yes, it was me.
So it is a good topic of conversation. A conversation starters as they say.
Advanced build tip
What we are going to look at now is a bit of a gold treasure for many.
But for some others, it is a big no when it comes to taking apart a LEGO piece.
Then it these here bricks with the tubes in.
The once that fits with the older wheels that many have.
Now it is so that those pieces sit very well together.
So what you need to do is to break them. It should be possible to remove the transparent piece if you are careful ...
... and pick them out. But it is very complicated. So the easiest way for many people to break them.
But what happens if you take them apart is that you get the tubes that are inside.
For what is so great about those little tubes is that they fit perfectly into them here tube holes.
So you take one and press down into another brick. Press it in like this.
For when it is here, since it fits perfectly ...
... is that you can do that with 2 bricks. So then we take another brick.
And hey presto, we turn the pieces to each other.
What is a solution that is often missing when that type of piece are not among ordinary LEGO bricks.
But it will be achieved by taking them apart this old.
Actually, it is both OK and not OK.
It's OK because it is LEGO's own original pieces.
But taking them apart is by many not consider as OK. But I think it's more OK not OK.
Anyway I wanted to show it to you and hope you will enjoy using it.
So this is a model of a Super Star Destroyer.
There is a similar model from Lego that has about 3400 pieces.
But it lacks light and bricks on the bottom.
It is therefore far less detailed, and is about half as long as this one.
And when I got the original, I thought that it was missing alot.
And so I wondered if I could supplement it with other bricks ...
... or with other LEDs but I could not think of a really good way so I had to build my own.
My own model and I did not think that it would be this big and long, but it came out that way.
You can actually disassemble so you can transport it.
The wings can be taken off. Both the top and bottom.
So you can put everything in the car.
You just lift it off. So you can see the whole size of it.
It measures actually almost 2 meters.
From tip to toe.
This is also pretty messy on the inside. There are a lot of cables there.
There is a small LED in every single round brick.
And there are a total of 156 LEDs in the motors only.
So there is also more than 100 diodes here in the upper part that lights up all this.
And sometimes they hide themselves here under other components.
Here I had to modify another technicplate that were already pierced.
These 3mm thick LEDs fit perfectly in from the back.
So they can light up one of these small part.
And everything is built in sections. Thus, one can remove this rear portion.
For example, to easily transport it in a appropriate box in the car.
And the same thing here in the middle. This is loose. Simply remove the cable.
This whole back part can be removed.
It sits a bit loose.
It's not to play with, but it looks good anyway.
If you look straight above you can see that there are details everywhere inside the houses or ...
... that you can not see if you stand one meter away.
It's such nice depth one can say.
So it's not just a few bricks that have been placed there on a single plate.
It retracts everywhere.
I think that came out really nice.
Then the men can also enjoy a little bit. Like if they have a messy day at work they can get a little calmer lighting.
Then they get a little green light.
And when they go out to fight, I give them red.
And they get a little more action.
Or hey can get a little disco light too. Cause that is available.
To make it easier to transport, it is built in sections.
You can take off the wings. Both the 2 on top and the 2 on the bottom.
They are only locked by these little druid arms.
And then it is built in sections.
There is a large section up here.
A smaller one up here.
It is very easily removed for transport in a box.
This whole back end can taken off for transporting it from A to B.
My name is Sergio Jaensson, nickname sergio.jaensson on Swebricks forum.
And I have built a Star Wars scene from Episode six.
It's about when the emperor comes to the Death Star and monitor the construction.
Hence the name Emepror's Arrives.
It started when I had a couple of the older model of the Storm Trooper when I was little.
Then I got the idea to make a large model.
It is a brief scene in the film but a very important one.
So I felt that I was gonna do it in large format.
And thought I will work hard.
I go all in and do it as big as I can.
It has taken a very long time but it was worth it.
I have worked with 48x48 base plates.
There is 6 pieces in the width and 5 pieces in depth.
Total Pieces, I have not really track but roughly 75.000 pieces.
Only the floor is 16.855 black tiles, mixed 1x4 and 1x2.
The most difficult with the build has been the economy from time to time ...
...because I've got sidetracked & bought USC models...
... and then the construction has stopped with obtaining figures and other parts.
One of the most difficult challenges was finding the right ship that perfectly fit into the set.
Because the scene does not contain any ship whatsoever.
But I thought that as a MOC model it will look very dull and flat if I don't have anything that stands out.
So then I chose to use Tie Fighters which is a great icon for Star Wars.
Obviously I have Darth Vader's ship.
I thought that was obvious.
Also an old model named Tie Bomber.
But when I put up all the Tie Fighter there was very poor visibility.
Because you did not see what happened behind.
And then I got to figure how I would solve it.
A thought was that I rebuild Tie Fighter wings from the official set to ...
... so I rebuilt the wings into a Tie Interceptor.
The Imperial Shuttle is a USC version.
Nothing unique about it.
I felt it was very good to use in this.
Very good scale, compared to the minifigures.
The walls that you see are produced by Swebrick.
From an old TIE Fighter Hangar.
I do not know what year it was made.
It was originally a Community Builds.
Which I like it very much when it comes to creating hangar walls.
In the start I thought the hangar walls was very small compared to the Shuttle that was very high.
So I had to raise the building 9 bricks high.
It takes quite some time to take down the build and assemble it again.
It takes about 3 hours to take down, if not more sometimes.
But it is quite easy to pull everything apart.
I have a lock here so that the plates doesn't glide apart.
If you pull it apart you will see that it is built on common pins that go into each other.
Thought it was a very smart solution and all the plates are built with a special pattern.
To see which element belongs to which.
So I can not assemble it wrong. That's the whole idea.
It would be easy to disassemble, assemble again and move.
