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Are those stats from the D20 Star Wars RPG? Also Starfighters!!! yay the bestest best part of Star Wars :D This is a pretty cool MOC I'm hoping to find the stock Z-95 for cheap, as I love the X-wing and all it's relatives.

Way to go BrickDoctor. I'm not really sure of the differences in responsibility from your old position to this one, but you've helped me out in my short time here, and a promotion seems well deserved.

The UCS one is too rich for my blood, and if I had that money, I'd just go with the MOC one that was posted by krispy as I think his looks better. LEGO train, it is a fusion of two B-wings, it's a one off ship that's only mentioned in the canon once. Just got home from spending some time with the family so I'll be eyeballing making the cockpit look more correct once again. Knightsword, you said you were gonna do the same build, how's yours coming along?

I wasn't as big of a fan of how the MF canopy looked, and maybe I'm just too inexperienced, but even with the headlight bricks I'm not sure how to set it up so the canopy connection is smooth. This is definitely not the final version though so I'm willing to keep fussing around with it til I get it right.

As someone who flew on EC-130s in the USAF, and has always lamented the departure of nose art, this is so freaking awesome!!!

So I cannibalized a Space Police ship for the purposes of mocking this up, thoughts and ideas would be appreciated, as well as friendly pointers. With the Millenium Falcon cockpit, size comparison. Of note, this smaller "blade"-less version is really fun to play with. The Falcon cockpit is good to go size wise but connecting it, was not something I could do with available parts. This is the cockpit I went with, as I had one on hand to test it out. Obviously the colors are wrong, what're thoughts on the shape though? Here's a view of the underside, I feel like there are wider bottom pieces that'll match the cockpit better, but I'm not certain on that. That nose piece is a bit too narrow, any pointers towards a wider piece would be appreciated. The reason I need a wider piece. Note the gap. So this is the progress I've made on expanding the cockpit, lemme know any thoughts or input. Thanks for looking :D

Got the Millenium Falcon cockpit in today, it's fine size wise... but I'm flummoxed with regards to an attachment method.

Yeah the swap was really easy, I was worried I'd need a few extra pieces, but it was literally just a matter of building a few pieces opposite of how they were in the book. The only thing I needed extra pieces for was the extra long bridge between the Blades that the cockpit attaches to.

It had a Class 4 Hyperdrive. It got from Alderaan to Yavin.

They fixed that in errata? I have the original book, but I've only ever played one session sadly, so errata is definitely not something I kept up on for it. I remember being so excited when I saw Deathraven in there, because it had been floating around in my head as an idea ever since I'd read about Uglies in the EU. I've always kinda wanted to build a Die-wing too.

Makes me think of Booster Terrick's Star Destroyer.

That might work... but if I kinda wanna build that ship, not scrap it for parts :D. I think the Quinjet one looked good, although as is I think it might be too dark, perhaps a color swap.

That's actually a concern I have, I'm worried it'll be too long. I'll have to see when it comes in.

So I've already ordered a Falcon Cockpit off of ebay, found it for like 2 bucks, but I like the shape of the Quinjet one as well. Would my assessment that the Quinjet cockpit is too dark to mesh with the Deathraven body, be accurate? I'm trying to figure out if I should just order the pieces to make the cockpit separate or if I should just order a Quinjet and cannibalize it. Either way it looks big enough to go with either side by side, after some creative building, or one behind the other. On the subject of canon. Oh man this thing is a nightmare. The artwork doesn't match the description, and the wiki entry for Erron Kell, the pilot, says he used a different type of B-Wing than the wiki entry for Deathraven states. The kicker there is that they both cite the same source material. Which makes all the exposition about Kell in the wiki confusing as to its source. /end rant

So thoughts. After having looked at the picture, on the wiki that I linked in the OP, I think despite the E2 being rare that that's what it's supposed to be. So that means wider rather than longer. Now visual style wise, as it was already pointed out, the thing looks spindly in the middle, so going for the elongated cockpit, won't really help that. Canon wise, whether a mistake was made or not, it's canon that the ship is an E2, so I'd like to stick with that. 3rd, if one were a bounty hunter, I think I'd rather cart my prey around next to me, rather than having them sitting behind me. So I think I'm definitely gonna go with the wider version, which of course... is the more difficult way to go. Some ideas I've had involve having the actual cockpit compartment wider than the canopy, although that kills the potential for ejection, which the E2 could do, or cobbling together some sort of extra wide canopy. Another thing of note, from looking at the image in the wiki, the canopy appears to be more sharply angled than rounded, that might make cobbling together a wide one easier... maybe...

Is it behind? I was under the impression from the wiki that the E was set up one behind the other. While the E2, designed by Ackbar and used in Deathraven, is side by side.

Thanks for the help there. Yeah the cockpit does look small in comparison, I'll have to look at the source picture to see if expanding it is warranted, I tried to stick as close to the given description of what it was as possible. Edit: And upon review it's the B-Wing/E2 so it's supposed to be two people, pilot and passenger wide, so that'll require some engineering on my part as I don't know of any canopies that are that wide.

So I did some talking about this with krispy on his MOC B-Wing thread, and he was awesome and MOC'd up a build for Deathraven there. Sadly I didn't have the funds to acquire the parts, that's still my eventual goal as his MOC looks way better than anything official, so I made my own build by smashing together two official sets (kinda like how the actual ship was made). The Star Fighter in its parked position. S-foils deployed. Vertical Swooshing I had to make very few modifications from the stock instructions to create this build. If people want details I'll be happy to post about them. There are a couple more pictures as well, but I don't want to make a huge post, and if it's desired I'll add them, or take photos of specific things, if people want that. I'm not sure if it conveys well in the photo but i can swoosh it around like a toy pretty well and was quite aggressive with it with no issues. Once again, thanks to krispy for giving me the motivation to go ahead and do this. Hopefully you guys like it. Apparently my image extension is no good for the forums... the links just go to my Flickr account, I'm not sure what I did wrong.

So I created Death Raven using 2 sets of #6208, I don't know if this would be the place to post it but if anyone's interested I'll put it up (in the right spot, if this isn't it). Using the 2 stock kits to build it, the "blades" are too flimsy for it to be swooshable, but I think it looks pretty good.

You're amazing... It looks like the cockpit should still be able to theoretically rotate, as well. Is that the case? Although, I'm honestly not certain if the wings still revolve around the cockpit, on Death Raven. I've ordered two packages of the 6208 B-wing from Lego, and shall be trying to do the same with that. But now I need to save up money/spousal approval, because the above looks soooooo much better than anything that's been officially released. It's called Death Raven, it's an ugly built by a bounty hunter. I've always liked B-wings, because of their capabilities, but disliked the asymmetry of the design, when I saw this bad boy in one of the Star Wars RPG books years ago, I've wanted to build it ever since. Also for it's size it's armed to the teeth, with impressive speed and handling (if one accepts the canon).

Thanks! Hmm... after pricing I might have to go with the 2006 B-wing model, and try a proof of concept and then try and swing significant other approval for several hundred dollars worth of lego. This version is better than the UCS one in my opinion.

Question, the main body connection to the cockpit, would it be possible to mirror the main body, so as to have two main bodies attached to one cockpit? I want to build Deathraven which is one of my favorite ships in the entire Star Wars Universe.