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HomerTaco · Dec 25, 2013

Hoth battle set.

HomerTaco · Dec 25, 2013

The Hunter said: ↑

wheres the death star
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Still in the box for now. That's going to take days...

FearNothing321 · Jan 5, 2014

WANT

Taco42 · Jan 5, 2014

Sweet!

NoSoup4You · Jan 6, 2014

They released the back of the box / interior shots today too:

FearNothing321 said: ↑

WANT

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OffsetPlayer2 · Jan 6, 2014

While not my pic, at work at the moment, my wife got me this out first Christmas at our new place:

It's pretty damn sweet and sitting pretty on my shelf. She has tons of the Harry Potter sets. She got them all when she was a kid. We started putting those together again. Running out of room.

HomerTaco · Jan 6, 2014

OffsetPlayer2 said: ↑

While not my pic, at work at the moment, my wife got me this out first Christmas at our new place:

It's pretty damn sweet and sitting pretty on my shelf. She has tons of the Harry Potter sets. She got them all when she was a kid. We started putting those together again. Running out of room.
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Very cool!

Frkypunk · Jan 6, 2014

My 70 Chevy, it was a Rainey day and I have lots of Legos.

Frkypunk · Jan 6, 2014

The real one...

HomerTaco · Jan 6, 2014

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My 70 Chevy, it was a Rainey day and I have lots of Legos.

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The real one...
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Sweet!

Eternal24k · Jan 7, 2014

I am an old school castle lego guy, wish i hadnt lost most of mine via ex girlfriend (long story), Wish the Star Wars Legos were around back then.

I do have some now though
I am hoping to get Jabbas Palace and the Skiff, I love Tatooine

Eternal24k · Jan 7, 2014

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Apologies again for the photobomb, but I finished the AT-AT and wanted to show it off

The final model is about 23" tall and about 28" long. It's got roughly 2800 bricks. It has a crew of 22 Snowtroopers, 2 Imperial deck sergeants, 2 AT-AT drivers, 2 Imperial commanders and a General (Veers). It's also carrying full weaponry for the entire crew, and a single Snowspeeder. And of course there's a young Jedi hanging from the belly, ready to throw thermal detonator into the hull. The level of detail puts it amazingly close to the movie, and it totally deserves a UCS plaque (might work on that next).

I have to say, this could never, ever be an actual Lego model. The whole thing is frighteningly fragile. In the middle of taking the pics, I accidentally bumped it and it crumbled into about 100 pieces. I damn near cried. It also required a lot of modification just to make it somewhat stable. The neck required a significant amount of reinforcement within the body to ensure it wouldn't just fall off and take the front of the body with it. Prob spent 4 hours on that alone. The legs, while sturdy, are attached with a single technic pin, which makes the whole model very wobbly. And if one leg goes, the whole thing goes (see above for the results!).

I know I said that I'd be happy to share my parts list and annotations to the instructions, but in the end I borrowed a lot of parts from my spares box to keep the neck stable and connected, and didn't keep track of any of them. I also added some interior detail that I didn't keep track of. So I've got a parts list that's sort of complete, but I won't know exactly what bricks are in the model until I take it apart some day. Still happy to give you what I've got, but understand that your milage may vary. Send me a PM if you're interested.

Overall, I'm really happy with how it came out. It was an amazing project. It was a scavenger hunt (for some very rare bricks), a puzzle and a source of frustration all wrapped up in a big ass model.

Thanks for the great comments on the progress pics. If it wasn't for this thread, I prob wouldn't have finished it until 2015

And now for the pics!

Sides, front, back, angles:

Cockpit crew with General Veers leading the charge:

Rear cargo bay with Snowspeeder and armed Snowtroopers:

Upper deck troop hold:

Upper deck weaponry (created largely because Snowtroopers can't sit down with their helmet/backpack on, so I needed a place to store them):

The upper deck crew area is removable to get to the lower deck:

Lower deck crew hold from the top:

The doors on the lower deck crew hold slide up into the upper deck:

There are also four small doors per side to give a view of the inside without having to lift the upper hinged hatches:

And of course it wouldn't be complete without Luke ready to cut open the hull, throw in a thermal detonator and take the beast down!

Hope you guys enjoyed following this project as much as I enjoyed posting about it. And now for
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Which set is this?!

HomerTaco · Jan 7, 2014

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Which set is this?!
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It's not an official Lego set. It's a MOC that he built with instructions & collected parts from Bricklink & such.

Badass to say the least.

Taco42 · Jan 7, 2014

Yep, HomerTaco is spot on. I bought the instructions and brick inventory from a seller on eBay. Only after I bought them did I find out that the inventory was done in the early 2000s, and all of the bricks were the old grays. So I did a buttload of work modding the inventory to the new bluish grays and finding new bricks that would work to replace ones that weren't made in the new grays. Then spent at least 3 months ordering parts on Bricklink and building, annotating the instructions I bought with the new gray parts and/or replacement parts on every step of over 100 pages of instructions. It turned out to be totally worth it, but not sure that I'd do it again. There are a whole lot of hours of my life in that model!

Taco42 · Jan 7, 2014

The Hunter said: ↑

You my friend are infact NUTZ... But it looks so cool!
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95SLE · Jan 8, 2014

Taco42 said: ↑

Yep, HomerTaco is spot on. I bought the instructions and brick inventory from a seller on eBay. Only after I bought them did I find out that the inventory was done in the early 2000s, and all of the bricks were the old grays. So I did a buttload of work modding the inventory to the new bluish grays and finding new bricks that would work to replace ones that weren't made in the new grays. Then spent at least 3 months ordering parts on Bricklink and building, annotating the instructions I bought with the new gray parts and/or replacement parts on every step of over 100 pages of instructions. It turned out to be totally worth it, but not sure that I'd do it again. There are a whole lot of hours of my life in that model!
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Modding useful on more than Tacoma's.

Eternal24k · Jan 8, 2014

Taco42 said: ↑

Yep, HomerTaco is spot on. I bought the instructions and brick inventory from a seller on eBay. Only after I bought them did I find out that the inventory was done in the early 2000s, and all of the bricks were the old grays. So I did a buttload of work modding the inventory to the new bluish grays and finding new bricks that would work to replace ones that weren't made in the new grays. Then spent at least 3 months ordering parts on Bricklink and building, annotating the instructions I bought with the new gray parts and/or replacement parts on every step of over 100 pages of instructions. It turned out to be totally worth it, but not sure that I'd do it again. There are a whole lot of hours of my life in that model!
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This just opened so many opportunities.

I bet the figures alone cost a fortune though

NoSoup4You · Jan 8, 2014

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You my friend are infact NUTZ... But it looks so cool!
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You should read about the guys that piece together their own 10179 UCS Millenium Falcon ... that is like months of planning and 20-30 separate orders from various vendors.
I've seen they usually get a few people together to split the load and save on cost too, around $1800 instead of the $3000+ they go for on eBay and Amazon

chenbro · Jan 8, 2014

NoSoup4You said: ↑

You should read about the guys that piece together their own 10179 UCS Millenium Falcon ... that is like months of planning and 20-30 separate orders from various vendors.
I've seen they usually get a few people together to split the load and save on cost too, around $1800 instead of the $3000+ they go for on eBay and Amazon
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I still wish I had ordered two of them instead of just the one

Taco42 · Jan 8, 2014

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I still wish I had ordered two of them instead of just the one
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Yeah, hindsight...

That set may be the last one I hold onto if I ever decide to sell my collection. Such an amazing model.

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