You might say that I've emptied the Swedish market on Stormtroopers.
Sometimes I buy 5. Sometimes I buy 10.
Sometimes I buy 100. Sometimes I buy 200 from the same person.
So it has taken quite a while to reach this number of minifigures for this creation.
It was very challenging to build this big on my own.
For I have heard that many build this large as a Community Builds.
It has been very stressful for the economy and space to have it at home.
Since I have this set-up at home.
What I have seen others who have built this model is that many uses Clones and stuff instead.
But I figured that I stick only to the Stormtroopers.
Because I think it belongs to the scene and in film category instead.
Than to get involved with clones instead.
And the interesting part is probably that there are many minifigures.
The lines are 1.500 figures lined up.
Mixed with as Scout Troopers, Shadow Troopers, Stormtroopers, Snow Troopers and other generals ...
... and those who work on the Death Star.
I also chose to use another little scene.
Because they always want the blueprints for the Death Star.
And then I used a idea here in terms of R2-D2 and C3PO.
And C3PO is this unique model, the chrome version.
Which is pretty rare.
This was done in 10,000 copies and came out in 2007.
I dared to use it.
When I built everything up I thought personally that it was very flat and boring.
Even when all the walls and the ships was up.
So I added a little extra touch here and there in the build.
For example, it happens some fun things, there are some who cleans.
Some who's marching.
And one figure running around here with the blueprints to the Death Star.
Which is not at all in the film but it's an extra little detail to look at instead.
For there will always be people commenting, 'But look, what happens over there. What happens there?
And he has a mug in his hand.
My latest MOC is Hans Solo frozen in carbonite.
And unlike many of my other MOCs that have been very colorful with many shades ...
... and nice colors, this is an entirely monochrome creation.
I have always loved this scene in Return of the Jedi.
How it is illuminated and how they warm tones underneath contrasted with the cold blue spotlight coming from above.
And my cousin who is very talented photographer who has photographed all my MOCs very beautiful ...
... he has big plans for how to shoot this.
So we get a light from a spotlight above that makes shadows down over the model.
And an orange warm light from below.
One thing I can mention too is that to all these big creations ...
... that I have done in large scale ...
... I have also started making mini versions.
A small micro-Jabba.
Also here with Teedos Luggabeast, from The Force Awakens we have a micro version.
I built on a small exhibition we had in Bureå Camping in Skelleftea a couple of weeks ago.
And the big Luggabeast I built in 3 months at the same time as Rey's Speeder ...
... and this black X-wing from The Force Awakens.
I was so inspired by that film so I started to build three things at once.
It might be good to have something to build on while waiting for pieces to a MOC, so you can fiddle around with something else meanwhile.
What I thought was so awesome with this Luggabeast is that it was so incredible Star Wars-like in their design.
Rusty, dented. A mixture of organic and metallic.
And so I began to discover all earth tones.
All nice colors that LEGO have.
Like these rust hues.
This ice blue color. Olive green.
So it was really my first MOC that used all the new colors that LEGO produced.
In any great extent.
And it became like a fun little diorama.
I've talked with other LEGO builders of how extra nice it can be when you built something.
That you build a small base for it.
You build some little event so that the creation may also tells a little story ...
Besides just being a creation straight up and down so you can get a little feeling that it happens something here.
So if you've built something nice which is fine in itself ...
... so try to build a base or something that can complement it.
So it becomes more of a diorama. A small stage.
I think that works great.
This black X-wing is actually a smaller version of the original X-wing that I ...
... that was my first MOC when I was there with the tendon in plaster.
And whats fun with that is how much time I've put in to get ...
... the function, the technology inside the X-wing work
The wings go crossed like this.
So this wing connects with that.
And vice versa.
And that means that it's the law of gravity that makes them is the X position in this state.
If I were to remove this from the support and set it down on the ground ...
... so would the lower the wings push up ...
... and then it is suddenly in landing mode.
And then you can clip the wings together like that.
And then when you separate the wings and lift it up from the table ...
... well then gravity will once agin do so that it becomes an X like that.
So really, the big work with this to get ...
... in that little thin body, to create the technology that was needed around an axis ...
... so that the wings would open in the free state and close when it was on the ground.
So I was somewhat pleased.
And then it's always fun to build the X-wings because they have such incredibly cool design.
So I've built more X-wings and will surely build another one again soon.
This is a Chibi AT-AT.
The reason I wanted to build it was that ...
... considering how much I build it can be a bit short of space.
I wanted to have an AT-AT which is one of the most iconic vehicles in the Star Wars franchise.
So I thought it would be fun to build a smaller version of it ...
... that can fit on a coffee table or shelf somewhere.
I wanted to make it a little play-friendly anyway so it would not only be completely static.
So what I have done is to insert the lead so that it can move like this.
Knee joints on all legs, & to get a little cuter appearance, I have also made it possible to turn the head.
So it will be like a little puppy almost.
So it can wander off and you can pose it cute.
As you yourself like.
The model consists of approximately 270 bricks.
And I have not used any odd pieces, so I think you might have ...
... most of them lying arround at home in a LEGO box somewhere.
It is common slopes that make up most of the body.
It is common tiles. Thus smooth pieces.
Placed on the side and top.
There is actually nothing odd bitwise.
If you follow the instructions you will not have any trouble building the legs.
Likewise the head.
There are some hinged pieces that are also quite common.
To get to some sloping effect.
But as I said, no odd pieces so completely possible to build for most people with the pieces they have at home.
Yes that's really a model to be inspired to build yourself.
So I did.
Ptttrrrrooo!!
Sit.
I said sit!
Aaah. Good girl.
That's all for this episode.
And to all of you who are huge Star Wars fans and can never get enough, I just say ...
... fear not. There will be more Star Wars episodes.
Bye.
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