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A 3D/VR/4K virtual tour of the interior of my Minifigscale Trailblazer

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When I released the first images of my Trailblazer in the summer of 2024, I was contacted by Digital artist Roly from the Netherlands who wanted to make a virtual tour of the ship. We worked together for weeks on adjusting the Lego model to allow more details and better lights. Here is the result after hundreds of hours of work and thousands of hours of rendering. Make sure you turn the 4K on and enjoy !  

Orders for my Minifig-scale UCS-style Trailblazer are open ! - And what I think of StarWars Outlaws

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While playing Skyrim (a lot) in 2011/2012, I was often thinking "a game like that in the Star Wars universe would be so awesome" Fast forward to 2024, and we have SW Outlaws. I played over 100hours of it since August, so needless to say, I love it. I'm lucky enough to have a PC that runs it smoothly. (100fps on a ultra wide screen) It is beautiful . Sometimes it's not the side quests who keep me away from the main story, it's just looking at the jaw dropping landscapes. I did experience a couple couple of bugs, but nothing too serious. I'm lucky enough to be the kind of Star Wars fan who has seen all the shows, movies, animated series and has read novels like Aftermath, so I enjoyed the appearance of Temmin and Qira and many smaller details and easter eggs. I'm lucky enough to not think every woman should be a bimbo. And find Kay to be a great protagonist. I'm lucky enough to understand Ubisoft decision to not accept the 30% shakedown from Steam and re...

Kay Vess Speeder bike lego MoC

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As I am decorating the interior of my Trailblazer, I could not not have the speeder. So here it is !   The instructions are free on my Rebrickable page .

The Trailblazer from Star Wars Outlaws - A Lego minifigscale MoC by papaglop

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Here it is ! The project I have been keeping semi-secret for almost a year now. The Trailblazer , Kay Vess's ship from Star Wars Outlaws I love that ship and I can't wait to play the game in just two weeks. There is still a LOT of work to do, in fact this photo is not even the latest version. List of current features :  - Turret can rotate and can be removed  - Escape pod can be removed  - Smaller Reactors can rotate around the bigger ones like in the game  - Part of the roof can be removed  - other parts of the roof can be opened  - detailed exterior  - detailed minifigscale interior, all the rooms and main furniture are here The next steps :  - Finish the design of the bigger reactors  - Finish the Canopy of the cockpit (the biggest challenge of the whole ship)  - Exposing it at "Brick Summit" in Montreal on September 14th 2024  - Design the instructions and make them available. F-A-Q : Is this minifigscale ? YES How many pieces ?...

Update on my Lego MoC of the CX Dagger from Bad Batch

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My wife knows me well, when we watch anything Star Wars, she can tell from my face when my brain goes into "I need to build this out of Lego". After giving up on a full minifigscale Havoc Marauder, I wasn’t sure I’d find a ship I love from the Bad Batch. I worked on Asaj Ventress’s ship for a bit in stud.io, but I had limited footage and zero shot of its interior, so I’ll wait for more content. However, for the CX Dagger , it was love at first sight and I have plenty of footage, from outside and inside and even a concept art page. So I dived into it. And of course, I wanted it to be as detailed as possible and as minifig-scale as possible. All while keeping it buildable with pieces that are easy to find (I learned from my success with the Razorcrest) I got some good reviews on Instagram for the V1 And now just finished V1.1 just in time to show it next Weekend at an exhibition near Montreal . Note : The instructions are not ready yet. So far designing the instructions ...

CX Dagger, from the Bad Batch a Lego MoC by papaglop

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 This last season of Bad Batch has its ups and downs, but I enjoy it a lot. In terms of inspiration for Mocs there have been two ships that caught my attention :  - Asaj Ventress' new ship,  - The Clone X ship called CX Dagger. 1/ Asaj Ventress' new ship   I spent a couple of nights working on this one, but it bugs me to have no idea where the door is or what the interior looks like, plus the cockpit has a shape that is pretty complicated. Fun fact the rear windshield is very similar to the Razorcrest's. There are only a couple of shots where we can see this ship and it is not enough to recreate a good enough MoC but here is where I am at with it..   2/ The Clone X ship called CX Dagger For this one, we have a lot of footage of the exterior, some interior shots, AND my favorite thing : a Concept-art board from the Official Star Wars website. These angles look good ! But it is a pain to recreate... I hesitated between Black and DBG, bit I went for a mix of both. ...

Papaglop's new lab

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Hello there, it has been a while. I've been far from Social Media, my bricks and Stud.io these last couple of months. Why you ask ? Well instead of building with Lego bricks, I was spending all my weekends renovating the basement of my house. I finally got rid of that old carpeting from the 60s and dismantled this big, decommissioned fireplace. My wife asked, "What color have you chosen for your Lego room ? And I replied, mostly LBG and DBG for the walls and the floor is going to be Dark tan tiles. Things are going well and I started adding some SW details to the decoration, some of them inspired by this glorious Facebook page called SW Room builders .  Most of my Lego collection was hidden away during the work, but some sets still received a lot of dust, luckily, my daughter finds it satisfying to dust them with a light brush. It's not 100% finished, but will it ever be? I just need to get some details out of my mind and into the room. Then I will have space mentally and ...