Gundam WING X-0 (X-Wing Gundam)

[Pirean_Grammaticul]

 

Built to commemorate the release of Star Wars: VISIONS and delayed in order to get as pristine a render from @ExeSandbox as I could.

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Edited October 5, 2021 by Pirean_Grammaticul

[deraven]

That is amazing all-around, but I must say that the smoking gun is a lovely touch!  

[LegoMikey]

Looks awesome! 

[Pirean_Grammaticul]

oh yeah my manager put a gun to my head and had me make this

sorry fellas

[Pisces no Aphrodite]

Awesome model!

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Super! 

[Anonknee Muss]

This looks incredible! Great job!!

[Guyinaplaguemask]

Dude, please give us instructions. I will gladly pay for them. This looks fantastic in every way.

[Pirean_Grammaticul]

3 hours ago, Guyinaplaguemask said:

Dude, please give us instructions. I will gladly pay for them. This looks fantastic in every way.

funny thing is there's a studio file hyperlinked to the flickr page hyperlinked in the photo; do check that out and uh see if you can engineer it

[nerdsforprez]

Different, creative, and brilliantly executed.  Thanks for sharing...

 

[Flak Maniak]

Very good shape-mixing, evoking various modern Gundam designs and the X-Wing... And the colors too. I think the almost-total omission of Gundam-standard yellow is... Basically correct here, because it'd look out-of-place on the X-Wing. Turning the V-fin into the rebellion logo...

I was gonna ask what that black part was, that connected the thumb to the hand... Was baffling me, but then I opened the stud.io file and... It's the Overwatch gun base! I was wondering how it was at that angle; I thought "that angle looks like a minifig hand, but minifig hands can't attach into bar-holes like that, can they?", and then separately, I couldn't figure out what it was attached to the underside of; I thought MAYBE a headlight brick in some orientation but... Whatever I thought didn't make sense, no matter how I thought about it.

[Pirean_Grammaticul]

30 minutes ago, Flak Maniak said:

I was gonna ask what that black part was, that connected the thumb to the hand... Was baffling me, but then I opened the stud.io file and... It's the Overwatch gun base! I was wondering how it was at that angle; I thought "that angle looks like a minifig hand, but minifig hands can't attach into bar-holes like that, can they?", and then separately, I couldn't figure out what it was attached to the underside of; I thought MAYBE a headlight brick in some orientation but... Whatever I thought didn't make sense, no matter how I thought about it.

if you've ever stacked "older" SNOT bricks stud to antistud and put tiles on em they usually happen to be off a stud or two; the travis brick somehow made up for the remainder of the overwatch gun and it worked out. i was surprised this worked as well as it did tbh: i was considering a different gun base since i had seen an overwatch gun used recently and didn't want to feel derivative, but when i tested it out it was actually more brilliant than i thought. tha the trigger works to make it feel connected is even more of a W.

and thanks for the rest of your comments! to be honest almost all of those comments on decisions were almost exactly thoughts i had in the process of building it, looking at both the rx 728 and red 5 and figuring out how to merge the designs ideally. should mention that the helmet was designed as a callback to the x wing helmet but with an insignia and the gun was a merger of that gundam rifle with the dc-15 and that longstanding star wars rifle butt. definitely one of the models that's taken a while to make work and i'm glad i did

[Feuer Zug]

Awesome chimera of the X-Wing and a Gundam. Both parents are recognizable, but the result is unique and spectacular. My only question is, where do you fit the droid?

Edited October 7, 2021 by Feuer Zug

[Pirean_Grammaticul]

1 hour ago, Feuer Zug said:

Awesome chimera of the X-Wing and a Gundam. Both parents are recognizable, but the result is unique and spectacular. My only question is, where do you fit the droid?

good question. i considered that while building the back engines but i completely forgot at the end. Just imagine r2 calls in via bluetooth :)

[Gray Gear]

Cool idea, and impressive execution! I love all the small details, like the ice skates in the turbines.

[Ecclesiastes]

Big Gundam fan so this is so awesome! I really like how sleek it is, which is often hard to do with bricks on a mech!