Kashyyyk teaser....

We decided to make a "Battle of Kashyyyk" fantasy set. 

The first  step was to make a draft of a treehouse on my chalkboard. 

We had so many brown pieces, it was easy to build. We used string to stabilize the structure. We had to drill into a few bricks to stick axles through them. That was fun.

This photo shows our project in front of two treehouses that we made about two years ago.

Joker cards....

In March 2012 I created a Star Wars board game called CHASE THROUGH HYPERSPACE (you can check it out here).  Yesterday I made 3 joker cards for my game!

One side of the cards shows a character and its strength, the other side features a funny rhyme that we created for it.  

Obi-Van Kenobi and Kit Fisto are the strongest characters, with 25 steps each....
Until yesterday the strongest cards were Captain Rex (21 steps) and Sidious (20 steps).

jedi planning center

This LEGO jedi planning center is where the jedi plan out their missions. My set includes Anakin, Obi-Van, Yoda, Cody, Plo Koon and Mace Windu. The pieces of map come from a sectional globe that I got for Christmas. The globe features 8 sections and shows the cities of planet Earth. 

arctic OUTPOST!

This is a tower for the Star Wars Separatist Alliance that we built at home and photographed at a nearby lake.  The tower consists mainly of TECHNIC pants *sorry... parts :) 

This structure reminds me of a tree-house.  The platform rotates by 360 degrees. The command centre at the top is a glass sphere.

But what the heck happened to my favourite clones? Must be the heat!!

Peace-out and seeyoulater….

STAR MACHINE

We put a flashlight on the lego machine from my previous post.  We used an app
called slow camera to create a light trail. Surprise... we got star shaped light patterns!
The exact shape of the star seems to depend on where you put the flashlight on the turning
table.  howcoolisthat!!!!

Can machines do art?

Mine can!

We built a machine that can rotate around two axles at the same time.  

A glass surface is attached to the machine by one of the two axles.

Its movements can be traced with a marker that's held by a lego arm.

...repeat the process and you get these amazing shapes... not two of them are
alike!!

light-o-sel

My dad and I built a lego machine with gears, that turns around with

 4 tiny flashlights on it.  It works  kind of like a carousel.

We turned the machine on and I made some photos.  The twirling movement of the lights created these amazing shapes. 

The following photo shows the machine turned off, but the lights on.

REX'S X1 SPEED ATTACK

THIS tank has really awesome handling and suspension. THE wheels can handle anything you throw at them!

Baby!

   

We combined two pictures of the tank using graphicConverter, turning them into one picture.We did this because we wanted to show the action of the wheels.

my mobilego

It has 5 rectangular structures hanging from sticks.

We had to figure out the mass of each  structure.

We used lego dots for units, for example the smallest piece has 25 dots.

We used math to plan out all the sizes.

For example the biggest weight, 150 dots, equals the combined weight of all the other weights...

Air moves the mobilego around....

    

Republic Cruiser

I made a republic cruiser mini

version with my dad in 3 days.

It's special because it

has a lot of angles and hinges!

Then I made photos

with an app called Blue Print.

Blue Print turns the images into sketches.

I used GraphicConverter to change the colors.

DARTH MALGES' CATERPILLAR

IMG 4962 http://vimeo.com/58833044

BOOM!

ME and my dad made this Darth Malges

tank yesterday!  

It has a hatch in the back and holds 2 minifigures! There is a large dish on top
                                          of the cockpit! Darth Malges uses his vehicle on rough
terrain!!  The controls in the cockpit come from different LEGO sets!
                                             

My trike-x fighter (Obi-Van's!)

We made a new LEGO fighter for Obi-Van, with only 1 engine.

I made this video on my i-pad with an app called

stopmotion! Then I downloaded it into the apple

computer.

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Click on the http://vimeo.com/57783359 to see the film!

For each LEGO piece added and each movement of the ship,

it took one photo. So I know that the ship consists of about 166

pieces.... We added some music that seemed fitting.

WHEN YOU MAKE A STOPMOTION FILM

IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOT MOVE THE

CAMERA.........................

B-11-3 Shuttle

This is a photo of the B-11-3

shuttle.  It was made 2 weeks  ago.

The 2 minifigures in the image are Master

Windu and his droid R3-b3.
R3-b3 is a rusty phantasy droid from the old world.
But very trustworthy.

B-11-3 is a phantasy shuttle using the cockpit of the Imperial V-wing

star fighter.  It has hyperdrive and additional inclined wings in the
back.

***Hope you have a merry Christmas***

''SURPRISE''

C-3 SPEED CLIMBER

THIS 3 WHEEL machine is one of the 3

LEGO sets I and dad designed and built yesterday!

it has two orange lights

    and windows

    for

Lux and Ahsoka

     THE SPEEDER HAS zig zags on it

as well as a control out

of the cockpit.

The cockpit windows

come from the ARC-70 Starfighter.

This is LUX and AHSOKA's

second vehicle together...

Marmucktus 5

The Marmucktus 5 is owned by Lux Bonteri.  The only reason that Ahsoka is in
it too is because on this mission Lux and Ahsoka are assigned in a team!!!

 Lux piloting ship

Lux is featured with shoulder pads

and Han Solo's Hoth suit!!!

3 figures come in my set...
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