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Star Wars: Sith Infiltrator (7151) & Imperial AT-ST (7127)

Posted on Wednesday, 10th January 2018 by Caz
Filed under Star Wars

A friend from the London AFOLs was selling some old Star Wars sets, and I decided to pick up a couple from her at the meetup on Monday. I chose the Sith Infiltrator (7151) and Imperial AT-ST (7127). They are older sets from 1999 and 2001 respectively. I haven’t built any sets from this era before, so I thought it would be interesting.

Luckily they both came with instructions, and I set about building the Sith Infiltrator first.

7151 Sith Infiltrator Parts
7151 Sith Infiltrator Parts

I actually found building this quite hard. Instructions have come a long way since 1999 – for starters, they didn’t give you the little list of parts you need for each stage, which I find is very helpful for checking you have done everything for that step. With modern instructions, I’m quite careful to gather the pile I need for each bit before starting to put them together. But here you had to play “spot the difference” with the previous picture to see what you were supposed to be placing where, and it was much easier to miss little bits which you then had to go back to.

In the end there was only one piece missing – a corner 2×2 slope. But I wasn’t too bothered as I don’t plan to keep the model built. I’m much more likely to use the parts for my own purposes. It was also interesting to see how build techniques have changed. It ended up with a lot of studs showing, which isn’t so common now. Plus each wing assembly was held on with one Technic pin into a rather chunky piece known as a Light Gray Slope, Inverted 65 6 x 6 x 2 Quad with Cutouts (30373), which proved to be rather wobbly when swooshing the ship about.

7151 Sith Infiltrator Built
7151 Sith Infiltrator Built

In the end I decided not to put the AT-ST together, but just sorted the parts into my inventory for future use.

7127 Imperial AT ST
7127 Imperial AT ST

Tagged with 7127 / 7151 / imperial at st / older sets / sith infiltrator

Advent: Day 1

Posted on Friday, 1st December 2017 by Caz
Filed under Advent / Seasonal / Star Wars

I bought myself a LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (75184) this year – the first time I’ve had an advent calendar of any sort for ages. And I also got the neat promotional set 24-in-1 (40253) free with a reasonable purchase from the LEGO shop online a couple of weeks ago. Both sets come in colourful boxes with great images on the front, which give you a good idea of what you can expect to build.

75184 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2017
75184 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2017
40253 24 In 1 2017
40253 24 In 1 2017

Of course, the Advent Calendar will be unveiled one day at a time, but the 24-in-1 required me to empty the contents into a sorting tray and start rummaging! There appears to be a good selection of pieces in plenty of interesting colours and yes, another pesky orange Brick Separator! The instruction booklet is substantial with decent step-by-step guides to each model (and advice to use that brick separator at the end of each day, ready for the next one!). Parts are re-used so you won’t be able to make all 24 models at once, but that seemed fair enough.

24in1 All Parts
24in1 All Parts

So what were today’s builds? The Star Wars calendar instructions appear on the rear of each door as you open them. No. 1 hid a charming little Ghost ship, nice and colourful and a few decent details around the sides.

Star Wars Advent - Day 1
Star Wars Advent – Day 1
24in1 - Day 1
24in1 – Day 1

Meanwhile we had a different sort of ship with the 24-in-1 – a Tall Ship with treasure aboard! Quite a cute model and an inventive use of the wing pieces for sails.

I had also bought myself what I thought was a nice little Christmas Tree model with a couple of minifigs and presents around it. I was quite disappointed on opening it that it just appeared to contain enough pieces to make the minifigs, presents and a “star” for the top of the “tree” – which was just a print on a cardboard box inside!

I must admit to feeling pretty cheated by this packaging:

Christmas Tree Box
Christmas Tree Box
Christmas Tree Built
Christmas Tree Built

I had genuinely assumed the tree would be in there too, and rather disappointing that it wasn’t. Do you find the first picture misleading?

Tagged with 24in1 / 40253 / 75184 / advent calendar / gift with purchase / gwp

Star Wars: Wookiee, Luke & Yoda

Posted on Friday, 10th November 2017 by Caz
Filed under Minifigs / Star Wars

I have recently acquired a trio of new Star Wars sets, which were fun to build. I started with set 75129 – Wookiee Gunship. It was quite a straightforward to put together, and it was great to have a Chewbacca Minifig at last.

