Star Wars Advent Calendar - Day 5
Posted by CapnRex101,
It seems we have settled into The Mandalorian now, after the titular character's N-1 Starfighter and a Pit Droid to look after it, so another model from the Disney+ series is expected today.
I wonder what it will be...
In fact, attention has shifted to the Prequel Trilogy era, or perhaps The Bad Batch again, with a Clone Turbo Tank. The vehicle has not appeared in an Advent Calendar before, which surprises me because its ten wheels and blocky shape are instantly recognisable, even when scaled down this much. Admittedly, the oversized laser cannon is odd and the wheels would ideally touch the ground, but compromises are needed at this scale.
Overall - I think the Clone Turbo Tank translates well to microscale, although I do wish its wheels touched the ground.
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Could still be Mandalorian, given he infiltrates an Imperial base disguised as the driver of one of these
It's okay. Needs a dash of dark red, but hard to do at this scale. Maybe if the 1x3 plate had been dark red instead of bley.
The elevation of the wheels makes me wish we had a 1x1 SNOT brick that's two plates high instead of three.
As far as advent vehicle builds go, this one's pretty good!
I thought this one looked really cool in the instructions. And then once I built it, I felt incredibly disappointed. The wheels just being suspended in the air instead of on the ground looks so weird.
Fun fact: before EP3, SW Legends had a similar vehicle named Juggernaut. The name returned in Mando S2 for a smaller vehicle.
Day 5 ranking:
5. City
4. SW
3. Marvel
2. Friends - bet that print won't return so quickly
1. HP - a Ron that Harry can finally mug
Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground? Maybe using 1x1 modified plates with the ring attachment then use SNOT construction for the upper part?
A pretty nice build, but an even better parts pack; those 1x1 “nipple” pieces are always welcome, and here are ten at once (plus a spare)! And I don’t recall ever *seeing* a 1x1x2/3 brick like the one on top of this before. I wonder whether I have any more (I have a pretty substantial stockpile of sets yet to be built)…
@Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground? Maybe using 1x1 modified plates with the ring attachment then use SNOT construction for the upper part?"
The only way I can envision getting them to touch the ground is to build a diorama with plates for the ground. Leave a 1x5 section of the ground unfinished that plug the tank into that. The wheels should rest directly on the surrounding plates.
(One of these days, I need to look into how well all the Advent Calendar microbuilds scale with each other. Like, the Star Destroyers are all WAY smaller than they should be compared to the X-wings and TIEs. At a glance, the Turbo Tank here looks much, much smaller than it should be compared to years past AATs or Gunships, for example.)
@Brickalili said:
"Could still be Mandalorian, given he infiltrates an Imperial base disguised as the driver of one of these"
True, but that is a very different kind of Juggernaut, whereas this is intended to be the original A6 Juggernaut from the Clone Wars era.
It's an alright model but the oversized gun is really goofy. Especially since the Juggernaut has the same guns on both ends.
I put the spare 1x1 plate there and plugged the dark bley piece into the 1x1 block instead to represent the observation post.
Don't like this model, the gun is too over-sized and the wheels not touching the ground look odd!
"Roger Roger"
Oops sorry wrong faction!
"For the Republic"! That's better.
If only the thing called a tank had a big barrel coming out of its snoot in the movies. XD
@Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
I can think of a few options:
1. Sandpaper
2. File
3. Angle grinder
4. Dremel
5. Hot knife (No, really, that’s a thing. Back when I used to customize SW action figures, I got what’s essentially a soldering iron that has an attachment to use X-Acto knife blades.)
6. Soldering iron
7. Whittling knife
8. Chisel
9. Saw
10. And if all else fails, gnaw on it until they’re short enough.
@Blondie_Wan:
It’s been out a few years, and the stud is completely hollow, but I can’t remember if BL classifies it as a brick or plate, and modified or unmodified.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
I can think of a few options:
1. Sandpaper
2. File
3. Angle grinder
4. Dremel
5. Hot knife (No, really, that’s a thing. Back when I used to customize SW action figures, I got what’s essentially a soldering iron that has an attachment to use X-Acto knife blades.)
6. Soldering iron
7. Whittling knife
8. Chisel
9. Saw
10. And if all else fails, gnaw on it until they’re short enough.
@Blondie_Wan:
It’s been out a few years, and the stud is completely hollow, but I can’t remember if BL classifies it as a brick or plate, and modified or unmodified."
