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New Republic Personnel Transport
Lovingly based on the excellent Rogue One concept art. There are too many influences to link here but the main ones were this and this. I have no idea how long those links will remain active...
Many of the concepts that were closest to the final movie design featured this bow-cockpit hanging below the wings and in line with the cabin. I like this shape in general but I can see why the design team moved away from it towards the dorsal cockpit above the wings and cabin. For one things, the final design seems to take closely from the H-19 Chickasaw in that regard and this stays true to the Star Wars design tenets of using existing aircraft. A front mounted cockpit is fun but it kind of gets blended from almost every other helicopter. The dorsal intake was originally going to be smaller but I could not decide how to approach the shape. I finally tried this large shape and thought it looked fantastic. One of the concepts featured a bubble gunner\'s cupula out the back but I thought it looked ugly. I kept the guns though and was going to add a cupula up top but that was replaced with an access hatch. The engine intakes were going to be just the flag/sign parts and the large wheels but then I remembered this WIP by Jake RF and its awesome use of the newish half-cones.
The cabin base is heavily modified (internally at least) off of Inthert\'s U-Wing Instructions. I actually followed them all the way through (digitally of course) and learned a TON. The build employs a number of interesting techniques and highlights the minimum-attachment methods. This would be a fun build for anyone with access to real bricks, but it should be a required build for anyone into digital Lego. It turns out that all aside from 10 or so parts, the entire thing can be built in one section in LDD (i.e. even with all of the crazy shapes, the techniques are within tolerances).
This ship does not feature any large moving sections like the movie version or like the Rebel Transport by -majortom- (also a large source of inspiration although the different sizes made it difficult to "tastefully plagerize" too many details) but still features retractable landing legs, sliding doors, aft guns, and collapsable seating. The colors were the hardest choices to make. Most decent combinations did not offer enough parts to fill gaps. I still think the yellow-on-tan is a bit low on contrast but the original dark red wasn\'t available and normal red looked garish.
Finally, these renders are not the best, I know. However, they took long enough to make so they will suffice. The cockpit interior shows why it is not a good idea to set "scratches" to 40%...
Finally (pt. 2), a big Thank You to mecabricks for helping me with scaling material issues. I had to make the 3x3 quarter-circle brick w/ bow part myself as it wasn\'t in the library of parts. It wasn\'t too difficult to model but I had required some assistance to get the materials working.
New Republic Personnel Transport
Lovingly based on the excellent Rogue One concept art. There are too many influences to link here but the main ones were this and this. I have no idea how long those links will remain active...
Many of the concepts that were closest to the final movie design featured this bow-cockpit hanging below the wings and in line with the cabin. I like this shape in general but I can see why the design team moved away from it towards the dorsal cockpit above the wings and cabin. For one things, the final design seems to take closely from the H-19 Chickasaw in that regard and this stays true to the Star Wars design tenets of using existing aircraft. A front mounted cockpit is fun but it kind of gets blended from almost every other helicopter. The dorsal intake was originally going to be smaller but I could not decide how to approach the shape. I finally tried this large shape and thought it looked fantastic. One of the concepts featured a bubble gunner\'s cupula out the back but I thought it looked ugly. I kept the guns though and was going to add a cupula up top but that was replaced with an access hatch. The engine intakes were going to be just the flag/sign parts and the large wheels but then I remembered this WIP by Jake RF and its awesome use of the newish half-cones.
The cabin base is heavily modified (internally at least) off of Inthert\'s U-Wing Instructions. I actually followed them all the way through (digitally of course) and learned a TON. The build employs a number of interesting techniques and highlights the minimum-attachment methods. This would be a fun build for anyone with access to real bricks, but it should be a required build for anyone into digital Lego. It turns out that all aside from 10 or so parts, the entire thing can be built in one section in LDD (i.e. even with all of the crazy shapes, the techniques are within tolerances).
This ship does not feature any large moving sections like the movie version or like the Rebel Transport by -majortom- (also a large source of inspiration although the different sizes made it difficult to "tastefully plagerize" too many details) but still features retractable landing legs, sliding doors, aft guns, and collapsable seating. The colors were the hardest choices to make. Most decent combinations did not offer enough parts to fill gaps. I still think the yellow-on-tan is a bit low on contrast but the original dark red wasn\'t available and normal red looked garish.
Finally, these renders are not the best, I know. However, they took long enough to make so they will suffice. The cockpit interior shows why it is not a good idea to set "scratches" to 40%...
Finally (pt. 2), a big Thank You to mecabricks for helping me with scaling material issues. I had to make the 3x3 quarter-circle brick w/ bow part myself as it wasn\'t in the library of parts. It wasn\'t too difficult to model but I had required some assistance to get the materials working.