[MOC] [LXF] Minifig-scale Phantom from Star Wars Rebels

[braddavis2017]

Hey Scottish Dave!

I am a HUGE fan of your work, and your minifg scale creation of "The Phantom" is by far my favorite! Since 2014, when the TV show Star Wars Rebels first aired, a correct version of the Phantom has been desired by all Lego fans (since LEGO's version is somewhat poorly designed an inaccurate). I have downloaded your LXF file for LDD so I could build this fantastic set; however, I have very limited parts and cannot complete it with my current bricks. I attempted using Bricklink and even Lego.com to purchase the necessary bricks but I found myself lost after a couple minutes. I was wondering if you could post a list of all the parts used in your Phantom model to make ordering bricks simple and efficient. Thank you for taking the time the read this and I hope even more detailed instructions will be posted soon! Thanks!

[LiLmeFromDaFuture]

1 hour ago, braddavis2017 said:

Hey Scottish Dave!

I am a HUGE fan of your work, and your minifg scale creation of "The Phantom" is by far my favorite! Since 2014, when the TV show Star Wars Rebels first aired, a correct version of the Phantom has been desired by all Lego fans (since LEGO's version is somewhat poorly designed an inaccurate). I have downloaded your LXF file for LDD so I could build this fantastic set; however, I have very limited parts and cannot complete it with my current bricks. I attempted using Bricklink and even Lego.com to purchase the necessary bricks but I found myself lost after a couple minutes. I was wondering if you could post a list of all the parts used in your Phantom model to make ordering bricks simple and efficient. Thank you for taking the time the read this and I hope even more detailed instructions will be posted soon! Thanks!

Hi braddavis2017,

 

You can discover all the necessary parts for the digital build by exporting a BOM from the LFX file; found on the file menu.

 

I hope this helps your endeavors.

[Flandy]

Wow this is epic! You have done an amazing job, it looks superb, inside AND out!

[ScottishDave]

14 hours ago, braddavis2017 said:

I am a HUGE fan of your work, and your minifg scale creation of "The Phantom" is by far my favorite!

Hi braddavis2017, Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them.

12 hours ago, LiLmeFromDaFuture said:

You can discover all the necessary parts for the digital build by exporting a BOM from the LFX file; found on the file menu.

What he said :-). I've tried it myself - it produces a rather nice MS Excel document, complete with pictures. I even opened it in OpenOffice on my mac, just to see... it worked fine.

8 hours ago, Flandy said:

Wow this is epic! You have done an amazing job, it looks superb, inside AND out!

Thank you Flandy, much appreciated.

[monkypaws]

How good is this model. Just spent a very enjoyable hour or two in Stud taking this apart and working out structures. The nose section is so well put together, elegant use of slopes really well worked out angles, reminds me lot of the orange cockpit structures on Nick Trotta's 'Irridium Dawn' and that is some of the most complicated, well put together lego I have ever seen.  Hats off to you for creating such a great minifig scale Phantom, definately going to be joining our collection.

[ScottishDave]

Hey @monkypaws, so glad you like it! It's always good to receive feedback, and especially good to know that other people are enjoying the models I made.

Credit where it's due: it's nice to be compared to a frickin' genius like Nick Trotta :-), but the idea for the cockpit came from @goatman461's Season 1 build.

Looking at the photos again I realise that the section on the wings made up of 45 degree slopes could be redone with the  Tile, Modified 2 x 2 Triangular, which hadn't come out when I made this originally. You'll need two in yellow and two in white, plus two 2x2 regular tiles and some plates for the underside. I'll leave the exact fix as an exercise for the reader.

[monkypaws]

Cheers for the heads up, have taken a look at the wing and the modified triangular tiles do work well, flatten the profile of the wing, just needed a little jiffery pokery with the bottom layer to figure the best configuration of plates to maximise stability. Have both sets of part on order so will see how it comes out in the flesh. Have also gone through the studio file, got rid of all colour/part conflicts and am putting together a set of instuctions (for my own use only) would be happy to wizz them over to you once they are done if you want them. I know that my son or the cat will comprehensively smash it at least the once instructions jsut make it easier to put back together without having to pore over and pick apart the studio model again.

[ScottishDave]

I would love a copy of the instructions once you're done with them - I can make them available to anyone else who wants to build this.

Good luck with your build! I also have both a son and a cat (although my son at age 15 is no longer excited by Lego) so I appreciate the challenges of keeping things built.

[monkypaws]

Excellent. I will finish off the instructions and then build my model using them, to check for the inevitable blips. Will also pop the alternative wing build at the end. Is it weird that I find building things in stud io just as enjoyable as building them in real bricks. Have just finished building Five_dc's Treadable both in Studio and bricks and getting the tread componants properly oriented to get round the tank and connect in studio was deeply satifying. Will also give you the stud file rather than a PDF as that way if there is anything you want to change, you can tinker with it.

