Falcrum

Yup. Eurobricks SW community lost all their respect points with their garbage posts here. Enjoy praising terrible builds and I hope no line of criticism ever sets foot on this forum again. I wonder if you will ever understand that if you can't differentiate between quality and mediocrity and reward both equally your words of appreciation have no real valuue. Not gonna miss you.

It's certainly big, but that's the only "positive" thing I can say about this. The details are of awfully low quality, and sometimes I can hardly see any effort put into this MOC. It looks as if you were paid to create something this size and chose the least effort path. This isn't the way. Focus on smaller builds and pay more attention to detail, and most importantly, look up how others build and notice the quality difference between your builds and what others post here.

Yup, you can't buy him, you can only get him by playing the 5th level of Return of the Jedi. Check again if you've done this.

Apologies for this clown. He's not one of us.

You have a typo in your nickname ;) The idea is very interesting, however I'm not sure if it has a great potential. Although the samples you have provided us with look indeed amazing (especially compared to 3D printing standards in the industry), I'm not sure if they would meet LEGO bricks standards. First, you can still see the layer patterns, and for objects as small as LEGO bricks this is a huge problem. One reason why LEGO got so popular in the first place was their strict quality control, and injecting plastic into molds offers just far superior visual quality than 3D printing. Second, the blade itself - it's not transparent and it stands out too much from original lightsabers. Third, durability. After all we are talking about long, thin 3D printed rods that come at a fee and are useless once damaged. One appeal of LEGO is how solid it is. The only way I see this come out as a commercial product is if you sold the hilts only, and applied some polishing/filing/sanding down manually to at least satisfy 2 out of the 3 conditions I mentioned above, but then I don't think it would be a profitable enterprise. However, having such a powerful tool as your 3D printer (and your modelling skills) opens many possibilities, and I'm sure you'll figure out an idea that will work (LEGO-related or not). Good luck!

This perhaps is the shortest, yet a very accurate summary of my reaction. Although Thrawn's quote "But it was so artistically done" would be even better. I really wouldn't mind to have you post at this frequency.

You clearly are a very skilled and talented builder, but maybe some concepts should stay in the designer's head :)

If you ever have a bad day, remember that you a world class artist in this business. And among the world class you occupy a very comfortable spot near the very top. I don't think words can describe how good it is.

Bro it's literally worth hundreds of dollars if it's in a good condition.

Despite all these horrible sets, LEGO never fails to disappoint and produce even worse garbage. The only way I can tolerate these is if they release a Lando one and we'll get a cheap Lando minifigure. Otherwise, LEGO Star Wars really needs a massive punch in the face to take a step back and reevaluate all this shit they have been releasing for the past couple of years.

Does anybody know if there stiill is a glimpse of hope for the Jabba's Palace diorama?

I just saw it and I'm in tears - it's so beautiful, it's so... perfect. It's not a LEGO model you've built, it's a work of art.

I love the idea, but given that it's a virtual build why not make it bigger? There's hardly any space for anything.

Hey, that looks awesome, but the first three pics are minuscule; you think you could upload them bigger? It'd be a pity to miss out on such a beauty because of such a stupid issue.

Hey, do you remember any info about the minifigures? Their number or colour? Also, are you sure it was from Hoth? There are only 2 rebel combat vehicles from Hoth that LEGO has made.

I really like the recent trend of including 2 minifigures for every brick build in the magazine.

I wouldn't treat MandR as a source of information on what TLG is up to. Youtubers say all kinds of things for views. The facts are that in the early 2000s LEGO released some Star Wars figures alone, without any builds and Hasbro said it infringed on their exclusivity deal for Star Wars figures; consequently, those minifigure sets where phased out. Hasbro makes Star Wars figures to this day, and I don't see a reason why their monopoly would have expired.

Doesn't Hasbro still have a monopoly on Star Wars figures though? I don't think we are getting any Star Wars CMF because of this anytime soon...

Fantastic job! A bit bulky (but come on, it has to be in this scale), but accurate and scales to the minifig correctly - and remember, that in MOCs "size matters not"!

I still hope the mech thing is a bad taste joke. There's a reason why we haven't had mechs, zombies (aside from a few unholy exceptions) or superheroes in Star Wars - those things just don't belong in the universe, and this fact needs no explanation.

This is the best LEGO MOC I've seen in my life, period.

It looks good, but I cannot forgive the use of custom parts. That's a definite, indisputable no no in my book. A holy commandment.

