The Official Razor Crest is out, here is how it looks like next to my UCS one.

The official set is available,
I received it at last !
As I ordered it during Easter season, I received some Easter goodies with it. Funny for a Sept 3rd. 

It is a cool build with some interesting techniques.
I took me 1h30 to build.

Here is how it looks like next to my UCS version :

 

Outer Rim Speeder Bike

I did not attend SWC in 2019 but I followed it on youtube and I saw this video of one of the speeders seen in the TV show.
So, of course I made a MoC of it. :)

It was a physical build only and I only recently decided to do the digital version and the instructions for it.

They are now available for free on Rebrickable.

Happy building !

Happy Star Wars day !

Some of my builds are 30% off on Rebrickable !

• UCS Razorcrest  
• Echo base Troop Carrier
• Imperial troop transport

Have fun and may the Force be with you !

Imperial Troop Transport

Here is my latest project !

The Imperial Troop Transport

You will find all the details here

Papaglop's projects, now on Rebrickable

Hello there !
Here are some news and updates about my current projects :

UCS Razorcrest
I have decided to make my instructions available on Rebrickable !

Mostly to :
- Allow people to see the part list prior to buying
- Allow payment via Credit card (instead of Paypal-only)
- And also to limit the manual work on my side... ;)

If you are lucky enough to have these instructions and want to leave a nice comment about the quality of the build and the plans. Please do ! 


Blurrg ! 
The free instructions are now also on Rebrickable.
Comments are welcome ! ;)

Upcoming project !
This is a way smaller build than my Razorcrest (about 750 pieces)
So far it is going pretty well !
As usual I am going for :
- As Minifig-scale as I can
- As Stud-less as I can
- As detailed and accurate as I can

It will be on Rebrickable in the coming days !


Stay safe, stay home and happy building !

Papaglop

You get a Lego Blurgg ! You get a Lego Blurgg !

Hi everyone ! To celebrate the success of my UCS Razorcrest and to thank you all for your support, here is a little gift !
Free instructions to my MoC Blurgg.

UCS Razorcrest by papaglop on Beyond the Brick

The team at Beyond the brick asked me to talk about my Razorcrest on their Youtube channel !

At last an official, system-scale, Lego Razorcrest, with The Child !

Back in In April 2019, when I saw the Razorcrest for the first time during SWC, I thought :
"Lego is going to release an official set of this ship, system scale, with around 1000 pieces for a price around 120USD.
That’s not big enough, I want it at minifigscale and UCS. I will build my own." 

Fast forward 10 months and here we are.

I just did this :

 


They release this :

Beware of scammers

Hello there.

I guess this kind of thing was to be expected... Some random dude from Belgium is stealing my design to sell it as his own.

This thief is called Tiago Lopes and he does the same with the work of other builders like me.

Not only is he selling my work, but I received an example of how he sells it :
 - He basically copy/pasted all my texts and explanations and he modified all the amounts.

  - He asks for more money than I do (25$ instead of 15$.)

  - He lies about the cost of the pieces. ( he says 400$ when I am honest and say that it is now around 600$.)

And when people ask more questions, it seems he just insults them.

And on top of all that, he just wrote to me to brag about it.

Sad sad world…


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To order the instructions from me, just send me a quick email at papaglop.moc@gmail.com and you will receive all the info and a sample.

Razorcrest UCS MoC by Papaglop.

Last summer, I worked a lot on my first version of this ship, based only on the few images from the Mandalorian panel at Star Wars Celebration on April 14th.
Then the first season of the show has aired, it was FANTATASTIC and the Razorcrest had a very good screen time, giving me, chapter after chapter, many details to recreate, both exterior and interior.



At first I wanted to improve my existing version, but I quickly realized it was to small to support all the details I wanted to add to it. So I decided to start a new one from scratch.

My objectives were :
 - Make it bigger but still in the minifigscale range,
 - Make it as detailed as possible (interior and exterior),
 - Make it as studless as possible,
 - Make it modular (to allow better accessibility for modifications and for photos)

So I did all that ! Weeks after weeks during the Autumn and the Holiday season.

At that point, I was not sure if I would embark on the adventure of making digital plans and instructions for this.
Then I was contacted by James Robinson, who offered to help designing these instructions.
It's been a very long process, even for two people ! Plus it was the first time I was doing Instructions and I wanted them to be as good as official lego ones.
Countless hours and 500+ pages later, the instructions for this 5.2 kg beast are available.
And you can buy them ! Just send me a quick email at papaglop.moc@gmail.com for more details.

The Razorcrest ship (from the upcoming show The Mandalorian)

The Mandalorian was the thing I was looking forward the most this year at SWC !

I am really confident they will deliver something fantastic !
And I loved the Razorcrest at first sight.

So, of course, I want to MoC it up. Despite all its weird angles and its not yet obvious colours.


Here is what the first draft looked like. A wobbly proof of concept :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126957563@N05/33847506328/

And a couple of hours later, I had something way more sturdy and articulated.
I started to add some details too.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126957563@N05/46840222705


Summer update !

