All over the internet you’ll find Star Wars Lego these days. Very few folk manage to pull off something different with it though and the recent trend of steampunk-ing classic Star Wars ships seems got the creative juices flowing.

Tim Goddard has managed to create a scene from each Star Wars film that fits neatly under a plastic dome. It isn’t until you look closely and realise the scale of the models that you stop imaging them as small snowglobes.

Nine months ago Mark Kelso gave up life as he knew it and started work on his first large scale Lego spaceship. You know and i know we’ll never make anything on this size and scale. We’ve got kids to feed and support until they screw us out of what little money we have left and put us in a home when we turn 50 but we can dream can’t we?

At 231 studs long and something like 14kg in weight its a bit of a beast but it proves that with time and effort you can literally build just about anything with Lego.

Our eldest has only just started to get into Lego this last year but due to the ages of the other children doesn’t get to play with it anywhere near as much as I’d like. Sorry I meant as he’d like. Our one problem though is that whilst our imaginations are unlimited our building skills are. Whilst he’s fine with anything he builds no matter how ‘good’ it actually turns out as soon as he sees anything that someone who knows what they are doing can do he puts it back in the box and thats us for another day. I have to say until very recently I felt the same but those days are gone now and hopefully never to return. If i can learn then so can he especially as he has a good 25 years on me! All those web pages full of models built by those that actually know their way around a Lego brick no longer put ‘The Fear’ into me but instead have filled my head with so many idea. So much so that some of them actually sound quite appealing to a six year old so I think we’ve found our summer project!