75129 Wookiee Gunship
75129 Wookiee Gunship

Another iconic Minifig is Yoda, and set 75168 Yoda’s Jedi Starfighter of course included one, complete with a lightsabre almost as big as him! It also included R2D2 in his little dock on top, not the first R2 Minifig I own but you can never have too many. I like the way that the cockpit opens so that Yoda can hop out.

75168 Yoda's Jedi Starfighter
75168 Yoda’s Jedi Starfighter

The last one which arrived was set 76173 Luke’s Landspeeder. I like the curves at the front of the craft and was intrigued as to how the detailing between the plates would be achieved – bendy pipes, it would seem! The model included Minifigs for Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and C3PO, as well as a Tusken Raider and Womp Rat.

76173 Luke's Landspeeder
76173 Luke’s Landspeeder

So, a nice little trio which have gone on display in my LEGO cabinet, rather than being put into the general pile of bricks.

Tagged with 75129 / 75168 / 76173 / c3po / chewbacca / gunship / jedi starfighter / landspeeder / lightsabre / luke skywalker / obi wan kenobi / r2d2 / tusken raider / womp rat / wookiee / wookiee gunship / yoda

Star Wars: Rebels & Episodes Sets

Posted on Saturday, 4th November 2017 by Caz
Filed under Star Wars

As well as the smaller Microfighters, I also have a few of the slightly larger Star Wars sets, from various sub-series. I gathered them all together for a photo call today.

75038 Jedi Interceptor
75038 Jedi Interceptor
75048 The Phantom
75048 The Phantom
75080 AAT
75080 AAT
75081 T-16 Skyhopper
75081 T-16 Skyhopper
75090 Ezra's Speeder Bike
75090 Ezra’s Speeder Bike

I also had the General Grievous’ Wheel Bike (Set 75040) but it had had to be taken partially apart for storage, and to be honest, I couldn’t be bothered to rebuild it. It’s a set I’ve never liked much, so I’ll be happy to see the parts reused for my own MOCs in due course. These others may well get recycled too – as I mentioned in the Microfighters post, they take up a lot of room and I don’t really “play” with them, so recycling beckons! I’ll keep all the instructions though, so if I ever decide to rebuild them at some point it won’t be a problem.

Tagged with 75038 / 75048 / 75080 / 75081 / 75090 / episode 1 / star wars episode 3 / star wars episode 4-5-6 / star wars rebels

Star Wars: Microfighters

Posted on Wednesday, 1st November 2017 by Caz
Filed under Star Wars / Video

I recently dug several of the small LEGO Star Wars Microfighters out of the box they had been hiding in. I’m not sure what to do with them, to be honest. I don’t have enough room to display each individually and they are great for “play” but at my age, I don’t do too much of that!

75034 Death Star Troopers
75034 Death Star Troopers
75072 ARC-170 Starfighter
75072 ARC-170 Starfighter
75073 Vulture Droid
75073 Vulture Droid
75074 Snowspeeder
75074 Snowspeeder
75075 AT-AT
75075 AT-AT
75076 Republic Gunship
75076 Republic Gunship
75078 Imperial Troop Transport
75078 Imperial Troop Transport
75079 Shadow Troopers
75079 Shadow Troopers
75089 Geonosis Troopers
75089 Geonosis Troopers
75161 TIE Striker Microfighter
75161 TIE Striker Microfighter

I realised that I really enjoyed building the models but looking at them? Not so much. Do I decided to rebuild a couple and make a little stop-motion animation of each. First up was the TIE Striker:

Then I tried my hand at the ARC-170 Starfighter. I made the animation a little bit slower this time, which I think worked better.

They kept me quiet for a little while! Anyway, I’m rationalising my LEGO at the moment, so they may get subsumed into the general pile at some point, to be recycled into interesting parts for upcoming MOCs.

Tagged with 75034 / 75072 / 75073 / 75074 / 75075 / 75076 / 75078 / 75079 / 75089 / animation / build video / microfighters / star wars microfighters / stop motion

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