glenbricker

Pure artistry

Thanks, I thought it added a little Flair.

Thanks! Might I say that that Jabba palace diorama looks stunning! I am glad to hear that someone else gets the Hammerhead feel out of the Defender as well. For some reason I have a real emotional connection to anything reminiscent of a Hammerhead. For instance the Hammership from Spelljammer Thanks Spider-man. I have considered making it bigger, but if I make a Bigger Defender I am going to have to make it two times wider at least. I would want to integrate the levels and such that exist in the schematics...I am not sure that would be healthy for me. ;). Besides, I already have a giant build for a ship that most people can't recognize.

Hey DFOL, thanks for the warm welcome. I feel so stupid! I love Dark Red. It is my favorite of the Lego colors actually. I wanted originally to use Dark Red on this build but it is missing some key parts. It never occurred to me to alter the image to match my desire for Dark Red. Cheers.

Thanks! Thanks a lot Anio. I really appreciate the compliment. It is hard to know sometimes what to sacrifice when building something in Lego and I am very happy to hear that I have successfully pulled off the necessary detailing, iyo. Cheers.

Ok, that is what I thought, it "crews 8" but I have seen detailed schematics of the whole internal structures. All the "Personal" ships on SWTOR dwarf the classical ships of their similar design (falcon, tie fighter, imperial shuttle, Slave 1, etc...). You can have a "crew of 8" but you could cram many many more into the ship. I think it might have "quarters" for 8 as a standard concept. Currently both sides do slide out but not to my specific liking. I am perfecting the release and hold mechanic. The problem is that the fit is really tight for a droid so their are some headgears which will not fit. I was thinking of the other pod being an equipment bay perhaps If I could not get it to accommodate something more standard. Really appreciate the feedback btw. It does look great next to the Fury, I will try to get a decent photo of them together tonight.

I would not have imagined that such a detailed and characteristic face was possible at such a scale. Great work.

Thank you

Thanks a lot! Not sure were you are getting 8 from though unless you mean the maximum crew you get in the game). The ship can fit way more than eight. The little dots on the landing pad in the image are people for the Actual scale of the ship. The Yellow ovoid on the front is actually a command screen where two sit side by side with room to spare. I added a picture of the statuette figs to help showcase the "actual" scale vs Integrated minifigs. This is built to Scale with the Statuette minifig. So a person would fit in a single 1 x 1 lego brick at this scale. I went ahead and retrofit fit this in the transitional manner of Large Star Wars Ships though adding minifgs that would almost have have to be Zentradi. The Fury, the sister ship to this vessel, is actually produced by TLG in the same scale as this ship but they modified it for 3 "Giant" figures as well.

This looks really fantastic Bobsy! You certainly seem to have a diverse range of subjects!

Hello all, I am very happy to find this active community here. It seems like there is a lot of interactivity here I look forward to being a part of it. Here is a Corellian Defender I made for my friends at Bioware. Initially I designed it to not accept minifigs but instead be in scale with the statuette piece. Then the Fury came out (This actually happens to be in perfect scale with the Fury), and it has figs, so I decided to go ahead and integrate them. The minifig integrated Defender is a little less authentic to the game, but I like it more actually. The red top to the cockpit should be Grey for instance but I like the asthetic better with the White/Red/White/Red. The above ship is totally build but I am using some color replacement to a variety of parts to look Dark Red. As you can see in the above image the whole cockpit canopy comes up...I was thinking of putting in some "hydraulics" here but I like the idea of supporting two figures more...so there is not any room for the hydraulics I was thinking of. I am really proud of the sliding out mechanic used for the C2-N2 pod. Here are some of the custom figures I am designing to go with the Defender. the Trandoshan is Qyzen Fess, who is a companion to Jedi Consulars in SWTOR. The droid is C2-N2, and is the droid that comes with the ship. The Satele stand in there is holding of the statuetee parts in case you are unfamiliar with them. I would love it if they produced these in trans blue for holograms. This design is meant to be visible form all angles, so I used a lot of SNOTTING. The ships is bisected down the middle and flipped. Its been a lot of fun. I look forward to any feedback, good or bad. If you really like it you can support it on Cuusoo right here This (rather poor) image shows the size of the Defender relative to the Official Fury. Here is one of the images I used as the source for my build presented to allow comparison. Thanks to KielDaMan for this side by side comparison image The future: Although I have minimal space to do it in I am going to attempt to make retractable landing gear and have the Cargo/Droid pods open indirectly...well will see what I can pull off. For my next Star Wars project I am working on the Mantis.

Great review. I really appreciated the comparisons with earlier figures and builds. Thanks

How well do the missiles fire?

This has got to be one of my favorite Lego Space ships to date

I saw this on Cuusoo, I think it would be great if you hinged it so that the front opened like a cabinet to show some internal. Not sure if your structure could support that though. Regardless, it looks fantastic.

Great review. Too bad the subject matter was not better. The Naboo fighter seemed to be the only quality microbuild to me.

This is fantastic. You were able to capture the complex geometries quite well.

I am very excited about those new looking parts on Malakili weapon

Has anyone posted "minifig" models anywhere though?

These images are crazy, I am going to have to try this out. I had not idea the images had gotten this good.

Doesn't searching by Tags effectively do this? I do agree that there should be established Tabs though that people opt in to or out of, and then a list of "fill it yourself. But for the most part a search based of Tag in order of Support should get what you are looking for right?