Rocketship "Paragon"

The taper here is very nice!

haven't seen this before, i really like.

It's decotastic

Cheese slope here?

Looked too busy

It's pointing the wrong way :P

It points to the trail of destruction

Ha, well put.

Yes! tasty.

It's difficult for me to go against everyone's praise, but the nose on this thing just bothers me. The rest of the MOC is amazing, this part just doesn't seem to fit. Maybe if those tan pieces came in white or red it would look more natural. Great job on this MOC though!

I see he optioned up to the panouramic glass floor, nice and airy.
PS love the retro look.

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing. The tan parts do come in white but I'm not sure it would look better. Sand blue, however, would.

The dealer threw it in for free

It's handy for mooning passing ships, or moons.

that happened to me on an interstate once. Big hairy pressed ham. I lol'd. Hard.

Let's steal a spaceship and head for the sun

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Shadow Viking says:

Oh my yes. I love this kind of spaceship :3
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Squinty Eyes says:

I'm so stealing this idea.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Shannon Ocean says:

It's so georgeous to look at.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

It's even more fun to hold and it's surprisingly sturdy... I may even swoosh it which I so rarely do.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Chewk says:

I want one ;-;
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

brickbitz says:

I thought of 3831 Rocket Ride the minute I saw this. I'd been thinking I needed to give it some CS treatment. Slight inspiration perhaps ?
Great work BTW.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

ZAND3R says:

it is very swooshy.....
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

brickbitz> I'd not really paid any attention to 3831 but it pretty clearly draws inspiration from the same era of rocket design as this does. Short answer is thus 'no'.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

J5И says:

Rocketship wins.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

sam(us) says:

Now this is awesome.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

<(Chris B)> says:

Wow that's hot
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

/ɛ:lvɛn smɪθ/ says:

Perfect size too.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

dasnewten says:

OK, this is all kinds of Awesome and trans-dimensionally cool!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

-Ecto- says:

Aw man I love you
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

yokomode01 [deleted] says:

Retro futurism at its finest!!
i love this creation!
earlscourt.blog54.fc2.com/blog-entry-384.html
the perfect pilot perhaps??
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

mediocre says:

I love the classic design
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

mondayn00dle says:

Great shape, and that glassy cockpit is wonderful.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

RocketSeason says:

Wicked cool!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Proudlove says:

Superb!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Fazoom says:

YES, that gets me in the gizmo.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Dunechaser says:

At first, I thought I liked the fins and the nose best, but now that I look at it again, I still like those aspects of this, but what I really like is the tapering toward the tail.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Amhakia says:

So many good things to comment on I don't know where to begin...the colors, the cockpit, the tapering. Love the touches of chrome on this, too. Just beautiful!!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

Thanks all. It was loads of fun building it.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Thomas LMC says:

Classic space! Sweet!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Captain_Underpants says:

I hope this is going to be part of a dio.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

peterlmorris says:

Holy awesome I'm so glad you posted a breakdown of this. I don't have any of those larger arch pieces, but I bet bricklink can fix that. This is more awesome than that time the Millenium Falcon surfed the exploding Death Star.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

Or you can change the fins :) I have some more ideas for neat fin ideas which will hopefully be appearing soon.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

-: Evo :- [deleted] says:

I really love it!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Chewk says:

Ground control to Major Tom! Your circuit's dead...is there something wrong? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom?

I must build this tin can immediatley.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

DARKspawn says:

Well played
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

peterlmorris says:

Nah, I wouldn't change the fins. The fins help make it, I think. I mean, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy Weasel says:

I hope you enter some of this stuff in the Future that Never Was contest, Tim.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

Dan> I'm not a member of CSF (and don't really intend to rejoin) so I can't. That said I'm happy for you to use it as examples if you like.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy Weasel says:

I thought the rules were setup so that you could enter via flickr, but I didn't study the rules too closely.

You're always welcome to rejoin, or at least you are for as long as I'm the admin. I'd love to see you return, actually, I've always been a fan of your MOCs. I know you left because Nnenn left, and he's welcome back in my book too, though I realize that some bridges may be burned by now.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

My reading suggests that an entry had to be made on CSF and pictures posted here but I may be mistaken. Anyone know the answer?

I'm probably not going to rejoin partially because I still disagree with the Mutant Hive and would feel compelled to highlight this by posting all my MOCs in it which is just stirring trouble but not in a funny way. I do also have other reasons which I won't go into here.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

peterlmorris says:

I wish someone would come back to CSF. It's been overrun kudzu-like by some crazy noobs.

If I see one more MOC titled "MOC number X" where X is an integer, I'll probably start throwing M&M's at people.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

You can always just use a FAILstar when things get out of hand.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

H Dickins says:

sweet
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

eurasianbro says:

genius, but shouldn't the arrow be aiming up?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

^ See the notes on the arrow
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

Can anyone work out why this is coming up under a search for cheese?
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Happy Weasel says:

One of the notes suggests a cheese slope be added to the lightsaber handles on the sides of the cockpit. That'd be my guess.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

mediocre says:

This is a rocketship. It flies to the moon to collect the cheese.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

gambort says:

Ahhh.. For some reason my FF search missed the note so I got a 'No occurences' on a search for 'cheese'.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Alex_Doxey says:

brilliant
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

BloodRedDragon says:

Really cool!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

the oneman says:

Brilliant !
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

buriedbybricks says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called LEGO Retro Rockets, Robots & Rayguns, and I really hope you'll add this to the group!
Feel free to join up as well!
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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