The Face of WipEout: Building Feisar in Lego

Overview

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If you've been following this series, you know I started with AG-Systems — my personal favourite team. Then came Van-Über , Tigron , and Qirex — each building on the last.

Feisar was always the elephant in the room. The blue and yellow livery. The European pedigree. The team on the box. I avoided it for two reasons: I was an AG-Systems partisan from way back, and honestly, Feisar had already been done — and done well — by other builders. I wasn't sure I had anything new to add.

Then I realised something. I'd built every other team. Leaving Feisar out would be like finishing a jigsaw puzzle with one piece missing. So I committed.

What Came Before

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When I tackle any new build, I look at what other people have done. For Feisar specifically, there's a lot of great work out there.

• GalacticEmu022's Wipeout 3: Team Feisar on Lego Ideas — submitted all the way back in 2017, it's clean and faithful.
• Marius Hermann's take over at steponabrick.com — smaller scale but beautifully executed. And his use of wheel arch pieces for the engine intakes? Absolute genius. I had to steal borrow that idea.
• Bryan92609's 30th Anniversary Feisar — epic in every sense of the word. A genuinely impressive piece of work.
• Aliencat's super-detailed FX250/300 model — the detail level here is staggering.
• And Marius Hermann again with his take on Shaun Mooney's reimagining of the Feisar racer.

Great builders, great models. All with their own vision and direction. The question was: what's mine?

The Build Process

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I use the PS4 version of WipEout Omega Collection to pull reference renders, and I try to stay as true to those models as possible. Here's the source material I was working from:

My approach to a new ship always starts the same way: rough blocking. I don't worry about strength, connectivity, or even colour at this stage. I just want to understand the proportions — how long is it in front of the cockpit? How far does it extend behind? Where do the wings sit? Getting that right in rough grey bricks means I'm not fighting the geometry later when I'm trying to figure out connection points.

Then comes the harder part: working out how the angled sections connect. Is the angle on a single axis? If so, a hinge works. Multiple angles means ball joints or something more creative. Feisar has some distinctive geometry — those swept nose panels and the rear wing section — that took some iteration to get right.

After that, it's a process of tightening everything up: optimising brick usage, locking in the colour blocking, and making sure the model is actually structurally sound. There's no point having something that looks great on a render but collapses the moment you pick it up.

For Feisar, three challenges stood out:

The angled nose panels. I wanted the side panels to angle out slightly — true to the source material — but still flow visually into the rear wing section. I ended up using ball joints to get the movement, then spent a lot of time making sure the transition looked smooth rather than mechanical.

The engine intakes. I must have done eight versions of these before landing on the final design. Marius Hermann's wheel arch approach was the breakthrough — the geometry just worked perfectly.

Renders via brickrender.cloud

The winglets. I thought I was done. I posted some renders to r/Wipeout and got some great feedback from u/THEFREEMAN2048 who pointed out the winglets on the main wing were too small. Once I could see it, I absolutely could not unsee it. Back to the drawing board for another round of revisions. This is why community feedback matters.

Here's how the finished model turned out:

The Stickers

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As with the rest of the series, I produced a custom sticker sheet to give the model that full Designers Republic realism. Feisar's livery — that clean blue and yellow with the European Racing Federation branding — is actually fairly forgiving to recreate in sticker form. The contrast is strong, the shapes are clear. It came together well.

Stickers are the difference between a model that looks like a spaceship and one that unmistakably looks like that spaceship. Worth the effort.

Build Stats & Downloads

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The finished model:

• Size: 40cm nose to tail
• Pieces: 821 pieces
• Scale: Minifigure scale

Build it - buy the full kit

The Feisar is available as a full kit from Build-A-MOC — recommended if you want every piece, the custom sticker sheet, and downloadable instructions all in one place, ready to go. The kit includes:

• All LEGO pieces
• Custom sticker sheet
• Downloadable instructions

Buy the full kit on Build-A-MOC

Build it - Download instructions, source your own Lego

Buy the instant download from my Gumroad page here . The digital download includes:

• Bricklink Studio project file (.io)
• Instructions PDF
• Stickers PDF at print quality
• Bricklink parts list XML

You can also find this model on my Rebrickable profile if you prefer that platform.

I appreciate the small contribution for this project. Designing and building these models is time consuming and not cheap (as any LEGO fan knows!). If you want to see more in the series, a couple of bucks here really helps. Many thanks!

NOTE: Like the Van-Über, Tigron, and Qirex, I have not included a stand in this build, although the model is designed to sit on one. My BrickLink profile has the model of the standard stand I use. Feel free to substitute as you see fit.

New to Building LEGO MOCs?

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If you've never built from custom instructions or used BrickLink before, don't worry - it's more straightforward than you might think. The basic process is:

1. Download the parts list XML from the Gumroad purchase
2. Upload it to BrickLink to create a "wanted list"
3. Use BrickLink's buyer tools to find sellers who have the parts
4. Order the pieces
5. Follow the instructions PDF to build

For a complete walkthrough of this process, check out this helpful guide:

The BrickLink community is also incredibly helpful if you run into questions. Building MOCs is one of the most rewarding aspects of adult LEGO fandom - you're not just following official sets, you're bringing custom designs to life.

Reflection

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I'm genuinely proud of how this one turned out. More so than I expected, honestly. When you're following in the footsteps of builders who've done excellent work, it's easy to worry yours won't measure up. But I think I found my own take on it — something that fits within this series and adds to the conversation rather than just repeating it.

Five ships in, the collection finally feels complete. AG-Systems , Van-Über , Tigron , Qirex , and now Feisar. Every major team from the FX350/400 era, represented.

Well... almost every team. I've got my eye on a certain heavy-hitting corporate powerhouse next. Triakis, anyone?

Stay tuned.