This weekend, our favorite used Lego place had a sale. All the Lego bricks you can fit in a box for the great price of $3.99! As much as we love the (official) Lego Store way down at the Barton Creek Mall, when you get free-standing Legos, they tend to be plain bricks, namely the square or rectangular ones. Sometimes they offer unique choices: flowers, coins, levers, wheels, control panels, etc. Good luck on finding wing pieces or nosecones. This is where Creative Brick Builder comes in handy. Much like the Web site Bricklink.com, there are bins and bins of loose stuff containing whatever you can imagine.
So I took the instruction manual with me to see how far I would get recreating this Striker-class starfighter from the Old Republic product line. Not bad. I managed to build the chassis which would entail all of bag one in the original package. I only finished one wing because I had no luck finding a large wing part but I do have all the little Legos which will go on top making a pattern, especially the hinge element. I think the hodgepodge of colors are cool. Maybe I will gradually swap out some parts whenever I find matching colors.
I will definitely post the finished product when I complete it. The one major part I’m confident that will cost me is the canopy or cover to the cockpit. Those are always tricky to get the right fit on. Luckily, I found the one for the Z-95 Headhunter which will be my next project to build for less money.