Valentine's Day

My entry to another Star-Wars-based MOC competition, this time on a Valentine's/Romance theme.

I call this "Awkward First Date." Rey reads the menu as Obi-Wine Kenobi pours Kylo Ren a drink.

Barbecue

As a companion piece to my esky, I later built this four-burner barbecue.

Esky

Two years ago I attended my first LUG meeting, which included an Australia-Day-themed MOC competition. I brought along this Esky (cooler). I started with two aircraft roof segments as the lid, and worked out the scale from there, building from the top down.

The esky was fully stocked - check out all the details below.

Australia Day

The most recent Star Wars themed MOC competition I built something for was for Australia Day.

As January is in the middle of the southern hemisphere's summer, a day at the beach is a perfect scene. Here's my build.

And now let's have a look at some of the details...

The Horse's Head

The next building I made for Minotaur Bay was a pub, The Horse's Head. I wanted an old-style look for the architecture, so took a lot of the pieces from one of my favourite Castle sets, the Medieval Market Village. The horse-head sign from over the blacksmith makes a great painted pub sign.

Cafe

With plans for a three-baseplate-wide display, I needed a couple more buildings to line the street. I worked on a basic footprint of 8 x 16, which allows for easy rearranging of buildings alongside baseplates.

Below is a cafe, built on an upper storey above another business, a transport company. The side panels from the Cargo Truck were easily modified into building walls.

Pizzeria

To fit in the Seafood Restaurant, my beach setup grew to two baseplates wide, which then meant more buildings to fill in the street.

The first addition was the Pizzeria, modded from its official form as part of the Town Square. I removed the outdoor seating area and moved it onto a 16 x 32 baseplate. I put a jumper plate behind the "City Pizza" sign so that it could be set at an angle, and then added construction workers to that it looked like the sign was still being fixed into place. The worker on the right is hanging the menu on the wall.

Seafood Restaurant

After the apartment building, I kept going with the blue and white colour scheme and built another beachside building - a seafood restaurant.

It was partly inspired by some fish and chip shops near the Gold Coast that combined a takeaway service with a sit-down restaurant.

Chinese Restaurant

When it comes to the Ninjago theme, I'm not a fan of the vehicle sets. The buildings are a different story, and I recently built 70728 Battle for Ninjago City. I love the colour combinations of red, gold and dark green.

I have a couple still in the box, with future plans for a large medieval Japanese display. With no room to display it on my shelves, I dismantled the set I'd just built, and then set to work on making a Chinese restaurant instead.

After a lot of trial and error, and some building and re-building, I ended up with the building below.