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| | | Hi all, I would like to present this small fighter for your viewing pleasure. (URL) This one came as a result of trying to find a use for the Jedi Starfighter canopy. I'd bought a few discounted Bionicle sets recently and started holding some of the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | (...) I'm a fan of many elements of this Allister. Of course, the Bionicle smooshing is the best...the shoulder guards, blades etc, but I really like how they've been mounted...all at different or opposing vectors, on angles and so forth. The engine (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks. I'm really warming to the Bionicle parts. They make a model look so unlegoey. (...) Tell me about it. I reckon I spent at least a third of the time building this just trying to get the canopy into the position I wanted. Sealing it up (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Adrian Drake
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| | | | | (...) Heh, neat. Kinda reminds me of the (URL) Fire Wasp> that I built, also using those new Bionicle pieces. I guess these two are birds of a feather :) I think, though, that it needs a highlight color in there, instead of light grey, dark grey, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Ooo I missed this one before. Nice one. I like the reconfiurable wings. Cunning. (...) Perhaps, but a) it is a cheap, mass produced military craft. Painting it pretty colours isn't a high priority. And b) I don't see an easy way to add a (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | (...) Hi Allister, I really do like the shape of this. It's very compact and whooshable. However, something about it just doesn't work for me. I think it might be that the colors beneath the bionicle parts are too varied. You have the silver (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Damn you Mark. I was going to bed before I read this. Now, well, have a look at these. (URL) new pic 1> (URL) new pic 2> (URL) new pic 3> I swapped in as much dark grey as I could and got rid of the random colours. I don't know what I was (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Chris Maddison
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| | | | | (...) Ingenious. I love the nose of this ship. And it looks bland, but that's exactly why I like it. It looks mass-produced. I agree with the GA about the underlying colors tho - substitute some dark grey for all those colors and this thing will (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks. I hope you only mean the colours are bland ;) (...) Done. Check out pics 08 through 15. What would you like it to sing? Cheers, Allister (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Paul Baulch
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| | | | | (...) Good stuff. I mostly disagree with the others about the underside colours, I think it looks fine (and could be considered realistic too, I think) - although those blue bits do look out of place. I also think the ship would look better without (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Well they were a little bit jumbled, so I redid as much as I could in dark grey, and the blue bits are gone. (...) I kinda like the blades actually. They add to the 'bionicleness' of it, and they do look better now I've removed the technic (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Matt Krotzer
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| | | | | I'm a big fan of this ship. Very nice work incorporating bionicle pieces into a very nicely streamlined craft. I like the updates you made as well. It definitely captures the mass-produced military feel you were going for. If you get the pieces, I'd (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks Matt. Seems the tide is shifting more in favour of the much maligned Bionicle theme :) I wonder if we'll ever see a Belville spaceship... (...) Truth be known, I tend to build stuff, and then try to think up a plausible story (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Jon Palmer
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| | | | | (...) -snip- This is a really excellent start. The shape is spot on. If I had built it I would have ditched the wings and tried to make the cockpit seal a little better (ahh the eternal challenge). I'm also not into the lasers on the bottom. The (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) The wings were the last bits to be added. It looked unfinished without it to me. It does have a different look without them, and not an unappealing one. I guess I just wanted to use more of the silver bionicle bits. (...) Thanks (...) It was (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) Really. Freakin'. Cool. Makes me think A-4 Skyhawk, but made for space... -Tim (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Paul Hartzog
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| | | | (...) i like the look of this one particularly the metallic looking 'shields' around the rear thrusters. would like some pics of how the triangle of thrusters affixes to the rest of the ship don't like the fact that the canopy is open-air but hey, (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Snub Fighter. —Allister McLaren
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| | | | (...) Thanks. Those cowlings, along with the arrangement of the canopy and chest pieces were the seed points of this model. (...) It's not really very complicated. The bricks behind the pilot hold a 2x2-2x2 bracket. Attached to that, from front to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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