As someone who also grew up captivated by pictures and ads of these Lego sets, this is a really fun watch. You absolutely nailed the aesthetic here and I look forward to seeing you do more with this. Cheers!
Thanks Skull! Yeah I never owned any of these sets but I feel like I was surrounded by the images of these amazing sets in catalogs and stuff growing up, they made an impression on me!
This was always my favorite lego space set when I was little. Seeing the orange chainsaw in the first frame of the video really brought me back. Can't wait for more!
I never had the 2000s era legos, I was in high school then and didn't want to play with legos anymore (how wrong I was) and had the 90s ice planet and whatever they call the neon green/black/grey/red guys. They were probably my favorite series because of how striking the colors were. Pissed at myself for selling off all my legos when I got older.
@@DanaHowl Please continue, I would adore to see your interpretation of these sets, honestly would be neat if you expanded this to making your own interpretation of other Lego Space factions if not other Lego themes in general. Thank you for the amazing content!
Old Lego kits are actually a super underrated source of inspiration for minis. My mind is sending me to my parents' attic to dig out my old bricks. Inspired work Dana.
This was a powerful hit of nostalgia for me. I have so many great memories of playing with my Ice Planet Lego outside in the snow, imagining my backyard a hostile alien moon. You captured the way those little explorers always looked in my imagination, and I'd love to see more Ice Planet builds from you. If you wanted a break, I also always had a soft spot for the Aquazone line!
You know you are a veteran model painter when you knock over a pot and just use the table as a big dry palette. 😂 But seriously, as somebody whose first exposure to Lego was through 90s Space and Castle Ninja, this hits so hard and so well. The theme was perfectly visualized and flawlessly executed. Fantastic job.
This is such a fun idea! I had some of the smaller ice planet kits. My mom would construct ice caves and playsets for me out of hot glue and glitter since the larger kits were so expensive, and she would integrate some white Lego bricks into the bases so I could firmly put figures on them. She even made an ice lake by chopping up some clear and light blue hot glue sticks (they came in all sorts of colours at the time) and cooking them in a pan until they congealled into a "lake," and used a milk cap lid as a guide to make a hole in the ice for ice fishing. I spent so many hours playing with the playsets Mom made and my little figures. xD
I remember my mum doing something similar for me. I went into GW to get a LOTR starter set but couldn't really play it...Christmas rolls around and I get this big box, full of crafting supplies, cheap glues and paints, and a printed set of instructions, like the miniature instructions to build a bit of helm's deep... At the bottom of the box was her old copy of LOTR and the Hobbit, and that was kinda the first time I really got into fantasy, and later D&D.
These are so awesome! I had a bunch of the ice planet sets as a kid and they were some of my favorites. I'd love to see their vehicles done! Some knights, wizards, and dragons based on the old castle sets would also rule. 3d printing is probably the easiest source of chainsaws if they don't need to be plastic.
I can't believe this series is going to actually happen! I own EVERY set of Ice Planet 2002, except for the huge starship. I played with them every day with a friend of mine for years. We used to pile books and whatever object we could find on the table and then cover them up with white handkerchiefs to create the snowy landscape. Exploring alien caves, battling with Blacktrons, face alien invasions, you name it. I could go on for hours. Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Hi! I enjoyed very much seeing you doing something different and I think they came out just great! Being both a vintage LEGO and a Dana fan, I totally encourage you to do more of this! Congrats, great job as always.
The orange in this is one of my favorite Lego memories. My brother I believe still has a ton of these sets! Great work please make more space Lego spin-offs.
As someone who had a bunch of (and still has thankfully) the Ice Planet range, it's great to see these recreated. Gotta love a bit of neon orange. Thought of using this scheme for some leagues of voltan eventually. These look great!
As a huge fan of Stargrave and those kits, I love what you did with them! I agree that they are very “wargamer Lego” and with how many come in each box, they’re so fun to play around and experiment with. As for Lego theme ideas, I always remember the rock raiders with all their cool vehicles and glowy green crystals.
The ice planet, and magnet dude legos were so cool, with their dayglow plastic pieces. Vividly remember salivating over those in magazine ads as a kid. Sweet video!
