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Model Designer Hans Burkhard Schlömer
Meet the Model Designer
Q: How long have you been a LEGO
®
Star Wars
model designer?
A: I’ve been a LEGO
®
designer for close to six years now. Last
summer I was asked to “help out a little bit” on LEGO Star Wars.
So I expected to build a small speeder to go along with a larg-
er set or something like that. Well, surprise! Instead of going
on vacation, I spent the whole summer in Billund designing the
next Ultimate Collector’s Series set. That was even better than
a vacation!
Q: How was designing the Slave I different from your work on
other LEGO Star Wars models?
A: It actually wasn’t very different; the Slave I is just quite a big
set. Usually I design the first version of a set in LEGO Digital
Designer. When I’m happy with that, I go ahead and build a
version with bricks. It’s much faster to apply changes digitally
than to build new versions, especially with a model of this size!
Q: The Slave I flies vertically, but rotates to dock
horizontally when not in use, did that present you with a chal-
lenge while designing this feature of the set?
A: Not really! UCS Star Wars sets usually come with a display
stand, so the idea was to show the ship in flight mode anyway.
Figuring out how to connect the stand to the model in a secure
way was a challenge from a technical point of view, though.
And when landed, the ship seems to hover. This is why there
are transparent “spacers” on the underside of the base. It also
makes it easier to pick up the model.
Hans Burkhard Schlömer
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