[WIP/MOC] UCS Ghost, Star Wars Rebels

[Kristof]

Id suggest using something like THIS piece for the top windscreen. not entirely round (still quite ccurate regarding the size) but much less tricky to use than those three canopies.

[vstarvan]

For the cockpit and forward copula, I thought of using a Windscreen 8 x 8 x 3 Dome in front of Windscreen 8 x 6 x 3 Curved Top Angled Canopy with Millennium Falcon Pattern (or Mars Mission).

****Did this instead of fishing for parts... will have to doodle a lot to make it look "kosher".

In terms of the curved shape and the scale, the first sketch you posted, with the trans-neon green 30536 , looks spot-on, and it bet it would work with vstarvan's Buzz Lightyear dome solution.

I'm not nearly as sold on the other two sketches, with the old Falcon cockpit, although I think they could work for a smaller scale. The old Falcon cockpit is just too flat on top - it looks wrong.

Just my 2p.

something to keep in mind is that the top cockpit's studs won't be parallel to the ground. If you take a look at the actual ship you'll notice starting from the cockpit there's a ~20 degree incline towards the top turret. The Millennium Falcon piece might look nicer at that angle, but there's still a few issues. The biggest issues to consider for the cockpit are 1)If it is wide enough 2)If it allows enough headroom and 3)It doesn't dip into space that should be for the gunner station. Unfortunately, the MF piece still creates problems for all three of these. I've been messing around in LDD and it seems that as of now my only options are using 30536, or building it out of many smaller pieces.

Id suggest using something like THIS piece for the top windscreen. not entirely round (still quite accurate regarding the size) but much less tricky to use than those three canopies.

That shape was actually my first consideration, but just like the old Millennium Falcon piece, it's too narrow for how big the cockpit is supposed to be.

Edited February 19, 2016 by vstarvan

[Kristof]

^ is it? from most pice of ghost I googled up, this top cickpit looks slightly narrower than front dome diameter, thus when you have 8-9 stud dome, this is 8 stud wide and it should be nearly to wide shouldn't it? (Considering two curved wedge slopes added on both sides. I can't help myself thinking that the shape formed by multiple 30536s is noway near the real thing.

[vstarvan]

^ is it? from most pice of ghost I googled up, this top cickpit looks slightly narrower than front dome diameter, thus when you have 8-9 stud dome, this is 8 stud wide and it should be nearly to wide shouldn't it? (Considering two curved wedge slopes added on both sides. I can't help myself thinking that the shape formed by multiple 30536s is noway near the real thing.

The two buzz domes together are 8x9, but the complete pod with the three layers of slopes I have bring the total width to around 11 studs. Adding two curved wedge slopes to the sides will bring it up to 8 studs wide, but because the curved wedge slopes aren't hollow, only allows for four studs of interior space (six if you're clever about it). In order to properly do the interior, I'm going to need at least 8 studs of inside space.

Edited February 19, 2016 by vstarvan

[Guest]

I just found this image, comparing sizes of the Star Wars ships for the Fantasy Flight's X-wing game....

I thought it would have ended up smaller than the Falcon... eeeeeek!!!!!!

Edited February 19, 2016 by BwetDude

[Kristof]

I'm going to need at least 8 studs of inside space.

Oh I see.

[Kit Bricksto]

Hey vstarvan,

How's the project going on? I really liked the first modules you showed us but there have not been any updates in a long time..

I'd love to hear about your Ghost again and see what you have achieved in the last months! :)

[TyGl200]

I love what your doing by taking DarthTwoShedJackson's build and improving on it and making it MUCH bigger. I would love to see the completed version. I'm building a replica of DTSJ's Ghost off of reverse engineering. Good Luck with your build!

[BrickBuilderTONY92]

Hey vstarvan,

I just found this post today, sorry to see what ANIO says of your ambitious project. Hope it didn't stop you from building...do you have any updates with your Ghost?