I am not much for writing, so I will leave all that to Dunamis. I am only going to post pics to this thread.

This is the top of the main frame.

This is the bottom of the frame. It is very sturdy!

This is another shot of the frame. I took this pic so you can see the 4 x 6 square Technic piece. There is one on the top and bottom. This is where you attach those long flat pieces between the mandibles. Sorry, don't know the name.

Built and installed the 3 bottom pieces.

Another shot of the bottom plates. Notice the 2 x 2 tan technic bricks with the axel hole. This is where the landing gear is attached. Only one axel from the landing gear in used to attach it.

Landing gear installed. 6 of the 7 anyways.

Another shot of those.

The middle thing, I refered to above in built and installed. The hole in the center is for the 7th landing gear.

Left side of the rear engines.

Right side of the rear engines.

Above shot of the engines. These are held on by 4 click hinges. 2 on each side. Aswell as 12 1 x 2 plates with one stud. These are on the very back of the ship.

This after about 10 hours of building, but, I was watching TV, took bathroom breaks and made something to eat. I will work on it more later and post more.

More later, Enjoy, Jamie

Edited September 30, 200717 yr by jamie75

How'd you get this almost 6 years early? X-O :-P

Damn, 10 hours and it barely looks started! Ouch :-X

Wow! that is huge but no where near finished and that in 10 hours! this is going to take me ages! :-D It has sooo much detail already! thanks for sharing Jamie! ;-)

ten hours for that. 8-| I will see tomorrow

Keep in mine that in was 10 hours of sitting on the couch. Maybe 5 hours of building. As I said before, I cooked, ate, watched "Gridiron Gang". Have to take some breaks evry now and then!!

Jamie

Tks a lot Jamie ;-)

It is really an impressive set so far !! And it really looks sturdy with all those heavy duty landing gear ;-)

I cannot wait to see more of your building !! Its really great to have 2 ongoing reviews of that beauty !!

Build On !!

*yoda*

I've understood. It was very included. *sweet*

Nice review so far, thanks! I gotta order mine soon! X-D

Wow that is one awesome kit, how complicated is the build?

I found a cool time lapse video of the MF being constructed:Time-Lapse-Build.

This after about 10 hours of building, but, I was watching TV, took bathroom breaks and made something to eat. I will work on it more later and post more.

How could you waste your time on such secondary things like eating? :-|

Nice pics so far! *wub*

Waste time ON! X-D

Very neat and useful pictures, thanks jamie75. *sweet*

It

Thanks for the pics! It looks impressive already, cant wait til it's finished and dont rush, half the fun is building it.

Thanks jamie795! :-)

This thing looks HUGE! X-O I never realised it would take THAT long to build. Good to see it look very sturdy and have a good frame *sweet*

Too bad I don't have the money for this thing, nor the space! :'-(

Can't wait to see the next pics!

TTFN! >:-)

Day 2 of building has come to an end and I took pics as I finished sections of the ship.

22 new pics.

These are the sides of the dish and inside of the mandibls. these are held in place by 2 click hinges on either side as well as the 4 blue technic pins inside the mandibles.

Frame now with all the side on and greebling heavan! As stated, I used video tapes to show the length, cause I figured it was something everybody had laying around the house. I wanted to use something I thought use pretty common. 4 tapes long.

Another shot of the sides. 3 tapes wide.

Yet, another shot.

inside shot of the bottom mandibles plates. These are held on with the white 2 x 2 plates with Technic pics on bottom.

Outside of the bottom mandibles plates.

Bottom plates attached.

Another shot of the bottom plates attached.

These just fill out the bottom of the main dish. They are held on with the Techinc pics. 3 on each.

These are kinda cool. These are some inner greebling pieces. These are what you see throught the 4 holes in the mandibles. I'll call these tops. Also these 2 are placed closest to dish of the ship.

These bottoms.

I guess this is a top shot of the front ones.

Bottom of the front inner greeblings.

Inside of the something. Not sure what to call it.

Outside shot of same piece. This one goes on opposite of the cockpit. It is a bottom pieces aswell.

Inside shot. This one has the boarding ramp and, as you all know, goes on the side with the cockpit. These are held in place by the 4 Technic axels. 2 on either side.

Side shot with the ramp lowered.

Outside shot of the same piece.

This is the top gun turrent.

Bottom of the top turrents. Nothing holds this on. The 2 studless Technic beams slide between the 4 studless beams from the bottom turrents.

Bottom turrents.

Notice the 4 Technic beams with the red pins in them. These are what I was talking about above.

Those filler pieces attached.

Greeblies attached.

Another plates attached.

The one with the boarding ramp attached.

Bottom turrent attached.

Top turrent in place.

Edited September 30, 200717 yr by jamie75

X-O !That is blood awsome! X-O (as in cooland huge) thanks for the pics. Btw why is the date 1/1/02???

I never set the date in my digital camera.

That is why the date is 1/1/02.

Also, before anyone askes. The reason I used video tapes to show the size, is because I wanted to used something everyone would know the basic size of! They seemed to fit. I know they outdated tech. But, chances are you probably have some laying around the house and now you can string 4 together and have a general idea of size.

The model is about 4 tapes long and 3 wide! Give or take about an inch.

Jamie

Edited September 29, 200717 yr by jamie75

Massive - I

Wow! I love how strong the support structure looks; it is a great step forward from the comparitively fragile one of the UCS Star Destroyer, so I expect that 10179 won't suffer from the structural sagging/warping problems of the ISD. Still, it might be hard to MOD in an interior, especially with all the red Technic pins. But why quibble? Great set!

Man I wish that set wasn't soooo expensive!!!! *wub* *wub* *wub*

By the way, I can't quite figure out if the landing gear is retractable or not... Is it?

By the way, I can't quite figure out if the landing gear is retractable or not... Is it?

I don't think so. On the Pictures it looks like they are not retractable.

Man I wish that set wasn't soooo expensive!!!! *wub* *wub* *wub*

By the way, I can't quite figure out if the landing gear is retractable or not... Is it?

No, it is not!!

Jamie

Is that the boarding hatch I saw there? And if so, it has studs down, not up...must make it hard for the minifigs to get in...

Dr. S.

Is that the boarding hatch I saw there? And if so, it has studs down, not up...must make it hard for the minifigs to get in...

Dr. S.

That is true but it would be real fun sliding back down again! ;-) It is a great way to review something Jamie I look forward to what you finish tomorrow!

Your pictures

There was a quick-build-event in all of the german Lego stores today.

Subject to build: The UCS-MF! :'-)

Altogether 16 members of 1000steine.de were invited to build the 10179 in Munich, Cologne, Oberhausen and Hamburg.

I don