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[SharkyMcShark]

I quite like the Iron Monger.

Every few years I get really taken with the idea of making mechs from Lego but its not something I ever developed a knack for.

[Miss Kitty Fantastico]

Every few years I get really taken with the idea of making mechs from Lego but its not something I ever developed a knack for.

It took quite a while - he's the second Iron Monger, the first was larger and much clunkier. I can't remember now which set it was, but this new one came from a set with a mech I didn't need, so it got stripped down to its skeleton to provide the basis.

Anyway, I finished my Ugly:



Grey-1 (because as always my story brain goes off inventing stuff while my mechanical brain's working on the build), piloted by Tesca, who's an orange twi'lek but that's the closest I've got, just pretend it's not cartoon Ahsoka and the lekku are tucked into the helmet. Born a slave, bit of a engineering prodigy, sold to a scrapper and kept in his cargo bay/junkpile for three years dismantling salvage for valuable components, until her owner brought in a 'dead' Y-TIE she figured could actually be made to work, so she refurbished enough broken parts to put into inventory to make it look like she'd stripped it like she was supposed to, but actually hid the ship away while she got its engines and one laser cannon working enough to take off and blast the cargo bay open from the inside to escape; the deep dark secret she never tells anyone is that she accidentally hit a main power line in the process and just made it clear before the freighter and all forty crew blew up, which is a fair bit to carry when you're twelve and don't know what a therapist is anyway. Besides bottling that all up inside she's gone into salvage by herself, and kept on modifying her ship - it's now got extra engines from a second TIE (but one of them's broken so the quad iron drive is technically a triple for the moment), an X-Wing hyperdrive (it's on the other side of the hull), her own astromech (RX, because she Frankensteined him together from parts of so many junked droids she's got no idea which R model he is), a detachable zero-g sled controlled by an RA-7 protocol droid head to follow her around on spacewalks through the innards of wrecked ships and carry the loot (and crack any locks she finds on Imperial Navy wrecks, because she managed to get into some of the droid's old Imperial Security Bureau programming), and the astromech bay (which wasn't being used since RX had to be wired directly into the ship to get him going) is now a suitlock containing a radiation-hardened exosuit (mainly minifig parts from Power Miners) she can wriggle into directly from the cockpit (hence the tights-and-top outfit instead of a flight suit) to get into damaged reactor cores. I'm not sure whether she's doing this during the Galactic Civil War or after, that kind of depends on where I end up managing to fit this thing on my shelves.

[Miss Kitty Fantastico]

So here's an odd little thing:



I got the microfighter AT-AT/Tauntaun because the tauntaun's adorable obviously, and my natural thought was to have the cute little AT-AT running along behind the full-size AT-AT (it's the motorised one, I haven't got any newer ones because an AT-AT that can walk is by definition better than one that can't no matter how pretty it is) like the little dog in that cartoon with the little dog and the big dog, but there's stuff on the shelf in front of that bit of Hoth on my shelf so it'd be invisible - but then I remembered I'd been meaning to look into making an AT-IC from The Epic Continues for a while, and a micro version's cheaper, so here we are. Initially I meant to just narrow the microfighter AT-AT to de-cutesy its proportions, but then I started wanting the legs to be more accurate, googled a bunch of images for inspiration, and now here we are a week later where the head's really the only thing (mostly) unchanged. Pretty happy with that really.

[Dkaris]

This is my take on Marius Hermann's Jehuty from an old Playstation game called Zone of the Enders. It is extremely fragile and is very rarely moved. It does have a lot of articulated parts though.