It's really too bad there's never been any official Battlestar Galactica sets from LEGO, there's so many cool opportunities. Luckily the fans have been there to fill the void, sometimes big, sometimes small. Builder Davdup has built at many scales, this is the latest, a tiny Viper that's as cute as it is cool.
When I was about 10 years old, the Sears Wishbook came out and some noob had labeled the Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider Revell model kits backwards. Well, I wasn't going to stand for that and wrote them a letter. To my surprise several weeks later I got a letter back from someone at Sears. He expressed his regret for the error, and explained that clearly someone at the catalog department wasn't as big of a science fiction fan as me and him. In addition to his kind letter he sent me both models as a thank you for spotting the error! Yes, that has very little to do with this jaw-dropping UCS scale rendition of a Viper MKII (I mean, it's not even from the same series) by builder Davdup but every time I see a Viper or Raider, that fond childhood memory is always the first thing I think of.
As a BSG fan, this Mark II jumped right off the screen at me. But when I read that it's actually over 100 studs long, I was struck: "No frakin' way!?!" Chris Maddison has built a mega scale version of the iconic Colonial aerospace superiority fighter. He's captured all of those sexy curves and angles which are a real challenge at the mini-fig scale. And there's still plenty of room for tasty greebles on the side of the fuselage and around the engines. Okay, Chris, time to go shoot some toasters!!
Following the epic box-office success of Star Wars, there was what can only be described as a glut of science fiction shows and movies, trying to capitalize on the momentum. Most of the shows were crap, but we did enjoy Battlestar Galactica. It helped that the visual effects were done by Star Wars alumni John Dykstra and his company Apogee. It would appear Lego Admiral was a fan too, judging by his faithful and excellent Cylon Raider and Colonial Viper.
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