Noooooooooo! That's illegal
(Googles) So apparently the Clone Tank is a *very large* vehicle, so this thing is well out of scale of prior Clone Wars micro-builds. It might scale with the Confederacy Spider Droid that was included back in 2011.
@CapnRex101 said:
" @Brickalili said:
"Could still be Mandalorian, given he infiltrates an Imperial base disguised as the driver of one of these"
True, but that is a very different kind of Juggernaut, whereas this is intended to be the original A6 Juggernaut from the Clone Wars era."
I did wonder if the long gun barrel was intended to be the elongated cockpit of the transport juggernaut but that hunched up main body does resemble the turbo tank variant more
@PurpleDave said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
I can think of a few options:
1. Sandpaper
2. File
3. Angle grinder
4. Dremel
5. Hot knife (No, really, that’s a thing. Back when I used to customize SW action figures, I got what’s essentially a soldering iron that has an attachment to use X-Acto knife blades.)
6. Soldering iron
7. Whittling knife
8. Chisel
9. Saw
10. And if all else fails, gnaw on it until they’re short enough.
@Blondie_Wan :
It’s been out a few years, and the stud is completely hollow, but I can’t remember if BL classifies it as a brick or plate, and modified or unmodified."
For some reason I thought I remember one of the communities, possibly Brickset, terming them blocks. I don't think Lego officially has a good name though.
@beige2 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
I can think of a few options:
1. Sandpaper
2. File
3. Angle grinder
4. Dremel
5. Hot knife (No, really, that’s a thing. Back when I used to customize SW action figures, I got what’s essentially a soldering iron that has an attachment to use X-Acto knife blades.)
6. Soldering iron
7. Whittling knife
8. Chisel
9. Saw
10. And if all else fails, gnaw on it until they’re short enough.
@Blondie_Wan :
It’s been out a few years, and the stud is completely hollow, but I can’t remember if BL classifies it as a brick or plate, and modified or unmodified."
Noooooooooo! That's illegal"
The dark side is a pathway to many abilities considered to be... unnatural
11. Lightsaber
12. Force lightning
I can see one of these being built into the ground slightly in a microscale build, similar to the May the 4th GWPs from a few years back. It's a neat model other than that one limitation.
@Binnekamp said:
" @beige2 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
I can think of a few options:
1. Sandpaper
2. File
3. Angle grinder
4. Dremel
5. Hot knife (No, really, that’s a thing. Back when I used to customize SW action figures, I got what’s essentially a soldering iron that has an attachment to use X-Acto knife blades.)
6. Soldering iron
7. Whittling knife
8. Chisel
9. Saw
10. And if all else fails, gnaw on it until they’re short enough.
@Blondie_Wan :
It’s been out a few years, and the stud is completely hollow, but I can’t remember if BL classifies it as a brick or plate, and modified or unmodified."
Noooooooooo! That's illegal"
The dark side is a pathway to many abilities considered to be... unnatural
11. Lightsaber
12. Force lightning"
13. Having your ghost possess clones of your body for 30 years
@ MCLegoboy:
I’m not sure how hostile corporeal takeovers get the wheels any closer to the ground…
@Ridgeheart said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
Place it sideways."
That only works for half of them. You’ll still have to remove the rest from the chassis. Ooh, that reminds me:
14: Blow it up!
I wasn't sure what this was until I looked the Juggernaut up on Wookiepedia; I was remembering it as having fewer wheels.
-Opens the door-
-Has puzzled look on face-
-assembles whatever this is per the instructions on the flap
-thinks for a moment-
-smiles proudly realizing that I just built the Mouse Droid King
@PurpleDave said:
"@ MCLegoboy:
I’m not sure how hostile corporeal takeovers get the wheels any closer to the ground…
@Ridgeheart said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Can anyone think of a way to make the wheels touch the ground?"
Place it sideways."
That only works for half of them. You’ll still have to remove the rest from the chassis. Ooh, that reminds me:
14: Blow it up!"
After enough rot and decay, the wheels will touch the ground. Hopefully they don't call off first.
It’s a fun little build, I do wish the wheels touched the ground, but it’s a micro build so how picky can we get? I like the oversized gun, to me things like that are what make Lego microbuilds fun and quirky. Not everything is going to work out perfect (they can’t all be Din Djarins N-1 starfighter).
I did have to look up the build after I assembled it cause when I first opened it I definitely thought we were getting a super mouse droid XD