My son is still only 10 so still very much into lego, esp Star Wars. He takes a hand in chosing what we build though building this, he is now trying to leveage for brick vaults minifig scale Ghost. I am angling for the play scale version but is a sign of the disease that a 16000 peice model has gone from being ridiculous to tempting.

[monkypaws]

Instructions Update - Was set back a bit by brothers family visiting from Oz for three weeks but the silver lining of a second batch of Covid is that I have had some uninterupted sofa time to really get to grips with it. Just finished the first draft and am currently exporting a pdf with which to do a test build. Think I have got rid of all the sequencing problems created by my initial build and formatting gremlins that appear every time you save out of the programme, fingers crossed.

William

[ScottishDave]

Life gets busy, doesn't it? Sorry to hear about the Covid, but glad to hear you're making progress. Take your time, get it right :-).

 

[monkypaws]

All built, and thouroughly enjoyable build. Favourite part was putting on front cannons. As you are doing it you think its never going to hold, then snap in the to internal 1x4 tiles and it is locked tight. The only part that is going to require a major instuctions reshuffle is the building of the angled nose section. the way I built it in Studio was 'throw it against the wall frustrating, then having to repair it after son crash landed it, found a much easier sequence of doing it in two discrete sections. Will be intrigued to post you instructions and see how different my sequencing is to how you built it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ScottishDave]

That looks great! I like the way the modified wings look, and I am pleased to see it built. I hope you and your son have a lot of fun with it.

I'll send you a PM with my email address

[Gobbel]

Hello, 

I really love your model and I am about to reconstruct it. I wonder if you have the building construction and could provide it to me. I would be very happy.

Best wishes 

Gobbel 

[ScottishDave]

You might want to chase up @monkypaws about that: he never sent me any instructions so the best I can offer is the most recent .io file:https://www.dropbox.com/s/e7zj68ot55dxpww/Phantom.io?dl=0

Also the stickers to go with it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9u46vqw6rrs36ii/Phantom Stickers.png?dl=0

The io file opens in bricklink's Stud.io: https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

You can use Stud.io to view and deconstruct the model. You can also connect to Bricklink from within Stud.io and generate the part list.

Good luck!

[monkypaws]

I am really sorry. I build and trouble shot the instructions and then at the last hurdle, got well and truely waylaid by another poject. I was sucked in by Jojobilou's 6000 peice Mandolorian Juggernaut transport, that also was only a unstepped io file and dissapeared down a rabbit hole building and making instructions for that.  For any masochists out there you can take a look at https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-61683/Jojobilou/juggernaut-as-seen-in-the-mandalorian/#photos.

I am on holiday with the kids at the moment, will be lynched if they see Studio open on the laptop. Next weekend I will check it though and send it off to you. It is still the model in the collection that people gravitate towards. just looks far to sleek and polished to be made of lego.

[Gobbel]

Thank you very much for your answer. I'm quite far with building using stud.io. It's great fun and a super construction. Thank you again for your inspiration.

Best wishes!

[ScottishDave]

@Gobbel, glad that you're OK with stud.io, thank you for the kind words.

@monkypaws I appreciate that you are on holiday. When you're ready, I would still like a copy of the instructions you created so I can share a link in the first post: it would be nice for anyone else who wants to build it.

 

[ScottishDave]

Many, many thanks to @monkypaws for making his instrctions available for free on rebrickable - link here. This page contains both a step-by-step set of instructions and a parts list. The details section contains a list of rare parts to check before attempting a build.

(This has also been added to the first post).

[brodiecarrico]

Im currently trying to build this. Is there a different way to build the undersection for the nose? The hinge pieces in MonkeyPaws instructions are kind of hard to come buy without buying them. 

[ScottishDave]

Yeah, that's pretty easy to do. There's a lot of space in the undersection to turn the studs upside down, which is what the hinge plates were doing in the first place.

How about this?

It uses technic bricks and brackets to reverse the studs inside the nose undersection and has the same dimensions as the original.

Stud.io file, extra parts list and instruction PDF

This should be everything you need to make this mod.

Disclaimer: not tested in real life. I just had a play in stud.io. It "should" be pretty solid though.

 

[brodiecarrico]

On 8/9/2024 at 5:48 AM, ScottishDave said:

Yeah, that's pretty easy to do. There's a lot of space in the undersection to turn the studs upside down, which is what the hinge plates were doing in the first place.

How about this?

It uses technic bricks and brackets to reverse the studs inside the nose undersection and has the same dimensions as the original.

Stud.io file, extra parts list and instruction PDF

This should be everything you need to make this mod.

Disclaimer: not tested in real life. I just had a play in stud.io. It "should" be pretty solid though.

 

Awesome, I’ll have to try this. Thank You!!

Edited August 17, 2024 by brodiecarrico