This is the final custom from my custom craze weekend. And it’s a biggie!

Taking the Sabre’s bay parts form the Countdown set (with exception to the green bloks that I used to make the Lookout Tower that I posted yesterday), I did a total reconfig. I paid special attention to make sure each level of the tower was accessible by stairs or ladders.

Here’s what I came up with:

Like I said, it’s a biggie! Standing 5 stories tall, it makes use of all those structural girders. I have to say it’s pretty strong too. I can easily pick it up by the side and it holds together VERY well.

Some orthogonal views.

Close -up of the back of the tower showing the stair and ladder access.
Front view below showing another set of stairs and a ladder. The ladder has two uses. Not only is it access to the third floor, but also makes it easy to get on top of a vehicle for repairs. (Note the Mantis in pics later in this article)
The side room from the ops room is detachable in case you want a more flat area. Oh and yes, I did not change the ops room at all, with one exception. I moved the door frame to the other side.

And now for some shots in action with figures and a Mantis! I happened to be lucky enough to get the Mantis to fit in the first three levels without having to increase any of the levels height.

Below a Spartan climbs up a ladder to talk with a technician.

Showing more of the rear view with figures. 

Below a marine climbs a ladder. Is he going higher in the tower or is he going to work on the Mantis? You decide!

And finally, here are all of the customs I made over the past weekend, with the Halo 4 Warthog also pictured.

I don’t often make customs, so this weekend was a LOT of fun for me and a way to be creative. I do have one last custom that I’m planning on making. This will be a UNSC Broadsword. It will be made from the Sabre parts from the Countdown set as well as the Shortsword set. Yes, it’s going to go against my normal one set rule…

So what do you think of this tower? What I like most is it’s accessibility from floor to floor, not to mention it’s HUGE!

-Sal

Before I show the BIG custom from the Countdown set, I wanted to show these smaller custom builds.

The first is a Forerunner structure made with the parts from the Halo 4 Warthog set (as previously reviewed here)

Here’s what I made:

All sides are even. The bottom is the only part that isn’t even from all four sides.

Next is a little UNSC workbench made from the left over green pieces from the same set as above.

Again, nothing super spectacular, but then you’d think the UNSC needs workbenches somewhere, right?

Lastly, I call this a small Diagonostic Center. Use it for running tests on vehicles, Kind of like one that would be used on your car when you take it in for an inspection. Afterall, the UNSC has to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape! The parts for this were used from a couple of sets. Countdown and Cauldron Clash are two of those sets whose left-over pieces where used to make this.

-Sal

Continuing on with the recent Custom craze, I decided to make something new from the “Countdown” set. (Previously reviewed here.)

This is a two parter. In this part I took all of the green bloks (with a few exceptions) and made a small but strong looking Lookout Tower. There’s a room underneath, a set of steps and of course the actual area to lookout from. This was an easy build and while not “exciting,” I think it fits the role I wanted it for.

Here’s what I got:

As you can see I used a few of the grating pieces s well.

Orthogonal views:

Rather than leave the spaces empty near the top, I decided to fill them in with the clear and trans-red 1×1 round plates. They serve no purpose really other than for me not to lose those parts, LOL.

Finally here’s a top down view. (Sorry for the fuzziness) This shows the grating pieces used and that there is a small “step-up” within the top of the tower.

Again, nothing but parts from the Countdown set was used.

Simple, I know. So what do you think of it? I think it makes a good counter to the Covenant one.

-Sal

As with the previously posted Vehicle Bay, I wanted to redesign another set. While the Mantis Bay that Mega Bloks designed is nice, it’s not really game accurate. Not that mine is either. However, what you play the level Infinity in Halo 4’s campaign, you’ll find that the Mantis bays are a lot taller. Also, the Mantis does not need to contort to the position that Mega has you doing in their design. So with this in mind, I built a taller bay using only the pieces from the set. The Mantis itself is the exact same build.

Here’s what I came up with:

Orthogonal views:

And finally the rear view with the Mantis in place. Note the ladder’s position.

This is quite an easy custom to make and I think makes the set look better.

Do you like the redesign versus the manufacturer’s design? Here’s that one:

Final set shot.

BTW, this isn’t the first time I’ve redesigned the Mantis Bay. Here is my first attempt from a few months ago:

Redux Docking Station

-Sal

So over the past week I was a bit bored. During that time, I took to customizing some Mega Bloks sets that I had into something else. This was one of them. Originally this set was the Cauldron Clash (as previously reviewed here).

I’ve been wanting sets from the UNSC Infinity and took it upon myself to see if I could make a vehicle bay.

One thing to note, with this set as with other customs I’ve done, I take care to use ONLY pieces from one set. This way there is no need to buy additional sets to make something else. It also makes it easier if YOU want to recreate the same or similar custom, knowing you can do it from one set. (I’ll be posting a few other customs today and tomorrow, so bear this in mind.)

I used nearly all the pieces with exception to the translucent orange and red pieces and the terrain baseplates.

Here’s what I came up with (bearing in mind that accuracy was not the total goal, just something close enough and to have fun making a custom).

There is room for normal figures in the control room near top right.

Here’s a look at the custom build from orthogonal views: Note those black sloped pieces. They of course can be removed. However, I have them there to keep a Warthog in place as seen below:Those bloks are sturdy enough to keep the warthog still. So if you wanted to display it that way you could without much worry of bumping  the set and the hog rolling off.

Also pictured to the right is the underside of this custom. Of course I’d rather have had one big baseplate, but you build with what you have.

So what do you think? I like it. Compact enough to display, yet enough detail, especially on the “walls.”

-Sal

I only just saw this yesterday and had to pass it along…
I found this image on the bloks forum. It’s easy enough to decipher at least some of what is coming in this set.

• At least two zombie Spartans
• At least two “GREEN” energy swords
• one of the Spartan Zombies is a CQB (look at the chest piece, I believe that is the CQB)
• Last number in the set number is a “9”

Since this is a “Last Man Standing” set, you’d have to think there would be at least one more Spartan who is NOT Zombiefied…

I’ll report back more on this as I find it.

-Sal