Thanks so much for the great review BrickVault! This model was a ton of work and I'm super excited to finally have it on the store! Hope you guys like it :)
This, to me, is a great example of SNOT not always being a way to “hide” the LEGO-ness. Some of the weird ways studs have been hidden actually call much more attention to the fact that it’s made out of LEGO, in my opinion.
I would love LOVE to see a midi-scale LAAT, something that really tries to capture details at a small scale and would cost less than $100 to part out. A neat desk piece!
this looks great. i'd love to know a rough cost of the bricks you have to order if you don't have them. i almost wonder if you could use the play-scale razorcrest to make this.
It's still a fairly pricey model to tackle, I'm afraid. It's a lot of little parts, more than 2000. In theory yes some of the pieces from the RC playset would cross over to be used here, but (purely a guess) I don''t think it would make a huge dent in the overall cost of the build if you were to part down the model to build this one.
idk why but i find it funny that literally every creator says SNOT technique, followed by explaining that SNOT means Studs Not On Top. The point of an acronym is to shorten things, it kinda ruins the point if you explain what it means every time lmfao
Could you do a video showing the process for people that have not made a purchase before? Like how someone would go from buy the build guide to purchasing the parts to maybe even receiving the order to show how it arrives?
When rotating your pieces why not just use an Icing Turntable? Cheap andyou can have manual one or controlled ones... The who stick your arm out just looks weird and unprofessional.
3:33 you said it's closer to "A new Hope" than "the Empire strikes back", but the underside (3:48) is definitely based on Empire. There are two additional boxes containing landing gear in the front. In the first movie, the Falcon didn't have those.
Yeah I noticed this after rewatching my vid too :/ I initially made that statement by just looking at the bird's eye view of the models. The front forks are angled/spaced a lot more similar to ANH than ESB, while basically everything else (even some of the DBG accents) all reflect the ESB version of the Falcon. Good eye!
This looks really great, but when I saw how delicately you have to handle it… I was really disappointed. Yes it is build masterfully and with great detail, but I would rather have a slightly bigger version if you can handle it properly. I feel that if you design something out of lego, but you need to be really careful with it and cant let other people to touch it so it wont break apart… you f’d up. Would love to see a slightly bigger, minifig scale and with better (sturdier) designed structure 😊
Save your $30 on these instructions and don't buy. I've been building with Lego for over 45 years and this is the only build I've ever abandoned. I understand the unique connections required to make a model like this but some of the connections are simply too weak and badly designed to hold the structure attached to them. I've been satisfied with all of the Brickvault instructions I've purchased until this one.
Looks seriously impressive, but man, you guys gotta put more effort into model stability. 6:20 that is laughable. You're charging quite a high price upfront for a PDF, and expecting people to spend hundreds and hundreds on top of that for the parts, only to have a miserable building experience. MOC makers need to stop using bad practices when connecting parts that are falsely featured as "clever" building techniques, and you as the publisher need to filter out MOCs that fall apart when you sneeze on them, no matter how good they look. Just my 2 cents.
Maybe you should accept that such technically "advanced" MOCs require less conventional techniques? If you want to swoosh your ships, buy official sets... they're kid-proof. I already picked up several instructions at BV and they've always been super easy to follow. As far as I'm aware they always ensure the build experience is smooth, they wouldn't sell a MOC that's impossible to put together
@@supersky4711 I mean for example Solar Sands tried to make the Resurgent class star destroyer, and wasn't able to. I agree these mocs "require" unique techniques, but there has to be a point where it's just too much. Their snowspeeder has it's wings held on by 2 studs! And its nose panels and blasters are held on by rods pushed into hollow studs, which are less that 1/2 of plate in depth. That's just naughty, and shouldn't really be done imo.
