The Blood Moon is a no frills starfighter with no explosives, energy weapons, or terribly robust shields. It's job is punching new ventilation shafts through enemy ships with its two powerful cannons, and letting the vacuum of space do the dirty work. It relies on its speed to get away as it has little defense against return fire.
I built this over the course of about 5 weeks. The ideas that led to it started off long before that, though, as I was toying with an idea for a drone fighter. I wanted to revisit the color scheme that I used in my cyberpunk hopper car. Dark red as the main color earned it the working title Blood Moon. I got stuck on that for a while then started over with a very different design in a different color scheme, now featuring a cockpit. After going away on vacation for a bit, I returned and started over again, returning to the original color scheme, and something a bit closer to the original concept than the direction I'd started to veer off into with the first restart.
On top of my original sketch, I took some inspiration from present day lifting body aircraft. With the exception of the tail, the side profile has a deliberate airfoil shape.
This is one of the trickiest MOCs I have made to date, with many, many unrelated angles crammed into a very small space. The only visible part that is even parallel to the frame is the small panel in front of the intake below the black. It also holds my personal record for the number of Lego One Rings abused for stud reversals in a single MOC.
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VV-110 Astral Vortex
This speedy Vic Viper is built to take on much larger ships with its powerful cannons. Each one packs such force that the ship requires a system of shock absorbers behind the prongs to avoid giving the pilot a concussion. Its name comes from a hyperbole about the disturbance it would cause in the fabric of spacetime as it perforates hulls.
I started this ship all the way back in the summer of 2022 as an early Nnovvember build, but I had only built the stud-shooter exhaust nozzles when I joined New Hashima, followed by Medina al Musawrah. It sat on a shelf untouched for years while I focused exclusively on collabs. That technically makes it, per piece, the slowest build I have ever completed by a large margin. I was only actively building it for about 3 weeks of that time, though.
The color scheme was a direct result of my venture into cyberpunk. Dark orange and medium nougat became my new color obsessions, and I was eager to use one or both of them as primary hull colors.
The 110 in the title is a tribute to nnenn, as that is the ASCII code for the letter n.
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This beefy fighter is not much more than two enormous guns flying around powered by two even larger engines, with the minimal amount of space and equipment necessary to keep a pilot alive crammed in where there was room left over. It is built to lead the charge on the unfortunate target ahead of larger, slower ships, taking out any defenses while dodging return fire. The name Jackknife comes from the faux swing-wings, and the large knife-like tail. While the wings don’t really move, I imagine that they would be swept forward as depicted for atmospheric flight, and swing back to provide an extra layer of protection over the engines and reduce the overall target size in space.
This build is an accidental Vic Viper. That is, I didn’t start with the goal of building a Vic Viper, but the guns are large enough to qualify as the front prongs, and it checks the other boxes with the wings and tail. So a Vic Viper it is.
This is my first build after 8 months of no Lego due to a move that dragged on, so I was VERY eager to get back to it. The build took about 200 hours, which I crammed into less than 6 weeks.
See link in bio for higher resolution photos.
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Neo Terminus Collab at Atlanta Brick Con
This was a collab between 10 builders, myself included. It was a very long drive (alone), but worth it to collaborate with this group. This is the first time my tower has been displayed publicly, although I finished it in 2024.
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A breakdown of my latest starfighter MOC, the Blood Moon. This is 5 weeks of building compressed into 5 minutes.
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Blood Moon - 360 Degree View
I finally got the electronics I need to make the lights blink (LEDs are @brickstuff , and I made the blinker circuit), so here is a 360 degree view.
The Blood Moon is a no frills starfighter with no explosives, energy weapons, or terribly robust shields. It's job is punching new ventilation shafts through enemy ships with its two powerful cannons, and letting the vacuum of space do the dirty work. It relies on its speed to get away as it has little defense against return fire.
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The full Medina al Musawrah collab at Brickfair NoVA. This was the work of about 30 builders, myself included.
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Building the VV-110 Astral Vortex in 3 minutes.
I had to speed this up a lot to squeeze it into the time limit for reels. I have posted a slightly slower version on Flickr (link in bio).
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Medina al Musawrah - Market and Hostel
This is my 2nd and final completed building for the Medina al Musawrah collab, shown together with my first because it has no sides and isn't very photogenic on its own. It went together so fast I could have taken on another lot, but it is probably good for my sanity if I slow down a little.
This building has a market on the ground floor that integrates with the carpet shop on the ground floor of my first building. The upper floors contain a hostel.
While the first building was all about the weathering, I really leaned hard on the woodworking on this one. Woodworking is another of my real-life hobbies, and so rendering it in brick was fun.
Like my first, I took heavy inspiration from my world travels, although this one is more of a mish-mosh of different inspiration. The main inspirations were the entrance to the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and the Blue Gate to Fez.
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Mehmet Agha Mosque
This is my first completed building for the Medina al Musawrah collab at Brickfair NoVA 2025, which depicts a near-future Middle Eastern city. This building was loosely inspired by the Mehmet Agha Mosque on Rhodes, which I saw in 2023, and so I've given it the same name. Many of its namesake's architectural features are visible here, but they've been rearranged and altered to fit the look of collab, and my own whims. While the mosque on Rhodes was my main inspiration, I have seen a great deal of Moorish Architecture in my travels, and drew inspiration from many other places too, especially Morocco and Turkey.
There is an Easter egg hiding in plain sight. While in Morocco, I bought a hand-made carpet, which now lives in our living room. The carpet displayed unfurled in the ground floor carpet shop is a custom sticker that I created from a photo of my own carpet; and the minifig looking at it is my own sigfig.
The namesake has shops on the ground floor, which I replicated; and I added a ramshackle hookah bar on the roof to fit the deliberately chaotic look of the city. The namesake is no longer in use as a mosque at all. This build added several more floors, so there is plenty of space for one to take up part of the building, but I left it to the imagination.
While it has only been three weeks since I posted the Hashimacorp Tower, I have not become miraculously fast at building. I started this build in September, and worked on it at the same time as I was putting the finishing touches on the tower, especially as I neared the end and the tower became more frequently stalled by Bricklink orders.
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This is my tower for a to-be-determined cyberpunk collab, either another sector of New Hashima City, or one of its offshoots, whichever I get to first. I did not build it with any specific convention or collab in mind, but now that it's done I will find one. :) I started building almost immediately after the big layout at Brickworld Chicago 2023, and finished about 1.5 years later. This build tested my patience to the core. It was an enormously labor-intensive build, and I had to spend crazy hours building to finish in the timeframe that I did--my record was 20 hours in a single day.
The Hashimacorp Tower is the headquarters of Hashimacorp Cybernetics, a futuristic evil megacorporation. What goes on inside is known to few; few even dare to go near the foreboding tower. The sidewalks around it are largely deserted, as even the shady few who work here come and go via the landing pad midway up.
It stands at 5'8" tall, making it 2 inches taller than I am. The antenna beacon on the top is about an inch from the ceiling when it's on my building table, so that was really the upper limit for how big it could get. I could have moved it to the floor, but I would have inevitably kicked the lower floors to pieces while working on it. It separates into 6 modules, so I did not have to build on a stepladder most of the time.
The tower has working elevators--see the reel I posted just before this.
For high resolution photos, see Flickr (link in profile).
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