I’m continuing to expand my microscale space universe. Last time I checked in with a lunar launch diorama, as my home-brew theme shot into deep space from the moon. Now the Interplanetary Expedition Alliance, or I.E.A., has set up a large mining facility out in the asteroid belt.
I worked on this project in sprints over a couple of years, with each of the three main structures being built pretty rapidly. In between, I do a lot of greebling exploration, trying out tiny details to find arrangements of pieces that look interesting to me.
I love collecting rare pieces and then finding places for them in my builds, and one of the pieces I knew I wanted to incorporate right from the start is the large planetary sphere in copper. These are available in a variety of colors and designs from the Star Wars planet series, but they were also produced in copper for LEGO employees at a Family Days event. I’m a total sucker for anything in metalic colors, and copper is such a cool color for space that I knew as soon as I got them that I had to put them into some space builds as large storage tanks.
Each of the builds was created to be displayed at events, so they have removable brick-built stands that can hold them in a dynamic position for display, or be quickly disassembled for transport.
