Lego fans are always making truly amazing models, but lately I’m getting obsessed by sci-fi creations, like the greatest Lego mecha I’ve ever seen. Or this formidable starship, called the Tesseract. It reminds me a bit of the old 70s and 80s spaceship illustrations by Chris Foss.
While the Tesseract is not as bit as something like the Intrepid carrier — made at minifig scale — it’s pretty big: 105cm. It seems larger because it’s built at micro-scale, a Lego technique that turns truly gigantic things into small models while keeping it sense of size.
Made by Pierre E Fieschi, the Tesseract is “a giant space shipyard capable of building or repairing even battleships sized vessels. It features a giant deployable “drydock” that adapts to the type of ship that needs repairs / or that is planned for building on site.”
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It’s also illuminated by three metres of Electroluminescent Wire, which really brings it to life. Some beautiful design, lots of little details and ingenious engineering went into this model. [Flickr]