Jerac

Ohohoh, what a fantastic mod! I love what you did, most notably the subltle weathering everywhere, doors and most notably engine fronts. Can you show how is it done? This might be a good good reason for an update!

Huh. So this "banned outlaws" is literal :D Sorry!

I like the design and it seems quite solid. What are those dots on 2x2 curved slopes?

There is: LEGO is fundamentally making what people want.

People vote stuff they already know. That's why it is like that.

That's how you make super strong structures without technic pieces. Maybe my Y-Wing doesn't look like that too much, but if you take away the greebling you'll see the same idea used over and over again, most notably in the wings/engine area. This deceptively thin wing can easily support any amount of weight, as long as physical piece integrity holds. Since you don't have to use 1x12 bricks, you can go with pair of 1x12 plates, you can make the wing a plate thicker for even more rigidity. Want even more strength and also to ensure the brackets won't pop? Just add more layers! You can go on and go on adding layers of strength, eventually making loops out of them so there is no legal way of detaching the pieces. Brackets are magic. They allow for much more compact bracing and rigidity than technic pieces.

I am almost certain it is a bit bigger than minifig scale, but still passable.

External dimensions can be same and yet it still can be much wider :) Mine has 6-wide cockpit piece (from which each other width dimension stems). Their have at least 8, possibly 10. But if they also made their wings shorter, they can have wider body and the same total width, this is what I meant.

Nope, zero contact whatsoever. It seems to be roughly the same length but is much, much wider. Might be 8 or even 10 stud wide cockpit and it looks the tail is extremely wide. Engines are the same size as mine or smaller. Them having more space inside also makes it possible to make interior. For me the parts count checks out, but I am seriously worried about proportions. General architecture kinda seems similar, but we'll see.

Thanks! ^^

That was one of the inspirations.

That's interesting! Black one makes it look like it was hidden in shadow, which is at least a bit believable. How to make it any other color without looking like a statue?

Thanks a lot! :D I suck at making faces so I cheated a bit this time ^^ Not much, to be honest. I intend to improve it when I make intstructions, but it will never be a playset, at best a slightly poseable static figure. The constant struggle I have when building large figures is hiding the joints. There always seem to be some unsightly gaps which I can't deal with properly, so considering those models spend 99% of their time standing behind glass, going for the looks seem to be the better way to go.

Thanks! It does bend, a bit more than a flex and a bit less than an axle. However: you need to be careful because if you overbend it, it will get permanently damaged at the injection points. Considering those firepole pieces are not particularly rare nor expensive, I did not have a problem with that, though ;)

Hmm I see two approaches here. First, considering the wheel is mostly hidden within the failring, would be simply building the fairing and just hinting at the wheel with a black tile or an ingot on the bottom. They wouldn't turn, but perhaps this would not be a big deal? Another I can see is using those hollow bricks: For sure there is a tyre which would fit here with enough friction to stay there, and then you can finish off the top and front with some curved slopes.

This photo has a sound :D Great recreation of a great little plane!

Ever since I completed the Countess of the Capital of Hell, I wanted to build an angelic counterpart, with a notably contrasting design. Where the Countess was slender and slim, the Angel was supposed to be muscular and powerful. I had no idea for the wings and the armor was even worse, as it had to be shiny - but I had not much shiny pieces available. There was some metallic silver and gold pieces on the market, and of course pearl gold, but while pearl gold looks alright in accents, it doesn't look good in larger surfaces. The project would be probably permanently on hold, but LEGO has released one of my all time favourite sets: the Infinity Gauntlet. An excellent and varied source of metallic gold pieces, perfect item to be reforged into an angelic armor! Once I had this idea the actual build took just about one week, plus some tweaking later with help of my fellow Zbudujmy.To friends who helped me with few issues regarding proportions. Wings are shamelessly stolen from Dees, a great builder known for his Angel of Regression, with minimal tweaking as I had more limited piece pool. I could not decide which halo/sword variant is the best, so I include both now and let you decide! ^^

This sounds like a desynchronized core. Basically, this happens, if during building, you rotate one of the axles with worm gears on them. I do not mean a tiny rotation, I mean something like 180 degree turn or more. You need to flip the model upside down, expose the smaller gears and return them by feel to the center of the rotation range - very roughly - and then reattach the center gear. Then it will be fixed. Feeling that is pretty simple, the closer you are to the either end of the rotation range, the more force you need to turn those gears. So find a spot in the middle where they are completely loose and you'll be good to go.

I am not sure what happened, but everything is still here: This is the "complete" thing. I guess this thread can be closed. Sorry for the mess!

thats one tiny giant then :D

Whaaat :D Awesome! Easily my favorite mod, alongside the classic-space one! The coloring on the nose is particularly great!

Is it just me or supercars in lego are... boring? I mean, in real world they are exciting and cool because of how rare and powerful they are. But in lego technic, almost every car is a supercar. I'd be far more interested in building a nicely done... yaris or something, instead of yet another ferrari :D

You can find such photos googling for "<ship> studio model". But it won't help too much really, because they all have strong perspective and you can still operate only within one plane. So yes, you can figure out the length/height proportions of the fuselage, but not the engines (They are in a plane closer to the camera), and especially not the guns. That blueprint looks suspiciously close to the 3d model to be honest. If the book was published after squadrons I wouldn't be surprised if this was indeed a wireframe from the same model. Anyway, issues or not, replicating a consistent and nice model well is better than replicating a perfect model less well, I'd say. I couldn't find a model for 75301 but this might still help:

I kinda broke my internal rule of using only the movies as the source, and I took 3d models from rogue squadrons as a base. I figured out that replicating a game model would be easier and so yield better results than trying to replicate actual filming model, to which I can never get "proper" proportions. Creators of the game clearly did their job well and I would not be surprised if they got an access to the filming model for scanning or some other way of measuring it. OWM.. dunno which exact publication are you talking about, but at least some of them are utter, total... piece of fecal matter. They are completely wrong.

The boots are definitely too short to be knee-high, and they also don't look like they are proportioned to be so. That said, I am curious what will you end up with if you happen to change it ^^