After a lot of trial and error, and a couple of Bricklink orders, here is where I am at :






















And also a small video :




Now I need more plates and Curved slopes...

Update  !
So the curved slopes arrived and I finished it at last.
I got a friend to help me with the photoshoot, here is the result :

The Crew of the Anvil.

A Star Wars Edge of the Empire campaign enhanced with Lego.

If, like my friends and I, you stand in the center of the Venn Diagram below, you will probably like this page.

(Or hate it… As most fandoms now seem to deal only in absolute.)

About the game

In the Spring of 2018, my friend Martin started to prepare this RPG campaign in the Edge of the Empire era.


The twist is that all the players and NPCs are portrayed with Lego minifigs!

He also built several Lego checkered play boards along with dozens of modular walls and pieces of furniture to create and decorate the scenes as the game goes.

The results have been amazing and we’re having tons of fun.

For some specific encounters, he even builds MoC elements, like this minifig-scale Rancor.

Our team currently consists of :
 - Toolkit : A Rodian hacker and Robot builder
 - Kashyn Vaal : A Togruta smuggler with a growing connection to the Force
 - Kammir : A human Bodyguard as tall, strong and hairy as a wookie
Sometimes it feels we are the Star Wars version of the A-team. 

 SPACESHIP !

After a couple of successful missions together, our characters discussed the possibility of buying their own ship. We rapidly agreed it would be a ILH-KK Citadel-class civilian cruiser. It has plenty of room and has all the options we wanted for a decent price. 
In the Core rulebook of Edge of th Empire, this shuttle looks like this: 

 There are also different versions of it on Wookieepedia. 


As an AFOL myself, I immediately decided to build a Lego version of this shuttle and make it as minifig-scale as possible. With all the LBG and DBG parts I’ve been stockpiling for a while, I was confident I could do it without any Bricklink order.
After just one week, I had this first version, almost 100 studs long and has a detailed interior on two levels : 

• a 4 seat cockpit
• 4 bedrooms (3 individual and one with bunkbeds)
• 1 medical bay with a bacta tank
• 1 kitchen/living room
• 1 fully equipped workshop for our Engineer
• 2 lateral defense turrets
• the engine room
• a small refresh-room
• a hangar with large side openings

Then I also made a smaller version, just for fun. (and potentially future space fights)

On the very next episode of our campaign, we started searching for a vendor that would have an affordable used ILH-KK. I was lucky enough to roll a Triumph and we found exactly the shuttle we wanted.
We bought it and renamed it the Anvil (as it will contain an extensive workshop) , ingame the team is now working on moding the shuttle, so I started improving my Lego version to make the corresponding changes and also to make it more robust and more detailed. 

But there’s more ! 

My friends just pointed out to me that our shuttle can also carry 2 light fighters.
So this week I started building 2 identical (very)light star-fighters. We will call them Hammer1 and Hammer2.
My 7yo daughter saw the WIP version and said “They kinda look like hammerhead sharks” so I guess I’m in the right direction. I still have to figure out how and where they will attach to the belly of the Anvil. More pics soon !

Obi Wan and the Death Star tractor beam Lego MoC

When you like Lego and Star Wars, you want Storm Troopers... Lots of them...
And this year, as you may know, this set came out and it is one of the best "Army builder" there is.
With each you get 4 Troopers and also some nice grey pieces.
So I decided to use these to do blast doors. With a mecanism that can open and close them like in the movies.
After a couple of tries I managed to get the gear system right and now they work fine.
And then I let myself go to build around...

So here it is:

(no filter no photoshop)

Based on this original shot from the movie:

Jedi Interceptor eta-2, MOC

So a couple of weeks ago I decided to disassemble my Cool-Cruiser and I ended up with a lot of cool shapes in Yellow.

My older daughter wanted a "Gros tracteur jaune" so I made her this one:

Then, after a while, I wanted something more "Starwarsy", as usual... But Yellow ??... Then it hit me :

Jedi Interceptor eta-2

Of course, there already is an official set for this one... But I wanted to do a MOC based only on pieces that I already own.

Also, I wanted to make it look more muscular and bulky.
The original one seems so slim and fragile. (I know it is supposed to be, because, you know : Jedi = No need for heavy shield and armor.)
But still... I wanted something more "realistic"?...
So after a rainy Sunday, I ended up with this :

oh...
and for my friend Sylvain, yes, a R2 unit can fit in the wing, let me climb here to show you:

Spaceship ! Spaceship !!! SPACESHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pour bien comprendre toute la puissance de ce model il faut:

- avoir vu le The Lego Movie

- avoir grandi dans les années 80 en jouant aux Légo.

La boite officielle est prévue pour août 2014 son code : 70816.
Mais à mon avis, acheter une boite officielle du film LEGO, ça va un peu à l'encontre de l'idée de fond du film... Ce serait un peu comme acheter le CD de "Everything is awesome"...

Endor Speeder bike V1

Les gros blocks (Mega Bloks)

"Papa, on joue aux glop, on joue aux GROS glop."

selfie...