I've hunted through galleries at www.fbtb.net and other places, looking for similar customs and have come up surprisingly short. There are a number of really good customs of capital ships at much larger scales: I simply didn't have the Lego collection to compete with them. Likewise, there are various unofficial mini versions of both ships, but I was after something more detailed. If others have attempted to do customs of these ships on this sort of scale, I'd love to hear about it: I can be contacted via the link at the bottom of the page.

• Generally accurate proportions (although with some cheats and compromises as noted below): I worked fairly carefully off photos of the original model from the Technical Commentaries at TheForce.Net.
• A "nano" sized blockade runner that clips into the docking bay.
• Detailed docking bay including docking clasps.
• The inverted dome on the underside is present and correct.
• Uses the landing gear off classic space sets (and more recent sets such as the A-wing) for display.
• Trench along the leading edges of the wedge.
• Bridge detail includes the sensor domes, horizontal bridge (not the tower from Episode IV), and some detail for texture in the sloped centre rear trench behind the bridge.
• 35 studs long.
  

Front side view: This angle shows the legs used for display. Oddly, the central raised area forward of the bridge was the hardest bit to get right, and is still the part I'm least satisfied with. While simple to build, I found it was very hard to get the sense of the inclined top to this area, or to simulate the layers of intricate detail on the forward "wall" of this section. This version is as close as I got, but I'm still not especially happy with it.


Detail of the "Nano" Blockade Runner: The hole in the middle allows it to clip into the docking bay.


Underside: This shows the nano Blockade Runner in the docking bay. While there is a little more "cheating" on the details of the underside (such as the inverted slopes, and the slightly off location of the docking bay), there are a couple of details I'm very happy with. The first is the docking bay: note the two pincers each side of the Blockade Runner's "neck" that simulate the docking clamp seen in the original film. The second is the inverted dome: working out a workable way to reverse the stud orientation was one of the principal obstacles to building the model.

Rear Engines: A slightly unforgiving photo, because the flash lights up areas that normally fall into shadow. I started with the engines because I anticipated that they would present the most challenges. The tricky thing is fitting the plates around the engines at the correct angle, and still allowing room for the plate on which the engines themselves are mounted. The method for mounting the plates around the engine is shown below, and I'm pretty happy with how it looks. The problem, though, is it leaves the engine area too "tall": the whole rear is too high and open. The rest of the design has to compensate for this: the little wings out the side at the back add extra width and, as I said, the length is cheated out a bit too.

On the positive side, there's some nice (if not especially accurate) detail work and the engine block is a reasonable copy of the original, although a little too narrow.

Rear With Engine Removed: Just to show the way the rear section is constructed. This was limited by my parts selection and those with access to a wider range of hinged parts could probably come up with something better. The top plates are not directly attached to the superstructure, being fixed instead to the bottom plates via a click hinge. It's surprisingly stable, but as I said it leaves the rear a bit too open.

Flyover shot: This photo is from my first set of photos. Since then, I have got hold of the TIE bomber and thus had enough of the transparent blue discs to "turn on" the engines.

Underside (with dome removed): This shows the dome taken off and its mount disassembled to show the way the direction of the studs is reversed for the dome: the two white L-shaped pieces attach to each other and the grey plate goes behind the docking bay.