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By far the BEST upper air-brakes I've seen on a MOC speeder. Best T-47 period! I love all the updates you have done. You've certainly set the bar higher once again Mr. Lars. The design, aesthetics and clever use of pieces truly make this a work of art.

Thanks for the PM. I'll try and incorporate your thoughts on the next round. Although there may be some wait in order since I am in search of new parts to try out. Yes! that is an x-wing in the background... but that thing is so busted up proportionally that I am looking to rebuild it from scratch since it is based off of the LEGO 6212. I will probably not go that far. I think one of the most defining features of the T-47 are the brake flaps. I think by deleting them would certainly take the "soul" away from what makes it a T-47.

drats... I don't have that part. time to order...

Thanks Brickdoctor. I tried the idea of switching those sloped bricks as you had offered the last time around and it just never worked. I can see the logic in the idea but with the way my wings are built, I would not be able to add a wedge plate where that rotated 2x1 sloped brick would rest near the outside of the wing.

Here is another WIP update on my T-47's. Talk about illegal connections – check out the new transition from the canopy to the wings in the Gray version on the right. I refrained from editing the Red T-47, so I can take side-by-side comparison shots. Please let me know what you all think. My Thoughts: I am not entirely thrilled I ended up with more studs on the wings... but I can be convinced otherwise with some opinions in this board. Yes, I know the 1x1 cylinder block is a bit honkey on that new angle I added – consider those two pieces as placeholders for now until I figure out what parts to use for a better transition. I'm hoping to tackle the canopy next. FallenAngel... I think you were trying to PM me on the last round but for some reason my PM's were not working – I think I fixed it. Shoot me over a PM if you wish to share your thoughts. Thanks Everyone for all the helpful criticism

nice use of red

in regards to the canopy, yes.... I'm afraid I'm stuck where I am with this current design. Quite honestly, when I revisited the canopy design a couple days ago, I inadvertently ended up with something similar to your canopy without using yours as a reference. I scrapped it and sought after another solution and ended up with the current one you see. I see what you are saying now about the sloped bricks – at first glance this looks to be a tough recommendation to try, but I'll give it a try and see where I end up.

Many Thanks BrickDoctor! I haven't messed around with the gun tips yet. It is on my to-do list for the next round. I won't deny it, but I'm having some difficulty with the canopy design. I think it is due to me having two different types of windscreens that offset the heights slightly. I think I will have to order a couple more windscreens before I can really tinker with a redesign. I'm trying to avoid adding a brick-high element on top the rear windscreen – I think it is just aesthetically wrong in my opinion to do so. I might just butcher the front windscreen on my other T-47 and sketch around with those parts. You lost me on the last bulleted comments though – can you please elaborate? I' am still a bit of a newb when it comes to the LEGO lingo.

Here are some WIP shots of my snowspeeder after taking into consideration some of the helpful comments I have received since it's unveiling several days ago. Please take note of the revised cockpit, repulsor units, rear gun platform area & power converters attached to the repulsor units. Overall, I cleaned up the greebling. I'm still playing around with it so let me know what you all think. here are some shoddy pics this time around. No time to conduct a photoshoot

it's an easy fix I only knew because I own and I have spent a considerable amount of time working on the Lego 8129 set.

Welcome to EB cool diorama. i think there may be a bit too many minifigs in there for my tastes. I do see something odd though – it looks to me that the body of the fallen AT-AT is backwards.... meaning the head is attached to what is supposed to be the rear of the vehicle.

Thanks Brickdoctor. This will help me a great deal.

does anyone have a full straight on shot (from the front) of the T-47? Or the closest angle you can get of that. I need one for the adjustments I'm making. Thanks in advance!

Thank You for your criticism as well DobbyClone. I hope to put it to good use as well. I still have to provide you a cutaway shot of the wing so you can see what madness lies beneath the plating. I'll try and get to that this weekend. Thank KimT. Much like with everyone's responses, I'm very flattered this has been blogged in other LEGO community sites. Your uploading to my Flickr set is perfectly fine. My Flickr account is not a dedicated "LEGO photo archive" like other users so hopefully just providing you the link to the set will suffice.

fallenangel309, Thank you for the much needed critique. I believe with your assessment of this build I can start to make more improvements to it's accuracy and further make it my own individual T-47. I'll make some tweeks and hope to post up an updated version in the near future. I think some significant tear down is on order to address some of the issues you have brought up – but like I said in an earlier post, this is the fun part for me.

good catch. I saw this as well. modded at birth?

Yeah, the Doc's is pretty darn excellent. Which transition do you speak of? the only transition I can think of is from the main rear fuselage to the radiator fins in the back. I can post up a break-away shot of it if you like.

Yup. I totally agree with you. There was a point in the building process where I felt the original models were already so well done that it was difficult to improve upon them.

KimT, Here is the link to the set in my Flickr Account. Thanks for the generous comments everyone. I hope everyone understands that I am not claiming this build as a true "MOC" – because really, it's not. The builders I have mentioned in the first post above really deserve much of the credit since they spearheaded the original designs. I just wanted my own well-designed T-47 on my desk/lego collection.

I would like to preface by giving credit where it is due. This build is inspired by the original work of Larry Lars with some notable design influences from the BrickDoctor and Marshal Banana. I have built two if them. One of which was the prototype (Red/Gray) for the all Gray version. I've been steadily working on this for approximately 3 months – working with Larry's flickr photos (one of which he showed a breakdown shot), I first worked on the nose, then onto the right wing and left wing, then finally onto the main fuselage/cockpit – all the while making connection adjustments to the completed main components. By no means is this an exact brick by brick replica, but I think I came pretty darn close to it. This build was a challenging yet rewarding experience for me. I very much enjoyed the trial and error process. It was quite fun… except when my 15 month year old son decided to swing by, take some parts and put them in his mouth. As you can see, I've incorporated some of the more notable improvements to the Lars design like the BrickDoctor angled slope radiator fins in the rear and some of the greeble work reminiscent of Marshal Banana's T-47. My T-47 does have working flaps both on the top and the bottom rear of the vehicle, although I do not have a working retractable cable like some of the other well designed T-47's listed above. The cockpit also swings open and contains the pilot, gunner and my interpretation of the interior and controls. I'm very happy with my T-47s and it is currently my favorite Lego model I have built. On to the pics:

nice photos of the scout trooper, General Magma. The scout trooper minifig is one of my all-time favorites.

Thanks for the feedback Brickdoctor. It's funny you mention that transition point between the middle plate and the fore and aft plates – I was hell bent on reducing them from the original lego design because I thought the transition was too abrupt. I guess i went too far. I'll tinker with that transition a bit more.

I wouldn't mind seeing a TIE Interceptor

Wonderful work drakmin! did you also have plans on adding the lower air-brakes?