[Factions Ep. 8 - Cat C][L10 - Tython - BS] Expedition to Iskalon

[dvogon]

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It has been a long time since we have been preparing a mission to explore planets in a search for new holocrons.

With that in mind, the right versatile and fast ship is a must. Hopefully we still have enough YT-2400 variant light freighters specially tailored for Black Sun business activities...

Black Sun members love those Corellian Engineering Corporation starships. Compact and flexible, with enough cargo space, the right armour, great laser defense cannons, a blazing fast hyperdrive and small enough for any difficult mission.

The interior distribution is very compelling as well...

Fahne is onboarding the freighter. She cannot read the mission details until the ship is on its flying track...

Fahne: We’ve been waiting for this too much. Is all the crew ready?

8-LOM: Sure! We’ve checked everything. Twice. We can go now...

Fahne: Take care of the cargo. This one is very very expensive. You can fuel several star destroyers with these Coaxium.

Additional photos of all details are included here:

Spoiler

This is a YT-2400 light freighter. I have to dismantle my 2014 75055 star destroyer and the 2011 7965 falcon to get enough pieces for the ship.

Had a lot of fun building it!  

It has many rooms and features I haven’t shot yet. More photos and a bit of storyline coming with better light conditions tomorrow.

Hope you like it!

Some additional ship shots:

The back of the ship with the engines:

The cockpit side and the scape pod:

A detail of the cockpit:

A detail of the scape pod interior:

The hyperdrive engine:

And a detail of the inners of the engine. I’ve used transparent bricks to let the light come in:

The bedroom for up to four people to rest at a time:

The maintenance place and behind the kitchen.

The bathroom, a critical place in every ship:

A detail of the entrance ramp:

Below there is another laser cannon:

The space boarding port:

The game desk area:

The hidden cargo area and the control room:

The front window close to the control room:

The cannons tube and the cannon controls. It also has a retractable technics handle to move the ship easier, which is a bit heavy:

 

 

Edited May 7, 2021 by goatman461
Added detailed photos

[starwarcam]

The interior of the ship is so spacious and looks actually livable for the crew. Impressive while maintaining what looks like good overall structure of the build.

[marvelBoy123]

Love the ship, it seems a really well thought out design and looks just as good on the inside as the exterior.

[Darth Bjorn]

Oh man! The Outrider was my favorite ship back in the 90s!

The engine is maybe a little too small or compact, for a ship this size, but never the less - this is awesome!

[MKJoshA]

That's a near-perfect YT-2400! Love all the interior details. It feels right at home in the SW universe.

[n1majneb]

This is my all time favourite ship @dvogon it's the first time i've bookmarked a post - i'll be pouring over these details.
Fantastic design!

[dvogon]

On 5/3/2021 at 5:08 PM, starwarcam said:

The interior of the ship is so spacious and looks actually livable for the crew. Impressive while maintaining what looks like good overall structure of the build.

Thank you! To have the interior for minifigs the ship has to be at least 5 pieces tall in most places, which makes the ship a bit fat. Slopes help to reduce that effect in the borders. It should be much bigger otherwise.

The ship technics structure is similar to the falcon I dismantled to get part of the pieces. It has to be more strong as the ship is bigger, it has many more pieces and weights more. But still can be moved easily with the handle.

On 5/3/2021 at 6:42 PM, marvelBoy123 said:

Love the ship, it seems a really well thought out design and looks just as good on the inside as the exterior.

Many thanks! The interior was very fun to build, trying to pack as many typical places of a corellian ship: hidden cargo area (a key feature for contrabandists like us ), maintenance area, scape pod, kitchen, game area, control room, bathroom...(this idea is taken from the Razor Crest) 

On 5/3/2021 at 10:26 PM, Darth Bjorn said:

Oh man! The Outrider was my favorite ship back in the 90s!

 The engine is maybe a little too small or compact, for a ship this size, but never the less - this is awesome!

Thanks a lot!  Of all MF variants, these are my favourite as well. The asymmetry of the ship design makes it unique.

Yep! the engine surface is smaller as I wanted to keep proportions while giving space to the rounded corridor, with 5 studs to have enough place for the minifigs and balance the rounded symmetry of that part of the ship. To compensate it, the engine is built vertical though, as most is under the floor of the engine room. 

On 5/4/2021 at 8:27 PM, MKJoshA said:

That's a near-perfect YT-2400! Love all the interior details. It feels right at home in the SW universe.

Many thanks! The MF is really iconic and this ship, which has a better aesthetic design IMO had to have the same feeling. My children also feel at SW home playing there 

13 hours ago, n1majneb said:

This is my all time favourite ship @dvogon it's the first time i've bookmarked a post - i'll be pouring over these details.
Fantastic design!

Thank you so much! This is a great ship I always wanted to build but never had the excuse to grab the time to do it . 

But now I have an issue: my children don't want me to dismantle the ship because they are playing with it, but I need the pieces for other builds... I've run out of many of them 

Edited May 6, 2021 by dvogon

[Darth Bjorn]

19 hours ago, dvogon said:

as most is under the floor of the engine room. 

Ah! Clever...