LAAT/i Gunship (75021): nose art?

[Werlu Ulcur]

For Christmas I got a Republic Dropship with AT-OT (yeah, I love my wife ), and after assembling it, I made a family picture:

I really liked the newer 75021 Gunship, I think it's better built and more swooshable then the old 7676, but it has one (major) flaw in my eyes: no nose art . Come on, look at the LAAT/c:

Now compare to this:

I know the space for nose art is much smaller then what we had withe the older Gunship and Dropship, but there has to be something I can do. You cane easily turn the two plates around and make a bigger smooth area, like I did here:

I just have to find a sticker that could be used there. I was almost inclined to use those yellow attention stickers - they're 1×4 and come in many construction sets - just to put some color there, but I would rather have a more "SW-esque" art solution.

Any ideas?

Edited December 30, 2015 by Werlu Ulcur

[Solscud007]

There have been many people who printed their own nose art stickers.

There is this thread.

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21876&st=0

Edited December 30, 2015 by Solscud007

[Werlu Ulcur]

The problem is that they've all done it for the big panel on the older Gunship. I would like to see something that would fit, both aesthetically and in terms of size, the smaller area that the newer version offers.

[Solscud007]

Photoshop. Resize them or crop them to fit.

[mediumsnowman]

You could probably change out the side 4x6 panels w/studs around the edge for one big 6x6 tile, then resize the decals appropriately.

[Werlu Ulcur]

If I'm not mistaken a white 6×6 is not available, right?

Just checked on BL and there's only a light bley available. In theory the sticker would cover all of it, but the borders will show. Would it work?

[Smitty500]

I have modified my 7676 gunship and had done exactly that. I cut the stickers 2 studs off, and was left with this.

full page: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/380976.

But I am sure you are looking for something more like this.

Where the nose art is actually on the nose!

It all depends what kind of nose art you want as well.

[Werlu Ulcur]

Smitty, that looks good! I'm trying to order the 6×6, and when it gets here I'll see what can be done. Next week I'll try to get some stickers printed.

[Werlu Ulcur]

Been a while since I done it, and today shooting some F1 cars I remembered that I hadn't showed what came of this. Here's how my LAAT/i looks now:

Definitively not as good as the older 7676, but definitively better then it was .

[Vegard]

Really liked the nose art, it's a pity that there aren't to many making nose art anymore.

[Werlu Ulcur]

A real shame indeed . Lego should adopt a big smooth tile up front so that whoever wants to apply a sticker can do so (like we had with the 7676).

[Vegard]

Well 6X6 tiles nose art looks quite okay to me

[Veynom]

Personally, I simply replaced the 6x4 plate by four 1x4 white tiles and applied custom nose art stickers on top. No picture sadly.

[Vegard]

This make me feel and probably sound stupid, but I've never thought about that....