Thank you all for the comments, guys, you are awesome :)

I can see the model isn't exactly breaking popularity records, so here's a little incentive: And a little bonus:

And there it is, the grand finale of my MOC miniseries; the pride of the Imperial Army, a machine spreading fear in the rebel ranks – the AT-ST. Also my Magnum Opus. AT-ST by Falcrum by Jakub Grochowski, on Flickr Although the walker appeared in the Empire Strikes Back for the first time, it’s most famous for its role in the Return of the Jedi. A handful of seconds we see it walking cost the animators whole 2 months of their time, but thanks to that the 39 year old animation amazes even today. Shortly on the project’s history The building started in August 2021 and lasted about a month, which allowed me to construct half of the head. It was only in this June that I took the project seriously. I had a first prototype ready for an exhibition in July – by that time I had spent 150 hours on the project. The event exposed multiple weaknesses of the model; I introduced numerous structural improvements, which gave me 50 further hours of headache. Let’s talk technical details I estimate the walker itself counts 1000-1500 pieces without the base (legs alone, without the feet, have around 400). The AT-ST was my first model which forced me to look at structural aspect of things, and not only the looks. Had the feet not been fixed at the base, the walker wouldn’t be able to stand on its own, let alone walk, since its centre of mass is almost directly above it’s toes, and the head would inevitably tip forward and collapse. At least I got a chance to use my engineering intuition. Speaking of which… The AT-ST legs, ah yes. I unironically think they could be studied at the first year of structural engineering, since they experience every single form of material stress possible – tensile, compressive, shear, bending, torsion and moment. Some of those physical quantities are bordering the ABS durability, a material which LEGO is made from. Torsion in the hips rotated the legs by roughly 20-30 degrees, which I didn’t know could be done. The tension in the “Achilles tendon” is so high that only a rubber pneumatic hose provides enough friction to withstand it. The reason behind the magnitude of the stresses are the legs, and their peculiar, impractical and convoluted shape and what they are holding – a 300 gram head, protruding far towards the front. Needless to say, this combo doesn’t leave a slightest bit of hope for any articulation. Although my model is strong enough to stand on its two chicken legs (which took a while to achieve, as mentioned above), I decided to prop it on a strut to reduce the stresses the pieces experience. Since LEGO bricks are made of plastic, even despite its very high quality, its Young’s Modulus is still laughably low (it’s not stiff at all), which tends to be a problem in many structural applications. The strut, then, is a stabiliser. Given stresses that high, any asymmetry in the legs or the central segment can lead to the latter leaning on one side, the head rotating, stresses redistributing and accumulating in the legs in the transverse direction (the direction of studs), which would inevitably lead to the machine collapsing. Proofing the model against such stresses is impossible in this scale, hence the strut, which doesn’t let this happen. Attaching tiles to both sides of technic liftarms was achievable thanks to a flex cable – pneumatic hose combo, which put one over another has the diameter of one stud. I estimate there are ~65 of such cylinders inside. The aesthetics It’s not difficult to spot that the walker predominantly consists of Light Bluish Grey elements, a colour closest to the imperial grey. It was one of the primary requirements for the build, since all brick-built AT-STs I saw relied on Dark Bluish Grey to some extent. A great deal of emphasis was put on the difficult aspects of the machine, such as he side profile of the legs, the hexagonal vents at the rear, the engine section detail and the feet. Moreover, I wanted the “face” to look “clean and clever” – not only to be recognisable, but also accurate. Above all, though, the main objective was fidelity – every single detail on the model can be found in the original (but sadly not the other way round :P) and is not a filler or a creation of my own. Scale issues: they always arise. The LEGO man doesn’t have human proportions – my model is scaled to the minifig’s width; so if the stormtroopers wore 2 studs tall shoes, they’d observe the model to be about 9 metres tall, or as tall as the AT-ST should be. Conclusion I’m tired after this journey. As many of us probably know, the word LEGO has been formed from the Danish phrase Leg Godt – meaning play well. Attaining this level of accuracy and structural integrity has cost me 200 hours of work. However, I am pleased, and even proud of the outcome and I think the struggle was worth it all. No, the model isn’t perfect, but none is, and I’m done with correcting it – maybe in 5 years LEGO will have released another batch of revolutionary pieces and I’ll fiddle with the walker again. Until then it’s time to rest and get down to less demanding projects.