[MOC] Eta-Class Supply Barge (Rogue One)

[obijon]

Hi again everyone

This time I present one more model from Rogue One – the Eta-Class Supply Barge.  This “super tanker” can be seen entering Scarif through the shield gate.

It is the big brother/sister of the Zeta-Class Cargo shuttle:  

I also cannot recall seeing any other MOC’s of this monster.

This was quite a simple build – it is mostly a flat-bed after all – but the pieces that inspired me was the new 1x2 wedges for the prongs at the front.  The only other “tricky” part was making the 8 wings so that they were sloped but not too sloped.  I eventually settled on door rail plates at the bottom of each wing to give an illusion of a slope.  It is a bit bigger than I would normally like to build but with the front having to be 4 studs wide (difficult to make it 3) it dictated the overall length of the model.

My photography is not very good but the orange containers contrasted against the dark-bluish gray is quite striking.

Let me know what you think and there will be more MINI madness soon

Jon

 

[obijon]

On a side note having posted the picture of the cargo shuttle I have changed the front section to have two of these instead: 

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=24201&name=Slope, Curved 2 x 1 Inverted&category=[Slope, Curved]#T=C

This piece was not available in Dark Bluish Gray when the model was built.  I will try to get round to updating the pictures on brickshelf.

[Ben Pitchford]

Nice design, I never got into micro builds but would love the change in parts use. 

[obijon]

thanks very much