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Wednesday 25 October 2017

Star Wars Rogue One Jedha Ambush -diorama

This another Rogue One diorama is larger and took longer than my Scarif. I built it almost whole summer (mainly just during weekends though) It is the biggest and most detailed diorama I've ever built.

Imperial tank is ambushed on Tythoni square in Jedha City

Stormtroopers versus Saw Gerrera's rebel partisans
I included section with market square as well
More pictures from my Flickr (includes some W.I.P. pics)



Star Wars Rogue One Battle of Scarif -diorama

I did this diorama last spring and it was one of my largest projects ever. It is quite large while not that complicated construction, what took more time than building the landscape was designing and building MOC-vehicles such as AT-ATC and U-Wing I wanted to add to my diorama.
Diorama without figures and on lower left corner there is custom Tie Striker I built for this diorama.
Battle scene with rebels and stormtroopers on the platform.



I built the sea with loose trans-clear and trans light-blue studs. I personally like the way it  looks while I usually prefer lego-techniques in which pieces are connected. I feel like it's not properly built if pieces just lie there on top of each other. This time I made an exception for this rule.


At-Act attacks- this was hard to because of the scale. I wanted At-Act to be as accurate as possible, but I couldn't do it much bigger than this because it should also fit into my diorama and be able to stand up. It became quite fragile but it could stand on it's own without supports and also legs could be posed just a little


My MOC U-wing on Scarif with Rebel reinforcements

Swash Buckler's LEGO blog is now open!

Hello! I am Finnish AFOL and I've been previously posting my lego creations online on Mocpages  and Flickr. I decided to start having a blog about my hobby, so I can easily tell more about my building projects, show pictures of my ready creations and W.I.P:s and related stuff, like what legos I have bought or planning to buy, what I think of new lego sets etc.

I've been building legos all my life and never really had "dark ages" longer than a few months. My favorite themes are Star Wars, being a huge fan of both legos and Star Wars films, and historical themes like Pirates, Castle and Western in their different variations over the years, as well as other licensed themes such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Batman and Prince of Persia etc.

My younger brother shares my interests and usually we build our larger mocs together. Even though I am probably the bigger Lego-nerd of us two. I usually use the alias Swash Buckler or some variation of it online, It's not my real name, but comes from a term for heroic archetype in fiction which is something that is common to themes I like. I invented it for Mocpages account 2009 or so and then it really just got stuck and I've been using it, or variation of it, as internet alias since then.

I am usually extremely lazy updating my profiles and Mocpages doesn't really work well on my PC anymore, so I've been more active on Flickr. I try to be a bit more active in this blog :)