NuthinButTheRain got a bunch of olive green parts and built a spaceship! The USS Maverick is a Hornet Class Frigate and fits nicely in a school of starship design informed heavily by the Sulaco from Aliens. The olive green colour leaves us in no doubt that it’s a military vehicle, just in case we didn’t notice […]
Star Trek Discovery hasn’t even aired on TV yet, but that hasn’t stopped me making a LEGO model of the titular USS Discovery. Back in the late 70’s, Paramount developed several projects intended to bring Star Trek back to the screen. One of these was titled Planet of the Titans and went as far as […]
Like all self respecting nerds I went to see Star Trek Beyond last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Being also a LEGO nerd, I rushed home and designed a model of the USS Franklin in LDD (whilst listening to the Beastie Boys, as I recall). I was really busy at the time, so unable to […]
This SHIP by Cecilie Fritzvold isn’t like anything I’ve seen before. A peaceful vessel of exploration, the Zea’x Dauphyz is faintly reminiscent of a blue whale, in the way it gracefully seems to hang in space. There the comparison stops however, because this spaceship uses some really mind-bending construction techniques to make elaborate curved surfaces speckled with trans-green; […]
The producers of Return of the Jedi decided the rebels needed a large capital ship to be their equivalent of the Star Destroyer. Thus was born the Mon Calamari cruiser, as modelled here by Baciccia_1978. Like the B-Wing I blogged recently, the Mon Calamari filming model wasn’t particularly popular with the special effects team. Whereas the […]
It’s been a while since I’ve used the real space tag, so… These models by Damien Labrousse really stand out for me as excellent examples of plausible near-future spacecraft, done really well in microscale. The above is an Exploration Ship and I love the heatshield thing at the front and the mid section with its jumble of […]
“Slap a few nurnies on it, coat of paint, walk away.” was the mantra of the late Ron Thornton, modelmaker and VFX supervisor of Babylon 5. “Nurnies” are synonymous with “Greebles”, being the little detail bits that cover sci-fi spaceships. These were traditionally parts culled from plastic model kits, but in LEGO spaceship modelling must […]
When the International Space Station was first designed, the plan was for a crew of seven astronauts to be permanently based in orbit. The necessity to transport them swiftly back to earth in the event of an emergency led to the development of the Crew Return Vehicle or CRV, a seven-man lifeboat that that could […]
Whilst we’re flush with spaceships, I don’t think I’ve ever blogged a space station. So I’m really pleased Damien Labrousse not only built an awesome one, he built a Classic Space one too! This little beauty is actually loads bigger than it looks (those are 4×4 black and yellow round bricks, not 2×2 round plates) and the […]
I don’t normally do this, but I’m going to go ahead and blog a WIP because it’s just so damn amazing. It’s SHIPtember and Ryan Olsen is building the Agamemnon from Babylon 5. It’s been jaw dropping watching this thing come together over the last few weeks from his initial plans, to some rudimentary bits and a […]
Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! 