Traditional Two Mars Mission crafts (and gingerbread)

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I had an odd number of tracks.

 

Now I have an even number of tracks.

 Fortunately, the post editor allows me to shrink images - very good!

 

 

Boasting two twin lasers and one small artillery cannon, this vehicle can [rest of spouting stuff about it]

I had one spare track... and I decided to build around it in the MM colourscheme... and this came out.

 

 

 

The cockpit opens and the laser tilts to a maximum of 45^o.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vehicle II:

 

 

I had white skis.

I built around them in the MM colourscheme.

I thought it looked vaguely like some small, not-very-well-armed scout, so I thought of scout-ish things while building it (which saved me the trouble of scavenging for a decent glass cockpit )

 

Those blue 1x1 studs are supposed to be lasers, okay?

 

 

 

 

It's rather cramped in there, but he fits.

 

 

 

That's the safe at the back for small crystal storage and movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=== A Strange Bit Of Gingerbread ===

 

Every year, our family makes gingerbread castles on a rainy-ish day - remember, for us in the Southern Hemisphere it's winter. I couldn't decide what to make and in a spur of either blind stupidity or great ingenuity I made the Mars Mission Defense Station.

 

 

I think the image speaks for itself there. Full of sugar.  That said, building with gingerbread is extremely difficult - high towers are almost impossible. Almost, and I managed to squeeze the turret into a reasonable width by using non-orthodox building conventions (which weren't SNOT )

 

I traced the outline of the defense station and the pipe, but not the power plant. Partly because I was wondering how to build it.

 

On the left is also our brutally deformed mining platform (see first picture - it's missing the drill).

 

 

 

 

Sugar!