Sphere Mk.2

[Kikuichimonji]

So about a month ago I posted my latest MOC, the Sphere. Ever since, I've been toying with the design as well as replacing the lightgrey with darkgrey.

This is the final result. I don't think I've ever spend so much time (and money...) on tweaking a ship. I plain love the color scheme and the overall smoothness.

New for this version are:

The colorscheme (duh).

Back greeblies (the original didn't had any since I originally intended for it to fly horizontally instead of both horizontally and vertically).

2 stripes across the engines which I just plain love.

A new, brick-built front gun.

Smooth panels on both sides of the cockpit.

An orange stripe underneath the cockpit all the way up to the engines.

I also removed quite some stuff, most notably the missiles and stuff. They just didn't fit in with the overall smoothness of the ship. Main problem was coming up with a way to take care of those "down-studs" that were very visible because the engine was 90 degrees compared to the body.

Well, on to the pictures:

Front shot:

Back greeblies:

Belly:

Central spine holding this thing together:

Engine belly. I used 1x4's instead of a 2x4 to keep up with the 'double line pattern' used at the top of the engine. I plain love these stripes.

Well, that's it. Some more pictures in my gallery when moderated.

Let me know what you think!

[xenologer]

Definetly looks better than the old version, Removing the gun/missle pod stuff was a good choice.

If you can get the cockpit glass in smoke instead of clear it might fit with the darker colors a little better...

And with this, as well as the old version I do wonder... why it's called the 'Sphere'? It's not shaped like a ball...

Im still not entirely sure what direction it flys in. The way the long engines are pointed, I'd guess that its like a rocket, where it launches straight up, and probably hover's using those... Maybe it's somthing like Fett's Slave1 ship... where it's supposed to flip?

[Starwars4J]

I love this. It's great that you scaled back on the weapons, and the new color scheme fits beautifully. I hate to think how much exo-force you had to canibalize for this :-P

I still say it's a really interesting design, and I like the fact that the ship has an actual "spine" holding it together. The greebles are nice, but the ones on the back are a little sparce, so either put a little more in, or remove it altogether. I think if you could find a way to hide the greebles a little more on the back it would have a better effect.

What else can I say, it's a nice, smooth ship with a very interesting design. Great job!

[Kikuichimonji]

Xenologger:

it can fly both horizontally (back engines) or vertically (belly engines). And I wanted a smoke cockpit, but since those are around 5$, I decided to just keep it like this. Could've grabbed one from a SW set for the pictures though.

Starwars4J:

It had just about the maximum amount of greeblies I could fit in. Without any real good idea what to put in there other then greeblies, they'll just stay there. And I only have the 2 small EF sets. I don't think I used a single EF piece though. Around 75% of this is Bricklinked items (must've cost me about 20$ I think...).

Glad you liked it!

[snefroe]

it's great!! 8-

[Kikuichimonji]

it's great!! 8-

[SuvieD]

They colors on this are better than the previous. It looks very sleek and much like something you would see in a scifi movie.

I still feel very sorry for the cramped pilot though.

MOC on!

[xwingyoda]

Really nice space creation Kiku ;-) I think that dark grey fits the ship better !!

I shall move this to our space forum ;-)

*yoda*