For the record these minis are very clearly ice planet. I sent your insta pics to my brother who has no perception of the hobby but built Legos with me as a kid in the 90s and he immediately recognized it
I also am a huge fan of retro lego sets, i love the mtrons and all the magnets. I cannot express how much i love this idea! the classic ice planet visor is my all time favorite lego visor element!
I can’t believe how much these Lego kits are now. I had every one of those kits as a 90s kid, and I took them for granted. Lol I have random bits left but the ice planet Lego kits were also my fav. And the deep sea kits as well.
That was my childhood! I think my parents still have all of those Ice Planet sets in their attic - it was the only theme that I managed to collect pretty much everything from - at this point, they're probably waiting for my niece to be old enough to inherit them. :)
Oh man, I had some of these sets and had a friend who had all of them growing up. We spent hours and hours making intricate forts and having battles between the different factions. Always sad none of my Lego survived the years. Models look great! Well done as always, Dana Howl!
This is one of the coolest miniature videos I've seen on here! When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought they were more of really impressive custom Lego figures, but when I checked it out, they were much more amazing than I had thought!! Hope to see more of these videos, you absolutely nailed the aesthetic with these ones!
Oh man, as a kid I was jealous of my friends who had these legos but I never thought to convert my warhammer to look like them when I was still active in the hobby. Now I wish I had money and space to hop back in the hobby and keep on converting like a mad man.
stupendous. Taking one medium (modern minis) and using them to emulate another medium (2000s lego) is a really fun artistic exercise. Is it identical? No, it couldn't possibly be, but it is obvious what the inspiration is, and I think things like this are one of my favorite artistic enterprises (among many others).
Playing a game of kill team against these as the Valhalla Ice Warriors would be so sick! I can't wait to see a version of one of the Lego space ships!!!
Dana, this is incredible!! As a long time LEGO fan with nostalgia for these retro sets I never even got to play with and a recebt miniature hobist... This video seemed made for me! I loved it so much! You're one of the most creative and amazing miniature painters out there and I want more!! Give us more lego themes, give us more ice planet, GIVE US MORE!! ❤️❤️❤️
This was my favorite Lego line as a kid! I would carefully study every detail in Lego’s catalog, and my favorite Xmas present one year was their rover with the secret analyzer (aka the red and blue lenses that would allow you to see only part of a jumbled red-blue-black picture. Lego magazine encouraged you to scan their pages to reveal ‘secrets’ too) I’d love to see a votann vehicle converted into an ice rover
Kitbashing with Stargrave figures is incredible fun, you can make brilliant chaos cultists if you mix with Frostgrave Cultists and Barbarians. There is recently a female centered Crew 2 and Mercenaries 2 box, excellent for slighter figures. The toughest thing to match between North Star Miniatures kits tends to be the shoulder connections - Frostgrave Crewmen have huge puffy shirts that have big connections to body, smaller arms leave big gaps. Overall a great line that can create excellent neo-feudal and Raypunk minis easily. Love the colour choices, everything came together really nicely and dramatically!
The timing on this is so bizarre. I was literally just looking through my old Lego collection yesterday and was excited when I found these guys as I had forgotten all about them. I had also forgotten about the tribal warrior sets, those could be a fun one for minis as well!
If you want to simplify the buildtime, the Frostgrave kits are mostly done up in snow parkas, and the 40k Scion kits come with tanks for flamers that are easy to convert. Northstar Minis kits are some of the best things to hit the market, embodying the kitbash spirit that the monopose models most 40k and Star Wars kits don't. The generic bodies leave a lot of room to add on bits, and also mean it's a lot easier to fit greenstuff in.
Really original concept! I've done using Lego minifigs as gaming miniatures before, but I've not seen anyone go the other direction like this. I am totally here for it.
My brother had the ice planet base it was so cool. We had those neon chainsaws knocking around our lego box for years after. It'd be cool to see one or two of these guys with the classic lego bright yellow skin too
Omg I love this, please do more! I have something of an obsession with remaking Warhammer Figures in Lego/Fake Lego Pieces, but have never seen someone attempt the inverse. Please give more, this makes the conversion happy parts of me very excited
While I never had any Ice Planet sets as a kid, I love seeing how they translated to miniature form! I have painted a few miniatures for D&D, and I've been thinking about trying my hand at army painting, and now I think I'd like to try doing something similar with the Rock Raiders theme. It was one of my favorite PC games as a kid.
I had the Rocket truck when I was a kid back in the 90's. It was the only LEGO set that i keeped together for so long till i finally took it apart to use the parts for other things. Wish i never did but i still have some of the pieces with the few LEGO builds i still have today
oh that is cool. the idea of using lego concepts for different art forms is something i encountered before in the form of fanart and comics, but i can't say i ever considered the possibility of lego based models like this. what a fun project
This was truly awesome to see how everything came together, and I loved how you explained how you assembled the minis. Keep up the good work, I really look forward to seeing more!
As someone who also grew up captivated by pictures and ads of these Lego sets, this is a really fun watch. You absolutely nailed the aesthetic here and I look forward to seeing you do more with this. Cheers!
Thanks Skull! Yeah I never owned any of these sets but I feel like I was surrounded by the images of these amazing sets in catalogs and stuff growing up, they made an impression on me!
This was always my favorite lego space set when I was little. Seeing the orange chainsaw in the first frame of the video really brought me back. Can't wait for more!
@@piratefish123 Yes! Same for me. When I saw the chainsaw I knew I was going to love these minis.
I never had the 2000s era legos, I was in high school then and didn't want to play with legos anymore (how wrong I was) and had the 90s ice planet and whatever they call the neon green/black/grey/red guys. They were probably my favorite series because of how striking the colors were. Pissed at myself for selling off all my legos when I got older.
@@DanaHowl Please continue, I would adore to see your interpretation of these sets, honestly would be neat if you expanded this to making your own interpretation of other Lego Space factions if not other Lego themes in general. Thank you for the amazing content!
Whoa the color palette from the Lego kits translates beautifully onto minis. This is inspiring me to lift colors off of other old toys. Thanks!
(waves "normalize painting minis in bright colours with minimal weathering" placard)
Old Lego kits are actually a super underrated source of inspiration for minis. My mind is sending me to my parents' attic to dig out my old bricks. Inspired work Dana.
A hobbyist has fallen into the pale sand in Howl City!
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This was a powerful hit of nostalgia for me. I have so many great memories of playing with my Ice Planet Lego outside in the snow, imagining my backyard a hostile alien moon. You captured the way those little explorers always looked in my imagination, and I'd love to see more Ice Planet builds from you. If you wanted a break, I also always had a soft spot for the Aquazone line!
oh YES Aquazone was so cool and it had two factions if I remember correctly
You know you are a veteran model painter when you knock over a pot and just use the table as a big dry palette. 😂 But seriously, as somebody whose first exposure to Lego was through 90s Space and Castle Ninja, this hits so hard and so well. The theme was perfectly visualized and flawlessly executed. Fantastic job.
this makes me unreasonably happy, outstanding idea and conversions!!
This is such a fun idea! I had some of the smaller ice planet kits. My mom would construct ice caves and playsets for me out of hot glue and glitter since the larger kits were so expensive, and she would integrate some white Lego bricks into the bases so I could firmly put figures on them. She even made an ice lake by chopping up some clear and light blue hot glue sticks (they came in all sorts of colours at the time) and cooking them in a pan until they congealled into a "lake," and used a milk cap lid as a guide to make a hole in the ice for ice fishing. I spent so many hours playing with the playsets Mom made and my little figures. xD
That's such a wholesome story ^^
I remember my mum doing something similar for me. I went into GW to get a LOTR starter set but couldn't really play it...Christmas rolls around and I get this big box, full of crafting supplies, cheap glues and paints, and a printed set of instructions, like the miniature instructions to build a bit of helm's deep...
At the bottom of the box was her old copy of LOTR and the Hobbit, and that was kinda the first time I really got into fantasy, and later D&D.
