[MoC] V5 (vicViper starfighter 15/11/2013)

[Fabz]

Hello,

SO here's my 2nd vic viper .

The main idea and starting point is the windscreen. This is an idea I had months ago , but for a neo classic space starfighter (a moc I'll certainly build later)

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A third one is already finished too, photos at the end of this month

[Wedge09]

Great work, very well detailed :thumbup: It quite remember me the Rifter from EVE Online

[Si-MOCs]

That windshield is fantastic.

I love how you didn't go easy on the greebles

[DraikNova]

The windshield is a NPU. Utterly amazing build .

[toms_hart]

Awesome NPU build on the windscreen, love the shape and greebles details on back section too. :)

[kermit]

How did you get the curve shape of the windscreen and how did you maintain the shape?

[Fabz]

Great work, very well detailed :thumbup: It quite remember me the Rifter from EVE Online

Thanks I didn't know that game but I 've checked and indeed it has maybe the bad look of this rifter (and the big prongs)

@Simon Tom Draiknova : Thank you. I want to use this kind of windscreen for other mocs

How did you get the curve shape of the windscreen and how did you maintain the shape?

This windscreen is made of trans-orange plate , not tiles

In fact you just have to fit together the parts but not totally , so that you can get the curve you want.

Then I took the wedge part

and "bent" that windscreen with precision so that it fits exactly the shape of the wedge.

Once it's done it's very solid! It doesn't move . The cockpit is fixed on the body with this hinge because I wanted to have access to the cockpit

Nothing hard to do , the only "annoying" thing was I had to build a 3studs width cockpit to fit exactly the windscreen

Edited November 19, 2013 by Fabz

[Missing Brick]

The windscreen looks great. It's a good job the droid pilot doesn't need to see out thanks to all his sensors and wot not - so he can have a cool looking stripey windshield instead :)

Shot 7 has a really nice shape too, with that 45 degree tail fin.

[Bob De Quatre]

I remember doing a cockpit like this when I was young... But you used it in a really nice viper!

[TheLazyChicken]

At first I thought it was just a micro-spaceship until I saw the droid! Keep up the good sci-fi work! :-)

[feijidaxia]

this right,Awesome NPU build on the windscreen, love the shape and greebles details on back section too.

[Fabz]

Thanks again everyone.

Well I have alreday experimented this windscrenn technic but in a simple way with this moc:

(Check my flickr for other pics)

Edited November 20, 2013 by Fabz

[WaysofSorting]

Sweet build. The windscreen is excellent and the whole thing is very evocative and cohesive. It really makes me curious as to the "culture" of the builders of such a ship. I was surprised it fit a pilot, and more surprised (in hindsight, I shouldn't have been) that it was a droid.

Superb - The length of the ship and its unflinching brutal symmetry really disturb me, but I think that's absolutely intentional. So: Awesome.

[DraikNova]

I love the aesthetic of that Space Police...whatever-it-is.

[Fabz]

Thanks guys

It really makes me curious as to the "culture" of the builders of such a ship

To cut a long story short :

Well I grew up with star wars as many kids in the 80's. But the things that really marked me was the book " great space battles"

This was my brother's book and I always looked at the artworks for hours , and I remember I even tried many times to build spaceship and starfighter from this book. I was 7 years old

Other influences , even if it's simplistic , what we call japanese culture : video games , and of course especially shoot em up , mangas and animes (cyberpunk)