[SoNE Ep. II]: Distress call

[narbilu]

3 ABY (38:8:1) Tatooine

Nar Bilu and her crew was send out to investigate information about the Black Sun in the desert east to Mos Eisley. Vision was clear when they left but within an hour or two they were caught in a hail like sandstorm. Nothing could be done, except land the obtained dune speeder in the sand. A small miscalculation crashed the vehicle on a hard rock and throwing the crewmembers 25 feet out of the cockpit in one of the sand dunes. Nar Bilu and her pilot were unharmed, so far. The sand is taunting their skins. It is time to find shelter as soon as possible. As Nar Bilu checks her com, a distress signal beeps not far from here. As she discussed the transmission with her pilot, a silhouette of an enormous vehicle places a signature in the yellowish storm. A sandcrawler stops at their crash site and ten Jawa’s exit the vehicle and start plundering the crashed dune speeder. A single shot seizes the small men of their task and Nar Bilu approaches them with her weapon held up in the air. After short negotiations, she agrees the Jawa’s may plunder the wreckage in exchange for a small vessel, which was stored in the sandcrawler.

Along with her pilot, Nar Bilu chases after the distress signal, which seems Rebellion. Arriving at the location, an sand covered Empire ship sharpens her senses. Under a sail she notices a rebellion soldier covering from the storm. The only survivor of this battle.

prelim pictures

Episode II

I really love the story, but I found it hard to build something nice and clean, so advise would be helpful. Also having only one of the 3 main sets wasn´t helpful. The allowed plates and a few signature parts of the A-Wing are missing in my collection.

Extra parts so far:

Sail (4549623 – Ewok wing)

Baseplate (4616163 – Scorpion Pyramid)

Emperial helmet (4659193 – Stormtrooper helmet sand)

One extra minifig

[Bob De Quatre]

Nice entry Narbilu

Building "nice and clean" may be hard, but it's one of the challenges of this contest.

You still have 16 additional parts to use, so choose them well

[MstrOfPppts]

What a nice idea for that baseplate. That one should really count as 5 extra parts but you don't have the problem with that yet. I like the bottom right part of the MOC and the speeder is aslo neat. The rest I find a bit empty for the size of the plate. Guess the way to go with this episode - to get a nice clean build - is to go small ...

[LegoFjotten]

Looks nice so far! The bottom section and upper right look good, but the upper left/middle could use some more work. Definitely use your quota of extra parts!

[Mr Breden]

Pretty nice build, I would suggest putting some more to the center of the baseplate, especially considering that you have 16 more pieces at Your disposal

[Rogue Angel]

The base plate was an excellent choice. I like the laser turret in the top right and the generator detail with the 4x1 lt bley slopes in the bottom right corner. Good job!

[Covi]

Very nice work! The bast plate really makes this entry and was a smart choice because it adds something extra and makes your build already completely different then the others!

[gavralcraw]

That's a difficult base plate to work with - all those angles. Good job.

[VK-318]

Not bad! I would suggest some sort of hull piece that could serve as a sort of visual "bridge" between the front and back levels of the baseplate, or a few dead stormtroopers and rebels to make it look more like the scene of a battle.

Interesting story, and it carries on farther in the escape than most of the others seem to have. I think her encounter with this environment may convice Nar Bilu to make some more conservative choices for her outfit in the future.