Ezra’s Fourth Microship

We have a very special guest blogger today. Ezra would like to share about a Lego microship he built. Take it away, Ezra!

All the pieces

So, first, I found a piece from my Samurai Mech (“Mek”). It was a perfect piece for a microship.

The inspiration piece

Next, I gathered pieces: two plates and two transparent pieces for the cockpit. Then I started putting them together. I started with the main piece, then I got a yellow piece. I put it inside the slit that there was. Then I put the red piece over it so it was held on.

Yellow and red pieces

Then I built the cockpit. At first it was just the two transparent pieces and a small slope. I put the slope over both transparent pieces. I put it on the ship. Then I thought, “That doesn’t look too good. I need another piece.” I found another piece to add detail. I put the cockpit right at the end of the piece.

Cockpit

Then I thought, “Hmmm, it needs details.” I found two dragon blades, two joy sticks and two pieces the dragon blades and joy sticks could fit onto. I put them on the two remaining studs on the piece from the Samurai Mech. Then I put on the dragon blades and the joy sticks. (The joy sticks were easy to find because I never use them.)

Dragon blades

Next I gathered pieces for a tail fin. I found two pieces that could be a perfect tail fin. They were both blue. They have no stickers, although they used to have stickers. I took one off and then I thought, “Wait, I shouldn’t do this because that was part of another one of my inventions that a minifigure could go on.” But then I thought, “Bah! I could just do it because this another one of my microships.”

Then I put a gray grill piece on just in front. Then I found a way to put it on just at the right angle.

Tail fin

So then I thought, “Hmmm I don’t want the engine to overheat. It needs more grills.” Then I found a few pieces. I put them together. Then I put them on a few remaining spaces.

Grills

And then I thought, “Hmmm boosters and guns.” I gathered the pieces for the boosters and put them on the two remaining spaces that wouldn’t plug up the cockpit. Those were the final parts of my microship.

Boosters and guns

So there are boosters, guns, dragon blades to scratch other microships, a tail fin, a cockpit and some grills so it won’t overheat, and some joy sticks to add detail.

Microship #4

Editors Note: Ezra loves to read but hates to write. I think this is a two-part issue: 1) the physical act of writing is difficult for him and 2) he has so many ideas in his head, he can’t keep up when he’s writing and he loses his train of thought. But I want to encourage him to write and help him with the process, so we tried something new this morning — we decided to have him write a guest blog post. He started off writing a draft in his notebook …

Working

… but after the first page he was frustrated and wanted me to write it for him. I decided to enlist the voice memo app on my phone and recorded him telling the story of how he built the ship. I then transcribed it for him and we went back and edited it together. I’m hopeful that having him see his story completed here will encourage him to do more writing in the future. We’ll see!

3 Comments

  1. Jamma

    What an excellent microship. It is a good thing that you have so many unused parts in your “build box.” Who would have thought joy sticks would be such a good addition. My favorite parts are the dragon blades if those are the yellow fins on the wings. This was a very good report of the build and a very good use of the voice memo app. I think another good use of this voice app would be two little boys recording messages for jamma. I hope the writing and the building continue. Good Job Ezra. Jamma loves your story.

  2. Papa

    Great description Ezra. It’s so fun to see how you come with an idea for a design. I actually really like the cooling vents. A good idea for such big engines. I also really like the blades for cutting other ships. I hope you do more blog posts.

  3. Cari

    Ezra, I enjoyed reading your description of your building process. I was especially interested in reading about why you used certain pieces, like the joysticks and the grills. It’s great to see how thoughtful you were in creating your microship masterpiece! I hope to see that you become a frequent guest blogger on Moision Madness.

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