The Oneirion - Steampunk Airship, por Darren (Brickman Team)

Já aqui falámos dos LCP (LEGO Certified Professional) e mais precisamente de Ryan Mcnaught e da sua equipa "Brickman", devido à sua fantástica representação da baixa de Manhattan, usando mais de 210 mil peças.

Desta vez é Darren, um dos elementos da equipa de Ryan que merece o destaque por esta Steampunk Airship, que é de certeza um regalo para os olhos dos fãs do SteamPunk.

Impressiona pelo tamanho, pelos detalhes, e pela motorização existente. Podem ver mais fotos deste e de outros mocs da equipa Brickman na sua galeria do Flickr.

Fica aqui um vídeo deste grande moc, com mais fotos e descrições.

"Captain Aeuticus Ironcraft invites you aboard his Incredible Gravitirium Steam powered Flying Machine, “The Oneirion”.

Explore all the curiosities of the old and new worlds in this incredible contraption with renowned Professor Archemedia Ironcraft, their son Aurelius, Award winning Archaeologist Lady Adriatica Ironcraft, Sam Gunnel: Engineer, Thomas Knearly: Mechanic, and Otto the marvelous automated man.

This marvellous LEGO model was created by Darren using 8,753 LEGO® Pieces over 130 hours of design and construction!

"The Oneiron" translates to "Ship of Dreams""

"For his Brickvention model Darren went back to one of his favourite themes- Steampunk! For those who don't know, Steampunk is a kind of fantasy future based on steam-powered technology. A long time fan of the aesthetic and and airships meant Darren quickly had a good idea of what his model would look like and he started designing the model in the Bricklink digital LEGO design program Stud.io.

Probably Darren's proudest achievement on the model is the motorised mechanism which both flaps the wings of the ship as well as turn the propellers."

"The motor, battery box and activation switch he hid inside the impressive Steam boiler engine on the top deck."

"The Balloon he made as hollow as possible to minimise the weight the model had to carry."

"The build features tonnes of little whimsical architectural details."

"To add to the sense of the model floating Darren also built a microscale English countryside and cloud beneath the ship.

The hardest part for Darren of this build was actually turning it from a digital model into a display-able reality. With gravity pulling at the model he had to redesign and reinforce as lot of the model to keep it together and allow it to be mounted on a single metal post. The post itself Darren wrapped in silver material which really helped it disappear!"

"Here's a better look at the microscale English countryside. He mounted several of the crop fields at different angles to keep it looking organic."

One side of the ship features removable wall panels so you can see the spiral staircase going up between levels as well as the interior details

"The control deck features round windows fore and aft as well as a steering wheel and engine controls"

 "The individual levels of the ship were all designed and built as individual modules, each with removable panels so that people could see inside the ship to its inner details."

"Darren loves building small details so some of the first things he actually built were pieces of furniture and decorations to fit in the interior of the ship."