In this tutorial I will build a complete Star Wars LEGO model from scratch using Autodesk 3ds Max 8. Originally I made this for the speed modeling contest. Since the purpose of this contest is to model as much as possible within one hour, I didn’t model the underside of the lego bricks (or the underside of the model). For this tutorial I recreated the model and since there was no time pressure, I used some different techniques.

I will start of with modeling some basic lego pieces and after that the more complex ones. In the second part of the tutorial I will assemble all the lego pieces together to create a lego snowspeeder. The third part will be texturing, lighting and rendering with finalRender.

See the Snowspeeder in action!