Ending NoVVember with a throwback

Remember M-Tron? I don't, considering I was born seven years after the theme's last set came out. But the space theme holds a place in the heart of many builders due to its campy aesthetic and red/black/trans-lime color scheme. 

Our last NoVVember post this year is an M-Tron inspired Viper from Genghis Don: 

The dark red is an interesting departure from the bright red of the official sets, but the trans-lime touches leave you with no doubt this is M-Tron. I really like the engine technique and the multiple fins/flaps. 

You... shall not... PASS!

NoVVember continues and the Vic Vipers keep coming. Here's a small and simple, yet very creative, design from Shamisenfred, a builder whom I hadn't heard of before but turns out to have some excellent sci-fi builds in his photostream. It looks so alien and otherwordly, and I love that eye-catching gold stripe down the front. 

Here are the specs, according to the builder:

Equipped with two heavy acid plasma throwers, BALROGs are low flying war machines with limited space capability. They are very efficient against infantry and vehicles depending on their armor as the glowing pink plasma they shoot burn through flesh and metal.

Seriously though, if you're a n00b like me and didn't know about Shamisenfred, go check out his photostream for some awesome alien-spaceship goodness. 

Guard those shins

Yep, those are CCBS shinguards (from the Star Wars buildable figures, I think) on this Vic Viper by F@bz. Don't they look fabulous?

This is a really unusual color scheme and F@bz pulled it off beautifully. I'm in love with that trans-lime windscreen, the design of the front prongs, and all those lovely greebles around the engines and guns. Everywhere you look there are innovative part uses and techniques - for example, I love the way the tailfin uses some SNOT to fit right into the slope of the rear canopy; the choice of dark gray "log bricks" as exhaust ports; the lime-and-blue "racing stripe" on one of the prongs... Some well-chosen stickers from official sets complete the model. A fantastic build and one of my personal favorite NoVVember builds I've seen! 

New vehicle unlocked!

We featured the V-Galactic Racing "video game" imagined by Markus Rollbuhler ('rolli) a few months ago, but now the builder has another space-racer available to be unlocked: the Midnight Bolt X. 

This one's got a really nice color scheme - gotta love those azure pieces - and the overall presentation is absolutely amazing. I hope this series continues!

Vipers

It's November and you know what that means... it's time to go for a month without shaving build Vic Vipers! If you don't know about the Vic Viper trend you can check out the Flickr pool here. In the meantime I thought I'd share my four favorites so far from this month (in no particular order).

"LinNes Viper" by Devid VII:

"Oldie's Viper" by piratecox:

"Phase Shifter" by Uspez:

"Saturn Patrol" by pasakaru76:

Cloudless 3V step-by-step build videos by Nick Trotta

Nick Trotta (tardisblue) has released a three-part YouTube video detailing the build process of his "Cloudless 3V" Vic Viper. I haven't watched it yet but the commenters on Flickr have plenty of great things to say:

Sir, you are a wizard. Some of those parts combos and stud reversals to make the math right are next level stuff. And how generous of you to take the time to do this in real-time. We're going to see things people learned in this build all over.
- Chris Maddison

Absolutely stunning. I watched the videos in their entirety, and I have to say, I am amazed. Not only is the build phenomenal, but I really admire that you took the time and effort to make the videos showing how the model is built. Bravo! Very, very inspiring.
- Kevin Moyer (Rambles of Orange)

Click here to go to Nick's Flickr post where he talks about the videos. You can watch the individual videos on YouTube at the following links:
Part 1- youtu.be/ovNaaGRgwFQ
Part 2- youtu.be/WwHBxMFclbQ
Part 3- youtu.be/goD3HdeG63o

And here's an image of this incredible build:

Viridescent Viper

Matthew Oh (mpoh98), normally more of a Castle builder, joined in on NoVVember and built this sleek starfighter with a cool color scheme:

Excisor

From prolific and popular builder pasakaru76 comes one of the year's most unusual Vic Vipers yet, called "Excisor":

So much of this model is unique, from the swirly pink wings and fin to the slanted cockpit. Fabulous design!

Mini viper

billyburg, known for his greebly Classic Space-inspired models, has produced this miniature marvel for Novvember:

UPDATE- Wait, that's not all! billyburg also recently built this equally small and equally awesome space construction duo:

Supernova

For the last few days I've been tooling around at my building table trying to make something for NoVVember...then this morning I gave up in disgust and went back to building a battle wagon for my Space Knights. For the most part I'm just not a good starfighter builder. 

Not so for Brickthing, who has been featured here on Brickology an absurd amount of times recently. Why? One look at his "TX Supernova" Vic Viper model should tell you all you need to know: