Instructions - The Ghost & Phantom

[Captain_Quinn]

Late last year a fellow AFOL/Designer and I started working on this project with a simple goal: create a version of The Ghost, complete with Phantom, in play scale, but with improved proportions.

Lego's offerings were... ok. The Phantom looks awesome, but the Ghost always left me wanting, and the mismatch in scale was always a problem for me. Brickvaults' epic minifig scale Ghost set the bar at the other end of the spectrum, and is a beautiful design worth celebrating. My codesigner and I hope that this offering lands in the middle, offering an affordable option in both display and play.

The current offering is 200dpi screen suitable digital release (complete with separate XML files for each Ghost and Phantom), with options for a 300dpi print-ready version, and (where sufficient interest is shown) a hard-copy printed release (which will automatically include the digital release).

[LegoCalrissian]

Is there an interior? Do you have any other pics?

[Captain_Quinn]

There's a space in the forward section, behind the cockpit, for play... notably with the cargo hatches. The hull panels above this area are detachable, but it doesn't have a fully detailed interior beyond the cockpit/gunnery positions.

I'll need to upload some more images to my Flickr gallery. Let me see what I can put together. Anything in particular you'd like to see?

 

[LegoCalrissian]

I figured at this size that you couldn't fit all of the crewmembers' quarters inside, but I was hoping you had a common area similar to the Millennium Falcon with a couch and dejarik board like you see in the show.

[Captain_Quinn]

There wasn't really space for much in the way of interior detail.

[Kristof]

Looks pretty well crafted but I always like to see more pictures of the model, ideally physically built, before reading the advertising poster for the instructions (with pretty cool holograms, I like that touch!), particularly when the poster makes the actual model look kind of collateral next to all the graphics, logos and fonts. That's by no means an intended insult to your efforts. I just think that if your model is good (which it might), a set of decent pictures of it would present it much better than this ;)

[Captain_Quinn]

On 3/22/2020 at 2:43 AM, Kristof said:

Looks pretty well crafted but I always like to see more pictures of the model, ideally physically built, before reading the advertising poster for the instructions (with pretty cool holograms, I like that touch!), particularly when the poster makes the actual model look kind of collateral next to all the graphics, logos and fonts. That's by no means an intended insult to your efforts. I just think that if your model is good (which it might), a set of decent pictures of it would present it much better than this ;)

No insult taken... my test build of this design was using whatever parts I had available, so colours, damage, all that kind of thing wasn't considered. So long as the part itself was the correct one, I wasn't concerned about colour and all that. I can say that it's a solid build, with the only fiddly aspect being the connection of Phantom in the docking bay.

I can render different angles and perspectives, if that will suffice. Otherwise, it's gonna take a little more time for me to obtain the parts to assemble a display worthy build to photograph.

Additional renders...

[Cjd223]

This is a nice midi-scale model of The Ghost & Phantom! I really like the graphic design on the two pictures you posted, unique and very high quality.

I do agree with @Kristof about seeing the model physically built. It not only looks better in real brick but also goes to show that the model is buildable (which I'm sure your's is but some photos help).

[Captain_Quinn]

Thanks @Cjd223, I appreciate the compliment. I think I've seen some of your work with instructions/designs on other posts here, and I gotta give props for your work as well.

@Kristof's point is well made, and well received... and i could upload pics of the existing test build if need be. I'm sure everyone can appreciate that why I'd prefer having the full clean build in undamaged parts, in all the design-set colors.

Any advice for taking decent build images? Last thing that everyone needs to see is a background of my office.

[Kristof]

@Captain_Quinn I read you. I was reluctant to sharing too messy pictures of wildly colored proof builds myself :)

For one I think you can done better job with realistic renders. The results you can nowadays get out of very accessible rendering methods are pretty incredible. And my own impression is that I can easily accept a rendered model presentation if the renders are photo-alike (less cartoony, less after effected) and also plentiful, showing the complete view as well as some closeups.

[MAVERICK26]

It looks really good! I love the holograms.