Projects

Star Base

01.11.2023.11.20

After the construction of PSO and the “Waterworld” (-> This is unfortunately not yet documented, so I can’t write about it yet), I now have a plan for a bigger construction project. I will convert the LEGO Set 75159 Death Star UCS into a space base. The space base will then be used in the Gamma System (star RX J1856) to explore the exploitation potential of a neutron star. The idea is to take over the basic structure of the 75159 set and then re-do the individual rooms in ClassicSpace style, e.g. with a small hanger for a research ship, naturally many antennas and sensors, laboratories, measuring stations, research facilities,… Read More

Project – Heliophysics – Part II

23.08.1831.12.18

Around April / May I finished the concepts for the Heliophysics units and now it was time to turn them into reality. But a lot of Bricks have been missing,, also for the Spaceport … To make a long story short, what happend from April until End of August was the following: A Lego Builders corner was established in the cellar All Bricks I stored so far in Plasticbags etc moved down stairs I bought 2x5kgs of used parts to fill up my stock I had to sort all of this and settle on some sorting boxes etc I completed the SpacePort as a real build I completed the HelioPhysics… Read More

Projects – Heliophysics – Part I

20.05.1809.10.20

After I finished the Eagle, the Science Convoy and Mobile Mining Station with all their problems, my attention was moved for sometime to the SteinCHenStadt Exhibition and what to present there, the layout of the base and translating the webpage from English to German , … But unfortunately SteinCHenStadt was cancelled, so …. Well while translating the various sets from English to German, I noticed, that I actually already had a set, that was in its description similar to the StormClipper (a small set I designed and built), the Twin Starfire. So I started to think, what else could the Clipper do and started to see it as a small… Read More

Projects – Part VI

20.04.1820.05.18

Continued from here So after I had finally all parts together, I started building the Eagle and the resp. payload modules. Overall the digital design worked quite well and almost everything worked as planned, but … First problem, which appeared was how to actually put the payload modules into the mid section. Remember it basically had to slide from bottom to top. The fixation with the technic brick holes and the pins on one side and the axle on the other didn’t work at all. It was almost impossible to get the payload section and if it worked on one side, I couldn’t really fix the axle on the other… Read More

Projects – Part V

21.02.1820.05.18

Continued from Part IV So, the Science Convoy was derided from the a MOC design by Andrew Daemon I found via Pinterest. I liked the idea and approach, so I started working on it. My starting point was the LDraw model of the All Terrain Vehicle (Set 6927) I started adjusting the color code into the grey / green design as in Andrew’s design. However after looking and re-think, where the Convoy would fit into the narrative of classic space, I was convinced, that the color scheme of the All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) is the correct one. The ATV is part of the Science community of Alpha-Base and as the Convoy… Read More

Projects – Part IV

17.02.1822.04.18

continued from Part III Now for the second item, the Cryro-Lab. My initial idea / plan for a 3rd payload unit after the crane and “bus” was actually a type of flight deck, where the small shuttles could sit and than be release above a planet etc. I tried a few things and ideas but nothing was really going anywhere. And actually even the small ones are quite large, so given the space available in the payload bay, I might even be able just to carry 1 small space craft. So when browsing the net, getting regular lego space pictures via pinterest etc I conceived the idea of the ice… Read More

Projects – Part III

15.02.1820.04.18

continue from Part II So after I finished the initial design of the ClassicEagle, I started to work on two additional payload sections: A People Carrier (also called the Bus), that would, like a train coach or bus, transport several astronauts A Cryo-Lab with a small vehicle / flyer bay for drop-off on icy astroids and later pick-up While item 1 was done fairly quickly and straight forward (but also here, digital and reality are partially different) and the idea / concept fixed quite early, item 2 took a few iterations and steps and ideas and throwing aways. But first things first … The idea of the people carrier was… Read More

Projects – Part II

03.02.1815.02.18

Now, as the collection is completed, I re-started to work on my own projects. I decided to dis-assemble the Voyager set and re-start a cargo carrier space craft. This came about as I was browsing the internet and stumbled across the following design: ClassicEagle The ClassicEagle MOC is inspired by the Space:1999 (Oder Mondbasis Alpha-1) Eagle spaceship and has been adopted to be inline with a ClassicSpace layout / design. So based on this idea, I started a new design project in Stud.IO App. I was initially hoping to take the lazy route and find a LDraw file of this build on the internet, but there was none. So I had… Read More

12.03.1729.12.17

December 2017 After the exhibition is before the exhibition and I can already tell, that I will participate at the 1st SteinCHenwelt in June 2018, so I have to think of a few new ideas to built for the show. Currently, I have the following stuff in mind: Eagle Transporter The Eagle Transporter was inspired by the following MOC (link will follow) which I found an interesting combination and a possible solution for the transporter problem (= How do all the vehicles etc move from one planet to the next). The Eagle was design to carry different payloads in its middle section making it a Muti-utility vehicle which can be… Read More

Build your Own

20.02.1721.04.18

After a having bought a few used sets I started to discover a very new aspects of collecting Lego sets: BUILD YOUR OWN. And built your own using a computer, some software and in the end bricklink to order the parts and make a real set. I more or less stumbled across this approach by browsing the Lego Website (look for spare parts), where they have have the Lego Digital Designer Software (LDD) to build Lego sets on the computer. I worked for a while with LDD until I noticed some limits, e.g. I couldn’t get typical LEOG Classic Space parts, such as the crater baseplate or the bricks with the logos on it. So further… Read More