These are so awesome! I had a bunch of the ice planet sets as a kid and they were some of my favorites. I'd love to see their vehicles done! Some knights, wizards, and dragons based on the old castle sets would also rule.
3d printing is probably the easiest source of chainsaws if they don't need to be plastic.
This is why I'm 3d printing old Bionicle parts to paint and then rebuild the sets I missed out on. I'm living my childhood dream!
Man I had so many of the ice planet Legos! They had 3d tech on some pieces to show fossils. Man those were good times
Yusss Ice Planet!! Glad to see my recent interest in miniature painting overlapped with my obsession with Lego.
Everyone knows the transparent orange chainsaw is the GREATEST LEGO weapon ever!
Please do more stuff like this. I didn't know how much I needed this content in my life until I clicked on this video.
I find the idea of saving money on expensive Lego by using expensive miniatures pretty hilarious. Fun Video!
I love this concept. Lego Space was my favourite theme when I was a kid, I'd love to see more of your interpretations of it.
Beautiful work! I'm painting my necromunda dwarves in the scheme of the power miners!
I can't believe this series is going to actually happen! I own EVERY set of Ice Planet 2002, except for the huge starship. I played with them every day with a friend of mine for years. We used to pile books and whatever object we could find on the table and then cover them up with white handkerchiefs to create the snowy landscape. Exploring alien caves, battling with Blacktrons, face alien invasions, you name it. I could go on for hours. Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Hi! I enjoyed very much seeing you doing something different and I think they came out just great! Being both a vintage LEGO and a Dana fan, I totally encourage you to do more of this!
Congrats, great job as always.
I like how these cane out. As a fan of ice planet I think you did a good job representing them.
Ice Planet were some of my favorite sets. Love it!
Ice Planet was one of my favorites, and probably the last Lego set I invested in. Absolutely blown away by these. Just SO cool!
The orange in this is one of my favorite Lego memories. My brother I believe still has a ton of these sets! Great work please make more space Lego spin-offs.
This video hit hard for me. My grandma used to buy me lego all the time. Brought so many great memories. 💕
As someone who had a bunch of (and still has thankfully) the Ice Planet range, it's great to see these recreated. Gotta love a bit of neon orange. Thought of using this scheme for some leagues of voltan eventually. These look great!
In my humble opinion, you've gotta show some love to the classic blue astronaut. Love these models!
The Lego Space sets remain some of my favourite memories- who knew magnets could be so cool?
Ice Planet is a top-tier LEGO theme in terms of color palette especially, so this was a great choice!
This is the perfect Venn diagram overlap for me
Futuron through UFO is some of my favorite LEGO. This is amazing.
The dream project! You pulled it off?! TRANS NEON ORANGE CHAINSAW!! 🤩💜💜💜
As a huge fan of Stargrave and those kits, I love what you did with them! I agree that they are very “wargamer Lego” and with how many come in each box, they’re so fun to play around and experiment with.
As for Lego theme ideas, I always remember the rock raiders with all their cool vehicles and glowy green crystals.
I love all the vintage lego commercials!
The ice planet, and magnet dude legos were so cool, with their dayglow plastic pieces. Vividly remember salivating over those in magazine ads as a kid. Sweet video!
That's the perfect crew for Frost Grave (in Space)
Major nostalgia with the Ice Planet LEGOs - Never got it as a child, but its awesome that we can continue the legacy in our own way :)
For the record these minis are very clearly ice planet. I sent your insta pics to my brother who has no perception of the hobby but built Legos with me as a kid in the 90s and he immediately recognized it
These look great. What a fantastic idea! Iconic line of legos from my childhood. I played pretend with these sets for many hours 🤍
I hadn't thought about these guys in YEARS. Such a trip down memory lane, with those chainsaws.
The nostalgia hits so hard I almost cried! Definitely going to make a riff on this myself!
Ooooof. Straight in the nostalgia. I had the missile truck, great sets. Brilliantly captured
I also am a huge fan of retro lego sets, i love the mtrons and all the magnets.
I cannot express how much i love this idea! the classic ice planet visor is my all time favorite lego visor element!
