After working on it for more than a year, after at least three complete redesigns of every section individually (and multiple rebuilds), I’m finally able to present… my best moc ever.

Ever since I finished my Redscout, I’ve been annoyed that the best moc I’d made was based on somebody else’s design – so it’s an immense pleasure to finally dethrone it with something of my own design (in my book my three best mocs are the Razorback, Redscout, and the Z-Fighter 2).

I’m not completely satisfied with the colourscheme, so I decided to let anyone who wished have a go at it: You can either click the picture below to get a large “paintbook”-version for hand-colouring, or you can find the MLCad-file for it on the instructions page (I’ve spend a lot of time cleaning the file up and reducing it from 220 steps to 141, so it should be much easier to follow).

And yes, this is my entry for the “Show us what you got”-contest on Flickr/Starfighters :-)

“I went over to the other the end of the space section to check the barrier, found it pressed up against the table, and a small kid swooshing your Z-Fighter2 -Â while two others were approaching rapidly!”

Late one day, Mark Stafford told me how he had saved some of my best mocs from heavy damage - or worse! Exhibiting fragile Lego mocs to kids can certainly be dramatic!

Lego World (Copenhagen) was held three weeks ago with more than 36.000 visitors over 4 days.

We were only supposed to exhibit Weltklasse (world class) mocs in the fan-area, so I participated with my Longship, Redscout, Railgun Spider, Boxfighter, Z-fighter 1, 2, 3 the new Z-Fighter 4, and the Razorback fighter I’ll soon be entering into the Show us what you got-contest in the Starfighter group on flickr.
As usual, my mocs are pretty elusive among the pictures taken by the local townies, but you might spot a few glimpses of them on the small space-table next to the Maersk Containership among the pictures taken, enjoy:

Galleries:
http://mocshow.com/thumbnails.php?album=212&page=1
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368699
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368446
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=368234
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/98606
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=369285

Video:
http://vimeo.com/3211616

Fits within a 14×14x5 brick framework when landed and folds out to twice that size – and with a 32 studs long railgun! Apparently I forgot to write a post about it, so here it is with a month delay.

The small starfighter contest was incredibly inspiring, because

a) the size constraints meant that most people would have time and parts enough to finish an entry
b) the size constraints really begged folding functions and
c) the box-configuration was a an excellent excuse for me to experiment with more boxy shapes - something that I’ve wanted for a long time, but somehow my stuff always end up streamlined and roundish.

A total of 84 people entered the contest, and my fighter didn’t even make it to the “honorable mentioning”-list - I might have counted too blatantly on a combination of a large underslung gun and the “biggest moc always wins”-effect ;)

After I posted the moc on CSF, Tony ‘Halfhead’ Haffner asked me for an mlcad file of the moc, so he could try to create an animation of the unfolding process (would look really cool on a starfield background, still waiting and hoping for it!).

Afterwards, I added the file to my instruction page, so everybody can download it and check it out. To my surprise a few people actually build it in real bricks: Nathan Proudlove made a really cool black copy with tan and sand green stripes, while Mark Sandlin created a compact version from the pictures alone (I got to have some of those canopies!).