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We all clearly love Joss Whedon’s Firefly<\/em>, but Adrian Drake chose to demonstrate his love differently and brilliantly, by constructing an epic 7-foot long replica of the Serenity out of around 70,000 pieces of LEGO.<\/p>\n How do you go about planning something on this scale? Did you know\u00a0exactly what bricks you needed and where they would go before you laid\u00a0the first one down?<\/strong><\/p>\n You can’t plan that far ahead with a project like this. I determined the scale by making it in scale to a LEGO fig. Then it was just a\u00a0matter of diving in and building. I did no major planning other than obtaining some reference material.<\/p>\n Did you have exact reference material for the floorplans or was\u00a0some of it guesswork?<\/strong><\/p>\n I used a couple of references from QMx: The architectural cutaway poster set<\/a>\u00a0and the Serenity blueprint reference pack<\/a>. I also\u00a0used some pictures online of the practical model from the movie, as well as pictures of QMx’s Big Damn Serenity Model<\/a>. Yeah, I relied on QMx a lot, they’re awesome! I also had the movie\u00a0on my laptop next to my build table, and I would freeze-frame on various scenes to get interior and exterior details.<\/p>\n How did you manage your time on this project? I imagine it’s easy\u00a0to just get wrapped up in it\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I worked on it for a very long time, almost 2 years. I built a few hours a week for the most part, with a few sessions of major\u00a0construction work. I had originally planned on finishing it in a year, but a basement flood and lack of motivation slowed my progress. I\u00a0didn’t really schedule it, I just built on my own time. I worked heavily this summer to get it done in time for Brickfair, a Lego\u00a0convention held each August in Washington, DC, but otherwise just build when I have free time, among family time and other hobbies.<\/p>\n I just can’t process the thought of a 7-foot Serenity \u2013 where\u00a0on earth do you keep it?<\/strong><\/p>\n