I can’t believe how much these Lego kits are now. I had every one of those kits as a 90s kid, and I took them for granted. Lol I have random bits left but the ice planet Lego kits were also my fav. And the deep sea kits as well.
That was my childhood! I think my parents still have all of those Ice Planet sets in their attic - it was the only theme that I managed to collect pretty much everything from - at this point, they're probably waiting for my niece to be old enough to inherit them. :)
THE NOSTALGIA 😭😭😭 thank you for this
Ice planet 2002 is my favourite lego theme i have most of their sets. This is such an awesome surprise of a video!
This brought me back to my childhood. Really like how they came out. Definitely would love to see you do more lego inspired builds!
Oh man, I had some of these sets and had a friend who had all of them growing up. We spent hours and hours making intricate forts and having battles between the different factions. Always sad none of my Lego survived the years.
Models look great! Well done as always, Dana Howl!
This is by far my favorite lego space theme. Well done.
This is one of the coolest miniature videos I've seen on here! When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought they were more of really impressive custom Lego figures, but when I checked it out, they were much more amazing than I had thought!! Hope to see more of these videos, you absolutely nailed the aesthetic with these ones!
They were instantly recognizable in the thumbnail, so I'd say success!
Oh man, as a kid I was jealous of my friends who had these legos but I never thought to convert my warhammer to look like them when I was still active in the hobby. Now I wish I had money and space to hop back in the hobby and keep on converting like a mad man.
stupendous. Taking one medium (modern minis) and using them to emulate another medium (2000s lego) is a really fun artistic exercise. Is it identical? No, it couldn't possibly be, but it is obvious what the inspiration is, and I think things like this are one of my favorite artistic enterprises (among many others).
Playing a game of kill team against these as the Valhalla Ice Warriors would be so sick! I can't wait to see a version of one of the Lego space ships!!!
Dana, this is incredible!! As a long time LEGO fan with nostalgia for these retro sets I never even got to play with and a recebt miniature hobist... This video seemed made for me!
I loved it so much! You're one of the most creative and amazing miniature painters out there and I want more!! Give us more lego themes, give us more ice planet, GIVE US MORE!! ❤️❤️❤️
The nostalgia is real. So good.
I still have some of my 90s ice planet Legos so this is such an intersection of joy
UA-cam blessed me with this channel and this video. Had to share it with my buds because we loved that old lego set
The colour scheme is the tops! love the yellow to make the orange look glowy!
Truth in Thumbnail, I knew what you were up to from the one image. I love these kind of inspired kitbashes. Very well done!
This is fantastic work! Add me to the list of kids who adored Ice Planet 2002. The minis you made are a beautiful representation of that theme.
This was my favorite Lego line as a kid! I would carefully study every detail in Lego’s catalog, and my favorite Xmas present one year was their rover with the secret analyzer (aka the red and blue lenses that would allow you to see only part of a jumbled red-blue-black picture. Lego magazine encouraged you to scan their pages to reveal ‘secrets’ too)
I’d love to see a votann vehicle converted into an ice rover
I had the car from that Lego set. This was nice. A small dose of nostalgia just before bed.
Kitbashing with Stargrave figures is incredible fun, you can make brilliant chaos cultists if you mix with Frostgrave Cultists and Barbarians. There is recently a female centered Crew 2 and Mercenaries 2 box, excellent for slighter figures. The toughest thing to match between North Star Miniatures kits tends to be the shoulder connections - Frostgrave Crewmen have huge puffy shirts that have big connections to body, smaller arms leave big gaps. Overall a great line that can create excellent neo-feudal and Raypunk minis easily.
Love the colour choices, everything came together really nicely and dramatically!
These are amazing, im so jealous of your modelling skils, and im glad more people are shedding light on ice planet and its unique aesthetic
Ice Planet, Rock Raiders and Aquazone are the greatest of the forgotten Lego themes.
I saw these on IG at a glance and I thought they looked like Lego Ice Planet dudes! It's awesome that they are exactly that... Very cool idea!
I also grew up with those legos.
