The dark side of the brick

It's been over a month since I last posted on the blog that no-one reads!  I need to message the blogger.com admins and work out why I'm not getting found on google searches (I've allowed robo mappers!).   Anyway, most of what I've done has been relatively boring deconstruction of sets I've already talked about, though I'll go back through a couple of builds and sets I've not talked about in a bit.  Today, though, I pulled all of the Jedi starfighters off the shelf to deconstruct.  By this I mean the Delta-7 Aethersprite -class light interceptor and not the Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor that Lego generally terms "Jedi interceptor".  Except when that one is called a "starfighter"...  It's confusing!!! Anyway, Lego have released 9 of the starfighters to date, by my reckoning and, having put them all side by side, I come to the conclusion that they are, as a package, things of beauty! There is a great range of colours and decor an...

I'm back into picking bricks from the store for the next 8 builds so limited building going on.  However, I did give myself a break yesterday and cleaned / built the copy of Ahsoka's starfighter ( 7751 ) I picked up from Ebay.  This arrived filthy dirty but after an hour over the utility room sink, what emerged was a near pristine set of bricks with stickers generally well applied.  It was missing a few parts, most of which I had spare in my collection - just a pair of droid legs to pick up on a future Bricklink order.  Oh and it was missing the instructions but I managed to get hold of the only set of these on Bricklink!  The set comes with a vulture droid and two buzz droids, as well as a relatively common Ahsoka minifig and a unique R7-A7 droid.  The starfighter is pretty standard in its overall shape though has an interesting mechanism underneath for firing the missiles (until I finished the wings I wasn't sure what this did!).  There are a couple ...