I’m continuing to expand my microscale space universe. Last time I checked in with a lunar launch diorama, as my home-brew theme shot into deep space from the moon. Now the Interplanetary Expedition Alliance, or I.E.A., has set up a large mining facility out in the asteroid belt.
The facility consists of a large space station as the hub, and two captured asteroids being mined for their mineral wealth.
I worked on this project in sprints over a couple of years, with each of the three main structures being built pretty rapidly. In between, I do a lot of greebling exploration, trying out tiny details to find arrangements of pieces that look interesting to me.
I love collecting rare pieces and then finding places for them in my builds, and one of the pieces I knew I wanted to incorporate right from the start is the large planetary sphere in copper. These are available in a variety of colors and designs from the Star Wars planet series, but they were also produced in copper for LEGO employees at a Family Days event. I’m a total sucker for anything in metalic colors, and copper is such a cool color for space that I knew as soon as I got them that I had to put them into some space builds as large storage tanks.
Each of the builds was created to be displayed at events, so they have removable brick-built stands that can hold them in a dynamic position for display, or be quickly disassembled for transport.
You can see more of this build on my flickr or instagram, as well as read about my previous builds in the I.E.A. universe:
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