Flying by Bespin: Instructions to Build a Cloud City Vignette
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For each issue of BrickJournal Magazine, the BrickNerd team creates instructions for a LEGO mini-model to go with the theme of the cover story. For their recent issue featuring Star Wars creations, we decided to create a Cloud City desk vignette!
Flying by Bespin
With The Book of Boba Fett bringing our favorite Firespray-class starship back to the forefront (RIP Slave I), we were inspired to create this model to complement all the amazing Star Wars creations in BrickJournal Issue 74.
The LEGO model is a desk vignette of a tiny Slave I flying away from the cloudy world of Bespin. New white corner curve pieces represent the clouds, there is a forced perspective of a light grey Cloud City, and the sunset is brick-built layer by layer out of orange hues. What a sunset!
Here are the step-by-step instructions you can scroll through to build it.
This was originally built as a trophy by Dan Ko for his Small Wars microscale contest in 2021 but was just too good not to share with the rest of the community. May the force be with you!
You can download a pdf of the instructions and full part list that BrickJournal published here. You can also purchase a copy of the entire current issue here. And until next time, stay nerdy about the bricks!
Will you build this Star Wars desk vignette? Let us know in the comments below!
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