NASA and Space X might stick to mostly monochrome vehicles, but great LEGO spaceships play confidently with color. Maybe you take inspiration from one of the classic LEGO space themes, or maybe you just love teal. For Mason Martin‘s starfighter, color isn’t an aesthetic choice but the driving force behind a bold design that fuses sleek lines with scientific scholarship. The Color Theory incorporates RGB, CMYK, and the trusty RYB color wheel. It has a prism, gradients, and a mass spectrometer. How does all that color make it better at swooshing and pew-pewing? I don’t know, I’m no scientist. But it sure looks good from every angle.
Mason started the project nearly a year ago with the distinctive nose cone shaped at a sharp right angle that uses SNOT bricks for a studless tiled surface. The builder does an excellent job maintaining the black bands between the cockpit module and the panels that hold it in place.
After months of chipping away at the model (during which time Mason also built an impressive SHIP) the Color Theory finally came together. It’s an amazing synthesis of high concept and swooshability.
The wings are an inspired design, like scissors connected by a strut. Not much color there, but Mason plays with greyscale in the detailing. My favorite part of the ship is the silver spectrometer cylinder in the center. The curves look so slick, nestled amongst all of those angles.
Instead of engines, the Color Theory draws power from splitting and focusing light. Maybe this unusual method of propulsion lets the ship skip light speed and ludicrous speed and go straight to plaid.
Packing in so many nods to science in a compact design, Mason’s starship echoes the new Evoloution of STEM set, but as an original creative work, the Color Theory is inarguably a masterpiece of STEAM.
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