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Lictor-Class Prison Ship

I usually don't build anything Star Wars, but I stumbled onto artwork of this ship in a book and had to build it (in summer 2020).

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Damaged 13

Continuing to clean off, photograph, and disassemble a shelf of old MOCs, this mech suit was the oldest still-intact model. Built around April 2015, the goal was a competitive combat focused mech with removable armor to expose damage.

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Space Truck 2019

This model was an experiment in building a small cargo vehicle with an interior. There is a second room behind the cockpit divider which was smaller than I hoped when I started. Large enough for a brick-built bed, but nothing else.

Built in March 2019.

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Pizza Tron Mega-Factory

At the Pizza Tron Mega-Factory, only the finest interstellar ingredients are used in the creation of our dubious delicious pizza. Accepting orders from across the cosmos, pizza production proceeds pragmatically, promptly processing personal parcels for delivery to each orderer's nearest [Pizza Tron kiosk] through a network of patented Pizza Tron Pizza-Portals. Our resourceful mechanized Pizza Tron employees allow the Mega-Factory to maintain an environment free of pesky terrestrial bacteria, and their flawless construction ensures mathematically perfect pies, every time.

Built for the Sci-Fi Corporation Collab Category for Space Jam 2021.

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EHS-CELERITY

Tasked with competing in races held on blizzard-blanketed planets, EHS Team 3 requested FIRN Industrial to construct the Celerity, a snowplow capable of extreme terrain traversal and snow removal. The Celerity blows away the competition with a top speed of 20 kph.

Built for the Team Building: Collaborative Category of Space Jam 2020.

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Search & Rescue Crew

A rover carrying two search & rescue hovercraft. Hovercraft dock onto the underside of the chassis.

Built for the Carrier category of Space Jam 2021

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Conversion of the Dormition

Under the watchful guidance of the ophanim, humanity began to retrofit their religious architecture for a journey to the stars. Standing out among the locations the Theologianauts selected, the Abbey of the Dormition would eventually go on to prove itself in combat, armed with the compact Zion-Cannon.

The ophanim is attached to a tower behind the ship using a clear rod, and hangs forward over the ship to prevent any overhang beyond the 12x12 base.

Built for the 12x12 Vignette category of Space Jam 2021

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Sepia Convoy

A small fleet of Calamercantile Union spacecraft built as props for a tabletop game in 2018.

To accommodate gameplay, the larger BRAGGI ships are built around a modular frame. Each has between 20 and 21 removable and swappable sections. The TALA have 3 removable sections, and the SENTA fighters have none. A single SENTA can dock with a TALA, while up to 8 SENTA can dock on a BRAGGI.

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Nitre Hall

Built in the early 1800s as part of a powder mill property, Nitre Hall is a still-standing two-story residential home refurbished into a museum for visitors to explore colonial living.

This microscale build was one of three Haverford themed models built in 2018 for a LUG display at a community festival.

The windows of this building have three appearances.

Boarded up or blocked by furniture.

No shutters but visible interior.

Brown shutters and blue quarter curtains. While the first two were easy to build, the blue curtains proved difficult. The parts I used to align them on the inside of the building surpassed the number of visible bricks on the outside of the structure.

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Federal School NRHP: 71000704

The Federal School was a one-room schoolhouse built in 1797. It exists today as a restored historical building.

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Beechwood Park - 1907

Beechwood Park was a short-lived amusement park built in Haverford Pennsylvania to attract riders to the nearby railroad. It was operation from 1907 to 1909.

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Ice Mage Landspeeder

The Ice Mage family goes for a drive.

Built in May 2022 as part of the LEGO World Builder Landspeeder Challenge.

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Aquicorn Cove - Aunt Mae's House

A model of Aunt Mae's house (and a nearby tidal pool) from Kay O'Neill's graphic novel Aquicorn Cove.

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Alces Adventurer

The Alces Adventurer is an all-terrain camping tool for the fisherman of the future.

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Ocean Worlds

Two small models inspired by ocean-themed science fiction books. Sklar's Sailboat The Blue World - Vance, Jack - 1966 Cachalot Apartments Cachalot - Foster, Alan Dean - 1980

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DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Reading

A model of the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania.

At the scale I picked for most of these models, this building should be 6 plates taller, but I opted to ignore it to preserve the specific patterns on the street-facing walls.

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Daniel Boone Homestead

A microscale build of the Daniel Boone Homestead, U.S. National Register of Historic Places 72001090.

Based on its late 2022 appearance where the eaves were painted white instead of dark red.