5
Meet the Model Designer
Q: How many LEGO
®
Star Wars
™
models have you designed?
A: The UCS snowspeeder will be the fifth LEGO
Star Wars
model
that I have worked on which has been released.
Q: What kind of reference material did you use to begin designing
the snowspeeder?
A: Firstly, I looked at the previous UCS snowspeeder that was
designed back in 2003 to see what inspiration I could take from
that. Secondly, I had various images and film stills from our
Star
Wars
books and
Star Wars
: The Empire Strikes Back movie.
Q: How was designing the snowspeeder dierent from your work
on other LEGO
Star Wars
models?
A: I think the main dierence is the level of detail that you can put
into the UCS models. These larger models allow for more complex
building techniques and levels of detail which I personally love
building into the models I work on. My favourite detail in the UCS
snowspeeder was the use of LEGO minifigure ski blades on the
underside to resemble part of the cooling fins. These UCS models
are also meant to look as accurate as possible to the real vehicles.
This means dicult angles or features can become quite tricky to
recreate; the back window of the cockpit was particularly dicult
to build as it slopes in three dierent directions, but also has to
support the hinge connection for the cockpit.
Jordan David Scott
Q: The front of the snowspeeder has an easily recognisable,
angled bow. Was this a challenge to recreate using LEGO bricks?
A: The angles were very tricky to achieve and this was something
I wanted to do dierently from the previous UCS snowspeeder.
Back in 2003 we did not have as many elements that could achieve
this look, and so it was built using angled bricks. Now, thanks to
the miniature ball joints, I was able to achieve a more sleek and
accurate front.
Jordan David Scott
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