DrMuttonchops

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    Looks great, man! You did an awesome job overall, especially with the color palette. The inclusion of the olive green and tan accents really does make it look more worn! The angles of the front are likewise really well-executed. Could you include a shot of the back, the undersides, and inside the cockpit? I'd love to see the radiator fins, it looks like you did a great job on those. :) I can't speak to the etiquette of topic-making, though, sorry! I look forward to seeing the rest of your ships regardless.
  2. Hey man! I just made an account, figure I should actually comment on this thread. I love your MOC, you've done an amazing job, and I've loved watching your progression of the model over time! It's vastly superior to the original Lego version. In regards to your cockpit interior, I think you've done a fantastic job with the joysticks and the printed panels. Maybe make one or two of the top ones non-buttons, and something more holographic looking? That's the only suggestion I've got! :)
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    [MOD] 9500 Sith Fury

    Hey guys! I posted this a week or two ago over at the Star Wars Lego subreddit, and figured I'd post it here for my first posted topic! I decided to modify my Sith Fury, and I found @billyamy's post before photobucket held it for ransom and stole a bunch from it took inspiration from it. Let me know what you think, criticism is always welcome! I'm pretty freshly out of my dark ages, so there are a lot of parts and building techniques that are still new to me. Not seen is a bunch of structural changes I did to the interior, filling holes and generally reinforcing the model. The pictures aren't amazing, but I hope they're okay! The first mod I did was to fill in the interior of the wings with a plate and some light greebles. Seeing inside of the wings really bugged me in the stock model, I wish Lego had done something to fill it in. Next was to replace the flick-fire missiles with black telescope parts on a SNOT bracket, with a TIE wing circle tile for detail. I don't really like flick-fires, and I don't need the play feature, so out they go. I also switched the old cockpit with one of the new TIE cockpits. Not exactly canon, but I like it better! I also changed the top, but there'll be more photos of it later. Here's a view of the ship from the front. You can see the (slightly out of focus) black slopes covering trans-red plates on the tips of the wings, which I added for fun, but later found out that the in-universe ship has something similar! Here's that top view I was talking about. I'm not super thrilled about the tiles and slopes around the cockpit, but it's what I settled on. Ideas are appreciated! You can also see that I've replaced the click hinge portions over the cockpit and troop area, I don't really need to get into those areas and I like them better covered with plates and greebling. The former troop area is now a reactor area, so I added vents and an engine block above that area. However, I feel like there's too much black. Next is a cockpit interior shot! I've added some joysticks and some printed panels, and you can see at the top is a mudguard piece. I copied this from @Bricks Feeder's amazing TIE Advanced Prototype post, where he used it right on top of his TIE windshield. I have some issues with the offset of my windshield here, since I can't make it sit in deep enough... If you guys have ideas on how to fix this, I'm all ears. Anyway, the mudguard lets it sit slightly more evenly on the part where it touches the ship. Next is the back, where I took a lot of direction from @billyamy again. I realize it doesn't look nearly as nice as theirs, nor as nice with the wings folded out, but it lets in more light. I added octagon modified plates with clip plates around the engines to give more detail to the nacelles, and some slopes, vents, and assorted greebles around the engines as well. Here's a not-so-great shot of the technic mechanism that @billyamy used in their post to open up the back of the ship. I think it's brilliant and blends in much better with the ship Instead of troops, you get this! It's a smashed-together engine/reactor thing. I looked around and didn't find many ideas, so I cobbled it together. What dyou guys think? It's a mess of trans red studs, some curved slopes, some vent pieces, and some gumption. That's it for my first topic! I hope you guys like it, let me know if there are more photos that you want.
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    Updating Your Minifigs

    Wellllllll, it's maybe Rex, right? Filoni said he wants to have him be Rex, but it hasn't been completely established yet. Plus Wookiepedia still has a Nik Sant page in the canon section, so I don't think Sant has to file for unemployment yet! Lots of people can be old and have beards (although I would be fine with it being Rex). And I'm not a huge fan of the clone faces, I think Aayla's clone face would stick out quite a bit. What d'you think? I'm a little biased already!
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    Updating Your Minifigs

    Hey guys! This is my first post on Eurobricks, in the thread I've been lurking in forever! Here is my rebel squad, many of which I've customized/updated. Hopefully I post everything correctly! Here's the whole display with my U-wing, A-wing, and a few speeders. I received a two packs of Brickarms guns for my birthday from my wife, so I've equipped the team with them. Many of these are just head-swaps, but I'm still pretty proud of them. I'm pretty recently out of my long dark age, I've unfortunately discovered Bricklink and spent too much on minifigs and parts... Sorry for the glare on the pictures, I don't have a great way to take the photos. Guy on the left has new Han hair, Qui-Gon head, Kannan body, and pants from a rebel. Stock Duros from the battlepack with an ionization blaster, binoculars, and a manpurse. Mechanic with Kannan hair, Kordi's head, and rebel trooper body. She's got a hammer and a magnetic grenade launcher. Last guy is just the stock beardy Endor trooper with the coreburner rifle. Left is Kithaba with Kanan's legs and a brickarms AK. Not too interesting, but I really like him! Middle left is my radioman, I'll attach a picture of his radio backpack. He and the guy to the right of him are stock but with brickarms blasters. The one on the far right is my absolute favorite, I totally stole his design from @Forresto's post in this same topic. I assume he meant him to be a Shistavanen, as that's what I think he is! :D He's awesome. He's got a werewolf head and Faun legs, both from the CMF collection, with a pair of electrobinoculars and a rebel trooper torso. The radio is a backpack bracket with part 4081 with a fencing foil for an antenna and a stud at the bottom, with a curved slope to form the "pack" part. I'm pretty proud of it. Guy on the left is stock non-beard endor guy with a Halo pistol and electrobinoculars. Middle left is a stock Rodian with a brickarms DL-44 and a thermal detonator. Middle right I also like a lot, it's Aayla Secura's face and hands on a rebel trooper body! Gives some diversity to the squad. Right is a nemoidian, he's got clone wars Nute Gunray's head, which still looks pretty good with non-clone minifigs. he's got a basic rebel trooper body, nothing special. Lastly is Cassian's body with the head of the bounty hunter from Jek-14's stealth starfighter and slick-backed car salesman hair. Middle left is Poe's head with a basic trooper body. Again, nothing special but I like it. Middle is my ooooold Greedo head and hands! It was my first set with light and dark bley, back in the day. Middle right is prince Dastan's head and hair on a resistance trooper's body. Right is Kannan's head with Zander's hair and a resistance body! Thanks for viewing, I hope you guys like it! :)