Having friend'd Mike Rayhawk himself on Facebook is glorious. Yesterday, he posted a link to this guy's personal LEGO redesign project. The research and schematics behind it are insanely extensive, and everything looks perfectly functional. The sketches themselves were even really nice...
And thus, feeling inspired, I popped open my shiny copy of GIMP early yesterday afternoon and set to work.
I stumbled upon an interesting variety of MOC building recently, and one that has brought me some excellent warships over the past week or so. For those of you who aren't awesome and don't know, a MOC (acronym for My Own Creation) is a construction made of LEGO briks (yes, without the c. That's just how it goes).