Bob De Quatre

Zenith - Old Republic escort cruiser

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The Zenith was designed to escort diplomatic missions.

It's sizes are 800 meters long, 240 meters wide and 290 meter height. (1 stud = 5 meters)

Four main engines and three thrusters allow the Zenith to achieve high speeds comparing to ships of the same size, both in sub-luminar and superluminar speed.

It has strong deflector shield, that could also protect any docked ship.

The armament is composed of 3 twin-mounted turbolasers, 20 double laser turrets, ion cannon, concussion missiles and proton torpedos.

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Masterpiece! It already looked awesome in LDD, but in real bricks it's so much better. The details all over are astonishing. Great job on this project!

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Thanks all for your kind comments :blush:

You actually built it!!! *oh2*:wub::cry_happy: It's beautiful! Dare I ask how much it cost...?

It costs... way too much :look:

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I have been longing for this post ever since I saw the parts build of flickr.

That thing is SO awesome Bob! It's not enough to put this thing through cuuso, this ship should be made part of old republic canon and then featured somehow in ep7! And then it should be made as an official LEGO set :)

Serious thumbs up!

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Bob, I love the look of your rendered creations but seeing this in real bricks makes it appreciate its dimensions a lot better :wub:

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Thanks everyone :blush:

That thing is SO awesome Bob! It's not enough to put this thing through cuuso, this ship should be made part of old republic canon and then featured somehow in ep7! And then it should be made as an official LEGO set :)

It can't be a good set, since you can't swoosh it... :sadnew:

Looks sweet Bob, how often do you actually build with physical bricks? From memory most of you builds are in LDD.

I only got very old bricks, so when I want to brickbuild, I need to BL every single brick.... I've done that for my SSD, for the Zenith, and I'll probably do the same for a few smaller ships this year.

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You built it :wub_drool:.

Seeing it like this, it's much more evident that it could belong to the same lineage as the Hammerhead or even the Nebulon-B.

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I had to do a double take to realize it wasn't LDD! :drool: This is such an iconic ship of the Old Republic and your rendition of it is flawless. :thumbup:

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Great! You've finally completed the real one!

I have to say it looks even better in real life - I mean a picture of the real thing looks even better than a picture of LDD.

Did you actually change something of what you did in LDD?

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Thanks :blush:

I had to do a double take to realize it wasn't LDD! :drool: This is such an iconic ship of the Old Republic and your rendition of it is flawless. :thumbup:

What ship are you refering? The Zenith is an original MOC... inspired by some canon ships.

Did you actually change something of what you did in LDD?

Well I didn't do many modifications:

- I assembled the "head" and "shoulder" (mmm that could be a good brand name) structures as there was a bending problem

- I added a way to hold the modules together with removable technic pins, since I wanted to keep the modular structure (see picture below)

- I had to reinforce the vertical structure inside the Nebulon B like area as it is the weightier part of ship

- The big angled dark red parts in the same area where really hard to assemble, so even if it was buildable the way I designed, I changed it and used ball joint.

And that's all, expect some cosmetics or colors changes.

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Power Rangers! ASSEMBLE !! *cough* by BobDeQuatre, on Flickr

I'm pretty proud of the stand. I also designed it on LDD and wasn't sure it would hold the weight or tip on the side. But it do it's job very well. The Zenith is just laying on it, there is no connection between the ship and the stand.

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Well that's embarrassing. I thought for sure this was based off of this ship for KOTOR:

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WOW!!! Bob you built it! The ship looks awesome, way better than I imagined when you posted your LDD MOC. You also got all of the parts and constructed it a lot quicker than I thought you would.

DIG!

I love the smooth flowing forms, and the intricate details. And I see the shuttle docking port, very cool.

Now, what are you building next?

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Well that's embarrassing. I thought for sure this was based off of this ship for KOTOR:

*snip*

The head is actually inspired by the Thranta class corvette.

WOW!!! Bob you built it! The ship looks awesome, way better than I imagined when you posted your LDD MOC. You also got all of the parts and constructed it a lot quicker than I thought you would.

DIG!

I love the smooth flowing forms, and the intricate details. And I see the shuttle docking port, very cool.

Now, what are you building next?

It's been sitting on my desk for two month now... But I wanted to take good pictures, so I waited to have a new camera, install a studio, and wait for a sunny day :classic:

Next I think I'll build the Whitefang... The starfighter, not the global admin :sweet:

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