Last week, I was in St. Louis for the FIRST Championships, showing off some robots in the LEGO Education booth. Unrelated to the robotics event, they had a table full of white parts, mostly from the Architecture Studio set, for people to build with. It’s a very interesting exercise to build using a single colour. You focus a lot more on the shapes of what you are creating, using texture to add detail instead of colour differences. I definitely wandered over to that table whenever I had a chance. Who can resist a table full of pieces? One model that came out of it was a micro scale Millennium Falcon. It wasn’t very accurate to the ‘real’ thing, as there was a limited selection of parts, but upon returning home I thought I would try to make a more accurate version at the same scale.
Here are building instructions if you’d like to try to build your own. You can just use a regular 1×1 cone for the cockpit if you don’t have the squat cone that I’m using, which isn’t all that common.
Here are a few more pictures of it, including the original version I built at the event. May the force be with you. Always.
My son built this and now is very much into the micro scale building style. His latest effort is recreating micro scale scenes from Star Wars movies. Most of them only have about 25-30 pieces.
Some of my favorite of his scenes include Luke after his hand was cut off, These aren’t the droids, and Luke and Leia swing across the gap. Very simple but they are quite creative and surprisingly detailed.