Yeah, you heard that right. I built a Blacktron MOC. That's also a boat. that's also Bionicle.
It's not the first time I have done a boat in Blacktron, but this is the first time I have thrown Bionicle into the mix. after all, I do love Bionicle as much as Blacktron and Boats.
It was a bit of a challenge do build a boat out of parts that weren't designed for it, but I think I managed quite well. The natural flex of the Bionicle elements gave me the ability to get a nice curvature to the hull.
If you thought the recent GWP Blacktron Cruiser was awesome, your a normal human being. If you thought it needed to be much bigger, you might be seb71. The builder upscaled the ship, and did such an excellent job, captured the shape and essence, while still being a completely new and exciting thing!
It even comes apart into the proper sections.
And to top it all off, Bionicle parts are used as greebling.
And it churned out a lot of Blacktron Rovers this time around! Here's a few of my favorite ones:
A usual contributor to the blog here, Spacerunner built this Warhorse. It reminds me a bit of the Alienator, but if it had treads. And obviously a mohawk.
There were plenty more, go check them out here!
A tiny tank for Blacktron 1. It's so cute, but that laser canon will still blow you to smithereens!
Built by Geoff Horswood
It's not often you see a Space castle. and that's clearly what this is. The builder even calls it Castle Black(tron), so there really is no confusion whatsoever.
I am very glad I found this when I did, for this is the 375th post on Color it Blacktron. 375 is the number of the first and maybe most famous castle set, the Yellow Castle.
Before I even saw pictures of the recent Blacktron cruiser GWP, I built this MOC for a contest on Eurobricks. The premise of that contest was to build a space ship with a smaller vehicle within 20-40 studs.
The rover comes out, and it's even got a neat function to do it!
Blacktron 2 may be my bread and butter, but I can still build a mean Blacktron 1 ship from time to time.
This Blacktron treaded vehicle looks like it could take on any terrain! It may not be speedy, but not much is going to get in it's way. Built by Diego Carestiato for Lego Ideas, so maybe go and give it some support!
If you haven't seen the news yet, there is a new GWP on Lego.com, and it's BLACKTRON!
Price point is a little high to get it (It varies by country, but here in Canada it's $250. Ouch) But if you are a fan of Blacktron in any way, go and get it while supplies last!
I'll try to get a review up as soon as I can.
To the death of the Classic Space guy, maybe! This SCARAB racer by Rubblemaker is ready to race against even the toughest opponents. even Sebulba would think twice about racing against the Blacktron SCARAB!
SHIPtember snuck up on me this year. I hadn't really thought about doing it this year, but then I was struck with an idea while at work. A bit of doodling with some graph paper, and BOOM! next thing I know, I want to build SHIPtember. I didn't have a lot of time, with getting ready for a convention in a couple of weeks, and I had not a lot of parts leftover (See previous post), and little table space. But that last one was easily fixed by putting the monorail base on the floor.
Built in less than 48 hours, It's probably my quickest SHIPtember build yet. Maybe one of my quickest SHIP builds ever. But I also didn't do any interior. Maybe later.
This is my Blacktron collection, in case you didn't realize how serious my disability, I mean love for Blacktron is. Especially Blacktron 2.
When Lego randomly gives a number onto a Lego set name (Like Super Nova 2, Star Hawk 2, Star Defender 200), it just invites MOCers to build their own versions and enlarge the number. Paulo Carreira, a person after my own heart, has built a Super Nova III, an upgrade on one of the smaller Blacktron ships.
In the builders own words: "This was build to commemorate the 16th Anniversary of my LUG, Comunidade 0937, where we had to make a Redux of a LEGO set or wooden toy produced in the last 90 years. Of course I had to go for a Blacktron II vehicle since they're the coolest faction ever produced by LEGO." Well, at least one person agrees with me.
This interesting fighter reminds me a lot of the B-Wing from Star Wars. I think the builder may have had that same thought, for he named the ship Blacktron-Wing
The cockpit makes me think of a standard Blacktron 2 style cockpit, with the use of two cockpit parts placed on their side.
Over the years I have devolved a few ship classes in my own Lego universe. Talana Class, Centauri Class, Orion Class, Gatria Class, and Hammerhead Class ships. A few MOCs don't fit into the categories I made, so I just call them Experimental class ships. The Epsilon Elnath was a good example of that. So was the Dalek. Wait... That's not a spaceship. Whatever.
Anyways, here is my latest Blacktron build, a Hammerhead Small Assualt Frigate. It's definitely the smallest Hammerhead Class ship I have built. Barely needs a crew.
It's almost more of a enlarged Blacktron 2 cockpit. Oh wait, tha's what it actually is! Just look at the resemblance:
It can even hook up to most of the Blacktron sets (All but the Arial Intruder, for obvious reasons.)
The sides even open like a standard pod!
At some point, maybe even soon, I want to delve into all the MOCs of each class of ship, how they came to be, distinct features of the ships, how I've improved my MOCing and photo taking skills... That's all for now though!
All the rest of the pictures can be found here.
