A friend of mine once said to me "Ideas aren't interesting until they keep you up at night." I'm paraphrasing because it's been many years since that discussion. Anyway. This idea didn't keep me up at night but it did follow me around for several days yammering in my ear.
It all started when I was scrounging Transparent Clear parts for flight bases for another build. I found a few
2x2 Domes and while they didn't work as flight bases something about them kept bugging me. I held them up together, bottom to bottom, and something clicked. Now I just needed something to hold them together. I thought I had some Block Tech
2L Notched Axles in Transparent Clear but I was wrong. So I defaulted to the standard Lego Black version. I wanted to keep the shaping so I used a third Dome for the bottom. I used a Black
1x1 Liftarm to connect them. (And why is that piece called a Liftarm? It's obviously a Pin Connector.) I then topped it off with a Black
1x1 Round Tile. For the base I went with a
4x4 Round Plate, because that's what I use for Stations, in a matching color to the bottom Dome. To finish, I covered the open studs in
2x2 Macaroni Tiles, two in Black and two in a color matching the bottom Dome.
In 6P scale this is 13 feet tall, and 5 feet wide. If you
want to use it as Cover, instead of a Station, it is 1 Hit.
Most of the time I design
Stations to match or compliment individual squads. These will probably end up as spares -- in case someone needs Stations in a game -- or used as Neutral stations when that rule is used. I hope this gives people ideas or techniques to use in their own builds.
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