Blockcade 10 – Can you Feel the Force?

The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted this one in the background of a few other shots already – possibly the most iconic cabinet in arcade history, the Star Wars Cockpit.

Get your own spaceship mate, honestly

This is a big build, so pour a large glass of something nice and settle in for the long haul

Start with two 2×8 plates (or one 4×8)

Join them together with a 2×2

Add a 1×2 with four knobs to the back

And a 2×2 hinge

Add a 2×2 flat plate to the fixed part of the hinge

And repeat for the other side

Start on the back “window” with a 2×4 flat plate

Add a 1×4 block with four knobs

And then a 4×3 window frame

A 1×2 block with four knobs is used to link to the top section

Another hinge goes along the side

And this piece then attaches to the main base

We put a 2×3 plate between the two hinges

And then a 1×6 flat plate to lock the two hinges together

Repeat that for the other side

Add a 2×4 flat plate to the top of the window

To start building the “solid” roof we start with a 1×8 flat plate and a 1x2x2 block attached to that loose hinge

We add a second 1x2x2 block

And another hinge

We can’t use another 1x2x2 block so just add a standard 1×2 block

And then a 1×2 plate

We add another 1×2 block with knobs on to the loose end of the hinge

We then work along the other side in the same fashion – this time with 3 1x2x2 blocks (the blocks on opposite sides won’t lock together but will be held in place by the rest of the model)

We then add a 3×4 (minifig base) piece underneath

And two 2×4 flat plates to the sides

And the same two 2×4 flat plates to the extruding pieces next to the window

We now go back to the floor level and add a minifig seat

And then a 1×2 “hand” piece to the front

We then build the large square panel by starting with a 2×4 flat plate

Add a second 2×4 flat plate and a 1×2 block with knobs

Attach this to the top of the 1×2 hand piece

Then a 2×4 plate with a 1×2 shaft piece

Which then attaches to the waiting hand

Add a second “hand” and shaft (oo-er missus) pair to the other side of the 2×4 plate

Prepare two more of these with the knobs reversed as above

Attach these to above the 2×4 plate

And then another 1×3 minifig base plate

Add a 2×4 plate to the centre of the minifig base

And another one to hold that in place

Attach a second square panel (two 2×4 flat plates and a 1×2 block with knobs) to the other sideAdd

Build the controller and screen housing with a 1×2 block

Add a 1×2 plate with a central shaft to hold the controller

And a rocker base and plate to hold the screen

Add a 1×1 hand plate to the shaft

Followed by the screen (the now familiar 2×2 flat plate)

Then a 1×1 upwards hand piece

And a standard handlebar piece in the colour of your choice

Attach that to the interior of the model in front of the seat

Now comes the tricky part, you should now be able to fold the model along the various hinges to get the cockpit shape.

Start by pulling everything into the right general position

And then join the two minifig plates together. If you get it right then the 2×4 flat plate towards the top of the machine should nicely overlap the two 2×4 flat plates that hold the Vader image

You can then adjust the various angles to get the whole piece into the right places. You could possibly use two 2×6 flat plates instead of the minifig bases to get a cleaner front end.

Images – you’ll need to do left and right side versions of these – these are the left side images – just reverse them for the other side.

Vader/Deathstart – scale to 30mm x 30mm

X-Wing chasing Tie fighter – this goes along the back edge – scale to 15mm x 30mm

Lonely X-Wing, this goes on the 2×2 flat plate under the Tie-Fighter above – scale to 15mm x 15mm

X-Wing under fire – this overlaps the Vader/Deathstar image and scales to 15mm x 30mm

The top banner goes along the 1×8 flat plate – scale to 7mm by 60mm

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