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Looks great!!! I've held off on starting this since finishing the Falcon, but I think this will be my project for 2017 :D

Every time I look at this I see new, cool details. So good

It's out of stock on the UK Lego store for the 3rd time recently. And this time there's no 'expected back in stock date'. I do wonder if my source that told me it was discontinuing was right.....

Not really got a list. You can see a lot of my subs in the first post however I tried to do as much as possible with the correct colours, and only swapping if parts were rare or much more expensive. But you can also see from the subsequent photos of the frame etc before i covered over much of what will not be seen. You could do the whole of the inside in some bright garish bricks if they were cheap and you'd never really notice from the outside.

Thanks H_Solo! I'm definitely not looking at it thinking "this looks a bit naff and needs more details" (not yet at least). So I think any mods would only be to really improve functionality (like the engine area if I wanted lights) or things that annoy me (like the dish due to the sticker being crap).

Good to hear. I've got a lot of UCS sets but I'm really looking forward to this

Nice TBH I've spent way over £1000 on Lego in the last month or so. I need to stop for a bit! However I'm also contemplating Cavegod's AT-AT, so there may be no hope for me

Thanks Lobot. I bought a sticker from an ebay seller. It looks good from a distance but close up it's not so good (scratched and bubbly as the adhesive was crap). I'm probably going to do a brick-built one (round or rectangular) at some point soon.... I did wonder about doing DS2. But I've read a few threads about it not being very solid once assembled, and also not sure if it will really look that great on display to make it worth the effort. I'd much rather do a Y-Wing or ISD

Thanks chaps - such an amazing model and I can't stop looking at it whenever I'm around it

Thanks Dave. I was looking at yours in more detail and you've changed a lot of greebling, Was the aim to make it look more like the real thing, or just to add more detail to make it more interesting?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're done! Will take some better photos on daylight at some point, but then you all know what one of these looks like anyway Taken me a lot longer than the other UCS sets I've built. But I think a lot of that is due to having to keep finding parts among the myriad of plastic bags. There's a few pieces I'd like to change, and some mods we've already discussed that I'd like to consider, but for now I'm just going to enjoy looking at it (and figuring out where to put it!). No more Lego for a few days, at least until the Death Star I ordered yesterday arrives

Just ordered the 10188 Death Star

That's pretty good as well! Have you got a close-up please?

Thanks Dave. So am I right in thinking that to do the flaps I should first do the curved engine mods?