Announcing Palpatine's Shrink-O-Matic Ray Contest

[Solo]

cmaddison: The problem wasn't the scenery note, but rather the scope of the contest. The task is to build a vehicle of some sort and your first pic exceeded that. You're all clear now though. Thanks.

MotionOTheOcean: You're good now too.

zhouston: kjklock's entry is fine.

SDIronClaw: Don't sass the man for a simple question please.

Also, if anyone else has any concerns about an entry for any reason but doesn't want to bring it up in this thread for whatever reason: you can always send me a PM. Worst case is if there really is an issue I've overlooked I can let the builder know what needs to be fixed, hopefully while they still have time to fix it.

[kjklock]

Thanks Solo. I was gearing up to take more photos if I needed to, but I'm glad to hear that I don't have to.

[zhouston]

[Blackninjatom]

Y-wing with microfig equivalent and astromech

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[onions]

interesting. you're using the stud on your brickbuilt microfig as the connection for the 1x2 tile.

[SDIronClaw]

The TIE Fighter and Y Wing are superb. Great job!

[Ultron32]

My entry is done. I look forward to any reactions.
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Thoughts? I guess I don't really have much of a description anyway...

[sparkart]

Yay, my favorite, a Y-Wing!

This model shows a nice compact solution to put a microfig into a starfighter cockpit. I'm off to make an X-Wing, A-Wing, and Snowspeeder for microfig pilots!

[naugem]

[sparkart]

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[MacLane]

Here is my entry.

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And here is with the S-Foils locked in landing position:

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Thanks to everyone at FBTB for another great contest.
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[Legomancer]

Here's my entry:


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Great contest, guys! Loving the entries so far!

[sparkart]

Yay, another Y-Wing! Nice greebling.

I've gotta try to make a Clone Wars era version of the Y. I luv the stripped down, hot-rod look of the A New Hope Y-Wings, but the full faired Y-Wings are interesting, too, no?

I'm looking forward to seeing new entries, too. I'm always amazed and surprised by the level of creativity and ingenuity the contests bring out.

[UOldPirate]

There are a lot of great entries so far. The only thing that surprises me is the variation in the scale.

Is the contest more about making a something that looks like it would fit in the Battle of Hoth game, only more complete / detailed or to actual scale size as if you were making a minifig based set and scaling it down to be proportional to the micro fig?

[Legomancer]

My two biggest helps were Google Images for diagrams, but also the New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels. It was through that nifty guide that I approximated my scale; most of it was based off of the astromech droid's size, because I knew it would have to be a brick wide.

[Solo]

[dexterminator]

If I'm making a vehicle that usually fits multiple people, like an aat or the falcon, do I have to be able to fit all the crew or just a driver?

[Jake's Oy]

[Solo]

Just the pilot or bridge crew is fine if you want to go super small for something like a cap ship. You don't need to have the full crew if you want to build one of those but you still need to stick to the pilot orientation rules. SSD's do actually have a bridge if you look up the reference pics, so the microfig should be in that general area if you plan to build that ship.

[UOldPirate]