And those looks absolutely amazing! 11/10! The fluorescent green blacktrons would also be awesome!
The timing on this is so bizarre. I was literally just looking through my old Lego collection yesterday and was excited when I found these guys as I had forgotten all about them. I had also forgotten about the tribal warrior sets, those could be a fun one for minis as well!
i love it when people remake old Lego themes with non Lego related things like this
So clever. Thank you for showing off from our of my favorite Space themes!
i'd love to see more vids like this with lego sets it's cool to see how the style gets adapted from one to the other
I hadn’t heard of Lego ice planet until this video, but I love ice themed paint jobs. I’m definitely gonna have to go out and get some of these paints
If you want to simplify the buildtime, the Frostgrave kits are mostly done up in snow parkas, and the 40k Scion kits come with tanks for flamers that are easy to convert.
Northstar Minis kits are some of the best things to hit the market, embodying the kitbash spirit that the monopose models most 40k and Star Wars kits don't. The generic bodies leave a lot of room to add on bits, and also mean it's a lot easier to fit greenstuff in.
Really original concept! I've done using Lego minifigs as gaming miniatures before, but I've not seen anyone go the other direction like this. I am totally here for it.
I would of thought a colour scheme like this would be an eyesore, but they came out looking great! Nicely done!
Love the interpretation of these old legos.
My brother had the ice planet base it was so cool. We had those neon chainsaws knocking around our lego box for years after. It'd be cool to see one or two of these guys with the classic lego bright yellow skin too
Absolutely Awesome, Lego Ice Planet is my favourite Space Theme.
That new gw Jackals kit has chainsaws and two cylinder backpacks. These lego conversions are awesome!
Oh the nostalgia 😍
Beautifully reimagined
Holy crap! Hell yeah! I wish to have these sets again. Great thumbnail, video, models, paint job and overall effort!
Omg I love this, please do more! I have something of an obsession with remaking Warhammer Figures in Lego/Fake Lego Pieces, but have never seen someone attempt the inverse. Please give more, this makes the conversion happy parts of me very excited
There are not enough words to describe this video, guess I'll just leave you with "Everything is Awesome"
Thanks for continuing to inspire us. I love kitbashing and love that you are doing this. Please continue.
This is such an awesome idea. I grew up with Ice Planet, Blacktron and Space Police. Really looking forward to seeing the ship builds you mentioned
I would love to see more retro Lego themed minis! Obviously Blacktron 2 would be a good pick but a Johnny Thunder would be really cool too
Ice Planet and Space Police 2 were the only space themes that I had all the sets of. My parents were awesome.
The best era of LEGO! So cool.
This is a wonderful nostalgia trip, more please!
Man this is such an amazing idea! Now I really want to do this for BlackTron figures. Imagine what kind of weaponry you could stick on those guys!
Woooa, my favourite set when I was a child. What an amazing choice. Thanks Dana for this blast from the past 😊
Very cool idea, I love the Stargrave kits for their versatility, and now I'm thinking of retro Lego space themes I could try to emulate!
While I never had any Ice Planet sets as a kid, I love seeing how they translated to miniature form! I have painted a few miniatures for D&D, and I've been thinking about trying my hand at army painting, and now I think I'd like to try doing something similar with the Rock Raiders theme. It was one of my favorite PC games as a kid.
I had the Rocket truck when I was a kid back in the 90's. It was the only LEGO set that i keeped together for so long till i finally took it apart to use the parts for other things. Wish i never did but i still have some of the pieces with the few LEGO builds i still have today
Those are so, so, so cool. I love it. Ice Planet was my favorite along with Blacktron! Such a cool idea and you nailed it.
oh that is cool. the idea of using lego concepts for different art forms is something i encountered before in the form of fanart and comics, but i can't say i ever considered the possibility of lego based models like this. what a fun project
Brilliant I love how you used a lego theme as color inspiration
Wow, this is so cool! Just got my Deep Freeze Defender kit from my dad who's cleaning out our old house.
This was truly awesome to see how everything came together, and I loved how you explained how you assembled the minis. Keep up the good work, I really look forward to seeing more!