This is the inspirationship. I noticed that I miscounted at one spot but it turned out ok anyway, although the son commented how I was not so good in making a replica worthy his work...hrmpf...
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I used "view grid" so that I could keep the size right, starting to do simple guideblocks.
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Adding guideblocks and circles.
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Finally the ship looked like this.
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Adding small circles with bewel/emboss-effect.
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Now adding a whole bunsch of "legomarked" circles and placing them all over the ship.
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Adding the "controlpanel" wich is just a black area, added with colored details and some noice.
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For the green "plate" I made a green set of "legocircles" placing them in lines.
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Then a green plate underneath, wich I shaped the round edges with "shapetool".
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Now some shadow on the legobuttons.
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And then placing the ship on it.
For final result I added some shadows.