Neo Classic Space

https://www.neoclassicspace.com/node/383/devel/token

https://www.neoclassicspace.com/registry/ll-998-%E2%80%93-sapphire-condor

Peter Reid (Legoloverman) had been on at me for a while to do some more Neo Classic Space for a while, but other projects had kept me away. Then when I heard about the 30th anniversary idea I knew I had to do something. I had initially been working on a power functions ground vehicle, but wasn’t really getting anywhere with it. Then Ralph Savelsberg (Mad Physicist) was around one evening and drew a sketch of a ground vehicle that fit the bill. I persuaded Ralph to take on this project and so was born LURCH. At about the same time I started playing around with ship designs. My first attempt proved too unwieldy, so I scaled it down and began to create a MKII spaceship. This began to progress fairly well, but I wasn’t happy with the vehicles that it might carry. By this stage LURCH was progressing well in Ralph’s hands and I came to the inexorable conclusion that the only answer was to have my new ship carry LURCH. This meant redesigning the ship (now MKIII). Thankfully I was able to take most of MKII and simply expand the hangar space. Now MKIII was underway she needed a suitable name. I latched on to the idea of Pete’s that picking up on the Classic Space blue in the name was a good idea (hence sapphire) then add this to a large bird (condor) and there you have it! After about three months building and tinkering the LL-998 was complete. This whole creation owes a lot to members within Brickish: Peter Reid for the initial inspiration James Shields for the Neo Classic site and pushing us all along Ralph Savelsberg for the wonderful LURCH Stuart Crawshaw who designed the ship’s engines Dr Sinister for the photography, editing and film work that you see Oh, and of course, not forgetting Annie Diment for being a sounding-board and vetoing some of my more crappy ideas!

Peter Reid (Legoloverman) had been on at me for a while to do some more Neo Classic Space for a while, but other projects had kept me away. Then when I heard about the 30th anniversary idea I knew I had to do something. I had initially been working on a power functions ground vehicle, but wasn’t really getting anywhere with it. Then Ralph Savelsberg (Mad Physicist) was around one evening and drew a sketch of a ground vehicle that fit the bill. I persuaded Ralph to take on this project and so was born LURCH. At about the same time I started playing around with ship designs. My first attempt proved too unwieldy, so I scaled it down and began to create a MKII spaceship. This began to progress fairly well, but I wasn’t happy with the vehicles that it might carry. By this stage LURCH was progressing well in Ralph’s hands and I came to the inexorable conclusion that the only answer was to have my new ship carry LURCH. This meant redesigning the ship (now MKIII). Thankfully I was able to take most of MKII and simply expand the hangar space. Now MKIII was underway she needed a suitable name. I latched on to the idea of Pete’s that picking up on the Classic Space blue in the name was a good idea (hence sapphire) then add this to a large bird (condor) and there you have it! After about three months building and tinkering the LL-998 was complete. This whole creation owes a lot to members within Brickish: Peter Reid for the initial inspiration James Shields for the Neo Classic site and pushing us all along Ralph Savelsberg for the wonderful LURCH Stuart Crawshaw who designed the ship’s engines Dr Sinister for the photography, editing and film work that you see Oh, and of course, not forgetting Annie Diment for being a sounding-board and vetoing some of my more crappy ideas!

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