Posted October 15, 201311 yr Hi folks Well, I grew up in the hay-day of LEGO space and re-discovered the hobby (like many did) with the advent of LEGO Star Wars in the 90's. I've been an active AFOL and member of the Brickish Association for about 5 years now and won a few online competitions for a few of my space craft designs a few years back... I've been away from the hobby for a little while and I'm just getting back into things now having been drawn back in by a commercial project I am involved with which is LEGO related (but which I had better not post about yet for fear of lookinglike I'm just here to advertise that :-) I am just embarking on a project to build a large scale (same size as the studio model, ie; 9ft long) Executor Super Star Destroyer for a couple of shows next year. Looking forward to sharing the project and geeking-out with other AFOLs :-) Ben
October 15, 201311 yr Welcome to the forums - Wow. Definitely sounds like a daunting task - I look forward to seeing the updates and your design process - mainly...where do you find a workspace large enough? My main question - will you use the bley or hay-day old Grey?
October 15, 201311 yr Author Yep, it's a big old build.... I have the advantage of having an office and, running my own toy design company that is launching a LEGO related product, I have not only the space but a good excuse to buy lots of LEGO ;-) I'll be using bley (light bluish grey), trying to even build something 1/10th this size out of an obsolete colour would be a nightmare :-) I actually took a load of photos and did some research on the original studio model when it was on display in London some years back, specifically for this project.... it's actually a very light grey colour, not the dark grey it appears in the films. I already have a good 20,000 bricks and parts in the right colours but recon only some of it is actually going to be any use... it's going to take a LOT more plate and tile than I have and is gonna require another 10,000+ specific elements to get it built. My nearest LEGO brand store has lt bley tiles in the pick-a-brick at present so I'm stocking up :-) Should be fun! Ben Welcome to the forums - Wow. Definitely sounds like a daunting task - I look forward to seeing the updates and your design process - mainly...where do you find a workspace large enough? My main question - will you use the bley or hay-day old Grey?
October 16, 201311 yr I am really excited to see your build progress! Hopefully you can post WIP pictures as you go.
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