Lego Ideas Vintage Jet Plane

[aeroid]

 

I presented my idea of a Vintage Jet Plane based on the Tupolev 104 jet plane form the 50´s at Lego Ideas and got approved, now I need support!

The confortable, safe and fast Aero n.1 seagull the world´s first lego jet plane in story!

*A complete metal colored body frame

*retractable landing gears and spoilers! even has air breaks!

*services include wardrobe, galley and toilet

*vintage color for the interiors

*Space for captain, first officer and in front in the nose is room for the navigator!

can carry up to 9 passengers and 1 stewardess

TECH SPECIFICATIONS

Name: Aero n.1 Seagull

Powerplant: 2 laika M1 turbojet engines

Frame: metalized silver

Crew: 4

Capacity: 9 passengers 

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/6b509432-8f93-4809-9d4c-5d0b67d1a9fc

I have 59 days and need to reach 10,000 votes!

 

 

Edited September 3, 2018 by aeroid

[Johnny1360]

Interesting indeed, just so happens that I am building a vintage jet plane myself, about to give up though, just can't seem to get things right. 

There are a lot of things I do like about yours that I may use as inspiration on mine, the doors, landing gear and wing construction techniques in particular. Some of those parts I have never seen before though maybe I can find substitutes. Having said all that I think your plane could use some refinement, parts seem blocky  and don't flow smoothly, hard to accomplish with LEGO I know. It would be interesting to see the source material as well, it looks like a very unique plane. 

[aeroid]

I used LDD and is the only software to had the tail part hahaha! I think the other parts are available in other software. 

Yeah is still in process of more refinement I still have 59 days so XD

 

[aeroid]

I had made some little changes:

*Now is a little bigger and can take 10 passengers!

*Color corrections, changed metal sand blue for sand blue to make it less obscure.

*Added weather antenna in the nose

*Window colors changed from trans blue to trans brown

*changed the kitchen a little, and the arrange of the first class seats, and added tables for the first class too!

  

 

Think is almost like this:

 

Thanks to all the people who is supporting, can believe finally lego accepted one of my projects!  XD

Edited September 4, 2018 by aeroid

[Johnny1360]

The changes are good, glad you finally got a project on ideas. It does look like the wings could use some structural support, as it is it looks like they would fall off the fuselage if you picked it up. Also the whole front nose section could be made more streamlined, don't much care for the looks of the engines either, to long and cumbersome looking to me. 

Sorry if it sounds like I am nit-picking it apart, not really I actually like it, just think it could be better. I am going thru the same stuff with my plane as well, still can't figure out what parts those doors are yet either or the pieces around the top of the doors, would like to know. 

[aeroid]

Oh the wings? hehe I have a little secret, the wings are Pluto the frame with those bricksks with holes like a modular function so one brick with the hola goes in the frame and the other one with the plug part goes in the wing that way each wing is connected and can be unplugged and reconnected as much as you want.

The nose is going to be problematic because the limits of LDD, the navigator´s room and the wide issue, you can´t compromise the space of the navigator and you need the front nose in this particular model to be wide enough so it fits with the wide fo the plane, this plane has 2 aisle of seats. I´m thinking I could try and do some kind of curvy finish but right know my nightmare is to render this because I work on a Mac Pro and the only way to render is with Blender, and for that I have to transfer the file to LeoCAD which makes the whole design to get messy, then import to Blender which only makes things worse, and working in stud.io is impossible because the lack of some important parts like the tail and the front window.

Please keep giving your suggestions right know you are the only one to chat XD

(About the doors they are from lego airplane 7893 the same goes for the roof and the tail the plane don´t hesitate to ask anything else....

like how the landing gear and the spoilers works ;)