[Sci-Friend] Mia's Manta shuttle

[Bob De Quatre]

"Mia loves animals, and to visit her little friends, she uses a Manta shuttle."

So yes I can build small ships ... But only at 2AM when I can't sleep

And here is the lxf file

Edit: Added a cockpit closeup and edited the pics

Edited July 7, 2013 by Pandora

[soccerkid6]

Pretty clever how you made the shape match that of a manta ray The color scheme is very fitting for a Friends shuttle. Nice touch with the headlights

[Bob De Quatre]

Thanks Soccerkid6. It's not really a manta ray shape, but I had a ray shape in mind when building... and as I love manta ray, I had to name it after.

Btw it seems you stopped building sci-fi and got back to castel (with your amazing little brother) ?

[Only Sinner]

Like the other Friends one, this is really cute. I hope they have some type of phone feature so they aren't texting while driving.

[Pandora]

Oooh! Another one! And this is very nice too.

I like that it's a mechanical representation of something organic, and that fits so well with Mia's animal-loving nature. I know it's a spaceship, but it looks so aquatic, especially with the cool blue and aqua highlights, and of course the organic shape, and that makes it very cool. This is such a lovely little ship, and I really like what you've done with the small interior too.

Keep 'em coming!

[Esurient]

Oooo, nice work there! great design on the shuttle and nice combination of friends' colours!

[Sebeus I]

The canopy combo works great, I don't think the 6x6 dishes exist in transparant color in real, or do they?

[Bob De Quatre]

Thanks for the kind comments

Oooh! Another one! And this is very nice too.

I like that it's a mechanical representation of something organic, and that fits so well with Mia's animal-loving nature. I know it's a spaceship, but it looks so aquatic, especially with the cool blue and aqua highlights, and of course the organic shape, and that makes it very cool. This is such a lovely little ship, and I really like what you've done with the small interior too.

Keep 'em coming!

Thanks Pandora. I built it this night between 1AM and 2AM, so I didn't wrote a backstory, but I choose Mia as she is the animal-loving one and tried to get her colors, blue and green, but the green didn't worked well. I thought of the shuttle being capable of flying in space and air and also able to go underwater

I spent some time on the interior, as the build is really simple with only 104 parts. It's really too bad that the friends minifig aren't available in LDD

The canopy combo works great, I don't think the 6x6 dishes exist in transparant color in real, or do they?

I made sure that the windscreen, the 6x6 dish and the 1x2 brick existed in the same transparent color. There are some parts don't come in the color I used them, but I wanted to be sure that the canopy parts were available if maybe someone wanted to build it in real bricks.

[Kristel]

This one is just adorable! Thanks for sharing.

[lightningtiger]

Cute, just cute....excellent design......one day the moderators might run a contest for Friend's cross-over MOC's........now that's an idea.

Anyway, great work and Brick On with your Friend's 'BDQ' !

[Bob De Quatre]

Thanks Kristel and Lightningtiger

[Pandora]

one day the moderators might run a contest for Friend's cross-over MOC's........now that's an idea.

LT, we did that already! It was part of Summer of Friends last year!

To see all the entries, click here and scroll down to Categories 3A and 3B (we even had two size categories!)