Help, I accidentally made a T-wing Starfighter [MOC]

[Mandalorianknight]

So... this wasn't supposed to be a star wars vehicle at all. It began it's design process as a batwing, of all things. And while I think it still works as such (It becomes apparent from a certain angle), when I was finishing it, I realized it aesthetically was fitting with a rebel starfighter. So I changed a few greeblies and altered the color scheme, and as it turned out, I'd made a T-wing starfighter.

REBEL T-WING STARFIGHTER (796 PIECES):

"The T-wing starfighter (I'm making up all of this based on the design) was a dropship/starfighter commissioned by the new republic shortly before the Battle of Endor. Due to the changing tide of the war after Endor, only a few actually were purchased by the New Republic, for use with their Special Forces Shocktroopers."

"The T-wing was only lightly armed with 2 wingtip blasters and a pair of cannons next to each primary engine. It's primary function was to quickly enter enemy territory and drop off shock troops, as evidenced by it's thick hull and wings, as well as it's oversized primary engines. The ship featured a ramp opening at the front from which shock troops would either exit upon landing, or, if even a momentary landing was deemed too risky to the T-wing due to artillery, to parachute out of."

I threw a couple figs into the render to show it off. L-R we've got two NR shock troopers (of which I don't believe we have a canon design, so I made my own), a newly re-recruited NR shock trooper captain, and a New Republic pilot.

[TeddytheSpoon]

The title of this post gave me a good laugh! Accidentally making a Star Wars ship sounds like a nice problem to have

I like this design, I can see where you were going with the Batwing shape. The drop ship idea is cool as well.

And not to be that Tri-Wing guy, but it does look quite a lot like the ECHenry redesign of that ship (which is a compliment, even if I prefer the now-canon one!). You've even got the folding wings in there!

[Feuer Zug]

Nice design. Good amount of details, but not over the top. It would fit into a scene and most casual fans would never know it is a MOC.

[Kage Goomba]

For an accident- this is impressive lmao

[McMurder_them_softly]

It's a happy little accident 

[Mandalorianknight]

14 hours ago, TeddytheSpoon said:

The title of this post gave me a good laugh! Accidentally making a Star Wars ship sounds like a nice problem to have

I like this design, I can see where you were going with the Batwing shape. The drop ship idea is cool as well.

And not to be that Tri-Wing guy, but it does look quite a lot like the ECHenry redesign of that ship (which is a compliment, even if I prefer the now-canon one!). You've even got the folding wings in there!

Thank you!

Here's a more clear view of it in it's batwing form: It wasn't supposed to do this, but about halfway through, I noticed the shape, so I tweaked it a bit, and those tweaks later on ironically resulted in the eventual changes to a rebel fighter, despite it originally being meant to look more like the symbol:

Wow, I just googled it and it... it really does. I almost wonder if I've seen his design somewhere before and was subconsciously influenced. I was aware of the passing resemblance to the Tri-wing (Which, I believe, your own excellent MOC is the first time I'd seen it), but wow, it REALLY shares similarities with ECHenry's. Maybe I should change the title to "Help, I accidentally made ECHenry's Tri-wing, kind of."

9 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Nice design. Good amount of details, but not over the top. It would fit into a scene and most casual fans would never know it is a MOC.

Thank you. The majority of my MOCs are meant to emulate lego's official style, hence the play features/spring shooters and detail level.

3 hours ago, Kage Goomba said:

For an accident- this is impressive lmao

Thanks!

2 hours ago, McMurder_them_softly said:

It's a happy little accident 

Thank you, Bob Ross would be proud.

[Agent Kallus]

Yep it would look at home with the rebel fleet in Rouge one or return of jedi. A nice ship build. 

[BrokenEye]

On 4/3/2023 at 3:42 PM, Mandalorianknight said:

Thank you!

Here's a more clear view of it in it's batwing form: It wasn't supposed to do this, but about halfway through, I noticed the shape, so I tweaked it a bit, and those tweaks later on ironically resulted in the eventual changes to a rebel fighter, despite it originally being meant to look more like the symbol:

Now, if there were a superhero called Hibiscus Man... or possibly Lily Man? I don't know flowers, I'm just pareidoliizing. Which is the thing that is shaped like how the thing that that thing is shaped like is shaped?