{"id":844,"date":"2018-09-16T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=844"},"modified":"2018-09-16T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:17:14","slug":"ll929-starfleet-voyager-6929-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"LL929 Starfleet Voyager (6929 Mod)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My 1979 version of the iconic Starfleet Voyager.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Starfleet Voyager<\/a> was one of the Lego model I always wanted to have. My cousin had one, one of my friends, too, but I didn’t.<\/p>\n

A few years ago I found out that my brother did also “have” one, in a weird kind of way: He had the infamous 1593 “Super Model”<\/a>, a quite ugly spaceship made with the parts from the Starfleet Voyager and the 6880 Surface Explorer<\/a>. I didn’t know that before, but back in the early 80s it wasn’t easy to get the building\u00a0 instructions, either.<\/p>\n

Now I had three ideas: I could search in my CS boxes for the parts (I’ve traded my Playmobil with my brother’s Lego a few years ago, so his parts are now mine). I could also buy a set on Bricklink. And last, but not least, I could build a modified version of the model using the iconic grey\/blue\/trans-yellow colour scheme from 1979\/1980. As you can see, I chose the third idea.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t just want to replace the trans-blue parts with trans-yellow ones and the white parts with blue ones. I tried to modify the design in a way that the Starfleet Voyager looked like a member of the original 1979 space fleet. For that I also eliminated all the parts that were new in 1981 and replaced them with parts available in 1979.<\/p>\n

Finally I bought a set of custom printed bricks with “LL 929” Lettering. In fact, the original Starfleet Voyager has the set number 6929. So after the change to 4-digit model numbers and all Space models starting with a six, it is the legitimate “LL 929”.<\/p>\n

And now it’s time for some photos:<\/p>\n

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The cockpit section is new, with one more brick in height above the wings and one less below.<\/p>\n

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The “backbone” is new, too. I chose to use Technic beams to create a more rigid structure. I also changed the wing shape of the rear part replacing a pair of 4×4 wedge plates with a pair of 4×8 ones.<\/p>\n

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The cargo area looks quite the same as on the original model. I only changed the inner supports for the cargo box to create room for bigger boxes. Instead of a 4x6x3 box the ship can now carry a 6x6x4 box without changing the exterior shape.<\/p>\n

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So this is my “LL 929” version of the “Starfleet Voyager” in 1979 design. I hope you like it :-)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 My 1979 version of the iconic Starfleet Voyager. The Starfleet Voyager was one of the Lego model I always wanted to have. My cousin had one, one of my friends, too, but I didn’t. A few years ago I found out that my brother did also “have” one, in a weird kind of way: … Continue reading LL929 Starfleet Voyager (6929 Mod)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2,4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54WOz-dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}