macaron35 Posted February 5, 2020 Hi everyone, just wondering, most engines look the same on the SW ships. Would it be easy to adopt this kind of design ? or is it unaccurate in the SW universe ? thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kristof Posted February 5, 2020 1 hour ago, macaron35 said: most engines look the same on the SW ships. Where did you get that impression from? If you look at the variety of SW designs, there are a lot of engines which are stylized similarly to this (some podracers for instance... or one could argue that even ships like Venator have somewhat similar feel to them) This particular design (which btw evolves from this design by the same guy) looks fantastic, but the truth is that it still just mimics the general appearance of a somewhat stylized long radial jet engine. It seems that we (people) just tend to like it better than a plain dish with a glow inside, which is supposed to represent some ion engine. The truth is, however, that even in the vague terms of sci-fi realism, there is no need for having these long turbine-like chambers with tons of greebles to have a 'space engine' :D I might have gone off to a tangent here though. I wanted to argue that not all of the SW ships have engines that look alike and that this style of engine is indeed sometimes used. The most characteristic feature (IMO) of this particular design is the angle of the 'flaps' on the end, which then form this sort of partial helix. I think that is not typical for SW :) But I don't think it would look too odd on a fictional SW universe model. Beaware the huge gap between building such engine digitally and rendering it with all the fancy copper chrome elements, and trying to align all these obscure connections IRL :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hunter003 Posted February 5, 2020 That design is just incredible!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dvogon Posted February 7, 2020 (edited) I think it looks impressive and it fits perfectly in SW world. Keep going! Now you have to find a (huge) ship to put it on... Edited February 7, 2020 by dvogon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PusH Posted March 2, 2020 Good lord that huge. The front curve and side greebling remind of Rey's speeder from force awakens. If I had to place the engine "nozzles" I'd actually point to the Jedi eta interceptors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gotoAndLego Posted March 2, 2020 Holy cow, how large is your ship going to be? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macaron35 Posted March 2, 2020 11 hours ago, PusH said: Good lord that huge. The front curve and side greebling remind of Rey's speeder from force awakens. If I had to place the engine "nozzles" I'd actually point to the Jedi eta interceptors. Yes, definitely it could work well with Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k3nshiin Posted March 2, 2020 WTF? This is awesome! I had to look twice if this was really lego Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evergreen Posted March 2, 2020 On 2/5/2020 at 5:36 AM, Hunter003 said: That design is just incredible!! On 2/7/2020 at 2:08 PM, dvogon said: I think it looks impressive and it fits perfectly in SW world. Keep going! Now you have to find a (huge) ship to put it on... On 3/1/2020 at 5:19 AM, Mr_Good2 said: Really beautiful! 7 hours ago, gotoAndLego said: Holy cow, how large is your ship going to be? 3 hours ago, k3nshiin said: WTF? This is awesome! I had to look twice if this was really lego I really hope you guys realize that macaron35 wasn't the one who designed this model... The original designer's Flickr username is "noblebun". You can check out his other builds by clicking on the photo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macaron35 Posted March 3, 2020 (edited) indeed i saw this design and posted it here in order to ask if it was possible to see this kind of engine on a SW MOC more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/noblebun/ Edited March 3, 2020 by macaron35 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry McGlade Posted March 6, 2020 Looks amazing! I think it would fit in the Star Wars universe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
