Floor

Baseplates arrived yesterday. I had bought extras, but then decided there needed to be more floorspace (for tools and crew and stuff,) and used the extra plates to widen the hangar. Now I need to buy more...

Oh, and Andrew brought his newest Viper and Raptor over, and I got mine back from Fradel, who was borrowing it to make his own. We also built a bunch of figs based on characters from the show.

PROJECT UPDATE

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That's a lotta Vipers (and other ships!)
I posted this mosaic of all the current finished or WIP Vipers that have been tagged or added to the ChiefLUG pool. I couldn't be more excited for the turnout so far. The last few days have been especially rewarding as several models have been finished and posted and I hear about more and more in the works.

This display is going to be EPIC.

Another

What about this one?

Hangar Started

I finally started the Hangar today for the BSG Display:


Not much to show, just testing out an idea for the stripey columns. Still not sure what to do for the floor, but leaning towards baseplates with tiles on top.

Regardless, I think I'll be spending way more on this project on Bricklink than anything I've ever done before, because if I go with this technique, I'll need lots of slopes and their inverses, and TONS of jumper plates.

Blogged!

The Initiation was blogged about on the Brothers Brick yesterday! That's great exposure for this crazy display. I didn't mention it before, but I also made a Flickr group dedicated to the construction and display of this project.

I figure posting about it as many places as I can (within reason: the folks at Classic-Castle wouldn't care for Vipers :P) will help get more models for the ChiefLUG Galactica display, which seems to be slowly catching on.

ChiefLUG Initiation Announced

Today I announced the ChiefLUG Initiation here on Classic-Space.com, with an additional mention on Flickr.

What's going on? Why am I doing this? This all basically happened because you know how much I love Andrew's Viper


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I decided, after a brief conversation with Andrew about it, that there should be a Battlestar display at BrickCon, and that ChiefLUG should be behind it. There's a ton of BSG fans among the Lego spacer community, and a love for all things Colonial and Cylon in geek culture at large. I imagined rows of custom Vipers all lined up, with the Colonial Anthem blaring from a radio nearby.

By making the Viper build the requirement to enter ChiefLUG, I think we'll not only get a lot more members in our pseudo-KeithLUG, but we'll also be able to easily fill some kind of BSG display at the Con.

And the more I think about this display, the crazier I get. Why just throw Vipers down on a table? They need something equally nice to sit on. What about the hangar? I've thought about building the hangar ever since I first started watching BSG and people called me Chief. But I never felt up to the task. And surely a hangar big enough to hold a few Vipers would be much too big for my collection. But... putting them just on tables? No dude, we need the hangar. Well allright, let's see if I can pull this off. (See? Talking to myself: crazy!)


I'll be looking into brickbuilt versus baseplate floors, and start crunching some numbers to see how big it should be. Check back for updates later!

The Birthday Boys

Yesterday Andrew and I celebrated our shared May 13th birthday. I turned the big 24 and Andrew's now 26.


Out to dinner with our lovely Katies (taking the picture)

If you've noticed a bit of Andrew love around here, it's because he is a super awesome builder who lives nearby and is really fun to hang with, and it's just a blast to dissect his models and try to figure out how he does what he does (see previous post where I copied his Viper design.)